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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 56 64
Rank change year-on-year -26 +8 -26
Contract jobs citing Open Source 19 26 5
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.56% 3.49% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 3.91% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile £475 - £468
25th Percentile £513 £525 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +12.50% -14.16%
75th Percentile £538 £734 £575
90th Percentile £546 £999 £620
Scotland median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -10.71%

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 1,026 665 618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.44% 89.38% 89.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 412 416
10th Percentile £280 £300 £279
25th Percentile £363 £384 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £454 £440
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% +3.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £552 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £613 £674
Scotland median daily rate £470 £468 £450
% change year-on-year +0.53% +3.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 21 12
10th Percentile £13.39 £15.09 £15.39
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £18.11
Median hourly rate £35.00 £18.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -8.12% +35.10%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.21 £26.76
90th Percentile £77.50 £57.50 £41.70
Scotland median hourly rate £16.86 £20.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year -15.70% +0.31% +5.32%

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 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) IaaS
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) HTTPS
2 2 (10.53%) DNS
2 2 (10.53%) HTTP
2 2 (10.53%) SSH
2 2 (10.53%) SSL
2 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 13 (68.42%) Social Skills
2 9 (47.37%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Senior
2 10 (52.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (52.63%) Integration Engineer
2 10 (52.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (52.63%) Senior Integration Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Python Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Python Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Spring
1 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) gRPC
3 1 (5.26%) Middleware
3 1 (5.26%) OpenAPI
3 1 (5.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (73.68%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (68.42%) Private Cloud
3 3 (15.79%) Security Posture
4 2 (10.53%) Virtual Team
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
5 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Unix
3 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Test Automation
2 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
2 12 (63.16%) Configuration Management
2 12 (63.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (57.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (57.89%) Release Automation
3 11 (57.89%) Secure Coding
3 11 (57.89%) Validation
3 11 (57.89%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 8 (42.11%) Manual Testing
5 7 (36.84%) DevOps
6 6 (31.58%) Asset Management
6 6 (31.58%) Load Balancing
6 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (26.32%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (26.32%) Risk Management
7 5 (26.32%) Strategic Planning
7 5 (26.32%) Vulnerability Management
8 4 (21.05%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) Python
2 13 (68.42%) Perl
3 3 (15.79%) C++
3 3 (15.79%) Java
4 2 (10.53%) C
5 1 (5.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) LFCS
2 1 (5.26%) RHCE
2 1 (5.26%) RHCSA
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (47.37%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (21.05%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (10.53%) Docker
4 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.26%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 13 (68.42%) Ansible
2 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Progress Chef
2 3 (15.79%) Puppet
3 2 (10.53%) Salt
4 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) SaltStack
1 13 (68.42%) VMware
2 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft