Loki Contracts

Loki C++ Library
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 503 573 709
Rank change year-on-year +70 +136 +134
Contract jobs citing Loki 17 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.021% 0.015%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.26% 0.10% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 7
10th Percentile £408 £516 £463
25th Percentile £417 £522 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year -17.21% +0.47% +1.90%
75th Percentile £528 £547 -
90th Percentile £543 £549 £551
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Loki
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Loki in the UK

Loki
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Loki in the UK

Loki
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 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
UK excluding London - 10 £435 - 13
Scotland - 9 £435 - 2
Work from Home +47 7 £475 - 18
England +59 5 £519 -3.49% 24
London +38 3 £500 -6.98% 15
South East - 1 - - 7

Loki
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Pulsar
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) OpenShift
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (11.76%) Azure
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (5.88%) CloudFront
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) PaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Route 53
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) Network Security
1 1 (5.88%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.76%) Big Data
2 2 (11.76%) InfluxDB
3 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.88%) Flink
3 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Git
2 5 (29.41%) Bitbucket
3 2 (11.76%) GitLab
3 2 (11.76%) Jaeger
4 1 (5.88%) Artifactory
4 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.88%) MLflow
4 1 (5.88%) PHPUnit
4 1 (5.88%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Applications Support
2 4 (23.53%) Applications Specialist
2 4 (23.53%) Applications Support Specialist
2 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Support
2 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
2 4 (23.53%) Support Specialist
3 3 (17.65%) Linux Specialist
3 3 (17.65%) Linux Support
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Site Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Middleware
2 3 (17.65%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (11.76%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (5.88%) Doctrine
4 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
4 1 (5.88%) Kafka
4 1 (5.88%) Metaflow
4 1 (5.88%) Node.js
4 1 (5.88%) NumPy
4 1 (5.88%) Pandas
4 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
4 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.88%) scikit-learn
4 1 (5.88%) Symfony
4 1 (5.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.88%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Linux
1 8 (47.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
2 6 (35.29%) DevOps
2 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (35.29%) ITIL
2 6 (35.29%) Observability
2 6 (35.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (23.53%) Agile
3 4 (23.53%) Problem Management
4 3 (17.65%) Garbage Collection
4 3 (17.65%) GitOps
5 2 (11.76%) Architectural Design
5 2 (11.76%) Data Collection
5 2 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (11.76%) High Availability
5 2 (11.76%) Internal Audit
5 2 (11.76%) JVM Tuning
5 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
5 2 (11.76%) Microservices
5 2 (11.76%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) Go
3 1 (5.88%) Groovy
3 1 (5.88%) PHP
3 1 (5.88%) Rust
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.88%) OCP
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) HIPAA
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 7 (41.18%) Docker
3 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (17.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 17 (100.00%) Grafana
2 12 (70.59%) Prometheus
3 11 (64.71%) Ansible
3 11 (64.71%) Kubernetes
3 11 (64.71%) Terraform
4 1 (5.88%) Istio
4 1 (5.88%) Kibana
4 1 (5.88%) linkerd
4 1 (5.88%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Splunk
2 8 (47.06%) Veritas
2 8 (47.06%) VMware