Open Source Contracts in Reading

Open Source
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 94 77
Rank change year-on-year +38 -17 0
Contract jobs citing Open Source 6 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.11% 0.25% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.28% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £420 £429 £429
25th Percentile £450 £454 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £459
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +7.90% -6.38%
75th Percentile - £498 £530
90th Percentile - £499 £669
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £543 £459
% change year-on-year -7.83% +18.26% -5.90%

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 497 1,053 922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.70% 88.64% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 555 603
10th Percentile £328 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 51 24
10th Percentile £67.34 £14.50 £45.75
25th Percentile £68.99 £52.21 £60.73
Median hourly rate £72.35 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.44% -6.67% +120.00%
75th Percentile £75.08 £80.69 £75.19
90th Percentile £76.35 £87.53 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £60.80 £63.84
% change year-on-year +1.14% -4.76% +203.63%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Reading

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Reading

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in Reading

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (50.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (16.67%) ArcGIS
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Spatial
2 1 (16.67%) Smallworld
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
2 1 (16.67%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
1 1 (16.67%) GIS
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (16.67%) Burp Suite
1 1 (16.67%) DbUnit
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) jMock
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) Metasploit
1 1 (16.67%) Mockito
1 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) GIS Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Penetration Tester
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) Bootstrap
1 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
1 1 (16.67%) JPA
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) PostGIS
1 1 (16.67%) PowerMock
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Batch
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Integration
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) BDD
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Ethical Hacking
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Kanban
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) OSINT
4 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Magik
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
1 1 (16.67%) ESRI
1 1 (16.67%) Jaspersoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle