Open Source Contracts with Work from Home Options

Open Source
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 244 248 202
Rank change year-on-year +4 -46 -57
Contract jobs citing Open Source 100 242 604
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.66% 0.94% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.05% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 165 444
10th Percentile £350 £434 £425
25th Percentile £413 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +9.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £675
90th Percentile £693 £765 £800
UK median daily rate £573 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.58% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile - - £35.88
25th Percentile £70.97 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £71.93 - £53.75
75th Percentile £75.82 - £65.63
90th Percentile £77.58 - £68.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +36.36% +37.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,413 23,039 40,643
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.76% 91.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,290 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 529 544
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.58
25th Percentile £25.38 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Open Source
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Open Source trend for jobs with a WFH option

Open Source
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Open Source.

Open Source daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Open Source over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Open Source daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Open Source
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Open Source.

Open Source hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 12 (12.00%) Confluence
2 4 (4.00%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.00%) GeoServer
4 2 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.00%) CMS
4 2 (2.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.00%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.00%) Mule
Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) BusinessWorks
1 2 (2.00%) Endur
2 1 (1.00%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (1.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 30 (30.00%) AWS
2 26 (26.00%) Azure
3 15 (15.00%) GCP
4 12 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (9.00%) GitHub
5 9 (9.00%) IaaS
6 8 (8.00%) Serverless
7 6 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (6.00%) OpenShift
7 6 (6.00%) PaaS
7 6 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (4.00%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (4.00%) Power Platform
9 4 (4.00%) Route 53
10 3 (3.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (6.00%) DNS
3 5 (5.00%) Firewall
3 5 (5.00%) VPN
4 4 (4.00%) DHCP
5 3 (3.00%) BGP
5 3 (3.00%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (3.00%) HTTP
5 3 (3.00%) IOS XR
5 3 (3.00%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (1.00%) 4G
6 1 (1.00%) FTP
6 1 (1.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 7 (7.00%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (4.00%) BigQuery
5 4 (4.00%) Couchbase
5 4 (4.00%) MySQL
5 4 (4.00%) Oracle BI EE
5 4 (4.00%) Power BI
6 3 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.00%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.00%) GIS
6 3 (3.00%) Tableau
7 2 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.00%) Looker
7 2 (2.00%) MariaDB
7 2 (2.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 30 (30.00%) Git
2 20 (20.00%) JIRA
3 14 (14.00%) Jenkins
4 9 (9.00%) GitLab
5 7 (7.00%) Selenium
6 6 (6.00%) JMeter
7 5 (5.00%) Bitbucket
8 4 (4.00%) SoapUI
9 3 (3.00%) Artifactory
10 2 (2.00%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (2.00%) Cucumber
10 2 (2.00%) git-flow
10 2 (2.00%) Pylint
10 2 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (1.00%) JUnit
11 1 (1.00%) Log4j
11 1 (1.00%) Serenity BDD
11 1 (1.00%) TeamCity
11 1 (1.00%) TestNG
11 1 (1.00%) WebDriver
General
1 32 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.00%) Finance
3 12 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.00%) Banking
5 5 (5.00%) Investment Banking
5 5 (5.00%) Marketing
5 5 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.00%) Legal
7 3 (3.00%) Public Speaking
8 2 (2.00%) Arabic Language
8 2 (2.00%) Czech Language
8 2 (2.00%) Electronics
8 2 (2.00%) French Language
8 2 (2.00%) German Language
8 2 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.00%) Japanese Language
8 2 (2.00%) Korean Language
8 2 (2.00%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (17.00%) Developer
2 14 (14.00%) Senior
3 11 (11.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (9.00%) Architect
5 7 (7.00%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Consultant
7 5 (5.00%) Hardware Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Lead
7 5 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Python Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Security Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Senior Security Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) Data Architect
9 3 (3.00%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.00%) REST
2 9 (9.00%) RESTful
2 9 (9.00%) SOAP
2 9 (9.00%) XML
3 7 (7.00%) HTML
3 7 (7.00%) JSON
4 6 (6.00%) CSS
5 5 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (5.00%) React
6 4 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.00%) Kafka
6 4 (4.00%) Node.js
7 3 (3.00%) Django
7 3 (3.00%) FastAPI
7 3 (3.00%) LangChain
7 3 (3.00%) LDAP
7 3 (3.00%) OpenLayers
7 3 (3.00%) PostGIS
7 3 (3.00%) PyTorch
7 3 (3.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.00%) Public Cloud
2 8 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (6.00%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.00%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.00%) Distributed Applications
3 6 (6.00%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (6.00%) Private Cloud
3 6 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.00%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (3.00%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.00%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.00%) Hackathon
6 2 (2.00%) NHS
6 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.00%) STB
7 1 (1.00%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) IoT
7 1 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 30 (30.00%) Linux
2 8 (8.00%) Windows
3 5 (5.00%) Unix
4 3 (3.00%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.00%) Android
5 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (55.00%) Agile
2 39 (39.00%) DevOps
3 26 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (23.00%) CI/CD
5 16 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (16.00%) Software Engineering
5 16 (16.00%) Test Automation
6 15 (15.00%) Roadmaps
7 14 (14.00%) Analytics
7 14 (14.00%) Mentoring
8 13 (13.00%) Containerisation
8 13 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (13.00%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (13.00%) High Availability
8 13 (13.00%) Scrum
8 13 (13.00%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (12.00%) Computer Science
9 12 (12.00%) Data Science
10 11 (11.00%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (11.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 43 (43.00%) Python
2 26 (26.00%) SQL
3 19 (19.00%) Java
4 17 (17.00%) JavaScript
5 13 (13.00%) Go
6 12 (12.00%) Perl
7 9 (9.00%) Bash
8 7 (7.00%) PowerShell
9 5 (5.00%) C
9 5 (5.00%) C++
9 5 (5.00%) PHP
9 5 (5.00%) Ruby
10 3 (3.00%) T-SQL
11 2 (2.00%) C#
11 2 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (2.00%) MATLAB
11 2 (2.00%) R
11 2 (2.00%) Scala
11 2 (2.00%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (23.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.00%) Degree
4 7 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.00%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.00%) ISEB
7 2 (2.00%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.00%) QA
2 4 (4.00%) NCSC
3 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 21 (21.00%) Docker
2 7 (7.00%) Firmware
2 7 (7.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.00%) VirtualBox
4 2 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.00%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 26 (26.00%) Kubernetes
2 23 (23.00%) Terraform
3 11 (11.00%) Ansible
4 5 (5.00%) Progress Chef
4 5 (5.00%) Puppet
5 4 (4.00%) HP ALM
6 3 (3.00%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (2.00%) Nagios
7 2 (2.00%) Opsgenie
7 2 (2.00%) TIBCO Hawk
8 1 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 10 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 10 (10.00%) Oracle
2 6 (6.00%) VMware
3 5 (5.00%) SAP
3 5 (5.00%) Splunk
4 4 (4.00%) Databricks
4 4 (4.00%) Google
4 4 (4.00%) HP
4 4 (4.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.00%) Cisco
5 3 (3.00%) Dell
5 3 (3.00%) Palo Alto
5 3 (3.00%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.00%) TOWER Software
6 2 (2.00%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.00%) IBM
6 2 (2.00%) New Relic
6 2 (2.00%) PagerDuty
6 2 (2.00%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.00%) TIBCO