Open Source Development Contracts in London

Open Source Software Development
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Open Source Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Open Source Development over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 402 483
Rank change year-on-year +46 +81 +117
Contract jobs citing Open Source Development 2 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.017% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.019% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile - - £775
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate - - £750
% change year-on-year - - +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Open Source Development 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,592 15,687 23,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.18% 88.71% 90.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,859 11,244 17,202
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £436 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 315 269
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.97 £18.40
25th Percentile £22.75 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £28.00 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -28.21% +5.41%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £64.25
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.30 £80.45
England median hourly rate £29.04 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -20.44% -2.14% +52.24%

Open Source Development
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source Development in London

Open Source Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source Development in London

Open Source Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Open Source Development in London

Open Source Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (100.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Publishing
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (100.00%) Keras
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 2 (100.00%) Conversational AI
1 2 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI