OpenFin
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for OpenFin skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OpenFin over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 707 831
Rank change year-on-year +132 +124 -174
Contract jobs citing OpenFin 11 9 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.015% 0.027%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% 0.064% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 24
10th Percentile £673 £552 £611
25th Percentile £744 £569 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £750 £675
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +11.11% -25.00%
75th Percentile £950 £794 £700
90th Percentile £955 £925 £709
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

OpenFin is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,931 14,159 24,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.46% 23.34% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,208 10,343 18,013
10th Percentile £337 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £653
90th Percentile £768 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 150 252
10th Percentile £20.77 £29.58 £21.10
25th Percentile £37.35 £45.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%

OpenFin
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenFin in the UK

OpenFin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OpenFin in the UK

OpenFin
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenFin over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenFin in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenFin within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 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 +117 11 £850 +13.33% 3
London +110 11 £850 +13.33% 3
Work from Home +126 6 £900 +20.00% 2

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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 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) MongoDB
2 3 (27.27%) Hazelcast
2 3 (27.27%) KDB
2 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Git
1 7 (63.64%) git-flow
2 1 (9.09%) Mocha
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
1 5 (45.45%) Marketing
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Investment Banking
4 2 (18.18%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Senior
2 6 (54.55%) JavaScript Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) UI Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Developer
4 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 1 (9.09%) C# Software Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) React Developer
6 1 (9.09%) Senior C# Software Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) React
2 7 (63.64%) Jest
3 6 (54.55%) CSS
3 6 (54.55%) LESS
3 6 (54.55%) Material-UI
3 6 (54.55%) Redux
3 6 (54.55%) Sass
3 6 (54.55%) Tailwind CSS
3 6 (54.55%) WebSockets
4 3 (27.27%) Guice
4 3 (27.27%) HTML
4 3 (27.27%) HTML5
5 1 (9.09%) .NET
5 1 (9.09%) Chai
5 1 (9.09%) D3.js
5 1 (9.09%) Electron
5 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
5 1 (9.09%) Highcharts JS
5 1 (9.09%) Playwright
5 1 (9.09%) Reactive Extensions
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Fixed Income
2 6 (54.55%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (27.27%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (27.27%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Unix
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Electronic Trading
1 9 (81.82%) SDLC
2 8 (72.73%) Software Engineering
3 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 6 (54.55%) Customer Experience
3 6 (54.55%) Post-Production
3 6 (54.55%) User Experience
4 5 (45.45%) DevOps
5 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 4 (36.36%) Scrum
5 4 (36.36%) Visualisation
6 3 (27.27%) Algorithmic Pricing
6 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
6 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven
6 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven Programming
6 3 (27.27%) Garbage Collection
6 3 (27.27%) Kanban
6 3 (27.27%) Low Latency
6 3 (27.27%) Microservices
6 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Java
1 9 (81.82%) JavaScript
2 7 (63.64%) TypeScript
3 4 (36.36%) SQL
4 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
5 1 (9.09%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Google
1 3 (27.27%) Solace
2 2 (18.18%) Finsemble
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft