Open Source Developer Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Open Source Developer
England > West Midlands

As of 18 September 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Open Source Developer daily rate in the West Midlands.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Open Source Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.054% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,643 1,781 1,956
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.44% 93.29% 95.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,065 1,151 1,331
10th Percentile £235 £231 £228
25th Percentile £375 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £582 £624 £600
90th Percentile £650 £713 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 63 58
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.62 £14.42
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.63 £17.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £40.07 £33.74 £30.78
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Open Source Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Open Source Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source Developer in the West Midlands

Open Source Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Open Source Developer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Open Source Developer job vacancies in the West Midlands

Open Source Developer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source Developer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Shropshire - 1 - -
Open Source Developer
England

Open Source Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Open Source Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Open Source Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) J2SE
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) webMethods
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5

Open Source Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) J2SE
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Play Framework
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Lean Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source Development
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) webMethods