Open Source Contracts in Gloucestershire

Open Source
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 52 62
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 -29
Contract jobs citing Open Source 4 12 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.96% 2.47% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 2.64% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 1
10th Percentile £411 £440 -
25th Percentile £484 £563 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £775 £713 £575
90th Percentile - £750 -
South West median daily rate £600 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -7.69% +23.81% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 357 454 460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 85.82% 93.42% 87.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 318 363
10th Percentile £363 £288 £255
25th Percentile £452 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £601
90th Percentile £749 £707 £680
South West median daily rate £525 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 38 12
10th Percentile £14.00 £35.00 £11.78
25th Percentile £17.97 £50.50 £12.56
Median hourly rate £34.00 £71.50 £21.62
Median % change year-on-year -52.45% +230.71% -56.76%
75th Percentile £68.75 £81.98 £36.16
90th Percentile £74.13 £83.40 £58.52
South West median hourly rate £47.50 £61.50 £47.89
% change year-on-year -22.76% +28.43% +6.41%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Gloucestershire

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Gloucestershire

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in Gloucestershire

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 16 April 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
Cheltenham +7 4 £650 -7.14%
Open Source
South West

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
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