OSGi
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for OSGi skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OSGi over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 690 837
Rank change year-on-year +112 +147 -174
Contract jobs citing OSGi 8 8 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.014% 0.032%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.090% 0.059% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 10
10th Percentile £381 - £455
25th Percentile £390 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - £480
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.15%
75th Percentile £568 - £500
90th Percentile £647 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 - £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.81
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £63.62
75th Percentile - - £65.42
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £63.62

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

OSGi is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,917 13,508 23,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.73% 23.22% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,178 9,847 17,358
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 156 240
10th Percentile £21.25 £30.38 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.60
90th Percentile £74.85 £81.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -25.78% +28.00% +11.11%

OSGi
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OSGi in the UK

OSGi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OSGi in the UK

OSGi
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSGi over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OSGi in the UK

OSGi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for OSGi in the UK

OSGi
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSGi within the UK over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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 +111 7 £420 - 3
London +92 4 £410 -
UK excluding London - 3 £700 - 3
Midlands - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 - -
Work from Home +108 1 - -
South West - 1 £700 -

OSGi
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 4 (50.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (37.50%) CMS
3 2 (25.00%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Jackrabbit
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Maven
1 1 (12.50%) Subversion
1 1 (12.50%) webpack
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Backend Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Apache Sling
2 5 (62.50%) JSR 170
3 4 (50.00%) Apache Felix
4 2 (25.00%) GraphQL
4 2 (25.00%) RESTful
5 1 (12.50%) CSS
5 1 (12.50%) CSS3
5 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
5 1 (12.50%) HTML
5 1 (12.50%) HTML5
5 1 (12.50%) J2EE
5 1 (12.50%) Next.js
5 1 (12.50%) React
5 1 (12.50%) Spring
5 1 (12.50%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) B2B
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) Content Management
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Content Management
4 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) MVC
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Physics
4 1 (12.50%) User Experience
4 1 (12.50%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Adobe
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft