Open Source Contracts in Manchester

Open Source
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 101 115
Rank change year-on-year +12 +14 -38
Contract jobs citing Open Source 8 8 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.55% 0.45% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.50% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 22
10th Percentile - £468 £350
25th Percentile £375 £475 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £538 £513
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +4.88% +2.50%
75th Percentile £434 £563 £538
90th Percentile £463 £601 £554
North West median daily rate £400 £513 £494
% change year-on-year -21.95% +3.80% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - - £52.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,245 1,609 2,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.34% 90.49% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 1,180 1,822
10th Percentile £325 £317 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 56 52
10th Percentile £12.46 £15.74 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.49 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +34.21% +17.07%
75th Percentile £61.25 £40.63 £56.25
90th Percentile £73.30 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £23.22
% change year-on-year -23.83% +50.72% +29.66%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Manchester

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Manchester

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in Manchester

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Wigan - 4 £400 - 1
Open Source
North West

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) GCP
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (50.00%) Mimecast
2 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Hudson
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
2 2 (25.00%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Lead
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Team Leader
4 1 (12.50%) Product Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Team Leader
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Hugging Face
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) BDD
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (12.50%) Generative AI
4 1 (12.50%) LLM
4 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) Operational Stability
4 1 (12.50%) SDLC
4 1 (12.50%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Sophos