OpenLayers Contracts with Work from Home Options

OpenLayers
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for OpenLayers skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OpenLayers over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 460 612
Rank change year-on-year +119 +152 -140
Contract jobs citing OpenLayers 7 16 10
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.046% 0.063% 0.022%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% 0.25% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 10
10th Percentile £375 £436 £413
25th Percentile £388 £476 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £504 £457
Median % change year-on-year -14.19% +10.28% -1.19%
75th Percentile £447 £541 £506
90th Percentile £450 £594 £535
UK median daily rate £433 £514 £464
% change year-on-year -15.86% +10.78% +3.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

OpenLayers 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 WFH option and 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 3,622 6,458 13,219
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.90% 25.29% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,541 4,803 9,764
10th Percentile £331 £394 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £549
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.55% +13.09%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £775 £750 £726
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 80 120
10th Percentile £28.00 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £61.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -27.94% +30.65% +10.56%

OpenLayers
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing OpenLayers as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OpenLayers trend for jobs with a WFH option

OpenLayers
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing OpenLayers.

OpenLayers daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OpenLayers
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (42.86%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure AKS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) GIS
1 7 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (57.14%) Redis
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
3 1 (14.29%) QGIS
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) GIS Developer
3 4 (57.14%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Full Stack Web Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Python Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Web Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) PostGIS
2 4 (57.14%) Celery
2 4 (57.14%) Django
2 4 (57.14%) Flask
2 4 (57.14%) GeoPandas
3 3 (42.86%) React
4 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
4 2 (28.57%) Node.js
4 2 (28.57%) REST
4 2 (28.57%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (14.29%) CSS
5 1 (14.29%) HTML
5 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Full Stack Development
2 3 (42.86%) Open Source
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) API Development
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) Web Development
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Vision
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Econometrics
4 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Statistics
4 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft