Open Source Contract Job Trends in South London

Open Source
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Open Source skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 37 41
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing Open Source 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.43% 0.46% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.53% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £523
25th Percentile - - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £380 £575
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -33.91% +20.42%
75th Percentile - - £594
90th Percentile - - £598
London median daily rate £600 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 201 189 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 86.64% 87.50% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 127 179
10th Percentile £352 £260 £188
25th Percentile £455 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £557 £600 £588
90th Percentile £640 £773 £653
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 22
10th Percentile £54.42 £23.10 £17.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £34.00 £19.75
Median hourly rate £61.22 £73.60 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.82% +213.19% -28.90%
75th Percentile £66.50 £78.40 £49.13
90th Percentile £67.70 £81.28 £83.75
London median hourly rate £34.00 £37.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -8.11% +23.33% -14.29%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Open Source job vacancy trend in South London

Open Source
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Open Source

Open Source
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Open Source

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Great Expectations
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Explainable AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
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