Open Source Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Open Source
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Open Source skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 60 73
Rank change year-on-year -8 +13 +13
Contract jobs citing Open Source 5 20 10
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.71% 2.44% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 2.61% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 1
10th Percentile - £420 -
25th Percentile - £460 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £498 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% -9.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile - £550 £575
90th Percentile - £573 -
Scotland median daily rate £663 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +26.19% -4.55% -4.35%

All Process & 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 576 767 864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 81.82% 93.42% 92.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 489 546
10th Percentile £308 £310 £313
25th Percentile £381 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £494
Median % change year-on-year - -8.86% +3.95%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £675 £607 £694
Scotland median daily rate £450 £453 £480
% change year-on-year -0.55% -5.73% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 39
10th Percentile £16.11 £16.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.88 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.25 £23.17 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.85% +28.69% +44.00%
75th Percentile £46.61 £67.56 £47.35
90th Percentile £54.00 £77.63 £65.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +17.95% +10.05%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Open Source job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Open Source
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Open Source

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (20.00%) SSH
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (40.00%) DB2
2 2 (40.00%) Redis
2 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) MariaDB
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Front Office
3 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Sybase Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CrewAI
1 2 (40.00%) JMS
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) LangGraph
1 2 (40.00%) pgvector
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) AI Agents
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (40.00%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Database Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Fraud Detection
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) MLOps
2 2 (40.00%) Model Validation
2 2 (40.00%) Multi-Agent System
2 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (40.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Ceph
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) Squid
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Sybase
2 1 (20.00%) VMware