Open Source Contracts in Wales

Open Source
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 - 60
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Open Source 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.71% - 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% - 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £308 - -
25th Percentile £312 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.81%
75th Percentile £446 - -
90th Percentile £466 - -
UK median daily rate £572 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.61% -4.17% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 311 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 87.03% 78.73% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 212 421
10th Percentile £185 £168 £183
25th Percentile £285 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -2.48%
75th Percentile £525 £571 £573
90th Percentile £625 £667 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 28
10th Percentile £15.60 £11.75 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.12 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.00 £49.13
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Wales

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Open Source in Wales

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in Wales

Open Source
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Open Source in Wales

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales 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
South Wales - 5 £331 - 9
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
1 3 (60.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Migration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) Blazor
2 2 (40.00%) GWT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) NHS
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Coaching
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Product Management
2 3 (60.00%) Product Requirements
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) Data Privacy
3 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CITP
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft