Open Source Contracts in Edinburgh

Open Source
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 71 103
Rank change year-on-year +6 +32 -2
Contract jobs citing Open Source 2 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.32% 0.12% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.14% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £471 - £490
25th Percentile £492 £570 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £590 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% -5.60% +14.68%
75th Percentile £567 £610 £650
90th Percentile £587 - -
Scotland median daily rate £498 £570 £600
% change year-on-year -12.72% -5.00% +12.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Edinburgh

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Open Source in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Edinburgh

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in Edinburgh

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Great Expectations
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes