Open Source Contracts in Glasgow

Open Source
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 53 75 77
Rank change year-on-year +22 +2 -8
Contract jobs citing Open Source 26 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.26% 0.80% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 0.87% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 6
10th Percentile £310 - £581
25th Percentile £449 £525 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% -10.20% +16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £575 - £691
Scotland median daily rate £498 £570 £600
% change year-on-year -12.72% -5.00% +12.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Glasgow

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Glasgow

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in Glasgow

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (92.31%) Relational Database
2 21 (80.77%) MongoDB
3 20 (76.92%) DB2
4 4 (15.38%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (92.31%) JUnit
General
1 25 (96.15%) Finance
2 23 (88.46%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (80.77%) Social Skills
4 15 (57.69%) Front Office
5 12 (46.15%) Banking
5 12 (46.15%) Investment Banking
6 3 (11.54%) Financial Institution
7 2 (7.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (92.31%) Developer
1 24 (92.31%) Java Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Investment Banking Java Developer
2 7 (26.92%) SQL Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Sybase Developer
3 1 (3.85%) Analyst
3 1 (3.85%) Graduate
3 1 (3.85%) Graduate Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (92.31%) Kafka
1 24 (92.31%) Spring
2 22 (84.62%) JMS
3 2 (7.69%) MSMQ
4 1 (3.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 24 (92.31%) Data Structures
2 19 (73.08%) Equities
3 3 (11.54%) Derivative
3 3 (11.54%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (7.69%) Social Media
5 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (80.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (92.31%) Agile
3 19 (73.08%) Performance Tuning
3 19 (73.08%) SDLC
4 18 (69.23%) Database Tuning
4 18 (69.23%) Multithreading
5 7 (26.92%) Software Engineering
6 3 (11.54%) Investment Management
6 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
6 3 (11.54%) Wealth Management
7 2 (7.69%) Business Continuity
7 2 (7.69%) Business Continuity Planning
7 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (7.69%) Impact Assessments
7 2 (7.69%) Incident Response
7 2 (7.69%) Operational Stability
7 2 (7.69%) OSINT
7 2 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (7.69%) Risk Analysis
7 2 (7.69%) Social Media Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 24 (92.31%) Java
1 24 (92.31%) SQL
2 22 (84.62%) Python
3 21 (80.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 20 (76.92%) Sybase
2 2 (7.69%) Sun
3 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow