OpenLayers Contract Job Trends

OpenLayers
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring OpenLayers skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 561 616
Rank change year-on-year +6 +55 +188
Contract jobs citing OpenLayers 2 1 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.003% 0.032%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.027% 0.012% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £429
25th Percentile £609 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.35%
75th Percentile £626 - £501
90th Percentile - - £564
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £488
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%

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 7,545 8,634 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.90% 22.41% 22.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,010 5,617 7,893
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.24% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 188 180
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.60 £36.19
25th Percentile £41.82 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.85 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +2.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £72.41
90th Percentile £72.25 £74.61 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year -11.54% +10.11% -6.67%

OpenLayers
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenLayers 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 2 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 19 September 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
England +7 1 £618 -
London - 1 £618 -

OpenLayers
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 2 (100.00%) nginx
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) MinIO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) GIS
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) EJB
1 2 (100.00%) Java SE
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Java EE
2 1 (50.00%) JSP
2 1 (50.00%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) VMware