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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 73 102
Rank change year-on-year -25 +29 +11
Contract jobs citing Open Source 13 7 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.58% 0.73% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.81% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 2
10th Percentile - £315 £325
25th Percentile £500 £317 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £361 £625
Median % change year-on-year +52.49% -42.29% +19.05%
75th Percentile £580 £400 £813
90th Percentile £598 £488 £925
England median daily rate £550 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £85.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -38.89%

All Process & 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 1,768 864 1,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.79% 90.38% 84.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 892 457 669
10th Percentile £200 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £599 £575
90th Percentile £680 £675 £675
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 170 614
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.04 £16.36 £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.56% -8.13% +81.82%
75th Percentile £66.38 £72.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.25 £82.65 £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.55 £37.18
% change year-on-year +64.62% -23.21% -0.85%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the East of England over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in the East of England

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 30 May 2026. 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
Essex -9 7 £570 +77.36%
Hertfordshire -19 3 £550 - 1
Norfolk - 3 £550 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) GCP
1 7 (53.85%) GitHub
2 6 (46.15%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (23.08%) Azure
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (15.38%) Route 53
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) SNMP
2 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) WAN
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Git
2 7 (53.85%) IntelliJ
2 7 (53.85%) JUnit
2 7 (53.85%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Cloud Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Software Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) GCP Software Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Consultant
4 2 (15.38%) GCP Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Java Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Java Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Java Software Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Network Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Software Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Integration Architect
5 1 (7.69%) ITSM Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) Spring
1 7 (53.85%) Spring Boot
2 4 (30.77%) Node.js
2 4 (30.77%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (23.08%) eBPF
4 1 (7.69%) .NET
4 1 (7.69%) Apache Avro
4 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
4 1 (7.69%) JSON
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka
4 1 (7.69%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) Code Quality
2 7 (53.85%) DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (53.85%) Security Testing
2 7 (53.85%) Software Engineering
3 6 (46.15%) Application Security
3 6 (46.15%) BDD
3 6 (46.15%) Static Application Security Testing
3 6 (46.15%) TDD
4 5 (38.46%) Architectural Design
5 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (30.77%) Observability
5 4 (30.77%) SDLC
5 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (23.08%) Process Improvement
6 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (23.08%) SIEM
6 3 (23.08%) Software Architecture
6 3 (23.08%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Java
2 7 (53.85%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) Bash
3 3 (23.08%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Grafana
1 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Checkmarx
1 7 (53.85%) Google
2 3 (23.08%) Cribl.io
2 3 (23.08%) Dynatrace
2 3 (23.08%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Confluent