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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 67 64
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +16
Contract jobs citing Open Source 8 18 14
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.14% 2.18% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 2.34% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 2
10th Percentile £596 £415 £541
25th Percentile £684 £460 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £844 £498 £638
Median % change year-on-year +69.55% -21.96% +6.25%
75th Percentile £1,016 £550 £716
90th Percentile £1,111 £556 £744
Scotland median daily rate £675 £525 £638
% change year-on-year +28.57% -17.65% +10.87%

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 582 769 837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 82.79% 93.21% 91.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 485 530
10th Percentile £306 £309 £325
25th Percentile £381 £365 £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 £650 £613 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 35
10th Percentile £14.79 £16.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.17 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.25 £19.83 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% +10.17% +49.19%
75th Percentile £48.30 £53.75 £40.94
90th Percentile £58.35 £75.24 £68.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.50
% change year-on-year -12.57% +17.31% +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
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Glasgow over the 6 months to 13 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in Glasgow

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 (12.50%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) DB2
1 4 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JUnit
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Banking
2 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (50.00%) Front Office
3 4 (50.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Sybase Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) JMS
1 4 (50.00%) Kafka
1 4 (50.00%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) CrewAI
2 2 (25.00%) LangGraph
2 2 (25.00%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 4 (50.00%) Equities
2 2 (25.00%) AI Agents
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Database Tuning
2 4 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) SDLC
2 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) AI
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (25.00%) Data Science
3 2 (25.00%) Fraud Detection
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) Model Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Multi-Agent System
3 2 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Sybase
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle