Open Source Contracts in England

Open Source
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Open Source skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Open Source over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 284 252 211
Rank change year-on-year -32 -41 -60
Contract jobs citing Open Source 286 502 1,007
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.79% 1.04% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.16% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 315 692
10th Percentile £353 £450 £425
25th Percentile £428 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £618 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.11% +11.90%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £728
90th Percentile £725 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £570 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 17
10th Percentile - £41.55 £29.10
25th Percentile £25.99 - £34.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +36.36% +587.50%
75th Percentile £72.90 - £68.75
90th Percentile £74.65 £84.00 £83.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +36.36% +91.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Open Source is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,446 43,440 63,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.42% 90.15% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,588 30,513 45,420
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,538 1,746
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £16.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £49.37
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Open Source in England.

Daily rate trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in England

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Open Source in England.

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Open Source in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Open Source in England

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London -64 115 £494 -26.85% 115
South West +35 69 £600 -14.29% 34
South East -9 38 £575 +6.48% 33
North of England +25 29 £400 -23.81% 39
North West +21 18 £400 -22.89% 21
East of England +18 15 £300 -42.86% 15
Midlands +33 12 £600 - 30
Yorkshire +12 11 £563 +4.65% 13
West Midlands +33 9 £550 - 22
East Midlands +12 3 £675 +11.34% 8
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (4.90%) Confluence
2 7 (2.45%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.40%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.40%) Mule
4 3 (1.05%) Apache
4 3 (1.05%) CMS
4 3 (1.05%) GeoServer
4 3 (1.05%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.05%) nginx
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.35%) Camunda
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.35%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.75%) Endur
2 3 (1.05%) Shopify
3 2 (0.70%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 65 (22.73%) Azure
2 52 (18.18%) AWS
3 38 (13.29%) PaaS
4 37 (12.94%) SaaS
5 36 (12.59%) Cloud Computing
6 34 (11.89%) GitHub
6 34 (11.89%) IaaS
7 27 (9.44%) GCP
8 22 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (6.64%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (6.29%) Serverless
11 9 (3.15%) Power Platform
12 8 (2.80%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.10%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (2.10%) OpenShift
14 5 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.79%) LAN
1 28 (9.79%) WAN
2 9 (3.15%) Firewall
2 9 (3.15%) Wireless
3 7 (2.45%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.10%) DNS
4 6 (2.10%) Network Security
5 5 (1.75%) VPN
6 4 (1.40%) HTTP
7 3 (1.05%) BGP
7 3 (1.05%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.05%) IOS XR
7 3 (1.05%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.70%) 4G
8 2 (0.70%) FTP
8 2 (0.70%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.70%) SSH
9 1 (0.35%) DHCP
9 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.35%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 18 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.20%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.50%) Apache Cassandra
5 9 (3.15%) Big Data
5 9 (3.15%) DynamoDB
5 9 (3.15%) Power BI
6 8 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.80%) MongoDB
6 8 (2.80%) MySQL
7 7 (2.45%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.10%) Data Mining
8 6 (2.10%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.75%) Couchbase
9 5 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.75%) GIS
10 4 (1.40%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (17.13%) Git
2 38 (13.29%) JIRA
3 27 (9.44%) Jenkins
4 13 (4.55%) GitLab
5 12 (4.20%) CircleCI
6 10 (3.50%) Selenium
7 8 (2.80%) Gradle
7 8 (2.80%) JUnit
8 6 (2.10%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.75%) Pylint
9 5 (1.75%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.40%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.40%) GCC
10 4 (1.40%) Hudson
10 4 (1.40%) Liquibase
10 4 (1.40%) Log4j
10 4 (1.40%) Mercurial
10 4 (1.40%) TestNG
11 3 (1.05%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.05%) WebDriver
General
1 84 (29.37%) Social Skills
2 53 (18.53%) Public Sector
3 34 (11.89%) Finance
4 24 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.50%) Telecoms
6 8 (2.80%) Marketing
7 7 (2.45%) Military
7 7 (2.45%) Retail
8 5 (1.75%) Banking
8 5 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.75%) Public Speaking
9 4 (1.40%) Electronics
9 4 (1.40%) Law
9 4 (1.40%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Arabic Language
11 2 (0.70%) Czech Language
11 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.70%) French Language
Job Titles
1 48 (16.78%) Developer
2 47 (16.43%) Architect
3 39 (13.64%) Analyst
4 35 (12.24%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 30 (10.49%) Senior
6 27 (9.44%) Network Architect
7 22 (7.69%) Cyber Threat Analyst
7 22 (7.69%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
8 16 (5.59%) Software Engineer
9 15 (5.24%) Lead
10 12 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (4.20%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (3.15%) Azure Architect
13 8 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.80%) Support Engineer
14 7 (2.45%) Python Developer
14 7 (2.45%) Test Engineer
15 6 (2.10%) Delivery Manager
15 6 (2.10%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.59%) REST
2 22 (7.69%) RESTful
3 21 (7.34%) Kafka
4 15 (5.24%) HTML
5 12 (4.20%) pytest
5 12 (4.20%) React
5 12 (4.20%) Web Services
6 10 (3.50%) PyTorch
6 10 (3.50%) Yocto
7 9 (3.15%) AngularJS
7 9 (3.15%) CSS
7 9 (3.15%) JSON
7 9 (3.15%) WebSockets
8 8 (2.80%) RAML
8 8 (2.80%) SOAP
9 7 (2.45%) Django
9 7 (2.45%) Node.js
9 7 (2.45%) TensorFlow
9 7 (2.45%) XML
10 6 (2.10%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.89%) Data Centre
2 29 (10.14%) Cyber Threat
3 13 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.85%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.50%) Cloud Native
6 9 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (3.15%) Legacy Code
7 8 (2.80%) Operational Technology
7 8 (2.80%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.45%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.45%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.10%) Mobile App
9 6 (2.10%) STB
10 5 (1.75%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (1.40%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.40%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.40%) Digital TV
12 3 (1.05%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 62 (21.68%) Linux
2 17 (5.94%) Windows
3 12 (4.20%) Android
4 11 (3.85%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.80%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (2.10%) Unix
8 4 (1.40%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (1.40%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.70%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (31.47%) Agile
2 59 (20.63%) DevOps
3 44 (15.38%) Software Engineering
4 41 (14.34%) Cybersecurity
5 39 (13.64%) OSINT
6 38 (13.29%) CI/CD
7 37 (12.94%) Test Automation
8 36 (12.59%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 36 (12.59%) Threat Intelligence
9 35 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (10.49%) Network Management
10 30 (10.49%) Zero Trust
11 29 (10.14%) Analytics
11 29 (10.14%) Business Strategy
11 29 (10.14%) Cyber Intelligence
12 28 (9.79%) Computer Science
12 28 (9.79%) Machine Learning
12 28 (9.79%) Security Operations
12 28 (9.79%) SIEM
13 27 (9.44%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 79 (27.62%) Python
2 54 (18.88%) Java
2 54 (18.88%) SQL
3 34 (11.89%) JavaScript
4 24 (8.39%) C
5 19 (6.64%) Go
6 16 (5.59%) PowerShell
7 15 (5.24%) C++
7 15 (5.24%) Ruby
8 12 (4.20%) C#
8 12 (4.20%) Kotlin
9 11 (3.85%) Bash
10 9 (3.15%) Scala
11 8 (2.80%) Perl
11 8 (2.80%) PHP
12 6 (2.10%) Objective-C
12 6 (2.10%) Rust
12 6 (2.10%) Swift
12 6 (2.10%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (37.06%) Security Cleared
2 73 (25.52%) DV Cleared
3 38 (13.29%) Degree
4 28 (9.79%) SC Cleared
5 19 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.45%) PhD
7 6 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.94%) QA
2 6 (2.10%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.70%) NCSC
3 2 (0.70%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.35%) MiFID
System Software
1 49 (17.13%) Docker
2 10 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.15%) Firmware
3 9 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.45%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.40%) VirtualBox
6 3 (1.05%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.70%) Ceph
7 2 (0.70%) NFS
8 1 (0.35%) iptables
8 1 (0.35%) KVM
8 1 (0.35%) Lustre
8 1 (0.35%) Samba
8 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 50 (17.48%) Kubernetes
2 35 (12.24%) Terraform
3 20 (6.99%) Ansible
4 10 (3.50%) Progress Chef
4 10 (3.50%) Puppet
5 5 (1.75%) Dell DRAC
6 4 (1.40%) Grafana
6 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.40%) WSUS
7 3 (1.05%) Nagios
7 3 (1.05%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.70%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.70%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.70%) TIBCO Hawk
9 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.35%) SCCM
9 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.35%) yum
Vendors
1 33 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.90%) VMware
3 9 (3.15%) SAP
3 9 (3.15%) Splunk
4 8 (2.80%) Dell
4 8 (2.80%) Oracle
4 8 (2.80%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.45%) Google
6 6 (2.10%) Apple
7 4 (1.40%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.40%) Cisco
7 4 (1.40%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.40%) Sophos
8 3 (1.05%) Adobe
8 3 (1.05%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.05%) New Relic
8 3 (1.05%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.05%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.05%) Sitecore
8 3 (1.05%) TOWER Software