Open Source Contracts in the South West

Open Source
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 131 139
Rank change year-on-year +51 +8 -32
Contract jobs citing Open Source 69 38 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.17% 1.05% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 1.17% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 31 17
10th Percentile £559 £475 £434
25th Percentile £560 £563 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +23.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £675 £724 £575
90th Percentile - £750 £600
England median daily rate £570 £609 £588
% change year-on-year -6.37% +3.62% +11.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,643 3,248 3,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.14% 89.65% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,686 2,392 2,335
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +6.52%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £589
90th Percentile £700 £722 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 334 195
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.63 £16.32 £20.16
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +26.18% +9.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.37 £70.65
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the South West

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in the South West

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the South West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in the South West

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in the South West

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Wiltshire +58 60 £625 +8.70% 3
Gloucestershire -3 4 £650 -7.14% 2
Bristol +10 2 £610 -4.31% 17
Somerset -4 2 £600 -16.08% 5
Devon -6 1 £600 - 2
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 1 (1.45%) Confluence
1 1 (1.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 29 (42.03%) SaaS
2 28 (40.58%) Cloud Computing
2 28 (40.58%) IaaS
2 28 (40.58%) PaaS
3 2 (2.90%) Azure
4 1 (1.45%) AWS
4 1 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.45%) GCP
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 27 (39.13%) LAN
1 27 (39.13%) WAN
2 5 (7.25%) Wireless
3 4 (5.80%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.45%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.45%) JIRA
General
1 29 (42.03%) Public Sector
2 21 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.14%) Finance
4 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.25%) Military
5 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.45%) Electronics
6 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.45%) Marketing
6 1 (1.45%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 31 (44.93%) Analyst
1 31 (44.93%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
2 29 (42.03%) Architect
3 27 (39.13%) Network Architect
4 20 (28.99%) Cyber Threat Analyst
4 20 (28.99%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 3 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (2.90%) QA Engineer
6 2 (2.90%) QA Tester
6 2 (2.90%) Software Engineer
6 2 (2.90%) Tester
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Architect
7 1 (1.45%) Azure Architect
7 1 (1.45%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (1.45%) Consultant
7 1 (1.45%) Cyber Defence Analyst
7 1 (1.45%) Digital Delivery Manager
7 1 (1.45%) Senior Delivery Manager
7 1 (1.45%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (2.90%) Lucene
2 1 (1.45%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.45%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 27 (39.13%) Data Centre
2 25 (36.23%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (7.25%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.25%) Operational Technology
4 3 (4.35%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.45%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.80%) Linux
2 1 (1.45%) CentOS
2 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (44.93%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 31 (44.93%) Cybersecurity
1 31 (44.93%) OSINT
1 31 (44.93%) Threat Intelligence
2 27 (39.13%) Business Strategy
2 27 (39.13%) Network Management
2 27 (39.13%) Security Operations
2 27 (39.13%) SIEM
2 27 (39.13%) Zero Trust
3 26 (37.68%) Malware Analysis
3 26 (37.68%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 26 (37.68%) SOAR
4 25 (36.23%) Cyber Intelligence
5 6 (8.70%) Agile
5 6 (8.70%) Decision-Making
6 5 (7.25%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (7.25%) Risk Management
7 4 (5.80%) Continuous Deployment
7 4 (5.80%) DevOps
7 4 (5.80%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.35%) Java
1 3 (4.35%) SQL
2 1 (1.45%) C
2 1 (1.45%) C++
2 1 (1.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 64 (92.75%) Security Cleared
2 62 (89.86%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.90%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) Degree
4 1 (1.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.90%) QA
1 2 (2.90%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (1.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.45%) Ansible
1 1 (1.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (2.90%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle
2 1 (1.45%) SAP
2 1 (1.45%) VMware