Open Source Contracts in the East Midlands

Open Source
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 82 91
Rank change year-on-year +21 +9 -22
Contract jobs citing Open Source 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.39% 0.39% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.44% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £415 £574 -
25th Percentile £508 £591 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £606 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.34% - -
75th Percentile £688 £627 -
90th Percentile - £641 -
England median daily rate £570 £615 £595
% change year-on-year -7.32% +3.36% +13.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East 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 East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 604 905 1,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.54% 88.29% 83.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 696 832
10th Percentile £200 £206 £206
25th Percentile £269 £330 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £455 £440
Median % change year-on-year -9.78% +3.41% +12.82%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £522
90th Percentile £625 £700 £612
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 60 80
10th Percentile £11.33 £11.80 £9.73
25th Percentile £12.75 £16.25 £13.67
Median hourly rate £17.00 £20.16 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% +0.80% +36.99%
75th Percentile £26.15 £51.50 £28.91
90th Percentile £38.75 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the East Midlands

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in the East Midlands

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in the East Midlands

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in the East Midlands

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Leicestershire - 2 £675 - 1
Northamptonshire +6 1 £360 -37.39% 1
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
2 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Power BI
3 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (33.33%) QlikView
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Anaconda
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Design
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Acquisition
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) R
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft