OpenLayers Contract Job Trends

OpenLayers
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring OpenLayers skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 526 582
Rank change year-on-year -88 +56 +141
Contract jobs citing OpenLayers 5 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.003% 0.020%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.054% 0.015% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile - - £375
25th Percentile £563 £563 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £433
Median % change year-on-year - +32.95% -17.22%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £447
90th Percentile - - £450
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £433
% change year-on-year - - -16.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

OpenLayers 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 9,240 6,844 9,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.80% 22.76% 20.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,186 4,506 6,319
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% - -7.08%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £498
% change year-on-year - +0.50% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 94 221
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.75 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £72.73 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.88 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

OpenLayers
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenLayers relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

OpenLayers job vacancy trend in the UK

OpenLayers
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenLayers.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenLayers

OpenLayers
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenLayers.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenLayers

OpenLayers
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenLayers within the UK over the 6 months to 8 March 2026. 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
London -45 2 £575 -
England -80 2 £575 - 1
Work from Home - 2 £575 -

OpenLayers
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) nginx
1 5 (100.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (40.00%) Apache
3 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) MinIO
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) GIS
2 3 (60.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Lead Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) EJB
2 3 (60.00%) Java EE
2 3 (60.00%) Java SE
2 3 (60.00%) JSP
3 2 (40.00%) Spring
4 1 (20.00%) JDBC
4 1 (20.00%) ODBC
4 1 (20.00%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Legacy Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Solaris
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Refactoring
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (40.00%) Line Management
3 2 (40.00%) Master Data Management
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Protective Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
1 3 (60.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) IBM
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (60.00%) VMware