Open Source Contracts in Reading

Open Source
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 20 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 67 82
Rank change year-on-year -26 +15 -28
Contract jobs citing Open Source 2 17 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% 1.61% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 1.77% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 10
10th Percentile £497 - £398
25th Percentile £501 £453 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £460 £484
Median % change year-on-year +11.96% -4.91% -19.38%
75th Percentile £538 £467 £519
90th Percentile £547 £500 £534
Berkshire median daily rate £585 £460 £480
% change year-on-year +27.17% -4.17% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,079 961 1,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.75% 91.00% 90.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 631 819
10th Percentile £213 £363 £237
25th Percentile £401 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £615 £656 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £657
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £498
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.53% +6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 23 9
10th Percentile £26.10 £45.50 £13.15
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +116.67% -31.03%
75th Percentile £84.40 £74.40 £35.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £57.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.30 £56.89 £21.05
% change year-on-year +7.76% +170.24% -2.37%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Reading

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Reading

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Open Source in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in Reading

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Zeppelin
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) ETL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) R
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks