Open Source Contracts in Wales

Open Source
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 45 60 56
Rank change year-on-year +15 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Open Source 1 1 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.26% 0.16% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.18% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 16
10th Percentile - - £422
25th Percentile - - £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,000 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -23.81% -2.33%
75th Percentile - - £540
90th Percentile - - £569
UK median daily rate £570 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.35% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 307 553 829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 78.52% 87.22% 83.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 426 605
10th Percentile £165 £184 £200
25th Percentile £359 £331 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% +7.78%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 28 31
10th Percentile £11.75 £14.78 £14.31
25th Percentile £14.78 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.59% -16.38% +15.38%
75th Percentile £51.75 £26.50 £29.25
90th Percentile £86.00 £49.13 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Wales

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Wales

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 5 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
Dyfed - 1 £1,000 -
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes