Open Source Contracts in Sheffield

Open Source
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 51 41
Rank change year-on-year +5 -10 -
Contract jobs citing Open Source 5 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.34% 0.67% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 0.70% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £416 - £406
25th Percentile £455 £625 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £650 £426
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +52.58% -
75th Percentile £585 £675 £508
90th Percentile £624 - £544
South Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £650 £427
% change year-on-year -20.00% +52.22% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 346 430 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 92.51% 95.77% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 301 291
10th Percentile £375 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% +15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £566
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £470 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -14.55% +10.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 11
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.05 £9.49
25th Percentile £11.33 £11.13 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £11.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.30% -28.13% +4.40%
75th Percentile £23.75 £25.88 £18.57
90th Percentile - £34.35 £24.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.62 £10.63 £16.75
% change year-on-year +65.71% -36.54% +22.31%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Sheffield

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Sheffield

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Sheffield over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in Sheffield

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 Airflow
1 3 (60.00%) Jupyter
1 3 (60.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) CloudBees
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
1 3 (60.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (60.00%) ClickHouse
1 3 (60.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Cassandra Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Database Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Beam
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
1 3 (60.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Design Patterns
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Critical Thinking
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) Go
2 3 (60.00%) Groovy
2 3 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Ruby
2 3 (60.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 3 (60.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow