Linear Programming Contracts

Linear Programming
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Linear Programming skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linear Programming over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 688 847
Rank change year-on-year +107 +159 -148
Contract jobs citing Linear Programming 5 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.009% 0.002%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.010% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £690
Median % change year-on-year - -27.54% -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £500 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Linear Programming 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,201 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.27% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,946 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Linear Programming
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Linear Programming as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Linear Programming in the UK

Linear Programming
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linear Programming.

Daily rate trend for Linear Programming in the UK

Linear Programming
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linear Programming within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
London +103 3 £500 - 1
England +89 3 £500 - 1
Work from Home - 1 - -

Linear Programming
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 3 (60.00%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) Robot Framework
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Python Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Django
1 3 (60.00%) Flask
1 3 (60.00%) Pandas
1 3 (60.00%) pytest
2 1 (20.00%) ADO
2 1 (20.00%) Tkinter
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Data Science
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (60.00%) Data Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) Financial Modelling
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Economics
4 2 (40.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) Operations Research
4 2 (40.00%) Predictive Modelling
4 2 (40.00%) Quantitative Research
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Statistics
4 2 (40.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google