Open Source Contracts in Hampshire

Open Source
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire requiring Open Source skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Open Source over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 90 75
Rank change year-on-year +19 -15 0
Contract jobs citing Open Source 2 18 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.25% 1.01% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 1.24% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 10
10th Percentile £431 £571 £473
25th Percentile £459 £581 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £618 £578
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +6.83% +19.18%
75th Percentile £559 £680 £622
90th Percentile £584 £731 £654
South East median daily rate £500 £498 £540
% change year-on-year +0.50% -7.87% +10.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 707 1,451 1,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 87.72% 81.70% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 805 712
10th Percentile £325 £388 £240
25th Percentile £450 £463 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +12.86% +3.96%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £613
90th Percentile £661 £738 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £511
% change year-on-year -2.44% +0.24% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 177 102
10th Percentile £18.87 £13.17 £15.55
25th Percentile £32.94 £26.25 £21.09
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +4.27% +98.34%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £52.10
% change year-on-year -52.00% -4.03% +131.56%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Hampshire

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Open Source in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Hampshire

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Hampshire over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in Hampshire

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Open Source in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in Hampshire

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 24 June 2025. 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
Basingstoke +18 1 £600 - 4
Open Source
South East

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat