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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 554 617
Rank change year-on-year -10 +63 +174
Contract jobs citing OpenLayers 2 1 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.003% 0.021%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.025% 0.012% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £444
25th Percentile £609 £563 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £575 £491
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% +17.05% +0.46%
75th Percentile £626 £588 £513
90th Percentile - - £634
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £491
% change year-on-year - - -6.43%

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 7,889 8,010 10,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 23.00% 21.86% 22.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,227 5,070 7,613
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £664
90th Percentile £725 £775 £762
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 124 190
10th Percentile £29.60 £24.19 £36.19
25th Percentile £41.25 £41.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.53
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +17.05% -14.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.25 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.77% +18.18% -15.38%

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 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 31 October 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
London +20 1 £618 +7.39%
England -14 1 £618 +7.39%

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 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