Open Source Contracts in Reading

Open Source
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 73 81
Rank change year-on-year -24 +8 -16
Contract jobs citing Open Source 2 16 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% 1.55% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 1.71% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 12
10th Percentile £421 - £408
25th Percentile £433 £453 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £460 £489
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -18.54%
75th Percentile £481 £467 £527
90th Percentile £489 £550 £554
Berkshire median daily rate £585 £460 £484
% change year-on-year +27.17% -4.91% -0.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,061 934 1,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.99% 90.42% 90.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 631 820
10th Percentile £213 £369 £256
25th Percentile £413 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £671 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 23 8
10th Percentile £20.17 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.65 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £80.69 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.49 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.57 £56.89 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.48% +170.24% -

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Reading

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Reading

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in Reading

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft