Open Source Contracts in the City of London

Open Source
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 103 145 141
Rank change year-on-year +42 -4 -37
Contract jobs citing Open Source 23 32 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.04% 0.88% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.96% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 44
10th Percentile £413 £498 £399
25th Percentile £422 £520 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £702 £691
90th Percentile £825 £835 £814
Central London median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £34.50
Median hourly rate - - £37.00
75th Percentile - - £39.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £37.00
% change year-on-year - - +362.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,993 3,347 3,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.82% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,405 2,259 2,945
10th Percentile £359 £355 £385
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 24 41
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the City of London

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Open Source in the City of London

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in the City of London

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in the City of London

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (4.35%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.35%) CMS
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (4.35%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) AWS
2 8 (34.78%) GitHub
3 5 (21.74%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (21.74%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon ECR
4 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (8.70%) GCP
5 2 (8.70%) Google Analytics
5 2 (8.70%) Serverless
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.35%) IaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.35%) NuGet
6 1 (4.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) MQTT
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) NoSQL
2 4 (17.39%) DynamoDB
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (13.04%) Power BI
3 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
4 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.70%) Looker
4 2 (8.70%) Tableau
5 1 (4.35%) Data Mart
5 1 (4.35%) DB2
5 1 (4.35%) MariaDB
5 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.35%) MySQL
5 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Git
2 5 (21.74%) CircleCI
3 3 (13.04%) JIRA
3 3 (13.04%) Mercurial
3 3 (13.04%) SonarQube
4 2 (8.70%) GoCD
4 2 (8.70%) Gradle
4 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.35%) GitLab
5 1 (4.35%) JUnit
5 1 (4.35%) Pylint
5 1 (4.35%) Terragrunt
5 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Financial Institution
4 2 (8.70%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Arabic Language
5 1 (4.35%) French Language
5 1 (4.35%) German Language
5 1 (4.35%) Japanese Language
5 1 (4.35%) Korean Language
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Python Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) Data Scientist
3 2 (8.70%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Android Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Backend Developer
4 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) TIBCO Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) UX Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) pytest
1 6 (26.09%) REST
2 4 (17.39%) HTML
2 4 (17.39%) Kafka
3 3 (13.04%) Django
3 3 (13.04%) React
3 3 (13.04%) RESTful
3 3 (13.04%) Web Services
3 3 (13.04%) WebSockets
4 2 (8.70%) CSS
4 2 (8.70%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (8.70%) JSON
4 2 (8.70%) RAML
5 1 (4.35%) .NET
5 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.35%) SAML
5 1 (4.35%) SOAP
5 1 (4.35%) XML
5 1 (4.35%) XSD
5 1 (4.35%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (8.70%) Legacy Code
2 2 (8.70%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Clustering
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Windows
3 1 (4.35%) Android
3 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) DevOps
2 7 (30.43%) Agile
2 7 (30.43%) Software Engineering
3 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
3 6 (26.09%) Computer Science
3 6 (26.09%) Microservices
4 5 (21.74%) Analytics
4 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
5 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (17.39%) SDLC
5 4 (17.39%) Unit Testing
6 3 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (13.04%) Customer Experience
6 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (13.04%) Data Science
6 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
6 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
6 3 (13.04%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) Python
2 13 (56.52%) SQL
3 6 (26.09%) Java
4 3 (13.04%) C#
4 3 (13.04%) Go
4 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.70%) Clojure
5 2 (8.70%) Haskell
5 2 (8.70%) Kotlin
5 2 (8.70%) MATLAB
5 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.70%) R
5 2 (8.70%) Rust
6 1 (4.35%) Perl
6 1 (4.35%) Ruby
6 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.35%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Ceph
2 1 (4.35%) NFS
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (4.35%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (4.35%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (4.35%) Mesos
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (4.35%) Opsgenie
3 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.35%) Puppet
3 1 (4.35%) SCCM
3 1 (4.35%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.35%) IBM
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) PagerDuty
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) TIBCO
3 1 (4.35%) VMware