Open Source Contracts in the North of England

Open Source
England > North of England

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 179 171
Rank change year-on-year +36 -8 -26
Contract jobs citing Open Source 37 33 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.78% 0.57% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.63% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 20 41
10th Percentile £311 £425 £363
25th Percentile £375 £453 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £519 £488
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% +6.41% -2.50%
75th Percentile £650 £552 £538
90th Percentile £738 £591 £556
England median daily rate £570 £613 £580
% change year-on-year -6.94% +5.60% +10.48%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +36.36% +214.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,053 5,255 6,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.80% 90.70% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,479 3,654 4,660
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 203 262
10th Percentile £11.05 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.22 £12.77
Median hourly rate £17.72 £28.70 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -38.26% +54.36% +0.50%
75th Percentile £44.74 £46.03 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £50.70
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the North of England

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Open Source in the North of England

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in the North of England

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in the North of England

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
North West +23 23 £400 -21.95% 18
Yorkshire +21 14 £625 +16.28% 15
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (10.81%) Mule
2 3 (8.11%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (8.11%) Jupyter
2 3 (8.11%) nginx
3 1 (2.70%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (29.73%) AWS
2 10 (27.03%) Azure
3 9 (24.32%) GCP
4 6 (16.22%) Power Platform
5 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (10.81%) Mimecast
6 3 (8.11%) CloudBees
6 3 (8.11%) GitHub
6 3 (8.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Functions
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.41%) IaaS
7 2 (5.41%) PaaS
7 2 (5.41%) SaaS
7 2 (5.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) Relational Database
2 8 (21.62%) RDBMS
3 6 (16.22%) Power BI
4 4 (10.81%) MongoDB
4 4 (10.81%) NoSQL
4 4 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (8.11%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (8.11%) ClickHouse
5 3 (8.11%) GIS
5 3 (8.11%) Metadata
6 2 (5.41%) BigQuery
6 2 (5.41%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (5.41%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (5.41%) Redis
7 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.70%) MySQL
7 1 (2.70%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (2.70%) QGIS
7 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.51%) Selenium
3 4 (10.81%) Hudson
3 4 (10.81%) JIRA
3 4 (10.81%) Liquibase
3 4 (10.81%) Log4j
4 2 (5.41%) JMeter
4 2 (5.41%) SpecFlow
4 2 (5.41%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.70%) Git
5 1 (2.70%) GitLab
5 1 (2.70%) JUnit
5 1 (2.70%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.70%) TestNG
General
1 13 (35.14%) Public Sector
2 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
3 9 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (16.22%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Finance
6 1 (2.70%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.70%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Architect
2 8 (21.62%) Data Architect
3 7 (18.92%) Developer
3 7 (18.92%) ServiceNow Architect
4 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Lead
4 5 (13.51%) Senior
5 4 (10.81%) AWS Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Java Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Test Automation Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Test Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Data Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Data Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Business Analyst
8 1 (2.70%) Consultant
8 1 (2.70%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) Kafka
2 6 (16.22%) Web Services
3 4 (10.81%) Hibernate
3 4 (10.81%) REST
4 3 (8.11%) Apache Beam
4 3 (8.11%) Keycloak
4 3 (8.11%) OpenLayers
4 3 (8.11%) PostGIS
5 2 (5.41%) Node.js
5 2 (5.41%) RESTful
5 2 (5.41%) SignalR
6 1 (2.70%) CSS
6 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.70%) HTML
6 1 (2.70%) Lucene
6 1 (2.70%) pytest
6 1 (2.70%) React
6 1 (2.70%) SOAP
6 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (13.51%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (10.81%) CMDB
4 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.70%) NHS
5 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (24.32%) Linux
2 4 (10.81%) Apple iOS
2 4 (10.81%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) Agile
2 13 (35.14%) Design Patterns
3 12 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (27.03%) DevOps
5 8 (21.62%) Architectural Design
5 8 (21.62%) Architectural Patterns
5 8 (21.62%) CRM
5 8 (21.62%) SOA
5 8 (21.62%) Test Automation
6 7 (18.92%) Content Management
6 7 (18.92%) Data Design
7 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
8 5 (13.51%) Containerisation
8 5 (13.51%) Data Modelling
8 5 (13.51%) Data Strategy
8 5 (13.51%) ITSM
9 4 (10.81%) Capacity Planning
9 4 (10.81%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) Java
2 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
2 7 (18.92%) Python
3 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
4 4 (10.81%) Go
5 3 (8.11%) C#
5 3 (8.11%) Groovy
5 3 (8.11%) Ruby
5 3 (8.11%) Scala
5 3 (8.11%) SQL
6 1 (2.70%) C
6 1 (2.70%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.81%) Degree
3 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) BC Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.41%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Docker
2 3 (8.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (10.81%) Terraform
2 3 (8.11%) Ansible
2 3 (8.11%) Grafana
3 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.70%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) ServiceNow
2 4 (10.81%) Sophos
3 2 (5.41%) Google
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.70%) Brio
4 1 (2.70%) HP
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle