Open Source Contracts in the West Midlands

Open Source
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 138 149
Rank change year-on-year +39 +11 -53
Contract jobs citing Open Source 10 2 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 0.084% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.095% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 23
10th Percentile £509 - £427
25th Percentile £523 - £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £495
Median % change year-on-year - - +37.50%
75th Percentile £650 - £588
90th Percentile £770 - £675
England median daily rate £570 £615 £588
% change year-on-year -7.32% +4.68% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70.97 - -
Median hourly rate £71.93 - -
75th Percentile £72.90 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +36.36% +214.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,114 3,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.67% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,452 2,361
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £401 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 69
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.05
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the West Midlands

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Open Source in the West Midlands

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in the West Midlands

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in the West Midlands

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
Birmingham +10 4 £673 - 9
Coventry - 2 £550 -
Herefordshire - 1 £538 -
Worcestershire - 1 - -
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Wireless
2 3 (30.00%) VPN
3 2 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Metadata
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Military
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Marketing
4 1 (10.00%) Multimedia
4 1 (10.00%) Publishing
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Service Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Head of Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) Dask
1 1 (10.00%) Keras
1 1 (10.00%) NumPy
1 1 (10.00%) Pandas
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
1 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (10.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (30.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (10.00%) CMDB
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
1 4 (40.00%) Architectural Design
1 4 (40.00%) CRM
1 4 (40.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (30.00%) Password Management
2 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (30.00%) Service Design
2 3 (30.00%) User Experience
3 2 (20.00%) Change Management
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) OSINT
3 2 (20.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) PHP
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (10.00%) PhD
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow