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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 94 82
Rank change year-on-year -9 -12 +19
Contract jobs citing Open Source 13 1 15
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.54% 0.076% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.085% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 9
10th Percentile £485 - -
25th Percentile £550 - £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 - £318
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.14%
75th Percentile £580 - £419
90th Percentile £600 - £440
England median daily rate £541 £525 £501
% change year-on-year +3.10% +4.88% -16.57%
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 £13.34 £56.50 £26.97
% change year-on-year -76.39% +109.49% +26.92%

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 1,880 1,175 1,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.37% 89.69% 81.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 817 507 449
10th Percentile £190 £200 £204
25th Percentile £363 £388 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £442
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +14.25% -11.60%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £550
90th Percentile £700 £688 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 488 320 347
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.38 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.05 £15.62
Median hourly rate £48.84 £22.63 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +115.82% -43.43% +101.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 - 5 £570 - 3
Hertfordshire -21 4 £551 - 3
Suffolk - 4 - - 3
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 6 (46.15%) GCP
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) GitHub
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (30.77%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) SNMP
2 1 (7.69%) Asterisk PBX
2 1 (7.69%) RTCP
2 1 (7.69%) RTP
2 1 (7.69%) VoIP
2 1 (7.69%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Git
2 5 (38.46%) IntelliJ
2 5 (38.46%) JUnit
2 5 (38.46%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
1 4 (30.77%) Telecoms
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Software Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Software Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Voice Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Consultant
5 2 (15.38%) Architect
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Consultant
5 2 (15.38%) GCP Architect
5 2 (15.38%) Java Architect
5 2 (15.38%) Java Software Architect
5 2 (15.38%) Software Architect
6 1 (7.69%) Cloud Consultant
6 1 (7.69%) GCP Developer
6 1 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) GCP Software Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) ITSM Consultant
6 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Splunk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Spring
1 5 (38.46%) Spring Boot
2 4 (30.77%) eBPF
2 4 (30.77%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (30.77%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) FreeSWITCH
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) Servlets
3 1 (7.69%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Software Engineering
2 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) DevOps
4 5 (38.46%) Code Quality
4 5 (38.46%) Security Testing
5 4 (30.77%) AIOps
5 4 (30.77%) Anomaly Detection
5 4 (30.77%) Application Security
5 4 (30.77%) Change Management
5 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (30.77%) ITSM
5 4 (30.77%) Observability
5 4 (30.77%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (30.77%) Static Application Security Testing
5 4 (30.77%) TDD
5 4 (30.77%) Use Case
5 4 (30.77%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Ansible
1 4 (30.77%) Grafana
1 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Google
2 5 (38.46%) Checkmarx
3 4 (30.77%) Cribl.io
3 4 (30.77%) Dynatrace
3 4 (30.77%) Splunk
4 1 (7.69%) Metaswitch
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle