Open Source Contracts in Manchester

Open Source
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 110 114
Rank change year-on-year +20 +4 -39
Contract jobs citing Open Source 12 8 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.81% 0.43% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.47% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 24
10th Percentile - £469 £350
25th Percentile £375 £484 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £531 £506
Median % change year-on-year -22.35% +4.94% +1.25%
75th Percentile £709 £561 £538
90th Percentile £740 £594 -
North West median daily rate £400 £513 £506
% change year-on-year -21.95% +1.23% +1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - - £52.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,297 1,718 2,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.11% 91.77% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 883 1,262 1,819
10th Percentile £325 £315 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £596 £600 £586
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 57 50
10th Percentile £12.43 £16.85 £11.33
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £37.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.29% +140.65% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £24.69
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.88
North West median hourly rate £22.31 £36.65 £20.07
% change year-on-year -39.14% +82.66% +9.41%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Manchester

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Manchester

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in Manchester

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in Manchester

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 6 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
Wigan - 4 £400 -
Open Source
North West

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) GCP
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (33.33%) Mimecast
2 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) RDBMS
1 5 (41.67%) Relational Database
2 4 (33.33%) Power BI
3 1 (8.33%) Metadata
3 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Hudson
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
1 5 (41.67%) Data Architect
1 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Lead
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (25.00%) CMDB
2 3 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Apple iOS
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
1 4 (33.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Architectural Design
1 5 (41.67%) Architectural Patterns
1 5 (41.67%) Content Management
1 5 (41.67%) CRM
1 5 (41.67%) Design Patterns
1 5 (41.67%) SOA
2 4 (33.33%) Data Design
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 3 (25.00%) ITSM
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) Asset Management
4 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (8.33%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (8.33%) Migration
4 1 (8.33%) SDLC
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) BC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow
2 4 (33.33%) Sophos