Black Duck Contracts

Black Duck
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Black Duck products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Black Duck over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Black Duck Software.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 699 802
Rank change year-on-year +116 +103 -115
Contract jobs citing Black Duck 4 7 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.012% 0.033%
As % of the Vendors category 0.022% 0.028% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 21
10th Percentile - £500 £473
25th Percentile - £525 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +2.68% +19.91%
75th Percentile - £588 £600
90th Percentile - - £695
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £325
% change year-on-year - - -25.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

Black Duck is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,149 24,781 35,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.53% 42.99% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,244 16,575 23,424
10th Percentile £263 £270 £298
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £642 £637
90th Percentile £738 £740 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +8.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,116 681 898
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £12.05
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +2.70%

Black Duck
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Black Duck as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Black Duck in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Black Duck.

Daily rate trend for Black Duck in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Black Duck.

Hourly rate trend for Black Duck in the UK

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Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Black Duck within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England +116 4 £650 +13.04% 7
London +86 4 £650 +13.04% 1

Black Duck
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) React Developer
2 3 (75.00%) UI Developer
2 3 (75.00%) UI/UX Developer
2 3 (75.00%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
1 4 (100.00%) React
1 4 (100.00%) SignalR
1 4 (100.00%) WebSockets
1 4 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (50.00%) Solar Panel
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 4 (100.00%) Interaction Design
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
1 4 (100.00%) UX Design
2 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Co-Creation
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL