Open Source Contracts in London

Open Source
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Open Source skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Open Source over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 275 218 180
Rank change year-on-year -57 -38 -47
Contract jobs citing Open Source 125 299 632
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.71% 1.19% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.31% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 186 474
10th Percentile £350 £450 £463
25th Percentile £419 £525 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £648 £643
Median % change year-on-year -22.84% +0.78% +11.83%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £763
90th Percentile £775 £838 £838
England median daily rate £568 £601 £600
% change year-on-year -5.52% +0.11% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 12
10th Percentile - - £26.73
25th Percentile £25.99 - £33.44
Median hourly rate £26.97 £90.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.03% +50.00% +650.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £67.50
90th Percentile £70.25 - £69.19
England median hourly rate £40.99 £90.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -54.46% +53.19% +634.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Open Source falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in London

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in London

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in London

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in London

Open Source
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Open Source in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Open Source in London

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Central London +32 23 £500 -16.67% 6
South London +5 2 £438 -3.85% 3
West London +21 1 £500 - 2
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (4.80%) Apache
1 6 (4.80%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.00%) Confluence
2 5 (4.00%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.60%) CMS
4 1 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.80%) Camunda
4 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.80%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Endur
2 4 (3.20%) Shopify
3 2 (1.60%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.80%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (33.60%) Azure
2 34 (27.20%) AWS
3 25 (20.00%) GitHub
4 18 (14.40%) Serverless
5 14 (11.20%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (10.40%) GCP
7 12 (9.60%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (5.60%) Amazon ECR
8 7 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.80%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (4.80%) PaaS
10 5 (4.00%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (4.00%) Azure Functions
10 5 (4.00%) OpenShift
10 5 (4.00%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.20%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (3.20%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (3.20%) BigCommerce
12 3 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.20%) Firewall
1 4 (3.20%) HTTP
2 3 (2.40%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.60%) DNS
3 2 (1.60%) FTP
3 2 (1.60%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.60%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (1.60%) SSH
4 1 (0.80%) 4G
4 1 (0.80%) AMQP
4 1 (0.80%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.80%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.80%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.80%) LAN
4 1 (0.80%) MQTT
4 1 (0.80%) SNMP
4 1 (0.80%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (0.80%) VLAN
4 1 (0.80%) VPN
4 1 (0.80%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.80%) NoSQL
2 9 (7.20%) Data Lake
2 9 (7.20%) DynamoDB
2 9 (7.20%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.60%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (5.60%) MySQL
3 7 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.00%) Power BI
5 4 (3.20%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (3.20%) Big Data
5 4 (3.20%) Data Mining
6 3 (2.40%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.60%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.60%) Redis
7 2 (1.60%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.80%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 36 (28.80%) Git
2 17 (13.60%) JIRA
3 9 (7.20%) CircleCI
4 6 (4.80%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.80%) JUnit
5 5 (4.00%) GitLab
5 5 (4.00%) Gradle
5 5 (4.00%) Pylint
5 5 (4.00%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.20%) Mercurial
6 4 (3.20%) Selenium
7 3 (2.40%) TestNG
7 3 (2.40%) WebDriver
8 2 (1.60%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.60%) Gerrit
8 2 (1.60%) git-flow
8 2 (1.60%) MLflow
8 2 (1.60%) Postman
8 2 (1.60%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (1.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 35 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.00%) Finance
3 12 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.80%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.20%) Law
6 4 (3.20%) Marketing
6 4 (3.20%) Retail
7 3 (2.40%) Banking
7 3 (2.40%) Czech Language
7 3 (2.40%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.40%) Legal
8 2 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.60%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.80%) Arabic Language
9 1 (0.80%) French Language
9 1 (0.80%) German Language
9 1 (0.80%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.80%) Korean Language
9 1 (0.80%) Police
Job Titles
1 45 (36.00%) Developer
2 22 (17.60%) Senior
3 12 (9.60%) Architect
3 12 (9.60%) Senior Developer
4 9 (7.20%) Android Developer
5 7 (5.60%) Python Developer
6 6 (4.80%) Lead
6 6 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.00%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.00%) Senior Android Developer
8 4 (3.20%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.20%) JavaScript Developer
8 4 (3.20%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.20%) Technical Writer
8 4 (3.20%) Tester
9 3 (2.40%) Android Engineer
9 3 (2.40%) Azure Architect
9 3 (2.40%) Python Engineer
9 3 (2.40%) Senior Data Scientist
9 3 (2.40%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.00%) REST
2 15 (12.00%) Kafka
3 13 (10.40%) HTML
4 11 (8.80%) pytest
4 11 (8.80%) React
4 11 (8.80%) RESTful
5 9 (7.20%) WebSockets
6 7 (5.60%) CSS
7 6 (4.80%) AngularJS
7 6 (4.80%) Web Services
8 5 (4.00%) .NET
8 5 (4.00%) RAML
9 4 (3.20%) .NET Core
9 4 (3.20%) Android Jetpack
9 4 (3.20%) Django
9 4 (3.20%) Jetpack Compose
9 4 (3.20%) JSON
9 4 (3.20%) Node.js
9 4 (3.20%) Ruby on Rails
9 4 (3.20%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.60%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.80%) Legacy Code
5 4 (3.20%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.40%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.40%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.40%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.40%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.40%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.40%) Solar Panel
7 2 (1.60%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.60%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.60%) Hackathon
7 2 (1.60%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.60%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.60%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.60%) STB
Operating Systems
1 27 (21.60%) Linux
2 14 (11.20%) Android
3 7 (5.60%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.20%) Unix
5 3 (2.40%) Windows
6 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.80%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (28.80%) Agile
2 32 (25.60%) DevOps
3 28 (22.40%) CI/CD
4 25 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 23 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (16.80%) Microservices
7 18 (14.40%) Computer Science
7 18 (14.40%) Containerisation
8 17 (13.60%) Analytics
8 17 (13.60%) Machine Learning
9 15 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (11.20%) Test Automation
11 13 (10.40%) Scrum
12 12 (9.60%) Data Science
12 12 (9.60%) TDD
13 11 (8.80%) Design Patterns
13 11 (8.80%) Mentoring
13 11 (8.80%) Unit Testing
14 10 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence
14 10 (8.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 52 (41.60%) Python
2 32 (25.60%) Java
2 32 (25.60%) SQL
3 24 (19.20%) JavaScript
4 13 (10.40%) Go
4 13 (10.40%) Kotlin
5 9 (7.20%) Ruby
6 7 (5.60%) C#
6 7 (5.60%) PHP
7 6 (4.80%) Objective-C
7 6 (4.80%) Rust
7 6 (4.80%) Swift
8 5 (4.00%) C
8 5 (4.00%) Scala
8 5 (4.00%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.20%) Perl
9 4 (3.20%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.20%) R
10 3 (2.40%) Bash
11 2 (1.60%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 26 (20.80%) Degree
2 19 (15.20%) SC Cleared
2 19 (15.20%) Security Cleared
3 12 (9.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.40%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.40%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.60%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.20%) QA
2 4 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.60%) NCSC
4 1 (0.80%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.80%) MiFID
System Software
1 31 (24.80%) Docker
2 5 (4.00%) Firmware
3 4 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.60%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.60%) Ceph
4 2 (1.60%) NFS
4 2 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.80%) iptables
5 1 (0.80%) KVM
5 1 (0.80%) Lustre
5 1 (0.80%) Samba
5 1 (0.80%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 36 (28.80%) Kubernetes
2 23 (18.40%) Terraform
3 8 (6.40%) Ansible
4 6 (4.80%) Progress Chef
4 6 (4.80%) Puppet
5 4 (3.20%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (1.60%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (1.60%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.80%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.80%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.80%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.80%) Mesos
7 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.80%) SCCM
7 1 (0.80%) SELinux
7 1 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.80%) TIBCO Hawk
7 1 (0.80%) yum
Vendors
1 18 (14.40%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.40%) Salesforce
3 7 (5.60%) Dell
3 7 (5.60%) SAP
4 6 (4.80%) Apple
5 5 (4.00%) Google
5 5 (4.00%) Splunk
6 4 (3.20%) Adobe
6 4 (3.20%) Sitecore
6 4 (3.20%) VMware
7 3 (2.40%) Databricks
8 2 (1.60%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.60%) Intel
8 2 (1.60%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.60%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.60%) Typelevel
9 1 (0.80%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.80%) HP
9 1 (0.80%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.80%) TIBCO