OpenFin Contracts

OpenFin
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for OpenFin skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OpenFin over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 683 846
Rank change year-on-year +115 +163 -161
Contract jobs citing OpenFin 11 11 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.019% 0.019%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% 0.083% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 17
10th Percentile £720 £563 £625
25th Percentile £813 £589 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £750 £675
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £1,000 £825 £700
90th Percentile - £925 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

OpenFin 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 8,906 13,255 23,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.94% 23.15% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,185 9,676 17,493
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 - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 144 238
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.35
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £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 £65.71
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.25 £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenFin in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OpenFin in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenFin over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OpenFin in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenFin within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 11 £900 +20.00%
London +101 11 £900 +20.00%
Work from Home +118 9 £900 +20.00%

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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Hazelcast
1 1 (9.09%) KDB
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Git
1 9 (81.82%) git-flow
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 8 (72.73%) Marketing
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Front Office
3 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Senior
2 9 (81.82%) JavaScript Engineer
2 9 (81.82%) UI Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Low Latency Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior C# Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) React
2 9 (81.82%) CSS
2 9 (81.82%) Jest
2 9 (81.82%) LESS
2 9 (81.82%) Material-UI
2 9 (81.82%) Redux
2 9 (81.82%) Sass
2 9 (81.82%) Tailwind CSS
2 9 (81.82%) WebSockets
3 1 (9.09%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) Guice
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) HTML5
3 1 (9.09%) Playwright
3 1 (9.09%) Reactive Extensions
3 1 (9.09%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Fixed Income
2 9 (81.82%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Electronic Trading
1 10 (90.91%) SDLC
1 10 (90.91%) Software Engineering
2 9 (81.82%) Customer Experience
2 9 (81.82%) Post-Production
2 9 (81.82%) User Experience
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
5 1 (9.09%) Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
5 1 (9.09%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (9.09%) Functional Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Garbage Collection
5 1 (9.09%) Low Latency
5 1 (9.09%) Microservices
5 1 (9.09%) TDD
5 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
5 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Java
1 10 (90.91%) JavaScript
2 9 (81.82%) TypeScript
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Finsemble
1 1 (9.09%) Google
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Solace