Open Source Contracts in Berkshire

Open Source
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 118 93
Rank change year-on-year +34 -25 +14
Contract jobs citing Open Source 9 6 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.77% 0.30% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.34% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 12
10th Percentile - £446 £439
25th Percentile - £495 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £585 £458
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +27.87% -4.69%
75th Percentile - £788 £466
90th Percentile - - £508
South East median daily rate £500 £575 £533
% change year-on-year -13.04% +7.98% +1.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Berkshire

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Berkshire

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in Berkshire

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Windsor - 6 £500 -
Reading +31 2 £500 +8.70% 11
Open Source
South East

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS KMS
4 1 (11.11%) Route 53
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) 3GPP
1 1 (11.11%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git
1 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (11.11%) Burp Suite
2 1 (11.11%) DbUnit
2 1 (11.11%) jMock
2 1 (11.11%) JUnit
2 1 (11.11%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) Metasploit
2 1 (11.11%) Mockito
2 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Architect
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
1 2 (22.22%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
2 1 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (11.11%) Bootstrap
2 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
2 1 (11.11%) JPA
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) PowerMock
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
2 1 (11.11%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Batch
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Integration
2 1 (11.11%) WCF
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 5 (55.56%) Ubuntu
2 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 5 (55.56%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Configuration Management
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Delivery
2 5 (55.56%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 5 (55.56%) Customer-Centricity
2 5 (55.56%) High Availability
2 5 (55.56%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) Server Building
3 4 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
5 1 (11.11%) Ethical Hacking
5 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
5 1 (11.11%) Scrum
5 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (11.11%) TDD
5 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 5 (55.56%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Databricks
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Amdocs
3 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Dell
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (11.11%) Mavenir
3 1 (11.11%) Rakuten
3 1 (11.11%) Samsung