Open Source Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Open Source
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Open Source skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 49 39
Rank change year-on-year -6 -10 +14
Contract jobs citing Open Source 1 2 10
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.27% 0.58% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.66% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 £578 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £605 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% -6.92% -13.33%
75th Percentile £613 £633 £675
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £350 £605 £570
% change year-on-year -42.15% +6.14% -5.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 326 303 358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 86.70% 87.83% 86.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 195 226
10th Percentile £325 £400 £375
25th Percentile £425 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £676 £700
90th Percentile £700 £750 £753
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 41
10th Percentile £20.79 £23.22 £26.25
25th Percentile £31.50 £30.00 -
Median hourly rate £51.21 £60.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -14.65% +23.15% -15.27%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £78.36
90th Percentile £70.71 £70.75 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £33.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -48.46% +8.33% -7.69%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Open Source job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Open Source
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cirencester - 1 £575 -
Open Source
South West

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) ERD
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared