Open Source Contracts in Northampton

Open Source
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton requiring Open Source skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Open Source over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 20 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing Open Source 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 4.07% 0.79% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 0.83% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £316 - -
25th Percentile £318 £353 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £321 £360 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.97% - -
75th Percentile £323 £368 -
90th Percentile £325 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £321 £360 -
% change year-on-year -10.97% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

Open Source falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 115 120 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 93.50% 94.49% 83.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 91 89
10th Percentile £262 £325 £163
25th Percentile £356 £356 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £460 £375
Median % change year-on-year -14.02% +22.67% -18.48%
75th Percentile £475 £595 £500
90th Percentile £529 £622 £575
Northamptonshire median daily rate £402 £445 £375
% change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -17.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.75 - -
Median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.58% +7.56%
75th Percentile £15.25 - -
90th Percentile - £35.75 -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £32.25 £24.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year +31.63% -40.96% +50.91%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Northampton

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Northampton

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 3 (60.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (40.00%) Apache
2 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (60.00%) Big Data
2 3 (60.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (40.00%) Apache Hudi
3 2 (40.00%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (40.00%) Delta Lake
3 2 (40.00%) Flink
3 2 (40.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) CA Release Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Gradle
1 2 (40.00%) HP UFT
1 2 (40.00%) IntelliJ
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) JUnit
1 2 (40.00%) Maven
1 2 (40.00%) NetBeans
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) Ajax
2 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (40.00%) Bootstrap
2 2 (40.00%) CSS
2 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) HTML5
2 2 (40.00%) J2EE
2 2 (40.00%) jQuery
2 2 (40.00%) JSON
2 2 (40.00%) Node.js
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Spring MVC
2 2 (40.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) API Development
2 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
2 2 (40.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Scala
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks