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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 143 133
Rank change year-on-year +29 -10 -18
Contract jobs citing Open Source 23 32 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.96% 0.87% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.95% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 57
10th Percentile £391 £516 £421
25th Percentile £419 £543 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +2.08% +20.00%
75th Percentile £713 £708 £725
90th Percentile £786 £781 £783
London median daily rate £488 £663 £635
% change year-on-year -26.42% +4.33% +10.43%
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 £90.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -70.03% +63.64% +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 2,175 3,368 4,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.89% 91.27% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,272 3,148
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.57% +7.24%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £681
90th Percentile £799 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 44
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.75 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £17.08 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £32.09 £53.50 £52.63
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £62.28
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.08
% change year-on-year -28.59% +11.79% +7.35%

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 31 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 31 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 +30 21 £475 -20.83% 6
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 (4.35%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.35%) CMS
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (4.35%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) Azure
2 9 (39.13%) AWS
3 8 (34.78%) GitHub
4 5 (21.74%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (21.74%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (8.70%) Serverless
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (4.35%) IaaS
7 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.35%) NuGet
7 1 (4.35%) PaaS
7 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) MQTT
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) NoSQL
2 4 (17.39%) DynamoDB
2 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
4 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.35%) Data Mart
5 1 (4.35%) DB2
5 1 (4.35%) MariaDB
5 1 (4.35%) MySQL
5 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Git
2 5 (21.74%) CircleCI
3 3 (13.04%) JIRA
3 3 (13.04%) Mercurial
3 3 (13.04%) SonarQube
4 2 (8.70%) GoCD
4 2 (8.70%) Gradle
4 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.35%) GitLab
5 1 (4.35%) JUnit
5 1 (4.35%) Pylint
5 1 (4.35%) Terragrunt
5 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Arabic Language
4 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.35%) French Language
4 1 (4.35%) German Language
4 1 (4.35%) Japanese Language
4 1 (4.35%) Korean Language
4 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Python Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Android Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Applications Developer
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Backend Developer
4 1 (4.35%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Report Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (4.35%) TIBCO Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) UX Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) pytest
1 6 (26.09%) REST
2 5 (21.74%) Kafka
3 4 (17.39%) HTML
3 4 (17.39%) React
3 4 (17.39%) RESTful
4 3 (13.04%) Django
4 3 (13.04%) Web Services
4 3 (13.04%) WebSockets
5 2 (8.70%) .NET
5 2 (8.70%) .NET Core
5 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
5 2 (8.70%) CSS
5 2 (8.70%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (8.70%) JSON
5 2 (8.70%) RAML
6 1 (4.35%) Dagger
6 1 (4.35%) gRPC
6 1 (4.35%) Jetpack Compose
6 1 (4.35%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (8.70%) Hedge funds
2 2 (8.70%) Legacy Code
2 2 (8.70%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Clustering
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Android
2 2 (8.70%) Windows
3 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) DevOps
1 8 (34.78%) Microservices
2 7 (30.43%) Agile
3 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 5 (21.74%) Computer Science
4 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
4 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
5 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (17.39%) Unit Testing
6 3 (13.04%) Analytics
6 3 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (13.04%) CQRS
6 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (13.04%) Scrum
6 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (13.04%) TDD
6 3 (13.04%) User Experience
7 2 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (8.70%) Code Coverage
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) SQL
2 11 (47.83%) Python
3 5 (21.74%) Java
4 3 (13.04%) C#
4 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.70%) Go
5 2 (8.70%) Kotlin
5 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.35%) Clojure
6 1 (4.35%) Haskell
6 1 (4.35%) Perl
6 1 (4.35%) Ruby
6 1 (4.35%) Rust
6 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.35%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.35%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Ceph
2 1 (4.35%) NFS
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (4.35%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (4.35%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (4.35%) Mesos
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (4.35%) Opsgenie
3 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.35%) Puppet
3 1 (4.35%) SCCM
3 1 (4.35%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.35%) IBM
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) PagerDuty
2 1 (4.35%) Splunk
2 1 (4.35%) TIBCO
2 1 (4.35%) VMware