Open Source Contracts in South Yorkshire

Open Source
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 52 49
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 -
Contract jobs citing Open Source 4 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.89% 0.57% 1.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.61% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £416 - £408
25th Percentile £455 £625 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £650 £427
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +52.22% -
75th Percentile £585 £675 £544
90th Percentile £624 - £564
Yorkshire median daily rate £563 £538 £475
% change year-on-year +4.65% +13.16% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 399 489 450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 89.06% 92.97% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 320 356
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £407 £463 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £666 £551
90th Percentile £645 £700 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £525 £485
% change year-on-year -7.62% +8.25% +10.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 38 23
10th Percentile £10.90 - £10.76
25th Percentile £12.64 £9.80 £11.00
Median hourly rate £17.62 £10.63 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +65.71% -36.54% +22.31%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £22.44
90th Percentile - - £23.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.82
% change year-on-year +27.00% -40.35% -9.51%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in South Yorkshire

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in South Yorkshire

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in South Yorkshire

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 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
Sheffield 0 4 £520 -20.00% 3
Open Source
Yorkshire

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (75.00%) Jupyter
1 3 (75.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) CloudBees
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
1 3 (75.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (75.00%) ClickHouse
1 3 (75.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) JMeter
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Cassandra Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Database Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Beam
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
1 3 (75.00%) Keycloak
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Critical Thinking
2 3 (75.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Business Case
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) Go
2 3 (75.00%) Groovy
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Ruby
2 3 (75.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes