Open Source Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Open Source
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Open Source skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 73 90
Rank change year-on-year -24 +17 +20
Contract jobs citing Open Source 5 16 20
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.36% 1.20% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 1.49% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 12
10th Percentile - £300 £301
25th Percentile - £315 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £320 £363
Median % change year-on-year +72.81% -11.72% -30.89%
75th Percentile - £419 £522
90th Percentile - £525 £561
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £15.50 £26.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year -40.38% +22.35% -61.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,260 1,075 1,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.87% 80.40% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 428 914
10th Percentile £196 £224 £225
25th Percentile £363 £315 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £561 £607
90th Percentile £683 £650 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 235 371
10th Percentile £14.11 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +25.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £59.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.88 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +27.14%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Open Source job vacancy trend in the East of England

Open Source
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Open Source
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 27 October 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
Hertfordshire -4 4 £553 +34.06% 18
Suffolk +3 1 - - 8
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Presentation Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) SOC Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (60.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) CentOS
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Actionable Insight
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (60.00%) Information Assurance
1 3 (60.00%) Information Security
1 3 (60.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 3 (60.00%) OSINT
1 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (60.00%) Threat Analysis
1 3 (60.00%) Threat Detection
1 3 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Threat Modelling
1 3 (60.00%) Time Management
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Critical Success Factor
3 1 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Cypher
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Computacenter
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) Dialogic
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Metaswitch
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle