Open Source Contracts in Scotland

Open Source
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 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 126 140 131
Rank change year-on-year +14 -9 -11
Contract jobs citing Open Source 9 20 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.40% 0.70% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.75% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 29
10th Percentile £530 £458 £303
25th Percentile £536 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.63% +4.88%
75th Percentile £601 £638 £575
90th Percentile £607 £650 £598
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,980 2,651 3,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.55% 92.63% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,210 1,904 2,315
10th Percentile £238 £263 £242
25th Percentile £400 £406 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 56 50
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.99
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.58
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -43.75% -27.59%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Scotland

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Scotland

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Glasgow +10 8 £550 -8.33% 2
Edinburgh +27 1 £590 +2.61% 14
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (44.44%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) DHCP
1 4 (44.44%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (55.56%) Banking
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
1 5 (55.56%) Investment Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Hardware Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Python Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Unix Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
4 1 (11.11%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) High Availability
2 4 (44.44%) Investment Management
2 4 (44.44%) Wealth Management
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 2 (22.22%) Load Balancing
4 1 (11.11%) Coaching
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Data Encryption
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Kanban
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) SDLC
4 1 (11.11%) Security Operations
4 1 (11.11%) Server Management
4 1 (11.11%) Storage Management
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) Perl
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) C
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Firmware
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) VMware