OSGi Contracts

OSGi
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring OSGi skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OSGi over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 550 562 656
Rank change year-on-year +12 +94 +191
DemandTrendContract jobs citing OSGi 3 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.005% 0.010%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.041% 0.023% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £474 - £496
25th Percentile £499 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - £524
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.89%
75th Percentile - - £547
90th Percentile - - £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

OSGi 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,403 8,544 11,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.41% 22.03% 22.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,961 5,734 8,275
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £630 £656 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 208 160
10th Percentile £30.40 £23.80 £35.23
25th Percentile £41.25 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +2.67% -
75th Percentile £65.44 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.61 £74.61 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £59.03
% change year-on-year -12.00% +5.88% -1.62%

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
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OSGi.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OSGi

OSGi
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OSGi.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OSGi

OSGi
Top 4 DemandTrendContract 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 23 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +12 3 £540 - 4
London - 2 £540 - 2
UK excluding London -1 1 £465 - 3
East of England - 1 £465 -

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 3 (100.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (33.33%) CMS
2 1 (33.33%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Figma
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (33.33%) ChatGPT
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) React
2 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) CSS3
3 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
3 1 (33.33%) JSP
3 1 (33.33%) JSR 170
3 1 (33.33%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Personalization
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAI