Open Source Contracts in the UK excluding London

Open Source
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 282 227
Rank change year-on-year +60 -55 -14
Contract jobs citing Open Source 169 165 331
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.83% 0.72% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.80% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 102 218
10th Percentile £373 £453 £394
25th Percentile £506 £491 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £578 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% +10.10% +5.11%
75th Percentile £675 £669 £575
90th Percentile £705 £725 £650
UK median daily rate £570 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £56.19 - -
25th Percentile £61.73 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £71.93 - £55.00
75th Percentile £72.90 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Open Source in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
South West +27 69 £600 -8.40% 34
South East -4 39 £575 +5.50% 34
North of England +26 29 £400 -23.81% 38
North West +20 18 £400 -21.95% 20
East of England +18 15 £300 -42.86% 16
Midlands +36 12 £600 - 30
Yorkshire +11 11 £563 +4.65% 13
West Midlands +32 9 £550 - 22
Scotland +29 4 £590 +0.43% 13
East Midlands +12 3 £675 +11.34% 8
Wales +21 1 £1,000 +150.00% 7
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (5.92%) Confluence
2 4 (2.37%) Mule
3 3 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.78%) GeoServer
3 3 (1.78%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.78%) nginx
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (20.71%) IaaS
2 34 (20.12%) SaaS
3 33 (19.53%) PaaS
4 30 (17.75%) Cloud Computing
5 23 (13.61%) Azure
6 19 (11.24%) AWS
7 11 (6.51%) GCP
8 10 (5.92%) GitHub
9 8 (4.73%) Power Platform
10 7 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (2.37%) Mimecast
12 3 (1.78%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.78%) Azure Stack
12 3 (1.78%) CloudBees
12 3 (1.78%) Datadog
12 3 (1.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.78%) Serverless
13 2 (1.18%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 27 (15.98%) LAN
1 27 (15.98%) WAN
2 9 (5.33%) Wireless
3 8 (4.73%) DNS
4 6 (3.55%) Network Security
5 5 (2.96%) Firewall
6 4 (2.37%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.37%) VPN
7 3 (1.78%) BGP
7 3 (1.78%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.78%) IOS XR
8 2 (1.18%) DHCP
9 1 (0.59%) 4G
9 1 (0.59%) 5G
9 1 (0.59%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.51%) NoSQL
1 11 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.73%) Apache Cassandra
2 8 (4.73%) Power BI
3 7 (4.14%) Big Data
4 5 (2.96%) Couchbase
4 5 (2.96%) GIS
4 5 (2.96%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.37%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.78%) ClickHouse
6 3 (1.78%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.78%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.18%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.18%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.18%) InterSystems Cache
7 2 (1.18%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 20 (11.83%) Jenkins
2 18 (10.65%) JIRA
3 14 (8.28%) Git
4 7 (4.14%) GitLab
5 6 (3.55%) Selenium
6 5 (2.96%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.37%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.37%) GCC
7 4 (2.37%) Hudson
7 4 (2.37%) Liquibase
7 4 (2.37%) Log4j
8 2 (1.18%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.18%) Gradle
8 2 (1.18%) JMeter
8 2 (1.18%) JUnit
8 2 (1.18%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.18%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.59%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 43 (25.44%) Social Skills
2 42 (24.85%) Public Sector
3 14 (8.28%) Finance
4 12 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.14%) Military
6 6 (3.55%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.37%) Banking
9 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.18%) Marketing
9 2 (1.18%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.59%) Electronics
10 1 (0.59%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.59%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.59%) Publishing
10 1 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (21.89%) Analyst
2 36 (21.30%) Architect
3 35 (20.71%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 27 (15.98%) Network Architect
5 22 (13.02%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 22 (13.02%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 14 (8.28%) Developer
7 12 (7.10%) Software Engineer
8 10 (5.92%) Senior
9 9 (5.33%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.14%) Lead
11 6 (3.55%) Azure Architect
11 6 (3.55%) Delivery Manager
12 5 (2.96%) Integration Engineer
13 4 (2.37%) Compiler Engineer
13 4 (2.37%) Java Developer
13 4 (2.37%) Test Automation Engineer
13 4 (2.37%) Test Development Engineer
13 4 (2.37%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.88%) REST
2 10 (5.92%) Kafka
2 10 (5.92%) RESTful
2 10 (5.92%) Yocto
3 6 (3.55%) Web Services
4 5 (2.96%) OpenLayers
4 5 (2.96%) PostGIS
4 5 (2.96%) SOAP
4 5 (2.96%) XML
5 4 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.37%) Hibernate
5 4 (2.37%) JSON
5 4 (2.37%) LLVM
6 3 (1.78%) Apache Beam
6 3 (1.78%) Django
6 3 (1.78%) Keycloak
6 3 (1.78%) Lucene
6 3 (1.78%) Node.js
6 3 (1.78%) YANG
7 2 (1.18%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 32 (18.93%) Data Centre
2 29 (17.16%) Cyber Threat
3 10 (5.92%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.73%) Operational Technology
4 8 (4.73%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.55%) STB
6 5 (2.96%) Private Cloud
6 5 (2.96%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.37%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (2.37%) Digital TV
7 4 (2.37%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.37%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.78%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.18%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.18%) GNSS
9 2 (1.18%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 36 (21.30%) Linux
2 13 (7.69%) Windows
3 9 (5.33%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.96%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (2.37%) Apple iOS
5 4 (2.37%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (2.37%) Mac OS
5 4 (2.37%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.18%) Android
6 2 (1.18%) Unix
7 1 (0.59%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (33.73%) Agile
2 36 (21.30%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 36 (21.30%) Cybersecurity
2 36 (21.30%) Threat Intelligence
3 33 (19.53%) OSINT
4 30 (17.75%) Network Management
5 29 (17.16%) Cyber Intelligence
6 28 (16.57%) Security Operations
6 28 (16.57%) SIEM
7 27 (15.98%) Business Strategy
7 27 (15.98%) SOAR
7 27 (15.98%) Zero Trust
8 26 (15.38%) Malware Analysis
8 26 (15.38%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 25 (14.79%) DevOps
10 21 (12.43%) Test Automation
11 17 (10.06%) Software Engineering
12 15 (8.88%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (8.28%) Analytics
13 14 (8.28%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 28 (16.57%) Python
2 22 (13.02%) C
2 22 (13.02%) Java
3 21 (12.43%) SQL
4 14 (8.28%) C++
5 10 (5.92%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.73%) Bash
6 8 (4.73%) Go
6 8 (4.73%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.55%) Perl
7 6 (3.55%) Ruby
8 5 (2.96%) C#
8 5 (2.96%) Scala
9 4 (2.37%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.78%) Embedded C++
10 3 (1.78%) Groovy
10 3 (1.78%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.59%) PHP
11 1 (0.59%) R
11 1 (0.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 86 (50.89%) Security Cleared
2 69 (40.83%) DV Cleared
3 14 (8.28%) Degree
4 9 (5.33%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.96%) QA
2 2 (1.18%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.18%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (9.47%) Docker
2 9 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.96%) Firmware
3 5 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.37%) VirtualBox
5 3 (1.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 12 (7.10%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.51%) Ansible
2 11 (6.51%) Terraform
3 5 (2.96%) WSUS
4 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.78%) Grafana
5 3 (1.78%) Nagios
5 3 (1.78%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.78%) Puppet
6 1 (0.59%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (8.88%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.51%) VMware
3 6 (3.55%) Oracle
4 4 (2.37%) Sophos
5 3 (1.78%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.78%) Cisco
5 3 (1.78%) New Relic
5 3 (1.78%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.78%) Splunk
5 3 (1.78%) TOWER Software
6 2 (1.18%) Google
6 2 (1.18%) Xilinx
7 1 (0.59%) Brio
7 1 (0.59%) HP
7 1 (0.59%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.59%) SAP