Open Source Contracts in West Yorkshire

Open Source
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 98 97
Rank change year-on-year +27 -1 -25
Contract jobs citing Open Source 4 10 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.40% 0.61% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.67% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £499 £418 £425
25th Percentile £516 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +0.96% +4.00%
75th Percentile £591 £550 £530
90th Percentile £596 £573 £572
Yorkshire median daily rate £625 £538 £481
% change year-on-year +16.28% +11.69% -3.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 878 1,493 1,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.71% 91.65% 91.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 1,023 1,258
10th Percentile £300 £350 £300
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £576 £600 £573
90th Percentile £668 £700 £649
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 18 44
10th Percentile £11.95 £12.81 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.15 £16.12 £11.88
Median hourly rate £12.53 £27.00 £17.82
Median % change year-on-year -53.59% +51.52% -20.34%
75th Percentile £15.24 £63.75 £22.49
90th Percentile £38.25 £70.00 £28.30
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
% change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -9.54%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in West Yorkshire

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in West Yorkshire

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in West Yorkshire

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Leeds +25 3 £563 +7.14% 10
Open Source
Yorkshire

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) GIS
1 1 (25.00%) InterSystems Cache
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) TestNG
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Health Technology
3 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Agile Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Lead Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) OpenLayers
1 1 (25.00%) PostGIS
1 1 (25.00%) pytest
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) SignalR
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Business Process Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Storyboarding
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) User Research
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Brio