Open Source Contracts in Cheltenham

Open Source
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Open Source 4 8 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 2.37% 4.94% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 5.52% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 0
10th Percentile £411 £625 -
25th Percentile £484 £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
75th Percentile £775 £725 -
90th Percentile - £750 -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £650 £700 £550
% change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 146 145 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 86.39% 89.51% 90.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 108 92
10th Percentile £388 £347 £257
25th Percentile £475 £500 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +13.33% +13.51%
75th Percentile £684 £700 £601
90th Percentile £746 £738 £731
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £548 £513
% change year-on-year +0.46% +6.83% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile £42.75 £67.10 £12.08
25th Percentile £70.13 £67.25 £12.19
Median hourly rate £71.00 £81.00 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.35% +535.29% -74.50%
75th Percentile £73.19 £96.00 £13.69
90th Percentile £74.38 £96.90 £14.03
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -50.00% +154.55% -45.00%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Cheltenham

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Cheltenham

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in Cheltenham

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle ERP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) QA Tester
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (50.00%) Black-Box Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Situational Awareness
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) White-Box Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Business Development
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Product Management
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
1 2 (50.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat