Open Source Contracts in Glasgow

Open Source
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 77 71
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 -2
Contract jobs citing Open Source 7 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.80% 0.77% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.81% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 7
10th Percentile - £581 £433
25th Percentile £525 £600 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +16.67% +2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £538
90th Percentile - £691 £543
Scotland median daily rate £570 £600 £531
% change year-on-year -5.00% +12.94% +3.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 809 862 925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.93% 94.31% 92.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 629 701
10th Percentile £281 £325 £255
25th Percentile £400 £410 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £538
90th Percentile £675 £701 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 27 11
10th Percentile £13.75 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £22.35
Median hourly rate £21.13 £13.50 £39.99
Median % change year-on-year +56.50% -66.24% +105.08%
75th Percentile £44.14 £35.00 £45.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £59.47 £49.54
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £40.00
% change year-on-year +9.11% -55.69% -0.01%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Glasgow

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Glasgow

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 4 (57.14%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DHCP
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (71.43%) Banking
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
1 5 (71.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Hardware Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Python Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Unix Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) High Availability
2 4 (57.14%) Investment Management
2 4 (57.14%) Wealth Management
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Cryptography
4 1 (14.29%) Data Encryption
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) Security Management
4 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
4 1 (14.29%) Server Management
4 1 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) Perl
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) C
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Firmware
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) VMware