Open Source Contracts in Central London

Open Source
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 139 136
Rank change year-on-year +31 -3 -18
Contract jobs citing Open Source 25 35 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.03% 0.91% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.00% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 51
10th Percentile £414 £505 £414
25th Percentile £425 £520 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £738 £713 £681
90th Percentile £820 £811 £763
London median daily rate £500 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -25.93% +8.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £34.50
Median hourly rate - - £37.00
75th Percentile - - £39.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £26.97 £75.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -64.04% +36.36% +587.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,190 3,501 4,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.61% 91.34% 91.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,562 2,371 3,191
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 30 42
10th Percentile £20.01 £15.23 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.38 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £29.11 £57.50 £54.38
90th Percentile £41.29 £88.30 £65.43
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +6.12% +12.47%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Central London

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Central London

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Central London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in Central London

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in Central London

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 5 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
City of London +37 23 £500 -16.67% 10
City of Westminster - 2 £708 -
Open Source
London

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (4.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.00%) CMS
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (4.00%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 9 (36.00%) AWS
3 8 (32.00%) GitHub
4 5 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon ECR
5 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (8.00%) GCP
6 2 (8.00%) Google Analytics
6 2 (8.00%) Serverless
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.00%) IaaS
7 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.00%) NuGet
7 1 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) DNS
1 1 (4.00%) Firewall
1 1 (4.00%) MQTT
1 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (16.00%) DynamoDB
2 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (12.00%) Power BI
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (8.00%) BigQuery
4 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.00%) Looker
4 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.00%) Tableau
5 1 (4.00%) Data Mart
5 1 (4.00%) DB2
5 1 (4.00%) MariaDB
5 1 (4.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Git
2 5 (20.00%) CircleCI
3 3 (12.00%) JIRA
3 3 (12.00%) Mercurial
3 3 (12.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (8.00%) GoCD
4 2 (8.00%) Gradle
4 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.00%) GitLab
5 1 (4.00%) JUnit
5 1 (4.00%) Pylint
5 1 (4.00%) Terragrunt
5 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (8.00%) Marketing
5 1 (4.00%) Arabic Language
5 1 (4.00%) French Language
5 1 (4.00%) German Language
5 1 (4.00%) Japanese Language
5 1 (4.00%) Korean Language
5 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Developer
2 3 (12.00%) Python Developer
2 3 (12.00%) Senior
3 2 (8.00%) Data Scientist
3 2 (8.00%) Lead
3 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Android Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Backend Developer
4 1 (4.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) Report Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (4.00%) TIBCO Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) UX Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) pytest
1 6 (24.00%) REST
2 5 (20.00%) Kafka
3 4 (16.00%) HTML
3 4 (16.00%) React
4 3 (12.00%) Django
4 3 (12.00%) RESTful
4 3 (12.00%) Web Services
4 3 (12.00%) WebSockets
5 2 (8.00%) .NET
5 2 (8.00%) .NET Core
5 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (8.00%) CSS
5 2 (8.00%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (8.00%) JSON
5 2 (8.00%) RAML
6 1 (4.00%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (4.00%) Dagger
6 1 (4.00%) gRPC
6 1 (4.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (8.00%) Hedge funds
2 2 (8.00%) Legacy Code
2 2 (8.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Clustering
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.00%) PKI
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Windows
3 1 (4.00%) Android
3 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) DevOps
1 8 (32.00%) Microservices
2 7 (28.00%) Agile
2 7 (28.00%) Software Engineering
3 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (24.00%) Computer Science
4 5 (20.00%) Analytics
4 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (16.00%) SDLC
5 4 (16.00%) Unit Testing
6 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (12.00%) Customer Experience
6 3 (12.00%) Data Science
6 3 (12.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (12.00%) Scrum
6 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (12.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) Python
1 14 (56.00%) SQL
2 6 (24.00%) Java
3 4 (16.00%) C#
4 3 (12.00%) Go
4 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.00%) Clojure
5 2 (8.00%) Haskell
5 2 (8.00%) Kotlin
5 2 (8.00%) MATLAB
5 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.00%) R
5 2 (8.00%) Rust
6 1 (4.00%) Perl
6 1 (4.00%) Ruby
6 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Ceph
2 1 (4.00%) NFS
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (44.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (4.00%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (4.00%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (4.00%) Mesos
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (4.00%) Opsgenie
3 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.00%) Puppet
3 1 (4.00%) SCCM
3 1 (4.00%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Google
2 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.00%) IBM
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) PagerDuty
3 1 (4.00%) Splunk
3 1 (4.00%) TIBCO
3 1 (4.00%) VMware