Open Source Contracts in the North of England

Open Source
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 157 183
Rank change year-on-year +20 +26 -1
Contract jobs citing Open Source 27 29 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.81% 0.62% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.73% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 16
10th Percentile £384 £311 £444
25th Percentile £456 £375 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.25% -23.81% +7.69%
75th Percentile £488 £563 £569
90th Percentile £545 £620 £651
England median daily rate £575 £570 £618
% change year-on-year +0.88% -7.69% +5.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,980 3,974 5,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.62% 85.50% 90.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,916 2,420 3,486
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £557 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 365 203
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £15.36
Median hourly rate £25.43 £17.72 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +43.51% -36.67% +47.71%
75th Percentile £56.76 £45.00 £44.13
90th Percentile £81.55 £59.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the North of England

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Open Source in the North of England

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in the North of England

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in the North of England

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 18 May 2025. 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +10 16 £463 +15.63% 86
Yorkshire +12 6 - - 50
North East - 5 £465 - 13
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (3.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) CMS
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
1 1 (3.70%) JBoss
1 1 (3.70%) SAS
1 1 (3.70%) Tomcat
1 1 (3.70%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Magento
1 3 (11.11%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) Kong
3 4 (14.81%) dbt
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.70%) Azure
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) HTTPS
2 1 (3.70%) DHCP
2 1 (3.70%) DNS
2 1 (3.70%) HTTP
2 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 6 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 5 (18.52%) MySQL
4 4 (14.81%) Airbyte
4 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
5 3 (11.11%) Big Data
5 3 (11.11%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.70%) Apache Hive
6 1 (3.70%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.70%) HBase
6 1 (3.70%) Metadata
6 1 (3.70%) Pentaho
6 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 8 (29.63%) Maven
3 7 (25.93%) GitLab
4 5 (18.52%) Artifactory
4 5 (18.52%) Git
4 5 (18.52%) gulp
4 5 (18.52%) SonarQube
4 5 (18.52%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (11.11%) JUnit
5 3 (11.11%) Selenium
6 2 (7.41%) Cucumber
6 2 (7.41%) Cypress.io
6 2 (7.41%) JMeter
6 2 (7.41%) Postman
6 2 (7.41%) REST Assured
6 2 (7.41%) TestNG
7 1 (3.70%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (3.70%) Gradle
7 1 (3.70%) Hudson
7 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 8 (29.63%) Public Sector
2 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Architect
2 5 (18.52%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) Data Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.41%) .NET Architect
5 2 (7.41%) .NET Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Lead
5 2 (7.41%) Programme Director
5 2 (7.41%) Programme Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Applications Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Product Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) AngularJS
2 7 (25.93%) Hibernate
2 7 (25.93%) Node.js
2 7 (25.93%) Spring
3 6 (22.22%) Kafka
3 6 (22.22%) Spring Boot
4 5 (18.52%) Apache CXF
4 5 (18.52%) Dropwizard
4 5 (18.52%) Express.js
4 5 (18.52%) JAX-RS
4 5 (18.52%) MEAN Stack
4 5 (18.52%) MERN Stack
4 5 (18.52%) Mongoose
4 5 (18.52%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (18.52%) React
4 5 (18.52%) REST
4 5 (18.52%) Sequelize
5 4 (14.81%) SOAP
6 3 (11.11%) .NET
6 3 (11.11%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (11.11%) PKI
1 3 (11.11%) Taxonomies
2 1 (3.70%) AI Agents
2 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.70%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Unix
2 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Agile
1 7 (25.93%) Analytics
1 7 (25.93%) Microservices
2 6 (22.22%) Containerisation
2 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (18.52%) Event-Driven
3 5 (18.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
3 5 (18.52%) Operational Stability
3 5 (18.52%) Visualisation
4 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
4 4 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (14.81%) Digital Twin
4 4 (14.81%) ETL
4 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (14.81%) RDF
4 4 (14.81%) Scrum
4 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
4 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) JavaScript
2 12 (44.44%) Java
3 8 (29.63%) Python
4 6 (22.22%) SQL
5 4 (14.81%) SPARQL
6 3 (11.11%) C#
6 3 (11.11%) PHP
7 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
7 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (40.74%) Security Cleared
2 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
1 2 (7.41%) WCAG
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Kubernetes
2 6 (22.22%) Terraform
3 3 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) ForgeRock
1 3 (11.11%) Ping Identity
2 2 (7.41%) Cloudera
3 1 (3.70%) Adobe
3 1 (3.70%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) IBM
3 1 (3.70%) Informatica
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle