Open Source Contracts in Lancashire

Open Source
North West > Lancashire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 33 40
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 -9
Contract jobs citing Open Source 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.03% 0.41% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 0.47% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% - -
North West median daily rate £400 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -21.95% +5.13% -2.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 154 211 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 78.97% 87.19% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 118 156
10th Percentile £313 £339 £230
25th Percentile £413 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £477
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +11.52% +19.37%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £578
90th Percentile £747 £700 £706
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 42 47
10th Percentile - £22.31 £14.46
25th Percentile £16.06 £28.85 £16.93
Median hourly rate £19.18 £42.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.87% +7.59% -3.66%
75th Percentile £46.03 £49.52 £44.03
90th Percentile £48.00 £53.43 £60.34
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.49
% change year-on-year -40.00% +70.82% +10.76%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Lancashire

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Lancashire

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 29 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
Preston - 1 £650 -
Open Source
North West

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 (50.00%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) GIS
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) QGIS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Speaking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) GIS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Lucene
1 1 (50.00%) OpenLayers
1 1 (50.00%) PostGIS
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Econometrics
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Information Retrieval
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft