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 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 272 221 171
Rank change year-on-year -51 -50 -58
Contract jobs citing Open Source 121 326 695
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.68% 1.20% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.32% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 201 479
10th Percentile £350 £475 £463
25th Percentile £413 £538 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year -24.07% +8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £666 £738 £750
90th Percentile £773 £850 £825
England median daily rate £570 £613 £588
% change year-on-year -6.94% +4.26% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 10
10th Percentile - £59.55 £30.20
25th Percentile £25.99 - £34.31
Median hourly rate £26.97 £75.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.04% +25.00% +650.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £78.75
90th Percentile £70.25 £84.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +36.36% +91.30%

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 15,803 24,767 35,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.42% 91.14% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,321 17,758 26,094
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 288 429
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.23
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.86 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +9.86% +10.18%
75th Percentile £47.50 £62.55 £50.00
90th Percentile £66.10 £78.15 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 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
Central London +40 25 £500 -16.67% 10
West London +17 1 £500 - 4
South London +2 1 £300 -34.07% 3
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 (4.96%) OpenStack
2 5 (4.13%) Confluence
3 3 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.65%) Apache
4 2 (1.65%) CMS
4 2 (1.65%) SAS
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.65%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Endur
2 3 (2.48%) Shopify
3 1 (0.83%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (0.83%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (31.40%) Azure
2 31 (25.62%) AWS
3 24 (19.83%) GitHub
4 17 (14.05%) Serverless
5 14 (11.57%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (11.57%) GCP
6 12 (9.92%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (7.44%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.79%) Amazon ECR
8 7 (5.79%) OpenShift
9 6 (4.96%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (4.96%) PaaS
10 5 (4.13%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.31%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.31%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (3.31%) SaaS
12 3 (2.48%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.48%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.31%) Firewall
1 4 (3.31%) HTTP
2 3 (2.48%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.65%) 4G
3 2 (1.65%) FTP
3 2 (1.65%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.65%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (1.65%) SSH
4 1 (0.83%) DHCP
4 1 (0.83%) DNS
4 1 (0.83%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.83%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.83%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.83%) LAN
4 1 (0.83%) MQTT
4 1 (0.83%) SNMP
4 1 (0.83%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (0.83%) VLAN
4 1 (0.83%) VPN
4 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 10 (8.26%) DynamoDB
3 8 (6.61%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (6.61%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (4.96%) Data Mining
4 6 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.96%) MySQL
4 6 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.13%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.31%) BigQuery
6 4 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.48%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.48%) Power BI
8 2 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.65%) Big Data
8 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.65%) Looker
8 2 (1.65%) Tableau
9 1 (0.83%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 33 (27.27%) Git
2 20 (16.53%) JIRA
3 9 (7.44%) CircleCI
4 8 (6.61%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.96%) Gradle
5 6 (4.96%) JUnit
6 5 (4.13%) GitLab
6 5 (4.13%) Pylint
6 5 (4.13%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.31%) Mercurial
7 4 (3.31%) Selenium
8 3 (2.48%) TestNG
8 3 (2.48%) WebDriver
9 2 (1.65%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.65%) Gerrit
9 2 (1.65%) git-flow
9 2 (1.65%) GoCD
9 2 (1.65%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.83%) XCUITest
General
1 41 (33.88%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.18%) Finance
3 13 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.61%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.96%) Marketing
5 6 (4.96%) Retail
6 5 (4.13%) Law
6 5 (4.13%) Public Speaking
7 4 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.48%) Banking
9 2 (1.65%) Czech Language
9 2 (1.65%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.65%) Legal
9 2 (1.65%) Police
9 2 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.83%) Electronics
10 1 (0.83%) French Language
10 1 (0.83%) Front Office
10 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (24.79%) Developer
2 18 (14.88%) Senior
3 12 (9.92%) Architect
4 11 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 10 (8.26%) Lead
6 7 (5.79%) Python Developer
6 7 (5.79%) Technical Leader
7 6 (4.96%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.13%) Android Developer
8 5 (4.13%) Consultant
8 5 (4.13%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Senior Android Developer
9 4 (3.31%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Data Scientist
9 4 (3.31%) JavaScript Developer
9 4 (3.31%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Technical Writer
10 3 (2.48%) Analyst
10 3 (2.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (2.48%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.88%) REST
2 13 (10.74%) HTML
3 12 (9.92%) Kafka
4 11 (9.09%) pytest
4 11 (9.09%) React
5 9 (7.44%) RESTful
5 9 (7.44%) WebSockets
6 7 (5.79%) RAML
7 6 (4.96%) CSS
8 5 (4.13%) .NET
8 5 (4.13%) PyTorch
8 5 (4.13%) Web Services
9 4 (3.31%) .NET Core
9 4 (3.31%) Android Jetpack
9 4 (3.31%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.31%) Django
9 4 (3.31%) Jetpack Compose
9 4 (3.31%) JSON
9 4 (3.31%) Node.js
9 4 (3.31%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.26%) Distributed Systems
1 10 (8.26%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (5.79%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.79%) Legacy Code
3 4 (3.31%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.31%) Security Posture
3 4 (3.31%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.48%) Life Science
4 3 (2.48%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.48%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.48%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (2.48%) Solar Panel
5 2 (1.65%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.65%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.65%) Hackathon
5 2 (1.65%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.65%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (25.62%) Linux
2 9 (7.44%) Android
3 7 (5.79%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.31%) Unix
4 4 (3.31%) Windows
5 2 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.83%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (28.93%) DevOps
2 32 (26.45%) Agile
2 32 (26.45%) Software Engineering
3 24 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (19.01%) CI/CD
5 20 (16.53%) Analytics
5 20 (16.53%) Containerisation
6 19 (15.70%) Machine Learning
7 18 (14.88%) Microservices
8 17 (14.05%) Computer Science
9 15 (12.40%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (11.57%) Data Science
11 13 (10.74%) Test Automation
12 12 (9.92%) Artificial Intelligence
12 12 (9.92%) Roadmaps
12 12 (9.92%) SDLC
12 12 (9.92%) TDD
13 11 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (9.09%) Scrum
14 10 (8.26%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 52 (42.98%) Python
2 33 (27.27%) SQL
3 32 (26.45%) Java
4 21 (17.36%) JavaScript
5 11 (9.09%) Go
6 10 (8.26%) Kotlin
7 8 (6.61%) Ruby
8 7 (5.79%) C#
8 7 (5.79%) PHP
9 6 (4.96%) Rust
10 5 (4.13%) Objective-C
10 5 (4.13%) R
10 5 (4.13%) Swift
11 4 (3.31%) Perl
11 4 (3.31%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.31%) Scala
11 4 (3.31%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.48%) Bash
13 2 (1.65%) Clojure
13 2 (1.65%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 22 (18.18%) Degree
1 22 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.53%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (4.13%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.83%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.09%) QA
2 5 (4.13%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.48%) NCSC
4 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.83%) MiFID
System Software
1 35 (28.93%) Docker
2 6 (4.96%) Firmware
3 4 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.65%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.65%) Ceph
5 2 (1.65%) NFS
6 1 (0.83%) iptables
6 1 (0.83%) KVM
6 1 (0.83%) Lustre
6 1 (0.83%) Samba
6 1 (0.83%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 39 (32.23%) Kubernetes
2 24 (19.83%) Terraform
3 10 (8.26%) Ansible
4 7 (5.79%) Progress Chef
4 7 (5.79%) Puppet
5 5 (4.13%) Dell DRAC
6 3 (2.48%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.65%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.83%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.83%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.83%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.83%) Mesos
8 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.83%) SCCM
8 1 (0.83%) SELinux
8 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.83%) TIBCO Hawk
8 1 (0.83%) yum
Vendors
1 19 (15.70%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.44%) Salesforce
3 8 (6.61%) Dell
4 7 (5.79%) Google
5 6 (4.96%) Apple
5 6 (4.96%) SAP
6 5 (4.13%) Splunk
6 5 (4.13%) VMware
7 3 (2.48%) Adobe
7 3 (2.48%) Intel
7 3 (2.48%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.65%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.65%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.65%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.65%) Typelevel
9 1 (0.83%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.83%) Black Duck
9 1 (0.83%) Databricks
9 1 (0.83%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.83%) OpenAI