Open Source Contracts in the North West

Open Source
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 135 143
Rank change year-on-year +20 +8 -29
Contract jobs citing Open Source 24 23 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.86% 0.71% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.78% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 23
10th Percentile £311 £415 £350
25th Percentile £343 £426 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £619 £538 £538
90th Percentile £723 £559 -
England median daily rate £570 £613 £586
% change year-on-year -6.94% +4.48% +11.67%
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% +91.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,404 2,934 3,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.35% 91.06% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,552 2,091 2,592
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £406 £410 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 151 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.27 £20.74 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%
75th Percentile £45.00 £48.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £55.75 £65.00 £59.38
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the North West

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in the North West

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the North West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in the North West

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in the North West

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 24 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
Manchester +20 13 £413 -22.35% 20
Cheshire +7 5 £311 -39.32%
Merseyside +20 3 £450 -12.20%
Lancashire +5 2 £650 +48.57% 1
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (16.67%) Mule
2 1 (4.17%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) Azure
3 5 (20.83%) Power Platform
4 4 (16.67%) GCP
4 4 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (16.67%) Mimecast
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (8.33%) IaaS
5 2 (8.33%) PaaS
5 2 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Power BI
1 5 (20.83%) RDBMS
1 5 (20.83%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.17%) GIS
3 1 (4.17%) Metadata
3 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
3 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (4.17%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Hudson
1 4 (16.67%) Liquibase
1 4 (16.67%) Log4j
2 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.50%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) Selenium
3 2 (8.33%) SpecFlow
3 2 (8.33%) TeamCity
4 1 (4.17%) Git
4 1 (4.17%) GitLab
4 1 (4.17%) JMeter
4 1 (4.17%) SoapUI
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Architect
2 5 (20.83%) Data Architect
2 5 (20.83%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) ServiceNow Architect
3 4 (16.67%) AWS Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Lead
4 3 (12.50%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Test Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Applications Architect
6 1 (4.17%) GIS Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Team Leader
6 1 (4.17%) Mainframe Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Team Leader
6 1 (4.17%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) Web Services
2 4 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 4 (16.67%) Kafka
2 4 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) CSS
3 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.17%) HTML
3 1 (4.17%) Lucene
3 1 (4.17%) OpenLayers
3 1 (4.17%) PostGIS
3 1 (4.17%) React
3 1 (4.17%) RESTful
3 1 (4.17%) SOAP
3 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 3 (12.50%) CMDB
3 3 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
5 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.17%) Mainframe
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.67%) Apple iOS
2 4 (16.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Agile
1 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (20.83%) Architectural Design
3 5 (20.83%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (20.83%) Content Management
3 5 (20.83%) CRM
3 5 (20.83%) Design Patterns
3 5 (20.83%) DevOps
3 5 (20.83%) SOA
3 5 (20.83%) Test Automation
4 4 (16.67%) Data Design
4 4 (16.67%) Information Security
4 4 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 3 (12.50%) Data Strategy
5 3 (12.50%) ITSM
5 3 (12.50%) Microservices
5 3 (12.50%) SDLC
6 2 (8.33%) Scrum
6 2 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) Java
2 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
3 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.33%) C#
4 2 (8.33%) Python
4 2 (8.33%) SQL
5 1 (4.17%) C
5 1 (4.17%) C++
5 1 (4.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) BC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.17%) HP ALM
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) ServiceNow
2 4 (16.67%) Sophos
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.17%) HP
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle