Loki Contracts in the UK excluding London

Loki C++ Library
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Loki skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Loki 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 326 - 461
Rank change year-on-year - - +44
Contract jobs citing Loki 10 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% - 0.004%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.42% - 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile £411 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - -
75th Percentile £471 - -
90th Percentile £506 - -
UK median daily rate £445 £538 £535
% change year-on-year -17.21% +0.47% +1.90%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Loki falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Loki
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Loki as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Loki in the UK excluding London

Loki
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Loki in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Loki in the UK excluding London

Loki
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Loki within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Scotland - 9 £435 - 2
South East - 1 - - 6
Loki
UK

Loki
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (10.00%) CloudFront
2 1 (10.00%) PaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Route 53
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 5 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Legal
4 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Applications Support
2 4 (40.00%) Applications Specialist
2 4 (40.00%) Applications Support Specialist
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
2 4 (40.00%) Support Specialist
3 3 (30.00%) Linux Specialist
3 3 (30.00%) Linux Support
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
1 8 (80.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) ITIL
1 6 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Problem Management
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Garbage Collection
4 3 (30.00%) Observability
5 2 (20.00%) Change Management
5 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (20.00%) High Availability
5 2 (20.00%) Internal Audit
5 2 (20.00%) Investment Management
5 2 (20.00%) JVM Tuning
5 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Wealth Management
6 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Groovy
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) OCP
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (30.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Ansible
1 10 (100.00%) Grafana
2 9 (90.00%) Prometheus
2 9 (90.00%) Terraform
3 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (10.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Splunk
1 8 (80.00%) Veritas
1 8 (80.00%) VMware