Open Source Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Open Source Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Open Source Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Open Source Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.062% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £463 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 1,529 2,099 2,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 94.68% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,281 1,953
10th Percentile £263 £205 £238
25th Percentile £370 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £553
90th Percentile £610 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 114 44
10th Percentile £15.98 £12.50 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £16.91
Median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.00 £59.41
90th Percentile £42.58 £66.00 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Open Source Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Open Source Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source Engineer in Scotland

Open Source Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Edinburgh - 1 £463 -
Open Source Engineer
UK

Open Source Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Open Source Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Open Source Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline

Open Source Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Great Expectations
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker