Open Source Contracts in West End of London

Open Source
Central London > West End of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West End of London 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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Open Source 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West End of London 2.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Central London median daily rate £512 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +2.45% -16.67% -3.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West End of 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 West End of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38 56 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 88.37% 91.80% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 41 61
10th Percentile £240 £252 £216
25th Percentile £430 £426 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +2.02% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £619
90th Percentile £785 £625 £688
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £43.55 - -
25th Percentile £46.57 £40.75 -
Median hourly rate £49.50 £41.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% - -
75th Percentile £51.10 £42.25 -
90th Percentile £51.74 - -
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.24% -22.86% -19.06%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West End of London.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in West End of London

Open Source
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Open Source in West End of London.

Daily rate trend for Open Source in West End of London

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in West End of London

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 West End of London region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
Westminster - 1 - -
Open Source
Central London

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West End of London 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%) Mattermost
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) WebRTC
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus