Hybrid/Remote OpenLayers Contract Job Trends

OpenLayers
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring OpenLayers skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 - 358
Rank change year-on-year - - +125
Contract jobs citing OpenLayers 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.018% - 0.037%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.068% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile - - £375
25th Percentile £563 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £433
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.86%
75th Percentile £588 - £447
90th Percentile - - £450
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £433
% change year-on-year - +32.95% -17.22%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,962 2,643 3,848
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.16% 25.41% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,965 1,877 2,684
10th Percentile £359 £363 £331
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% - -7.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 24 69
10th Percentile £40.00 £25.55 £22.16
25th Percentile £55.95 £36.31 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £67.63 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.20 £91.88 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

OpenLayers
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenLayers and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

OpenLayers job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

OpenLayers
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OpenLayers.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing OpenLayers

OpenLayers
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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
1 2 (100.00%) Tomcat
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
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Lead Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) EJB
1 2 (100.00%) Java EE
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Master Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat