Open Source Developer Contract Job Trends in England

Open Source Developer
UK > England

As of 18 September 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Open Source Developer daily rate in England.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 526 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Open Source Developer 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.004% 0.006% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.007% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 25,377 30,623 39,527
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 92.98% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,381 19,128 27,584
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,363 1,485 1,349
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.60 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.31 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%
75th Percentile £54.88 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.49 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Open Source Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Open Source Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source Developer in England

Open Source Developer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Open Source Developer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Open Source Developer job vacancies in England

Open Source Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Open Source Developer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Open Source Developer job vacancies in England

Open Source Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Open Source Developer
UK

Open Source Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Open Source Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Open Source Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) J2SE
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) webMethods
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5

Open Source Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) J2SE
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Play Framework
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Lean Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source Development
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) webMethods