Open Source Contracts in the South East

Open Source
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 164 162
Rank change year-on-year +29 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Open Source 21 39 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.69% 0.68% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.82% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 24 29
10th Percentile £418 £352 £448
25th Percentile £475 £422 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -7.87% +8.00%
75th Percentile - £658 £613
90th Percentile £588 £743 £629
England median daily rate £550 £568 £600
% change year-on-year -3.08% -5.42% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,777 4,739 5,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.29% 82.43% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,743 2,733 3,502
10th Percentile £250 £263 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +0.49% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £619
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 479 231
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.04 £15.99
25th Percentile £15.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £52.10
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% -4.03% +131.56%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.50 £65.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.09 £75.00
England median hourly rate £26.45 £37.75 £35.03
% change year-on-year -29.93% +7.76% +36.41%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the South East

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Open Source in the South East

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the South East over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in the South East

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in the South East

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
Thames Valley +44 18 £500 - 125
Berkshire +37 16 £500 - 92
Hampshire +17 2 £513 -17.00% 56
Buckinghamshire - 2 £575 - 19
Middlesex - 1 - -
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (23.81%) OpenStack
2 3 (14.29%) ArcGIS
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle Spatial
2 3 (14.29%) Smallworld
3 2 (9.52%) Camunda
3 2 (9.52%) Confluence
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 14 (66.67%) AWS
2 8 (38.10%) Azure
3 6 (28.57%) GitHub
4 5 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (14.29%) SaaS
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (9.52%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (9.52%) PaaS
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (4.76%) AWS KMS
7 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.76%) Route 53
7 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Big Data
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 3 (14.29%) GIS
2 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (14.29%) Spatial Data
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 6 (28.57%) Git
3 2 (9.52%) JIRA
3 2 (9.52%) Terragrunt
4 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (4.76%) Burp Suite
4 1 (4.76%) DbUnit
4 1 (4.76%) jMock
4 1 (4.76%) JUnit
4 1 (4.76%) Maven
4 1 (4.76%) Metasploit
4 1 (4.76%) Mockito
4 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Telecoms
3 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Architect
2 6 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Support Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) GIS Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Java Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Java Technical Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Migration Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Technical Architect
7 1 (4.76%) .NET Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Penetration Tester
7 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
1 4 (19.05%) Middleware
2 3 (14.29%) PostGIS
2 3 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 2 (9.52%) Kafka
3 2 (9.52%) Keycloak
3 2 (9.52%) OpenJDK
3 2 (9.52%) REST
4 1 (4.76%) .NET
4 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (4.76%) Bootstrap
4 1 (4.76%) Loki
4 1 (4.76%) Node.js
4 1 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (4.76%) PowerMock
4 1 (4.76%) React
4 1 (4.76%) RESTful
4 1 (4.76%) Spring Batch
4 1 (4.76%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.76%) PKI
3 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Linux
2 5 (23.81%) Ubuntu
2 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 5 (23.81%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.76%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) DevOps
2 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 6 (28.57%) Agile
3 6 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 6 (28.57%) High Availability
3 6 (28.57%) Migration
3 6 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (23.81%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (23.81%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 5 (23.81%) Customer-Centricity
4 5 (23.81%) Server Building
4 5 (23.81%) TOGAF
5 4 (19.05%) Architectural Design
5 4 (19.05%) Microservices
5 4 (19.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) Data Governance
6 3 (14.29%) Data Migration
6 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) Python
2 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 5 (23.81%) Bash
4 4 (19.05%) Java
5 3 (14.29%) Magik
5 3 (14.29%) SQL
6 2 (9.52%) C#
6 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Certification
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) NCSC
2 1 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) vSphere
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Ansible
2 9 (42.86%) Terraform
3 7 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (9.52%) Grafana
5 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) Databricks
3 3 (14.29%) ESRI
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.76%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat