BigPanda Contracts

BigPanda
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of BigPanda products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BigPanda over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within BigPanda.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 691 847
Rank change year-on-year +114 +156 -148
Contract jobs citing BigPanda 8 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.003% 0.002%
As % of the Vendors category 0.044% 0.008% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £413 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.48%
75th Percentile £628 - £525
90th Percentile £688 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

BigPanda is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,246 24,927 35,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.60% 42.91% 39.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,291 16,680 23,333
10th Percentile £263 £271 £293
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £635
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,108 691 877
10th Percentile £12.09 £15.21 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.79 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BigPanda as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BigPanda in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BigPanda.

Daily rate trend for BigPanda in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigPanda over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BigPanda in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BigPanda within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
England +108 7 £450 - 3
London +93 7 £450 - 3
Work from Home - 3 £675 -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (37.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Datadog
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) SNMP
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Financial Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Monitoring Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Product Owner
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Service Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Unix
3 2 (25.00%) Windows
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
1 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Kanban
1 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
1 3 (37.50%) Observability
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
1 3 (37.50%) Scrum
2 2 (25.00%) Business Case
2 2 (25.00%) Event Correlation
2 2 (25.00%) Product Backlog
2 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (12.50%) ERP
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security
3 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Rundeck
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) Sybase