Open Source Contracts in London

Open Source
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 203 168
Rank change year-on-year -77 -35 -47
Contract jobs citing Open Source 116 317 682
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.66% 1.23% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.35% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 195 479
10th Percentile £350 £468 £463
25th Percentile £409 £537 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -26.85% +8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £641 £738 £750
90th Percentile £743 £850 £838
England median daily rate £570 £618 £588
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.11% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 11
10th Percentile - - £26.25
25th Percentile £25.99 - £32.63
Median hourly rate £26.97 £75.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.04% +36.36% +587.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £78.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £70.25 £85.50 £69.38
England median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +36.36% +587.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,495 23,478 35,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.88% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,110 16,936 26,017
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 270 417
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £38.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% +2.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.48
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.28 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in London

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in London

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in London

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in London

Open Source
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Open Source in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Open Source in London

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Central London +42 23 £500 -20.00% 11
South London -1 2 £438 -3.85% 3
West London +19 1 £500 - 8
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (5.17%) OpenStack
2 5 (4.31%) Confluence
3 4 (3.45%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.59%) Apache
5 2 (1.72%) CMS
6 1 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.86%) Camunda
6 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.86%) SAS
6 1 (0.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Endur
2 4 (3.45%) Shopify
3 1 (0.86%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (0.86%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (32.76%) Azure
2 29 (25.00%) AWS
3 24 (20.69%) GitHub
4 15 (12.93%) Serverless
5 14 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (10.34%) GCP
6 12 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (6.03%) Amazon ECR
7 7 (6.03%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (5.17%) OpenShift
9 5 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.31%) PaaS
10 4 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (3.45%) BigCommerce
11 3 (2.59%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.59%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (2.59%) Google Docs
11 3 (2.59%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.45%) Firewall
1 4 (3.45%) HTTP
2 3 (2.59%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.72%) FTP
3 2 (1.72%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.72%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (1.72%) SSH
4 1 (0.86%) 4G
4 1 (0.86%) DHCP
4 1 (0.86%) DNS
4 1 (0.86%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.86%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.86%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.86%) LAN
4 1 (0.86%) MQTT
4 1 (0.86%) SNMP
4 1 (0.86%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (0.86%) VLAN
4 1 (0.86%) VPN
4 1 (0.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.48%) NoSQL
2 9 (7.76%) DynamoDB
3 8 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (5.17%) Data Mining
5 6 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.17%) MySQL
5 6 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.31%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.59%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.72%) Big Data
9 2 (1.72%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.72%) Power BI
10 1 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (29.31%) Git
2 19 (16.38%) JIRA
3 9 (7.76%) CircleCI
4 6 (5.17%) Gradle
4 6 (5.17%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.17%) JUnit
5 5 (4.31%) GitLab
5 5 (4.31%) Pylint
5 5 (4.31%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.45%) Mercurial
6 4 (3.45%) Selenium
7 3 (2.59%) TestNG
7 3 (2.59%) WebDriver
8 2 (1.72%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.72%) Gerrit
8 2 (1.72%) git-flow
8 2 (1.72%) GoCD
8 2 (1.72%) Postman
8 2 (1.72%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 38 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.38%) Finance
3 12 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.03%) Retail
6 4 (3.45%) Law
6 4 (3.45%) Marketing
6 4 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.59%) Banking
7 3 (2.59%) Public Speaking
8 2 (1.72%) Czech Language
8 2 (1.72%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Arabic Language
9 1 (0.86%) French Language
9 1 (0.86%) German Language
9 1 (0.86%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.86%) Korean Language
9 1 (0.86%) Police
9 1 (0.86%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (29.31%) Developer
2 19 (16.38%) Senior
3 12 (10.34%) Senior Developer
4 11 (9.48%) Architect
5 9 (7.76%) Lead
6 7 (6.03%) Python Developer
7 6 (5.17%) Technical Leader
8 5 (4.31%) Android Developer
8 5 (4.31%) Senior Android Developer
8 5 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.45%) JavaScript Developer
9 4 (3.45%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.45%) Technical Writer
9 4 (3.45%) Tester
10 3 (2.59%) Android Engineer
10 3 (2.59%) Consultant
10 3 (2.59%) Data Engineer
10 3 (2.59%) Python Engineer
10 3 (2.59%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (18.10%) REST
2 13 (11.21%) HTML
3 12 (10.34%) Kafka
4 11 (9.48%) pytest
4 11 (9.48%) React
5 9 (7.76%) RESTful
5 9 (7.76%) WebSockets
6 7 (6.03%) CSS
6 7 (6.03%) RAML
7 6 (5.17%) AngularJS
7 6 (5.17%) Web Services
8 5 (4.31%) .NET
8 5 (4.31%) PyTorch
9 4 (3.45%) Android Jetpack
9 4 (3.45%) Django
9 4 (3.45%) Jetpack Compose
9 4 (3.45%) JSON
9 4 (3.45%) Node.js
9 4 (3.45%) TensorFlow
9 4 (3.45%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.62%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.03%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.03%) Legacy Code
4 4 (3.45%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.45%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.59%) Life Science
5 3 (2.59%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.59%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.59%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (2.59%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.59%) Solar Panel
6 2 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.72%) Hackathon
6 2 (1.72%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.72%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.86%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 27 (23.28%) Linux
2 10 (8.62%) Android
3 7 (6.03%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.45%) Unix
5 3 (2.59%) Windows
6 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.86%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (29.31%) Agile
2 32 (27.59%) DevOps
3 26 (22.41%) Software Engineering
4 25 (21.55%) CI/CD
5 24 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (16.38%) Containerisation
6 19 (16.38%) Machine Learning
6 19 (16.38%) Microservices
7 17 (14.66%) Computer Science
8 15 (12.93%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (12.07%) Analytics
9 14 (12.07%) Test Automation
10 12 (10.34%) Data Science
10 12 (10.34%) TDD
10 12 (10.34%) Unit Testing
11 11 (9.48%) Artificial Intelligence
11 11 (9.48%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (9.48%) Design Patterns
11 11 (9.48%) Scrum
12 10 (8.62%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 49 (42.24%) Python
2 31 (26.72%) SQL
3 30 (25.86%) Java
4 22 (18.97%) JavaScript
5 11 (9.48%) Kotlin
6 10 (8.62%) Go
7 8 (6.90%) Ruby
8 7 (6.03%) C#
8 7 (6.03%) PHP
9 6 (5.17%) Objective-C
9 6 (5.17%) Rust
9 6 (5.17%) Swift
10 5 (4.31%) TypeScript
11 4 (3.45%) Perl
11 4 (3.45%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.45%) Scala
12 3 (2.59%) Bash
13 2 (1.72%) C
13 2 (1.72%) Clojure
13 2 (1.72%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 24 (20.69%) Degree
2 19 (16.38%) Security Cleared
3 17 (14.66%) SC Cleared
4 13 (11.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.45%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.72%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.86%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.48%) QA
2 4 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.72%) NCSC
4 1 (0.86%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.86%) MiFID
System Software
1 33 (28.45%) Docker
2 6 (5.17%) Firmware
3 4 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.72%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.72%) Ceph
4 2 (1.72%) NFS
4 2 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.86%) iptables
5 1 (0.86%) KVM
5 1 (0.86%) Lustre
5 1 (0.86%) Samba
5 1 (0.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 37 (31.90%) Kubernetes
2 24 (20.69%) Terraform
3 9 (7.76%) Ansible
4 7 (6.03%) Progress Chef
4 7 (6.03%) Puppet
5 5 (4.31%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (1.72%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (1.72%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.86%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.86%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.86%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.86%) Mesos
7 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.86%) SCCM
7 1 (0.86%) SELinux
7 1 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.86%) TIBCO Hawk
7 1 (0.86%) yum
Vendors
1 16 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.90%) Dell
2 8 (6.90%) Salesforce
3 6 (5.17%) Apple
3 6 (5.17%) SAP
4 5 (4.31%) Google
4 5 (4.31%) Splunk
5 4 (3.45%) Adobe
5 4 (3.45%) Sitecore
5 4 (3.45%) VMware
6 2 (1.72%) Databricks
6 2 (1.72%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.72%) Intel
6 2 (1.72%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.72%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.72%) Typelevel
7 1 (0.86%) Black Duck
7 1 (0.86%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.86%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.86%) TIBCO