Open Source Contracts in England

Open Source
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 281 252 216
Rank change year-on-year -29 -36 -54
Contract jobs citing Open Source 284 484 972
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.77% 1.02% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.13% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 306 691
10th Percentile £350 £445 £425
25th Percentile £425 £513 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £614 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.13% +2.29% +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £736
90th Percentile £725 £781 £813
UK median daily rate £570 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 16
10th Percentile £21.25 - £28.63
25th Percentile £25.99 - £34.44
Median hourly rate £40.99 £90.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.46% +63.64% +587.50%
75th Percentile £69.05 - £67.81
90th Percentile £73.48 - £69.06
UK median hourly rate £26.97 £90.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -70.03% +63.64% +331.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,587 42,714 64,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.77% 89.96% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,623 29,972 45,670
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,317 1,513 1,726
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Open Source in England.

Daily rate trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in England

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Open Source in England.

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Open Source in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Open Source in England

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 31 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
London -58 117 £488 -26.42% 147
South West +34 66 £610 -7.58% 32
South East -6 40 £538 -1.38% 39
North of England +27 29 £400 -23.81% 35
North West +24 18 £400 -21.95% 23
Yorkshire +15 11 £563 +7.14% 9
Midlands +26 10 £550 -8.33% 21
East of England +10 10 £625 +19.05% 19
West Midlands +21 7 £548 -0.45% 14
East Midlands +13 3 £675 +11.34% 7
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (5.28%) Confluence
2 7 (2.46%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.11%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.41%) Apache
4 4 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.41%) Mule
5 3 (1.06%) CMS
5 3 (1.06%) GeoServer
5 3 (1.06%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.06%) nginx
6 2 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.35%) Camunda
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.35%) SAS
7 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.76%) Endur
2 4 (1.41%) Shopify
3 2 (0.70%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (22.89%) Azure
2 57 (20.07%) AWS
3 38 (13.38%) PaaS
4 37 (13.03%) SaaS
5 35 (12.32%) Cloud Computing
5 35 (12.32%) GitHub
6 34 (11.97%) IaaS
7 27 (9.51%) GCP
8 22 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (6.34%) Serverless
11 10 (3.52%) Power Platform
12 8 (2.82%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.11%) OpenShift
14 5 (1.76%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.86%) LAN
1 28 (9.86%) WAN
2 10 (3.52%) Firewall
3 8 (2.82%) DNS
4 7 (2.46%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.46%) Wireless
5 5 (1.76%) Network Security
5 5 (1.76%) VPN
6 4 (1.41%) HTTP
7 3 (1.06%) BGP
7 3 (1.06%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.06%) IOS XR
7 3 (1.06%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.70%) 4G
8 2 (0.70%) FTP
8 2 (0.70%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.70%) SSH
9 1 (0.35%) DHCP
9 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.75%) NoSQL
2 18 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (4.93%) Apache Cassandra
4 12 (4.23%) SQL Server
5 10 (3.52%) Power BI
6 9 (3.17%) Big Data
6 9 (3.17%) Data Lake
6 9 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.17%) DynamoDB
7 8 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (2.82%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.82%) MySQL
8 6 (2.11%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.76%) Couchbase
9 5 (1.76%) GIS
10 4 (1.41%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.41%) Data Mining
10 4 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.06%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (18.31%) Git
2 38 (13.38%) JIRA
3 27 (9.51%) Jenkins
4 13 (4.58%) CircleCI
4 13 (4.58%) GitLab
5 10 (3.52%) Selenium
6 9 (3.17%) Gradle
6 9 (3.17%) JUnit
7 6 (2.11%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.76%) Pylint
8 5 (1.76%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.41%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.41%) Hudson
9 4 (1.41%) Liquibase
9 4 (1.41%) Log4j
9 4 (1.41%) Mercurial
9 4 (1.41%) TestNG
10 3 (1.06%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.06%) GCC
10 3 (1.06%) JMeter
General
1 79 (27.82%) Social Skills
2 54 (19.01%) Public Sector
3 30 (10.56%) Finance
4 27 (9.51%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.52%) Telecoms
6 8 (2.82%) Marketing
7 7 (2.46%) Military
8 6 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.11%) Retail
9 5 (1.76%) Banking
10 4 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.41%) Law
10 4 (1.41%) Public Speaking
11 3 (1.06%) Electronics
11 3 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.06%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.70%) Arabic Language
12 2 (0.70%) Czech Language
12 2 (0.70%) French Language
12 2 (0.70%) German Language
Job Titles
1 51 (17.96%) Developer
2 48 (16.90%) Architect
3 34 (11.97%) Analyst
4 33 (11.62%) Senior
5 30 (10.56%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 27 (9.51%) Network Architect
7 18 (6.34%) Cyber Threat Analyst
7 18 (6.34%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
8 15 (5.28%) Lead
8 15 (5.28%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (4.23%) Senior Developer
10 11 (3.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.17%) Azure Architect
12 8 (2.82%) Support Engineer
13 7 (2.46%) Python Developer
13 7 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (2.46%) Test Engineer
14 6 (2.11%) Delivery Manager
14 6 (2.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.03%) REST
2 26 (9.15%) Kafka
3 22 (7.75%) RESTful
4 15 (5.28%) HTML
5 12 (4.23%) pytest
5 12 (4.23%) React
5 12 (4.23%) Web Services
6 9 (3.17%) AngularJS
6 9 (3.17%) CSS
6 9 (3.17%) JSON
6 9 (3.17%) WebSockets
7 8 (2.82%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.82%) RAML
7 8 (2.82%) SOAP
8 7 (2.46%) .NET
8 7 (2.46%) Django
8 7 (2.46%) Node.js
8 7 (2.46%) XML
9 6 (2.11%) Android Jetpack
9 6 (2.11%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.97%) Data Centre
2 26 (9.15%) Cyber Threat
3 14 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.58%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (3.87%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.52%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.52%) Legacy Code
6 10 (3.52%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.17%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.46%) Operational Technology
8 7 (2.46%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.46%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.11%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.76%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (1.41%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.41%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.41%) STB
12 3 (1.06%) Blockchain
12 3 (1.06%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 59 (20.77%) Linux
2 19 (6.69%) Windows
3 14 (4.93%) Android
4 11 (3.87%) Apple iOS
5 10 (3.52%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (2.11%) Unix
8 5 (1.76%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (1.76%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.41%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (1.41%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.70%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (31.34%) Agile
2 58 (20.42%) DevOps
3 44 (15.49%) Software Engineering
4 40 (14.08%) CI/CD
5 37 (13.03%) Test Automation
6 36 (12.68%) OSINT
7 35 (12.32%) Cybersecurity
8 34 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (11.27%) Computer Science
9 32 (11.27%) Microservices
10 31 (10.92%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 31 (10.92%) Threat Intelligence
11 30 (10.56%) Network Management
11 30 (10.56%) Zero Trust
12 29 (10.21%) Business Strategy
13 28 (9.86%) Analytics
14 27 (9.51%) Continuous Integration
14 27 (9.51%) Machine Learning
15 26 (9.15%) Scrum
16 25 (8.80%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 80 (28.17%) Python
2 54 (19.01%) SQL
3 53 (18.66%) Java
4 34 (11.97%) JavaScript
5 22 (7.75%) Go
6 19 (6.69%) C
7 15 (5.28%) PowerShell
7 15 (5.28%) Ruby
8 14 (4.93%) C++
9 13 (4.58%) Kotlin
10 11 (3.87%) Bash
10 11 (3.87%) C#
11 9 (3.17%) Scala
12 8 (2.82%) Perl
12 8 (2.82%) PHP
13 6 (2.11%) Objective-C
13 6 (2.11%) R
13 6 (2.11%) Swift
13 6 (2.11%) TypeScript
14 5 (1.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 102 (35.92%) Security Cleared
2 66 (23.24%) DV Cleared
3 42 (14.79%) Degree
4 27 (9.51%) SC Cleared
5 20 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.17%) PhD
7 6 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.76%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.06%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.99%) QA
2 6 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.70%) NCSC
3 2 (0.70%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.35%) MiFID
System Software
1 51 (17.96%) Docker
2 12 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.82%) Active Directory
5 7 (2.46%) Firmware
6 4 (1.41%) VirtualBox
7 3 (1.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.70%) Ceph
8 2 (0.70%) NFS
9 1 (0.35%) iptables
9 1 (0.35%) KVM
9 1 (0.35%) Lustre
9 1 (0.35%) Samba
9 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 51 (17.96%) Kubernetes
2 36 (12.68%) Terraform
3 20 (7.04%) Ansible
4 10 (3.52%) Progress Chef
4 10 (3.52%) Puppet
5 5 (1.76%) Dell DRAC
5 5 (1.76%) WSUS
6 4 (1.41%) Grafana
6 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.06%) Nagios
7 3 (1.06%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.70%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.70%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.70%) TIBCO Hawk
9 1 (0.35%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.35%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.35%) Mesos
9 1 (0.35%) SELinux
9 1 (0.35%) yum
Vendors
1 32 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.63%) VMware
3 9 (3.17%) SAP
3 9 (3.17%) Splunk
4 8 (2.82%) Dell
4 8 (2.82%) Oracle
4 8 (2.82%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.46%) Google
6 6 (2.11%) Apple
7 4 (1.41%) Adobe
7 4 (1.41%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.41%) Cisco
7 4 (1.41%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.41%) Sitecore
7 4 (1.41%) Sophos
8 3 (1.06%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.06%) New Relic
8 3 (1.06%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.06%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.06%) TOWER Software