Loki C++ Library
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Loki skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Loki 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 567 674 837
Rank change year-on-year +107 +163 -162
Contract jobs citing Loki 9 10 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.018% 0.014%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.10% 0.076% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 8
10th Percentile £524 £463 £425
25th Percentile £541 £477 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -8.05% +1032.81%
75th Percentile £625 £526 £606
90th Percentile - £549 £629
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +25.00% +5.26% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Loki is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,897 13,217 23,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.91% 23.20% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 9,648 17,304
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 149 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £29.15 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.76
90th Percentile £74.70 £81.25 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%

Loki
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Loki in the UK

Loki
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Loki in the UK

Loki
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Loki within the UK 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
England +115 5 £588 +23.68% 8
Work from Home +120 3 £625 +20.19% 7
London +103 3 £538 +13.16% 4
UK excluding London +51 2 £625 +25.00% 4
South West +11 2 £625 -
South East - 2 £625 -

Loki
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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
1 2 (22.22%) PaaS
1 2 (22.22%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (55.56%) Git
3 4 (44.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (33.33%) JIRA
4 3 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Monitoring Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 3 (33.33%) JPA
1 3 (33.33%) React
1 3 (33.33%) REST
1 3 (33.33%) Spring
1 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 3 (33.33%) Spring Security
2 2 (22.22%) Fluent Bit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) CCTV
1 4 (44.44%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) GitOps
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Front End Development
4 3 (33.33%) High Availability
4 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 3 (33.33%) Microservices
4 3 (33.33%) Observability
4 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 3 (33.33%) TDD
4 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) SOLID
5 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Bash
1 6 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Grafana
2 8 (88.89%) Kubernetes
3 6 (66.67%) Ansible
3 6 (66.67%) Prometheus
4 4 (44.44%) Graylog
4 4 (44.44%) Icinga
4 4 (44.44%) Nagios
4 4 (44.44%) Puppet
4 4 (44.44%) ZABBIX
5 2 (22.22%) Argo
5 2 (22.22%) Istio
5 2 (22.22%) Kustomize
5 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Splunk