Open Source Contracts in the North of England

Open Source
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 181 184
Rank change year-on-year +26 +3 -39
Contract jobs citing Open Source 28 31 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.60% 0.55% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.60% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 18 39
10th Percentile £311 £425 £360
25th Percentile £359 £466 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £519 £488
Median % change year-on-year -22.89% +6.41% -2.50%
75th Percentile £569 £555 £538
90th Percentile £625 £599 £556
England median daily rate £570 £614 £588
% change year-on-year -7.13% +4.47% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +36.36% +587.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,003 5,154 6,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.61% 90.64% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,440 3,571 4,590
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £564
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 201 250
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.75 £12.84
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.00 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -38.90% +55.98% +2.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.57
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the North of England

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in the North of England

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in the North of England

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in the North of England

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
North West +15 17 £400 -21.95% 18
Yorkshire +17 11 £563 +4.65% 18
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (14.29%) Mule
2 3 (10.71%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (10.71%) Jupyter
2 3 (10.71%) nginx
3 1 (3.57%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) AWS
2 9 (32.14%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) GCP
3 6 (21.43%) Power Platform
4 4 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (14.29%) Mimecast
5 3 (10.71%) CloudBees
5 3 (10.71%) GitHub
5 3 (10.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Functions
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (7.14%) IaaS
6 2 (7.14%) PaaS
6 2 (7.14%) SaaS
6 2 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) Power BI
2 4 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 4 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.71%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (10.71%) ClickHouse
3 3 (10.71%) GIS
4 2 (7.14%) BigQuery
4 2 (7.14%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (7.14%) InterSystems Cache
4 2 (7.14%) Metadata
4 2 (7.14%) Redis
5 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.57%) MySQL
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (3.57%) QGIS
5 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.86%) Selenium
3 4 (14.29%) Hudson
3 4 (14.29%) Liquibase
3 4 (14.29%) Log4j
4 3 (10.71%) JIRA
5 2 (7.14%) JMeter
5 2 (7.14%) SpecFlow
5 2 (7.14%) TeamCity
6 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.57%) JUnit
6 1 (3.57%) SoapUI
6 1 (3.57%) TestNG
General
1 8 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Banking
4 2 (7.14%) Finance
5 1 (3.57%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Developer
2 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Lead
3 4 (14.29%) AWS Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior
3 4 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) Kafka
2 6 (21.43%) Web Services
3 4 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 4 (14.29%) REST
4 3 (10.71%) Apache Beam
4 3 (10.71%) Keycloak
4 3 (10.71%) OpenLayers
4 3 (10.71%) PostGIS
5 2 (7.14%) Node.js
5 2 (7.14%) RESTful
5 2 (7.14%) SignalR
6 1 (3.57%) CSS
6 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (3.57%) HTML
6 1 (3.57%) Lucene
6 1 (3.57%) pytest
6 1 (3.57%) React
6 1 (3.57%) SOAP
6 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.57%) NHS
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (28.57%) Linux
2 4 (14.29%) Apple iOS
2 4 (14.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Agile
2 9 (32.14%) DevOps
3 7 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (17.86%) Containerisation
5 5 (17.86%) Design Patterns
6 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 4 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 4 (14.29%) SDLC
6 4 (14.29%) Unit Testing
7 3 (10.71%) Configuration Management
7 3 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (10.71%) Performance Analysis
7 3 (10.71%) Risk Management
7 3 (10.71%) Scrum
7 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
7 3 (10.71%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) Java
2 6 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 6 (21.43%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.71%) C#
4 3 (10.71%) Go
4 3 (10.71%) Groovy
4 3 (10.71%) Ruby
4 3 (10.71%) Scala
4 3 (10.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 2 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
2 3 (10.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (14.29%) Terraform
2 3 (10.71%) Ansible
2 3 (10.71%) Grafana
3 1 (3.57%) HP ALM
3 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Sophos
2 2 (7.14%) Google
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) Brio
3 1 (3.57%) HP
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle