OpenTracing Contracts

OpenTracing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for OpenTracing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OpenTracing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 593 713 843
Rank change year-on-year +120 +130 -167
Contract jobs citing OpenTracing 5 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.010% 0.007%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.056% 0.043% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £389 - £429
25th Percentile - - £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -2.70% -
75th Percentile - - £484
90th Percentile £468 - £486
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

OpenTracing is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenTracing in the UK

OpenTracing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OpenTracing in the UK

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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 OpenTracing within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Scotland - 5 £400 - 2
UK excluding London - 5 £400 - 2
Work from Home +132 2 £400 -

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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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
1 5 (100.00%) RESTful
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Structures
2 4 (80.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) SDLC
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Dependency Injection
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (20.00%) Post-Production
4 1 (20.00%) Release Management
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Kotlin
1 5 (100.00%) Scala
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 5 (100.00%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft