Open Source Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Open Source
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Open Source skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 63 83
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 +21
Contract jobs citing Open Source 8 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.23% 0.57% 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 0.67% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 £581 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -36.17% +6.82% -
75th Percentile £388 £594 £575
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £375 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -36.17% +6.82% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 581 598 996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 89.38% 85.55% 90.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 391 686
10th Percentile £300 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £539
Median % change year-on-year - -7.19% +5.12%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 14
10th Percentile £25.05 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.13 £14.03 £15.94
Median hourly rate £25.50 £22.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% +15.79% -10.59%
75th Percentile £26.13 £37.50 £21.31
90th Percentile £26.35 £44.00 £23.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £22.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -1.60% +18.42% +1.60%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Open Source job vacancy trend in Leeds

Open Source
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Open Source
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Open Source.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Open Source

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Flink
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JMeter
1 2 (25.00%) JUnit
1 2 (25.00%) Maven
1 2 (25.00%) Postman
1 2 (25.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
1 2 (25.00%) TestNG
2 1 (12.50%) Mockito
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Android Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Android Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Android Jetpack
1 5 (62.50%) Android SDK
1 5 (62.50%) Jetpack Compose
2 3 (37.50%) Dagger
2 3 (37.50%) Retrofit
3 2 (25.00%) CSS
3 2 (25.00%) CSS3
3 2 (25.00%) HTML
3 2 (25.00%) HTML5
3 2 (25.00%) Playwright
3 2 (25.00%) RESTful
3 2 (25.00%) RxJava
3 2 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (12.50%) Apache Beam
4 1 (12.50%) JDBC
4 1 (12.50%) Kafka
4 1 (12.50%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Android Development
1 5 (62.50%) Benchmarking
1 5 (62.50%) MVVM
1 5 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (62.50%) SOLID
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) API Testing
2 2 (25.00%) BDD
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (25.00%) Push Notifications
2 2 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 2 (25.00%) TDD
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Test Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (25.00%) Web Design
3 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) Kotlin
3 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Cloudera