Open Source Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Open Source
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Open Source skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 76 66
Rank change year-on-year +13 -10 +5
Contract jobs citing Open Source 4 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.55% 0.33% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.39% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 11
10th Percentile - - £408
25th Percentile £363 £425 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £645
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -30.23% +25.73%
75th Percentile £556 £475 £650
90th Percentile £658 - £681
South West median daily rate £475 £501 £650
% change year-on-year -5.23% -22.89% +10.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 674 761 914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 92.33% 82.72% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 408 623
10th Percentile £256 £284 £308
25th Percentile £375 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £590 £599 £650
90th Percentile £738 £701 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 141 111
10th Percentile £12.82 £50.00 £20.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £65.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £75.63
90th Percentile £71.13 £77.50 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £64.57
% change year-on-year -62.74% +4.53% +11.05%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Bristol

Open Source
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Open Source.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Open Source

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Bristol over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in Bristol

Open Source
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Open Source.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Open Source

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CMake
1 1 (25.00%) Gradle
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Build Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Bazel
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Information Assurance
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C
1 1 (25.00%) C++
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Foundry