Open Source Contracts in Merseyside

Open Source
North West > Merseyside

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 52 -
Rank change year-on-year +25 - -
Contract jobs citing Open Source 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.32% 0.29% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 0.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% - -
North West median daily rate £413 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -15.38% - -2.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 181 305 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 79.39% 88.41% 89.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 236 222
10th Percentile £146 £309 £185
25th Percentile £245 £400 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +21.62%
75th Percentile £495 £555 £539
90th Percentile £623 £688 £638
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 8 21
10th Percentile £14.15 £16.23 £9.23
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.75 £18.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.72% +24.14% -7.94%
75th Percentile £34.32 £23.75 £15.50
90th Percentile £37.18 £25.63 £33.58
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Merseyside

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Merseyside

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 23 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
Liverpool - 3 £450 -
Open Source
North West

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (66.67%) IaaS
1 2 (66.67%) PaaS
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle