Open Source Contract Job Trends in the North East

Open Source
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East citing Open Source skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 15 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	70	47	38
Rank change year-on-year	-23	-9	-9
Contract jobs citing Open Source	11	3	2
As % of all contract jobs in the North East	1.36%	0.84%	0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.59%	0.95%	0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted	11	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£413	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£425	-	-
75^th Percentile	£563	-	-
90^th Percentile	£688	-	-
England median daily rate	£541	£525	£538
% change year-on-year	+3.10%	-2.33%	-6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	1
Median hourly rate	-	-	£26.50
England median hourly rate	£43.67	£15.50	£26.00
% change year-on-year	+181.74%	-40.38%	+22.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 citing process or methodology skills in the North East.

	6 months to 15 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing process or methodology skills	693	316	273
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East	85.66%	88.52%	92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted	368	207	116
10^th Percentile	£313	£170	£308
25^th Percentile	£363	£363	£400
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£450	£450	£470
Median % change year-on-year	-	-4.26%	+4.44%
75^th Percentile	£588	£549	£591
90^th Percentile	£675	£600	£710
England median daily rate	£525	£506	£525
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	-3.62%	-3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted	116	19	32
10^th Percentile	£13.00	£14.35	£14.72
25^th Percentile	£17.09	£17.30	£15.50
Median hourly rate	£43.96	£19.25	£28.14
Median % change year-on-year	+128.36%	-31.58%	+40.68%
75^th Percentile	£70.00	£52.63	£46.18
90^th Percentile	-	£54.00	£68.00
England median hourly rate	£35.45	£25.15	£37.50
% change year-on-year	+40.95%	-32.93%	-15.73%

Open Source Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Open Source Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Open Source.

Open Source Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the North East over the 6 months to 15 November 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in the North East

Open Source Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Open Source.

Open Source Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the North East region over the 6 months to 15 November 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Tyne and Wear	-24	11	£425	-	13
Open Source England

Open Source Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 15 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Open Source also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North East region citing Open Source.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Agile	100.0%	11
1	AWS	100.0%	11
1	CI/CD	100.0%	11
1	Observability	100.0%	11
1	User-Centered Design (UCD)	100.0%	11
6	Accessibility	72.7%	8
6	Amazon EKS	72.7%	8
6	Community of Practice	72.7%	8
6	Continuous Deployment	72.7%	8
6	Continuous Integration	72.7%	8
6	GitHub	72.7%	8
6	GitHub Actions	72.7%	8
6	Grafana	72.7%	8
6	Incident Response	72.7%	8
6	Information Security	72.7%	8
6	Kanban	72.7%	8
6	Kubernetes	72.7%	8
6	MongoDB	72.7%	8
6	Play Framework	72.7%	8
6	Scala	72.7%	8
6	Scrum	72.7%	8
6	Splunk	72.7%	8
6	TDD	72.7%	8
6	Terraform	72.7%	8
6	User Research	72.7%	8
26	Mentoring	54.5%	6
27	Clean Code	45.5%	5
28	AI	27.3%	3
28	API Development	27.3%	3
28	Artificial Intelligence Engineering	27.3%	3

Open Source Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Agile	100.0%	11
1	CI/CD	100.0%	11
1	Observability	100.0%	11
1	User-Centered Design (UCD)	100.0%	11
5	Community of Practice	72.7%	8
5	Continuous Deployment	72.7%	8
5	Continuous Integration	72.7%	8
5	Incident Response	72.7%	8
5	Information Security	72.7%	8
5	Kanban	72.7%	8
5	Scrum	72.7%	8
5	TDD	72.7%	8
5	User Research	72.7%	8
14	Mentoring	54.5%	6
15	Clean Code	45.5%	5
16	AI	27.3%	3
16	API Development	27.3%	3
16	Artificial Intelligence Engineering	27.3%	3
16	Computer Vision	27.3%	3
16	Containerisation	27.3%	3