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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 83 102
Rank change year-on-year +11 +19 +5
Contract jobs citing Open Source 8 10 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.80% 0.78% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.90% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 8
10th Percentile £206 - £269
25th Percentile £332 £375 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £400 £544
Median % change year-on-year +29.75% -26.44% +3.57%
75th Percentile £588 £463 £597
90th Percentile £670 £493 £640
North West median daily rate £492 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +23.00% -27.27% +4.76%

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 876 1,112 1,621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.69% 86.88% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 724 1,182
10th Percentile £306 £325 £307
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £596 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 59 57
10th Percentile £16.79 £14.00 £14.39
25th Percentile £19.07 £20.88 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% +2.63%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £37.50
90th Percentile £77.63 £76.20 £64.65
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £29.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -0.86% -3.33% +26.58%

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 26 July 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 (12.50%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure AI
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) Kong
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Ant
1 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
1 1 (12.50%) Eclipse
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) gulp
1 1 (12.50%) IntelliJ
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JUnit
1 1 (12.50%) Maven
1 1 (12.50%) NUnit
1 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
1 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) PHP Developer
3 1 (12.50%) PHP Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
2 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) Node.js
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) EJB
3 1 (12.50%) J2EE
3 1 (12.50%) JavaBeans
3 1 (12.50%) JDBC
3 1 (12.50%) JMS
3 1 (12.50%) JSP
3 1 (12.50%) Struts
3 1 (12.50%) Swing
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) WinForms
3 1 (12.50%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
3 1 (12.50%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) OO
3 1 (12.50%) OOD
3 1 (12.50%) Protective Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Refactoring
3 1 (12.50%) SDLC
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Use Case
3 1 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) PHP
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Foundry
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft