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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 658 549 566
Rank change year-on-year -109 +17 +69
Contract jobs citing OpenLayers 5 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.009% 0.006% 0.015%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.049% 0.027% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £563 £609 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £618 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% +45.29% -14.05%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £450
90th Percentile £618 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £425
% change year-on-year - - -14.05%

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 10,155 7,440 8,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.09% 22.61% 21.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,639 5,024 5,854
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £634 £666
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 165 248
10th Percentile £28.26 £30.10 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.33 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% +2.09% -10.42%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £79.48 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.15% +0.02%

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 5 August 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 -49 4 £575 -6.88% 2
England -124 4 £575 -6.88% 2
Work from Home - 4 £575 - 1

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 4 (80.00%) nginx
1 4 (80.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) ArcGIS
2 1 (20.00%) GeoServer
2 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) MinIO
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) GIS
2 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (20.00%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (20.00%) QGIS
3 1 (20.00%) Spatial Data
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
1 3 (60.00%) Lead Software Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) EJB
1 4 (80.00%) Jakarta EE
2 3 (60.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) GeoPandas
3 1 (20.00%) Java SE
3 1 (20.00%) JDBC
3 1 (20.00%) JSP
3 1 (20.00%) Leaflet
3 1 (20.00%) Middleware
3 1 (20.00%) ODBC
3 1 (20.00%) PostGIS
3 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Solaris
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ETL
1 4 (80.00%) Master Data Management
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Catastrophe Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
3 1 (20.00%) Remote Sensing
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Spatial Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) Python
4 1 (20.00%) C#
4 1 (20.00%) Perl
4 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) IBM
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) Mapbox