Open Source Contracts in Berkshire

Open Source
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Open Source skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Open Source over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 91 104
Rank change year-on-year -27 +13 -14
Contract jobs citing Open Source 6 21 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.30% 1.17% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 1.29% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 16
10th Percentile £446 £439 £394
25th Percentile £495 £452 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £458 £484
Median % change year-on-year +27.87% -5.43% -15.87%
75th Percentile £788 £466 £527
90th Percentile - £508 £547
South East median daily rate £575 £533 £525
% change year-on-year +7.98% +1.43% +0.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Open Source is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,755 1,623 2,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.77% 90.52% 90.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 1,052 1,388
10th Percentile £213 £349 £270
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £678 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.91% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 48 43
10th Percentile £19.00 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.50 £25.72 £17.25
Median hourly rate £61.00 £57.82 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% +174.67% -1.06%
75th Percentile £71.75 £73.69 £33.75
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.51 £68.10
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.99
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.43% -20.05%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Berkshire

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Open Source in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Berkshire

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in Berkshire

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Open Source in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in Berkshire

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham - 3 £775 -
Reading -23 2 £460 +0.55% 8
Slough - 1 £585 -
Open Source
South East

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Stack
2 3 (50.00%) IaaS
2 3 (50.00%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
3 1 (16.67%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Big Data Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Data Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 3 (50.00%) Migration
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) SOAR
5 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft