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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 91 107
Rank change year-on-year -29 +16 -21
Contract jobs citing Open Source 7 23 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.35% 1.27% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 1.40% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 14
10th Percentile £454 £440 £389
25th Percentile £501 £453 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £460 £480
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -4.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £737 £469 £519
90th Percentile £788 £510 £536
South East median daily rate £555 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +5.71% - -

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 1,767 1,644 2,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.97% 91.13% 90.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 915 1,057 1,383
10th Percentile £213 £350 £271
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £701 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 48 43
10th Percentile £20.17 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.50 £25.72 £17.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%
75th Percentile £72.04 £73.69 £33.75
90th Percentile £87.37 £79.51 £68.10
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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
Reading -24 3 £495 +7.61% 5
Wokingham - 3 £775 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Stack
3 3 (42.86%) IaaS
3 3 (42.86%) PaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Big Data
2 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Hive
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Zeppelin
3 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
3 1 (14.29%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) ETL Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Analytics
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Data Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Big Data Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Data Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (14.29%) ETL
5 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
5 1 (14.29%) Kanban
5 1 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) R
1 1 (14.29%) Scala
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
1 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks