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 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 65 38
Rank change year-on-year +12 -27 +29
Contract jobs citing Open Source 28 3 36
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.74% 0.44% 4.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.13% 0.50% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 15
10th Percentile £493 £515 £360
25th Percentile £525 £538 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +23.08%
75th Percentile £584 £613 £656
90th Percentile £881 £635 £756
Scotland median daily rate £525 £520 £560
% change year-on-year +0.96% -7.14% +17.89%

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 678 604 738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 90.64% 88.95% 91.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 422 499
10th Percentile £300 £268 £349
25th Percentile £381 £356 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £588
90th Percentile £613 £650 £700
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 21
10th Percentile £14.40 £15.56 £12.00
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £17.72 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.53% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.95 £25.17 £17.72
90th Percentile £54.37 £40.90 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £19.59 £18.93
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.49% -2.30%

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 4 October 2025.

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 (3.57%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (7.14%) AWS
2 2 (7.14%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (78.57%) Relational Database
2 21 (75.00%) DB2
2 21 (75.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (78.57%) JUnit
General
1 26 (92.86%) Social Skills
2 23 (82.14%) Finance
3 21 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (71.43%) Front Office
5 19 (67.86%) Banking
5 19 (67.86%) Investment Banking
6 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (78.57%) Developer
1 22 (78.57%) Java Developer
2 18 (64.29%) Investment Banking Java Developer
2 18 (64.29%) SQL Developer
2 18 (64.29%) Sybase Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Python Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Python Software Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
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 24 (85.71%) 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%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.14%) Derivative
4 2 (7.14%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 23 (82.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (92.86%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (82.14%) Agile
3 21 (75.00%) Database Tuning
3 21 (75.00%) Multithreading
3 21 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
3 21 (75.00%) SDLC
4 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 4 (14.29%) Observability
6 3 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (10.71%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (10.71%) Cost Reduction
6 3 (10.71%) OO
6 3 (10.71%) Risk Management
7 2 (7.14%) Architecture Roadmap
7 2 (7.14%) Business Strategy
7 2 (7.14%) Containerisation
7 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (7.14%) Roadmaps
7 2 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (3.57%) Architectural Patterns
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%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Grafana
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (75.00%) Sybase
2 4 (14.29%) Splunk
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle