Open Source Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Open Source
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Open Source skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 - 59
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
Contract jobs citing Open Source 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.12% - 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.81%
75th Percentile - - £731
90th Percentile - - £748
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +0.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 722 565 629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.05% 85.48% 83.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 338 441
10th Percentile £185 £263 £213
25th Percentile £352 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £444 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -6.53% -
75th Percentile £525 £550 £588
90th Percentile £626 £632 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 28 51
10th Percentile £16.10 £15.07 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.67
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +33.69%
75th Percentile £25.11 £35.23 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £51.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Open Source relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Open Source job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Open Source
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Open Source.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Open Source

Open Source
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Open Source.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Open Source

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Northamptonshire - 1 £420 - 3
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Camunda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) BPMN
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java