Open Source Contracts in the North of England

Open Source
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 179 197
Rank change year-on-year +30 +18 -69
Contract jobs citing Open Source 31 28 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.64% 0.51% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.57% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 15 36
10th Percentile £311 £440 £380
25th Percentile £375 £469 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +1.45% +3.50%
75th Percentile £572 £588 £561
90th Percentile £650 £656 £600
England median daily rate £568 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.42% - +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,049 4,928 6,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.93% 89.94% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,410 3,353 4,723
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £575
90th Percentile £665 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 378 209 252
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.27
25th Percentile £12.55 £16.25 £13.72
Median hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £19.17
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +30.43% +7.20%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.48 £31.44
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £38.12 £37.42 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.87% +45.72% +14.13%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the North of England

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in the North of England

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in the North of England

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in the North of England

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 27 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
North West +17 18 £400 -22.89% 22
Yorkshire +15 13 £600 +14.29% 6
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (12.90%) Mule
2 3 (9.68%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (9.68%) Jupyter
2 3 (9.68%) nginx
3 1 (3.23%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) AWS
2 10 (32.26%) Azure
3 9 (29.03%) GCP
4 6 (19.35%) Power Platform
5 4 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (12.90%) Mimecast
6 3 (9.68%) CloudBees
6 3 (9.68%) GitHub
6 3 (9.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Functions
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (6.45%) IaaS
7 2 (6.45%) PaaS
7 2 (6.45%) SaaS
7 2 (6.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) Power BI
2 5 (16.13%) NoSQL
3 4 (12.90%) MongoDB
3 4 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (9.68%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (9.68%) ClickHouse
4 3 (9.68%) GIS
5 2 (6.45%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (6.45%) Redis
6 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
6 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.23%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (3.23%) Metadata
6 1 (3.23%) MySQL
6 1 (3.23%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (3.23%) QGIS
6 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Jenkins
2 5 (16.13%) Selenium
3 4 (12.90%) Hudson
3 4 (12.90%) Liquibase
3 4 (12.90%) Log4j
4 3 (9.68%) JIRA
5 2 (6.45%) Jaeger
5 2 (6.45%) JMeter
5 2 (6.45%) SpecFlow
5 2 (6.45%) TeamCity
6 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.23%) JUnit
6 1 (3.23%) SoapUI
6 1 (3.23%) TestNG
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Finance
5 1 (3.23%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Lead
3 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) AWS Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Java Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Test Automation Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Test Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Senior
6 2 (6.45%) Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (6.45%) Product Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Technical Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Technical Product Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Consultant
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Business Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) Kafka
2 6 (19.35%) Web Services
3 4 (12.90%) Hibernate
3 4 (12.90%) REST
4 3 (9.68%) Apache Beam
4 3 (9.68%) Keycloak
4 3 (9.68%) OpenLayers
4 3 (9.68%) PostGIS
5 2 (6.45%) CSS
5 2 (6.45%) HTML
5 2 (6.45%) Hugging Face
5 2 (6.45%) Node.js
5 2 (6.45%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (6.45%) RESTful
5 2 (6.45%) SignalR
6 1 (3.23%) Django
6 1 (3.23%) Lucene
6 1 (3.23%) SciPy
6 1 (3.23%) SOAP
6 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.45%) Blockchain
3 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.23%) NHS
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (32.26%) Linux
2 4 (12.90%) Apple iOS
2 4 (12.90%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Agile
2 10 (32.26%) DevOps
3 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (22.58%) Test Automation
4 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
4 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (19.35%) Software Engineering
5 5 (16.13%) Configuration Management
5 5 (16.13%) Containerisation
5 5 (16.13%) Critical Thinking
5 5 (16.13%) SDLC
6 4 (12.90%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (12.90%) Design Patterns
6 4 (12.90%) Machine Learning
6 4 (12.90%) Unit Testing
7 3 (9.68%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (9.68%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (9.68%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (9.68%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) Java
2 7 (22.58%) JavaScript
2 7 (22.58%) Python
3 6 (19.35%) SQL
4 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
5 3 (9.68%) C#
5 3 (9.68%) Go
5 3 (9.68%) Groovy
5 3 (9.68%) Ruby
5 3 (9.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Degree
3 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.45%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Docker
2 3 (9.68%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Ansible
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (12.90%) Terraform
3 3 (9.68%) Grafana
3 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.45%) Kiali
4 2 (6.45%) Progress Chef
4 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.45%) Puppet
5 1 (3.23%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Sophos
2 2 (6.45%) AppDynamics
2 2 (6.45%) Google
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Splunk
3 1 (3.23%) Brio
3 1 (3.23%) HP
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle