Open Source Development Contract Job Trends in London

Open Source Software Development
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Open Source Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 351 393
Rank change year-on-year -73 +42 +75
Contract jobs citing Open Source Development 1 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.005% 0.016% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.006% 0.017% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £500
25th Percentile - - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £805 - £613
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.36%
75th Percentile - - £700
90th Percentile - - £745
England median daily rate £805 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +100.00%

All Process & 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 16,916 11,555 15,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.87% 92.40% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,270 7,751 11,170
10th Percentile £360 £338 £340
25th Percentile £437 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 210 314
10th Percentile £18.06 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.22 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +18.39% -29.38%
75th Percentile £59.99 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.70
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.40 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.36% -27.18% +4.81%

Open Source Development
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Open Source Development job vacancy trend in London

Open Source Development
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Open Source Development

Open Source Development
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Open Source Development

Open Source Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Run
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Google Gemini
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google