Open Source Development Contracts

Open Source Software Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Open Source Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Open Source Development over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 702 850
Rank change year-on-year +122 +148 -179
Contract jobs citing Open Source Development 2 10 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.017% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.005% 0.018% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £580
25th Percentile - £725 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £750 £688
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +30.95%
75th Percentile - £775 £744
90th Percentile - - £755
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £650
% change year-on-year - - +103.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Open Source Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,651 54,096 80,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,333 37,469 56,726
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,430 1,787 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.34 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +86.50% -8.09%

Open Source Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source Development in the UK

Open Source Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source Development in the UK

Open Source Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Open Source Development in the UK

Open Source Development
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source Development within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
England +116 2 - - 9
London +100 2 - - 1

Open Source Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk