The 2016 Open Source Jobs Report Update

Insights From European Open Source Professionals

BERLIN, GERMANY--(Marketwired - October 05, 2016) - The 2016 Open Source Jobs Report released earlier this year by Dice^®, the leading career site for technology and engineering professionals, and The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration, analyzed trends for open source careers and the motivations of professionals in the industry. Now, the data have been broken down to focus specifically on European open source professionals, and how they compare to their counterparts around the world.

This is the fifth year Dice and The Linux Foundation have partnered to produce the jobs report. The four previous years' research focused exclusively on the job market for Linux professionals, but this year's installment looks at the broader category of open source professionals. Overall trends between Europe and the world are generally similar, but show that open source careers may be even more in demand and rewarding in Europe than the rest of the world.

"Demand for open source talent is growing and companies struggle to find experienced professionals to fill open roles," said Bob Melk, President of Dice. "Rising salaries for open source professionals indicate companies recognize the need to attract, recruit and retain qualified open source professionals on a global scale. Regardless of where they reside around the world, these professionals are motivated by the opportunity to work on interesting projects."

Key European findings from the 2016 Open Source Jobs Survey and Report include:

■ Europeans are more confident than their global counterparts in the open source job market. Of over one thousand European respondents, 60 percent believe it would be fairly or very easy to find a new position this year, as opposed to only 50 percent saying it would be easy globally. In fact, 50 percent of Europeans reported receiving more than 10 calls from recruiters in the six months prior to the survey, while only 22 percent of respondents worldwide reported this level of engagement. While worldwide 27 percent of respondents received no calls at all from recruiters, only five percent of Europeans said the same.