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The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 20 September 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
| Open Source UK |
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6 months to
20 Sep 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
94 |
92 |
79 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
-2 |
-13 |
+66 |
| Contract jobs citing Open Source |
2,664 |
2,610 |
3,115 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
2.59% |
2.64% |
2.89% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category |
3.00% |
3.09% |
3.40% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
1,749 |
1,804 |
2,082 |
| UK median daily rate |
£525 |
£500 |
£475 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.00% |
+5.26% |
+5.56% |
| 10th Percentile |
£363 |
£375 |
£338 |
| 90th Percentile |
£688 |
£650 |
£630 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£475 |
£475 |
£450 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.56% |
+12.50% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
12 |
15 |
10 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£42.50 |
£42.50 |
£38.75 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+9.68% |
-13.89% |
| 10th Percentile |
£15.26 |
£13.31 |
£16.94 |
| 90th Percentile |
£71.45 |
£48.75 |
£55.25 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£26.99 |
£35.00 |
£35.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
-22.88% |
- |
-12.50% |
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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.
| All Process and Methodology Skills UK |
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills |
88,745 |
84,585 |
91,698 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
86.20% |
85.59% |
85.03% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
58,601 |
55,681 |
60,671 |
| UK median daily rate |
£450 |
£450 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.88% |
+6.12% |
| 10th Percentile |
£300 |
£278 |
£263 |
| 90th Percentile |
£638 |
£625 |
£600 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£425 |
£400 |
£400 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.25% |
- |
+6.67% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
2,450 |
2,094 |
2,377 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£20.50 |
£24.00 |
£23.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
-14.58% |
+4.35% |
+4.55% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.17 |
£11.25 |
£11.25 |
| 90th Percentile |
£50.00 |
£50.00 |
£47.83 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£20.00 |
£24.00 |
£23.39 |
| % change year-on-year |
-16.67% |
+2.62% |
+6.31% |
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Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Open Source as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Open Source.
Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram
The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Open Source over the 6 months to 20 September 2018.
Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source.
Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram
The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Open Source over the 6 months to 20 September 2018.
Open Source
Top 17 Contract Locations
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 over the 6 months to 20 September 2018. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
For the 6 months to 20 September 2018, IT contractor jobs citing Open Source also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Open Source.
Open Source
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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