Open Source Contracts in Manchester

Open Source
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 84 110
Rank change year-on-year +12 +26 -3
Contract jobs citing Open Source 7 12 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.76% 0.79% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.91% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 6
10th Percentile - - £469
25th Percentile £456 £375 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £413 £531
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% -22.35% +8.97%
75th Percentile £549 £709 £561
90th Percentile £655 £740 £594
North West median daily rate £464 £400 £513
% change year-on-year +15.94% -21.95% +5.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Manchester

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Manchester

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in Manchester

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in Manchester

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (14.29%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) dbt
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) Kong
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (57.14%) Airbyte
2 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
3 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (14.29%) Apache Hive
4 1 (14.29%) Big Data
4 1 (14.29%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
4 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
4 1 (14.29%) HBase
4 1 (14.29%) Metadata
4 1 (14.29%) MySQL
4 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 1 (14.29%) Pentaho
4 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
1 1 (14.29%) ERwin
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) gulp
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
1 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 1 (14.29%) Apache CXF
3 1 (14.29%) Dropwizard
3 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (14.29%) Express.js
3 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 1 (14.29%) JAX-RS
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) MEAN Stack
3 1 (14.29%) MERN Stack
3 1 (14.29%) Mongoose
3 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (14.29%) React
3 1 (14.29%) Sequelize
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Analytics
1 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (71.43%) Visualisation
2 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (57.14%) Digital Twin
2 4 (57.14%) ETL
2 4 (57.14%) RDF
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Data Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) Operational Stability
3 1 (14.29%) Protective Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) SDLC
3 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) SPARQL
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Informatica
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle