Open Source Contracts in the UK excluding London

Open Source
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 274 240
Rank change year-on-year +41 -34 -31
Contract jobs citing Open Source 163 169 328
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.79% 0.73% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.82% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 103 220
10th Percentile £375 £449 £378
25th Percentile £506 £484 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £581 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +10.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £575
90th Percentile £715 £725 £650
UK median daily rate £570 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.12 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £72.90 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £26.97 £82.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -67.31% +50.00% +214.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,183 20,567 27,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.60% 89.35% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,256 14,122 19,102
10th Percentile £250 £260 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% +8.99%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £662
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,100 1,244 1,358
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £12.39
25th Percentile £15.38 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.36
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £62.57
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year -1.02% +41.73% +9.28%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Open Source in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
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 Open Source within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
South West +34 67 £605 -7.63% 30
South East -4 39 £575 +5.50% 100
North of England +33 29 £400 -23.81% 37
North West +35 18 £400 -21.95% 22
East of England +18 12 £625 +19.05% 21
Yorkshire +15 11 £563 +4.65% 10
Midlands +32 10 £550 -8.33% 24
West Midlands +25 7 £548 -0.45% 18
Scotland +19 3 £590 -1.67% 21
East Midlands +17 3 £675 +11.34% 6
Wales +16 3 £1,000 +150.00% 7
Open Source
UK

Open Source
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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (6.13%) Confluence
2 4 (2.45%) Mule
3 3 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.84%) GeoServer
3 3 (1.84%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.84%) nginx
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (21.47%) IaaS
2 34 (20.86%) SaaS
3 33 (20.25%) PaaS
4 30 (18.40%) Cloud Computing
5 23 (14.11%) Azure
6 20 (12.27%) AWS
7 11 (6.75%) GCP
8 10 (6.13%) GitHub
9 8 (4.91%) Power Platform
10 7 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (2.45%) Mimecast
13 3 (1.84%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (1.84%) CloudBees
13 3 (1.84%) Datadog
13 3 (1.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (1.84%) Serverless
14 2 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
14 2 (1.23%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 27 (16.56%) LAN
1 27 (16.56%) WAN
2 9 (5.52%) DNS
3 7 (4.29%) Wireless
4 6 (3.68%) Firewall
5 5 (3.07%) Network Security
6 4 (2.45%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.45%) VPN
7 3 (1.84%) BGP
7 3 (1.84%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.84%) IOS XR
8 2 (1.23%) DHCP
9 1 (0.61%) 4G
9 1 (0.61%) 5G
9 1 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.75%) NoSQL
1 11 (6.75%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.91%) Apache Cassandra
2 8 (4.91%) Power BI
3 6 (3.68%) Big Data
4 5 (3.07%) Couchbase
4 5 (3.07%) GIS
4 5 (3.07%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.45%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.84%) ClickHouse
6 3 (1.84%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.84%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.23%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.23%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.23%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.23%) InterSystems Cache
7 2 (1.23%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 19 (11.66%) Jenkins
2 17 (10.43%) JIRA
3 15 (9.20%) Git
4 7 (4.29%) GitLab
5 6 (3.68%) Selenium
6 5 (3.07%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.45%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.45%) GCC
7 4 (2.45%) Hudson
7 4 (2.45%) Liquibase
7 4 (2.45%) Log4j
8 2 (1.23%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.23%) Gradle
8 2 (1.23%) JMeter
8 2 (1.23%) JUnit
8 2 (1.23%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.23%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.61%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 43 (26.38%) Public Sector
2 40 (24.54%) Social Skills
3 12 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (7.36%) Finance
4 7 (4.29%) Military
5 6 (3.68%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.45%) Banking
8 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.23%) Marketing
8 2 (1.23%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.61%) Electronics
9 1 (0.61%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.61%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Publishing
9 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (22.09%) Architect
2 32 (19.63%) Analyst
3 30 (18.40%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 27 (16.56%) Network Architect
5 19 (11.66%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 19 (11.66%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 14 (8.59%) Developer
7 12 (7.36%) Software Engineer
8 10 (6.13%) Senior
9 9 (5.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.91%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.29%) Lead
12 6 (3.68%) Delivery Manager
13 5 (3.07%) Azure Architect
13 5 (3.07%) Integration Engineer
14 4 (2.45%) AWS Developer
14 4 (2.45%) Java Developer
14 4 (2.45%) Software Development Engineer
14 4 (2.45%) Test Development Engineer
14 4 (2.45%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.82%) REST
2 10 (6.13%) Kafka
2 10 (6.13%) RESTful
3 7 (4.29%) Yocto
4 6 (3.68%) Web Services
5 5 (3.07%) OpenLayers
5 5 (3.07%) PostGIS
5 5 (3.07%) SOAP
5 5 (3.07%) XML
6 4 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.45%) Hibernate
6 4 (2.45%) JSON
6 4 (2.45%) LLVM
7 3 (1.84%) Apache Beam
7 3 (1.84%) Django
7 3 (1.84%) Keycloak
7 3 (1.84%) Lucene
7 3 (1.84%) Node.js
7 3 (1.84%) YANG
8 2 (1.23%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 32 (19.63%) Data Centre
2 26 (15.95%) Cyber Threat
3 9 (5.52%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.91%) Public Cloud
5 7 (4.29%) Operational Technology
6 5 (3.07%) Private Cloud
6 5 (3.07%) STB
7 4 (2.45%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (2.45%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.45%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.45%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.84%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.84%) Digital TV
8 3 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.23%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.23%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.23%) FPGA
9 2 (1.23%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 34 (20.86%) Linux
2 14 (8.59%) Windows
3 10 (6.13%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.07%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (3.07%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (2.45%) Apple iOS
6 4 (2.45%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (2.45%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.23%) Android
8 1 (0.61%) CentOS
8 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (33.13%) Agile
2 31 (19.02%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 31 (19.02%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (19.02%) Threat Intelligence
3 30 (18.40%) Network Management
3 30 (18.40%) OSINT
4 27 (16.56%) Business Strategy
4 27 (16.56%) Zero Trust
5 26 (15.95%) Cyber Intelligence
6 25 (15.34%) Security Operations
6 25 (15.34%) SIEM
7 24 (14.72%) SOAR
8 23 (14.11%) DevOps
8 23 (14.11%) Malware Analysis
8 23 (14.11%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 20 (12.27%) Test Automation
10 17 (10.43%) Software Engineering
11 15 (9.20%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (7.98%) Computer Science
12 13 (7.98%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 29 (17.79%) Python
2 23 (14.11%) Java
3 21 (12.88%) SQL
4 18 (11.04%) C
5 14 (8.59%) C++
6 10 (6.13%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.91%) Bash
7 8 (4.91%) Go
7 8 (4.91%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.68%) Ruby
9 5 (3.07%) C#
9 5 (3.07%) Perl
9 5 (3.07%) Scala
10 4 (2.45%) Embedded C
11 3 (1.84%) Embedded C++
11 3 (1.84%) Groovy
11 3 (1.84%) R
11 3 (1.84%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.61%) PHP
12 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 84 (51.53%) Security Cleared
2 64 (39.26%) DV Cleared
3 15 (9.20%) Degree
4 9 (5.52%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.91%) PhD
6 6 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.07%) QA
2 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.23%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (9.82%) Docker
2 10 (6.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.45%) Firmware
4 4 (2.45%) VirtualBox
5 3 (1.84%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (7.36%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.75%) Ansible
2 11 (6.75%) Terraform
3 5 (3.07%) WSUS
4 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.84%) Grafana
5 3 (1.84%) Nagios
5 3 (1.84%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.84%) Puppet
6 1 (0.61%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (8.59%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.36%) VMware
3 6 (3.68%) Oracle
4 4 (2.45%) Sophos
5 3 (1.84%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.84%) Cisco
5 3 (1.84%) New Relic
5 3 (1.84%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.84%) Splunk
5 3 (1.84%) TOWER Software
6 2 (1.23%) Google
6 2 (1.23%) Xilinx
7 1 (0.61%) Brio
7 1 (0.61%) HP
7 1 (0.61%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.61%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.61%) SAP