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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 62 40
Rank change year-on-year +9 -22 +27
Contract jobs citing Open Source 28 3 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.85% 0.44% 4.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.22% 0.49% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 14
10th Percentile £205 £515 £333
25th Percentile £396 £538 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £575 £591
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% -2.75% +18.25%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £638
90th Percentile £579 £635 £724
Scotland median daily rate £500 £520 £560
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +16.36%

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 663 609 750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.07% 89.56% 91.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 434 501
10th Percentile £300 £269 £338
25th Percentile £370 £363 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £558 £580
90th Percentile £613 £670 £688
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 25
10th Percentile £14.32 £15.77 £12.05
25th Percentile £16.84 £19.05 £12.13
Median hourly rate £17.45 £24.15 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.76% +66.55% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £38.50 £47.73
90th Percentile £26.21 £55.12 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.59
% change year-on-year -4.48% +6.88% -8.88%

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
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 19 September 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (10.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (78.57%) Relational Database
2 20 (71.43%) DB2
2 20 (71.43%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (78.57%) JUnit
General
1 26 (92.86%) Social Skills
2 25 (89.29%) Finance
3 22 (78.57%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (71.43%) Banking
4 20 (71.43%) Investment Banking
5 19 (67.86%) Front Office
6 2 (7.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (78.57%) Developer
1 22 (78.57%) Java Developer
2 17 (60.71%) Investment Banking Java Developer
2 17 (60.71%) SQL Developer
2 17 (60.71%) Sybase Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Python Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Python Software Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Graduate
4 1 (3.57%) Graduate Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (92.86%) Kafka
2 22 (78.57%) JMS
2 22 (78.57%) Spring
3 4 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (10.71%) Boost C++ Libraries
Miscellaneous
1 23 (82.14%) Equities
2 22 (78.57%) Data Structures
3 3 (10.71%) Fixed Income
3 3 (10.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (10.71%) Management Information System
3 3 (10.71%) Market Risk
4 2 (7.14%) Derivative
4 2 (7.14%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (7.14%) Social Media
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 20 (71.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (78.57%) Agile
3 21 (75.00%) Multithreading
4 20 (71.43%) Database Tuning
4 20 (71.43%) Performance Tuning
4 20 (71.43%) SDLC
5 7 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) Observability
7 3 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (10.71%) Continuous Deployment
7 3 (10.71%) Cost Reduction
7 3 (10.71%) OO
7 3 (10.71%) Risk Management
8 2 (7.14%) BCP
8 2 (7.14%) Business Continuity
8 2 (7.14%) Business Continuity Planning
8 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (7.14%) Operational Stability
8 2 (7.14%) OSINT
8 2 (7.14%) Social Media Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 26 (92.86%) Python
2 22 (78.57%) Java
2 22 (78.57%) Shell Script
2 22 (78.57%) SQL
3 4 (14.29%) Go
4 3 (10.71%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Grafana
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (71.43%) Sybase
2 4 (14.29%) Splunk