Open Source Development Contracts in London

Open Source Software Development
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Open Source Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Open Source Development over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 494 608
Rank change year-on-year +104 +114 -151
Contract jobs citing Open Source Development 3 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.017% 0.018% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.020% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £583
25th Percentile - £725 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +26.09%
75th Percentile - £775 £750
90th Percentile - - £758
England median daily rate - £750 £688
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Open Source Development 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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,803 24,767 35,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.42% 91.14% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,321 17,758 26,094
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 288 429
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.23
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.86 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +9.86% +10.18%
75th Percentile £47.50 £62.55 £50.00
90th Percentile £66.10 £78.15 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Open Source Development
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source Development in London

Open Source Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source Development in London

Open Source Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Open Source Development in London

Open Source Development
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Blockchain
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Business Case
2 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Epics
2 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Go
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) PHP
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby
1 2 (66.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk