Open Source Contracts in the UK excluding London

Open Source
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 218 282 234
Rank change year-on-year +64 -48 -31
Contract jobs citing Open Source 187 175 351
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.90% 0.73% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.82% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 112 229
10th Percentile £370 £441 £400
25th Percentile £521 £475 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £575
90th Percentile £747 £720 £650
UK median daily rate £573 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.58% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70.97 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £71.93 - £55.00
75th Percentile £72.90 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +36.36% +37.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,539 21,424 27,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.73% 89.49% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,477 14,871 19,220
10th Percentile £250 £255 £232
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,058 1,303 1,363
10th Percentile £12.33 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.34 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.69% +75.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
South West +54 70 £600 -7.69% 32
South East -6 39 £575 +7.98% 30
North of England +36 37 £450 -13.25% 36
North West +23 23 £400 -21.95% 18
East of England +26 18 £300 -42.86% 15
Midlands +38 17 £675 +11.34% 25
Yorkshire +21 14 £625 +16.28% 15
West Midlands +27 10 £550 - 15
Scotland +27 8 £570 -5.00% 18
East Midlands +20 6 £675 +10.20% 10
Wales +20 1 £1,000 +150.00% 4
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 11 (5.88%) Confluence
2 4 (2.14%) Mule
3 3 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.60%) GeoServer
3 3 (1.60%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.60%) nginx
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (19.79%) IaaS
2 34 (18.18%) SaaS
3 33 (17.65%) PaaS
4 30 (16.04%) Cloud Computing
5 25 (13.37%) Azure
6 19 (10.16%) AWS
7 11 (5.88%) GCP
7 11 (5.88%) GitHub
8 8 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (4.28%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.14%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.60%) Azure Stack
11 3 (1.60%) CloudBees
11 3 (1.60%) Datadog
11 3 (1.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (1.60%) Serverless
12 2 (1.07%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 27 (14.44%) LAN
1 27 (14.44%) WAN
2 11 (5.88%) DNS
3 9 (4.81%) Wireless
4 6 (3.21%) Network Security
5 5 (2.67%) DHCP
5 5 (2.67%) Firewall
6 4 (2.14%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.14%) VPN
7 3 (1.60%) BGP
7 3 (1.60%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.60%) IOS XR
8 1 (0.53%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.53%) Skype
8 1 (0.53%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.53%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.53%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.02%) Relational Database
2 11 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 11 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.35%) RDBMS
4 8 (4.28%) Apache Cassandra
4 8 (4.28%) Power BI
5 7 (3.74%) Big Data
6 5 (2.67%) Couchbase
6 5 (2.67%) GIS
7 4 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.14%) Metadata
7 4 (2.14%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.60%) ClickHouse
8 3 (1.60%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.60%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.07%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.07%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.07%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 21 (11.23%) Jenkins
2 20 (10.70%) JIRA
3 15 (8.02%) Git
4 9 (4.81%) GitLab
5 7 (3.74%) GCC
6 6 (3.21%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.21%) Selenium
7 4 (2.14%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.14%) Hudson
7 4 (2.14%) Liquibase
7 4 (2.14%) Log4j
8 2 (1.07%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.07%) Gradle
8 2 (1.07%) JMeter
8 2 (1.07%) JUnit
8 2 (1.07%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.07%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.53%) TestNG
General
1 53 (28.34%) Social Skills
2 49 (26.20%) Public Sector
3 19 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.09%) Finance
5 8 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.74%) Banking
6 7 (3.74%) Military
7 5 (2.67%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.67%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.07%) Marketing
8 2 (1.07%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.53%) Electronics
9 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.53%) Law
9 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.53%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.53%) Publishing
9 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (24.60%) Architect
2 37 (19.79%) Analyst
3 35 (18.72%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 27 (14.44%) Network Architect
5 22 (11.76%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 22 (11.76%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 14 (7.49%) Developer
6 14 (7.49%) Software Engineer
7 12 (6.42%) Data Architect
8 11 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (5.88%) Senior
9 10 (5.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.28%) ServiceNow Architect
11 7 (3.74%) Compiler Engineer
11 7 (3.74%) Lead
12 6 (3.21%) Azure Architect
12 6 (3.21%) Delivery Manager
13 5 (2.67%) Hardware Engineer
13 5 (2.67%) Integration Engineer
13 5 (2.67%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.02%) REST
2 11 (5.88%) Yocto
3 10 (5.35%) Kafka
3 10 (5.35%) RESTful
4 7 (3.74%) LLVM
5 6 (3.21%) Web Services
6 5 (2.67%) OpenLayers
6 5 (2.67%) PostGIS
6 5 (2.67%) SOAP
6 5 (2.67%) XML
7 4 (2.14%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.14%) Hibernate
7 4 (2.14%) JSON
8 3 (1.60%) Apache Beam
8 3 (1.60%) Django
8 3 (1.60%) Keycloak
8 3 (1.60%) Lucene
8 3 (1.60%) Node.js
8 3 (1.60%) YANG
9 2 (1.07%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 32 (17.11%) Data Centre
2 29 (15.51%) Cyber Threat
3 11 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.28%) Operational Technology
4 8 (4.28%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.74%) STB
6 6 (3.21%) CMDB
6 6 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.67%) Digital TV
7 5 (2.67%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.67%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.14%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (2.14%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (2.14%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (2.14%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.60%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.60%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 42 (22.46%) Linux
2 15 (8.02%) Windows
3 10 (5.35%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.21%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.14%) Apple iOS
6 4 (2.14%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (2.14%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.14%) Unix
6 4 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.07%) Android
8 1 (0.53%) CentOS
8 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.53%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (33.69%) Agile
2 37 (19.79%) Cybersecurity
3 36 (19.25%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 36 (19.25%) Threat Intelligence
4 33 (17.65%) OSINT
5 30 (16.04%) Network Management
6 29 (15.51%) Cyber Intelligence
6 29 (15.51%) Security Operations
7 28 (14.97%) DevOps
7 28 (14.97%) SIEM
8 27 (14.44%) Business Strategy
8 27 (14.44%) SOAR
8 27 (14.44%) Zero Trust
9 26 (13.90%) Malware Analysis
9 26 (13.90%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 22 (11.76%) Test Automation
11 18 (9.63%) Software Engineering
12 15 (8.02%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (8.02%) Design Patterns
13 14 (7.49%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 33 (17.65%) Python
2 26 (13.90%) C
3 24 (12.83%) Java
3 24 (12.83%) SQL
4 18 (9.63%) C++
5 11 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 9 (4.81%) Go
6 9 (4.81%) Perl
7 8 (4.28%) Bash
8 6 (3.21%) Ruby
9 5 (2.67%) C#
9 5 (2.67%) Scala
10 3 (1.60%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.60%) Embedded C++
10 3 (1.60%) Groovy
10 3 (1.60%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.53%) PHP
11 1 (0.53%) R
11 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 89 (47.59%) Security Cleared
2 70 (37.43%) DV Cleared
3 19 (10.16%) Degree
4 11 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.81%) PhD
6 6 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.53%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.67%) QA
2 2 (1.07%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.07%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.53%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (8.56%) Docker
2 11 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.28%) Firmware
4 6 (3.21%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.14%) VirtualBox
7 3 (1.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (6.95%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.42%) Ansible
3 11 (5.88%) Terraform
4 6 (3.21%) WSUS
5 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.14%) Progress Chef
5 4 (2.14%) Puppet
6 3 (1.60%) Grafana
6 3 (1.60%) Nagios
7 1 (0.53%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (8.56%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.95%) VMware
3 10 (5.35%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.21%) Oracle
5 4 (2.14%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.14%) Sophos
5 4 (2.14%) Splunk
6 3 (1.60%) Cisco
6 3 (1.60%) New Relic
6 3 (1.60%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.60%) TOWER Software
7 2 (1.07%) Google
7 2 (1.07%) Xilinx
8 1 (0.53%) Brio
8 1 (0.53%) HP
8 1 (0.53%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.53%) SAP
8 1 (0.53%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.53%) Veeam