Open Source Contracts in the City of Westminster

Open Source
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of Westminster 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 10 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Open Source 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 2.38% 5.13% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 5.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £708 -
Central London median daily rate £512 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +2.45% -16.67% -3.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

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 the City of Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36 37 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 85.71% 94.87% 80.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 29 39
10th Percentile £372 £448 £239
25th Percentile £409 £475 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £650 £693 £675
90th Percentile £800 £790 £850
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the City of Westminster

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the City of Westminster.

Daily rate trend for Open Source in the City of Westminster

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
Westminster - 1 - -
Open Source
Central London

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Mattermost
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) WebRTC
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus