Open Source Contract Job Trends in Reading

Open Source
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Open Source skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 89 84
Rank change year-on-year +16 -5 -12
Contract jobs citing Open Source 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.43% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.20% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £444 £422 £531
25th Percentile £490 £454 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £515 £593
Median % change year-on-year +13.83% -13.08% +28.80%
75th Percentile £688 £584 £626
90th Percentile £738 £621 £640
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £613 £593
% change year-on-year -10.20% +3.38% +28.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 641 983 963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.31% 90.85% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 551 628
10th Percentile £337 £330 £213
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £609 £650 £615
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 11 17
10th Percentile £14.75 £29.00 £41.24
25th Percentile £16.66 £49.38 £59.89
Median hourly rate £58.00 £60.46 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -4.48% -2.63%
75th Percentile £82.25 £67.21 £65.25
90th Percentile £96.75 £74.87 £66.96
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £59.00 £61.45
% change year-on-year -36.81% -3.98% +21.68%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Open Source job vacancy trend in Reading

Open Source
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Open Source

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Reading over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in Reading

Open Source
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Open Source

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Robot Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Delphi Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Head of Development
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) Jinja
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) NETCONF
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) WebSockets
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Insider Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Code
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (33.33%) AI
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (33.33%) B2B
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) OSINT
1 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
1 1 (33.33%) Re-Platforming
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Use Case
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Delphi
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Intel
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) Veracode