OpenLayers Contracts

OpenLayers
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring OpenLayers skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenLayers over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 556 642
Rank change year-on-year +1 +86 +185
Contract jobs citing OpenLayers 1 6 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.015% 0.049%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.013% 0.070% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 20
10th Percentile - - £430
25th Percentile £609 £375 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £425 £495
Median % change year-on-year +45.29% -14.05% +1.54%
75th Percentile £626 £450 £532
90th Percentile - - £547
UK excluding London median daily rate - £425 £495
% change year-on-year - -14.05% -4.90%

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 7,469 8,572 11,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.52% 21.96% 22.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,045 5,851 8,629
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £427 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £635 £665 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 248 156
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.50 £32.88
25th Percentile £40.88 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.94 £53.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% -10.42% +6.50%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.35 £74.46 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £58.60 £58.55
% change year-on-year -6.15% +0.10% +1.82%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OpenLayers in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenLayers.

Hourly rate trend for OpenLayers in the UK

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Top 2 Contract 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 3 August 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 +17 1 £618 +45.29% 9
London - 1 £618 - 6

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 1 (100.00%) nginx
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) MinIO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Java SE
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Master Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat