Open Source Development Contract Job Trends in England

Open Source Software Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Open Source Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 493 539
Rank change year-on-year -104 +46 +84
Contract jobs citing Open Source Development 1 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.002% 0.008% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% 0.009% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £515
25th Percentile - - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £805 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +100.00%
75th Percentile - - £750
90th Percentile - - £765
UK median daily rate £805 £550 £700
% change year-on-year +46.36% -21.43% +100.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Open Source Development 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,870 22,791 32,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.27% 91.38% 85.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,302 14,736 20,792
10th Percentile £325 £300 £302
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,305 1,085 2,404
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £27.38 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.52% -27.96% +7.04%
75th Percentile £68.75 £55.25 £61.45
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +73.07% -32.27% +7.14%

Open Source Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Open Source Development job vacancy trend in England

Open Source Development
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Open Source Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Open Source Development

Open Source Development
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Open Source Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Open Source Development

Open Source Development
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 Development within the England region over the 6 months to 21 June 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
London -69 1 £805 - 2
Open Source Development
UK

Open Source Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 1 (100.00%) Cloud Run
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Google Gemini
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google