Open Source Contracts in England

Open Source
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 290 257 205
Rank change year-on-year -33 -52 -57
Contract jobs citing Open Source 289 511 1,015
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.79% 1.04% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.16% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 322 689
10th Percentile £353 £450 £425
25th Percentile £429 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £615 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +4.68% +11.90%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £735
90th Percentile £734 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £570 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 17
10th Percentile - £41.55 £29.10
25th Percentile £25.99 - £34.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +36.36% +587.50%
75th Percentile £72.90 - £68.75
90th Percentile £74.65 £84.00 £83.50
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
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,794 44,158 63,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,826 30,977 45,197
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,562 1,739
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in England

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Open Source in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Open Source in England

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London -62 118 £500 -25.93% 113
South West +43 69 £600 -11.76% 31
South East -5 38 £575 +6.48% 30
North of England +31 28 £400 -22.89% 40
North West +23 17 £400 -21.95% 17
East of England +24 16 £300 -42.86% 15
Midlands +31 12 £600 - 28
Yorkshire +17 11 £563 +4.65% 16
West Midlands +24 9 £550 - 20
East Midlands +21 3 £675 +11.34% 8
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (4.84%) Confluence
2 7 (2.42%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.38%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.38%) Mule
4 3 (1.04%) CMS
4 3 (1.04%) GeoServer
4 3 (1.04%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.04%) nginx
5 2 (0.69%) Apache
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.69%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.73%) Endur
2 3 (1.04%) Shopify
3 2 (0.69%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 65 (22.49%) Azure
2 53 (18.34%) AWS
3 38 (13.15%) PaaS
4 37 (12.80%) SaaS
5 36 (12.46%) Cloud Computing
6 34 (11.76%) GitHub
6 34 (11.76%) IaaS
7 27 (9.34%) GCP
8 22 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (6.57%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (6.57%) Serverless
10 9 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (3.11%) Power Platform
11 8 (2.77%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (2.08%) OpenShift
13 5 (1.73%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (1.73%) Azure Functions
13 5 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.69%) LAN
1 28 (9.69%) WAN
2 9 (3.11%) Firewall
2 9 (3.11%) Wireless
3 7 (2.42%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.08%) DNS
4 6 (2.08%) Network Security
5 5 (1.73%) VPN
6 4 (1.38%) HTTP
7 3 (1.04%) BGP
7 3 (1.04%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.04%) IOS XR
7 3 (1.04%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.69%) 4G
8 2 (0.69%) FTP
8 2 (0.69%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.69%) SSH
9 1 (0.35%) DHCP
9 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.61%) NoSQL
2 18 (6.23%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.15%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.46%) Apache Cassandra
4 10 (3.46%) DynamoDB
5 9 (3.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (3.11%) Big Data
5 9 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.11%) Power BI
6 8 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (2.77%) Data Lake
6 8 (2.77%) MongoDB
6 8 (2.77%) MySQL
7 6 (2.08%) Data Mining
7 6 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.08%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.73%) Couchbase
8 5 (1.73%) GIS
9 4 (1.38%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (16.96%) Git
2 39 (13.49%) JIRA
3 27 (9.34%) Jenkins
4 13 (4.50%) GitLab
5 12 (4.15%) CircleCI
6 10 (3.46%) Selenium
7 8 (2.77%) Gradle
7 8 (2.77%) JUnit
8 6 (2.08%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.73%) GCC
9 5 (1.73%) Pylint
9 5 (1.73%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.38%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.38%) Hudson
10 4 (1.38%) Liquibase
10 4 (1.38%) Log4j
10 4 (1.38%) Mercurial
10 4 (1.38%) TestNG
11 3 (1.04%) JMeter
11 3 (1.04%) WebDriver
General
1 86 (29.76%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.69%) Public Sector
3 36 (12.46%) Finance
4 26 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.81%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.11%) Marketing
7 7 (2.42%) Military
7 7 (2.42%) Retail
8 6 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.08%) Public Speaking
9 5 (1.73%) Banking
9 5 (1.73%) Electronics
9 5 (1.73%) Law
9 5 (1.73%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Arabic Language
11 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.69%) Legal
11 2 (0.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 47 (16.26%) Architect
1 47 (16.26%) Developer
2 40 (13.84%) Analyst
3 35 (12.11%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 30 (10.38%) Senior
5 27 (9.34%) Network Architect
6 22 (7.61%) Cyber Threat Analyst
6 22 (7.61%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
7 17 (5.88%) Software Engineer
8 16 (5.54%) Lead
9 12 (4.15%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (4.15%) Senior Developer
10 10 (3.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.11%) Azure Architect
12 8 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.77%) Support Engineer
13 7 (2.42%) Python Developer
13 7 (2.42%) Technical Leader
13 7 (2.42%) Test Engineer
14 6 (2.08%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.11%) REST
2 22 (7.61%) RESTful
3 21 (7.27%) Kafka
4 15 (5.19%) HTML
5 13 (4.50%) Web Services
6 12 (4.15%) pytest
6 12 (4.15%) React
7 10 (3.46%) PyTorch
7 10 (3.46%) Yocto
8 9 (3.11%) AngularJS
8 9 (3.11%) CSS
8 9 (3.11%) JSON
8 9 (3.11%) WebSockets
9 8 (2.77%) RAML
9 8 (2.77%) SOAP
10 7 (2.42%) Django
10 7 (2.42%) Node.js
10 7 (2.42%) TensorFlow
10 7 (2.42%) XML
11 6 (2.08%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 29 (10.03%) Cyber Threat
3 13 (4.50%) Linux Command Line
4 12 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.81%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.81%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.46%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.11%) Legacy Code
8 8 (2.77%) Operational Technology
8 8 (2.77%) Virtual Team
9 7 (2.42%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.42%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.08%) Mobile App
10 6 (2.08%) STB
11 5 (1.73%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.73%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (1.38%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (1.38%) Digital TV
13 3 (1.04%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 63 (21.80%) Linux
2 17 (5.88%) Windows
3 12 (4.15%) Android
4 11 (3.81%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.77%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (2.08%) Unix
8 4 (1.38%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (1.38%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.69%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (31.14%) Agile
2 60 (20.76%) DevOps
3 46 (15.92%) Software Engineering
4 41 (14.19%) Cybersecurity
5 40 (13.84%) OSINT
6 38 (13.15%) CI/CD
7 37 (12.80%) Test Automation
8 36 (12.46%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 36 (12.46%) Threat Intelligence
9 35 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (11.07%) Analytics
11 30 (10.38%) Network Management
11 30 (10.38%) Zero Trust
12 29 (10.03%) Business Strategy
12 29 (10.03%) Cyber Intelligence
13 28 (9.69%) Computer Science
13 28 (9.69%) Machine Learning
13 28 (9.69%) Security Operations
13 28 (9.69%) SIEM
14 27 (9.34%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 80 (27.68%) Python
2 55 (19.03%) SQL
3 54 (18.69%) Java
4 34 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 25 (8.65%) C
6 19 (6.57%) Go
7 16 (5.54%) C++
7 16 (5.54%) PowerShell
8 15 (5.19%) Ruby
9 12 (4.15%) C#
9 12 (4.15%) Kotlin
10 11 (3.81%) Bash
11 9 (3.11%) Scala
12 8 (2.77%) Perl
12 8 (2.77%) PHP
13 6 (2.08%) Objective-C
13 6 (2.08%) Rust
13 6 (2.08%) Swift
13 6 (2.08%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.38%) R
Qualifications
1 107 (37.02%) Security Cleared
2 73 (25.26%) DV Cleared
3 38 (13.15%) Degree
4 29 (10.03%) SC Cleared
5 19 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.77%) PhD
7 6 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.04%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.88%) QA
2 6 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.69%) NCSC
3 2 (0.69%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.35%) MiFID
System Software
1 49 (16.96%) Docker
2 10 (3.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.11%) Firmware
3 9 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.42%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.38%) VirtualBox
6 3 (1.04%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.69%) Ceph
7 2 (0.69%) NFS
8 1 (0.35%) iptables
8 1 (0.35%) KVM
8 1 (0.35%) Lustre
8 1 (0.35%) Samba
8 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 50 (17.30%) Kubernetes
2 35 (12.11%) Terraform
3 20 (6.92%) Ansible
4 10 (3.46%) Progress Chef
4 10 (3.46%) Puppet
5 5 (1.73%) Dell DRAC
6 4 (1.38%) Grafana
6 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.38%) WSUS
7 3 (1.04%) Nagios
7 3 (1.04%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.69%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.69%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.69%) TIBCO Hawk
9 1 (0.35%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.35%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.35%) Mesos
9 1 (0.35%) SELinux
9 1 (0.35%) yum
Vendors
1 34 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.84%) VMware
3 10 (3.46%) SAP
4 9 (3.11%) Splunk
5 8 (2.77%) Dell
5 8 (2.77%) Oracle
5 8 (2.77%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.42%) Google
7 6 (2.08%) Apple
8 4 (1.38%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.38%) Cisco
8 4 (1.38%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.38%) Sophos
9 3 (1.04%) Adobe
9 3 (1.04%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.04%) New Relic
9 3 (1.04%) PagerDuty
9 3 (1.04%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.04%) Sitecore
9 3 (1.04%) TOWER Software