Open Source Contracts in the Thames Valley

Open Source
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 125 127 135
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Open Source 7 23 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.27% 0.80% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.88% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 17
10th Percentile £454 £420 £420
25th Percentile £496 £451 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £481 £488
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -1.42% -5.34%
75th Percentile £737 £540 £531
90th Percentile £788 £546 £556
South East median daily rate £538 £540 £515
% change year-on-year -0.46% +4.85% +1.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £62.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,268 2,599 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.88% 90.75% 89.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,764 2,187
10th Percentile £213 £317 £235
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +4.12% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £585
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 70 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.30 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +200.23% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £72.69 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the Thames Valley

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Open Source in the Thames Valley

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in the Thames Valley

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in the Thames Valley

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -15 7 £543 +18.26% 5
Open Source
South East

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) IaaS
2 3 (42.86%) PaaS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Stack
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 1 (14.29%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Cybercrime
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Big Data Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
4 1 (14.29%) Advanced Persistent Threat
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks