Open Source Contracts with Work from Home Options

Open Source
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 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 252 248 206
Rank change year-on-year -4 -42 -60
Contract jobs citing Open Source 95 237 583
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.64% 0.96% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 1.07% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 163 426
10th Percentile £350 £430 £425
25th Percentile £413 £481 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £616 £675 £688
90th Percentile £665 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £570 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile - - £35.88
25th Percentile £70.97 - £48.75
Median hourly rate £71.93 - £53.75
75th Percentile £75.82 - £65.63
90th Percentile £77.58 - £68.75
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,021 22,109 40,018
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.70% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,736 15,644 29,065
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 507 537
10th Percentile £14.93 £18.63 £14.15
25th Percentile £25.00 £27.86 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +35.06% +61.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.00 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Open Source
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Open Source trend for jobs with a WFH option

Open Source
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Open Source.

Open Source daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Open Source over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Open Source daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Open Source
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Open Source.

Open Source hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 12 (12.63%) Confluence
2 4 (4.21%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.16%) GeoServer
4 2 (2.11%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.11%) CMS
4 2 (2.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.05%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.05%) Mule
Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) BusinessWorks
1 2 (2.11%) Endur
2 1 (1.05%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (1.05%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 30 (31.58%) AWS
2 26 (27.37%) Azure
3 13 (13.68%) GCP
4 12 (12.63%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (9.47%) GitHub
6 8 (8.42%) Serverless
7 7 (7.37%) IaaS
8 6 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (6.32%) OpenShift
8 6 (6.32%) PaaS
8 6 (6.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (4.21%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (4.21%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (4.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (4.21%) Route 53
11 3 (3.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (3.16%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.47%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.26%) Firewall
2 5 (5.26%) VPN
3 4 (4.21%) DNS
4 3 (3.16%) BGP
4 3 (3.16%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (3.16%) HTTP
4 3 (3.16%) IOS XR
4 3 (3.16%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (2.11%) DHCP
6 1 (1.05%) 4G
6 1 (1.05%) FTP
6 1 (1.05%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.58%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.42%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.21%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (4.21%) Couchbase
4 4 (4.21%) MySQL
4 4 (4.21%) Oracle BI EE
5 3 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.16%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.16%) GIS
6 2 (2.11%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.11%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.11%) Data Mining
6 2 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.11%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 30 (31.58%) Git
2 20 (21.05%) JIRA
3 14 (14.74%) Jenkins
4 9 (9.47%) GitLab
5 7 (7.37%) Selenium
6 6 (6.32%) JMeter
7 5 (5.26%) Bitbucket
8 4 (4.21%) SoapUI
9 3 (3.16%) Artifactory
10 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (2.11%) Cucumber
10 2 (2.11%) git-flow
10 2 (2.11%) Pylint
10 2 (2.11%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (1.05%) Gerrit
11 1 (1.05%) Liquibase
11 1 (1.05%) Log4j
11 1 (1.05%) Serenity BDD
11 1 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.05%) WebDriver
General
1 30 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.68%) Finance
3 10 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.32%) Banking
5 5 (5.26%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.21%) Legal
7 3 (3.16%) Marketing
7 3 (3.16%) Public Speaking
8 2 (2.11%) Arabic Language
8 2 (2.11%) Czech Language
8 2 (2.11%) Electronics
8 2 (2.11%) French Language
8 2 (2.11%) German Language
8 2 (2.11%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.11%) Japanese Language
8 2 (2.11%) Korean Language
8 2 (2.11%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 17 (17.89%) Developer
2 15 (15.79%) Senior
3 10 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (7.37%) Architect
4 7 (7.37%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (6.32%) Consultant
6 5 (5.26%) Lead
6 5 (5.26%) Security Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) Senior Security Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Python Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Support Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Test Engineer
8 3 (3.16%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.16%) Service Delivery Manager
8 3 (3.16%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.63%) REST
2 9 (9.47%) RESTful
2 9 (9.47%) SOAP
2 9 (9.47%) XML
3 7 (7.37%) HTML
3 7 (7.37%) JSON
4 6 (6.32%) CSS
5 5 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (5.26%) React
6 4 (4.21%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.21%) Kafka
6 4 (4.21%) Node.js
7 3 (3.16%) Django
7 3 (3.16%) Hugging Face
7 3 (3.16%) LangChain
7 3 (3.16%) LDAP
7 3 (3.16%) OpenLayers
7 3 (3.16%) PostGIS
7 3 (3.16%) PyTorch
7 3 (3.16%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.47%) Public Cloud
2 7 (7.37%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (6.32%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.32%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.32%) Distributed Applications
3 6 (6.32%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (6.32%) Private Cloud
4 4 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.16%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.16%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.11%) Blockchain
6 2 (2.11%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.11%) Hackathon
6 2 (2.11%) NHS
6 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.11%) STB
7 1 (1.05%) Digital TV
7 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.05%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 27 (28.42%) Linux
2 8 (8.42%) Windows
3 4 (4.21%) Unix
4 3 (3.16%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.05%) Android
5 1 (1.05%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (56.84%) Agile
2 38 (40.00%) DevOps
3 24 (25.26%) CI/CD
3 24 (25.26%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (17.89%) Test Automation
5 16 (16.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (15.79%) Software Engineering
7 14 (14.74%) Mentoring
8 13 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (13.68%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (13.68%) Roadmaps
8 13 (13.68%) Scrum
8 13 (13.68%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (12.63%) Analytics
9 12 (12.63%) Computer Science
9 12 (12.63%) Containerisation
9 12 (12.63%) Machine Learning
10 11 (11.58%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (11.58%) High Availability
10 11 (11.58%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 38 (40.00%) Python
2 23 (24.21%) SQL
3 19 (20.00%) Java
4 17 (17.89%) JavaScript
5 13 (13.68%) Go
6 10 (10.53%) Perl
7 9 (9.47%) Bash
8 7 (7.37%) PowerShell
9 5 (5.26%) C
9 5 (5.26%) C++
9 5 (5.26%) PHP
9 5 (5.26%) Ruby
10 3 (3.16%) T-SQL
11 2 (2.11%) C#
11 2 (2.11%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (2.11%) Scala
11 2 (2.11%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.11%) XPath
12 1 (1.05%) Bicep
12 1 (1.05%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (25.26%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.95%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.63%) Degree
4 7 (7.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.16%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.11%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.11%) ISEB
7 2 (2.11%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.05%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.47%) QA
2 4 (4.21%) NCSC
3 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.05%) HIPAA
System Software
1 21 (22.11%) Docker
2 7 (7.37%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (5.26%) Firmware
4 3 (3.16%) VirtualBox
5 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (27.37%) Kubernetes
2 23 (24.21%) Terraform
3 11 (11.58%) Ansible
4 5 (5.26%) Progress Chef
4 5 (5.26%) Puppet
5 4 (4.21%) HP ALM
6 3 (3.16%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (2.11%) Nagios
7 2 (2.11%) Opsgenie
7 2 (2.11%) TIBCO Hawk
8 1 (1.05%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 10 (10.53%) Microsoft
1 10 (10.53%) Oracle
2 5 (5.26%) SAP
2 5 (5.26%) Splunk
2 5 (5.26%) VMware
3 4 (4.21%) Databricks
3 4 (4.21%) HP
3 4 (4.21%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.16%) Cisco
4 3 (3.16%) Dell
4 3 (3.16%) Palo Alto
4 3 (3.16%) TOWER Software
5 2 (2.11%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.11%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.11%) Google
5 2 (2.11%) IBM
5 2 (2.11%) New Relic
5 2 (2.11%) PagerDuty
5 2 (2.11%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.05%) Adobe