Open Source Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Open Source
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Open Source skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 67 98
Rank change year-on-year -4 +31 +18
Contract jobs citing Open Source 8 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.99% 0.48% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.56% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 £581 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -36.17% +6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £388 £594 £575
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -13.19% +0.79% +23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 709 709 1,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.86% 85.73% 90.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 452 818
10th Percentile £285 £350 £339
25th Percentile £400 £409 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £477 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.65% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 23 21
10th Percentile £18.87 £12.18 £12.00
25th Percentile - £14.19 £15.32
Median hourly rate £22.14 £22.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +18.42% +1.60%
75th Percentile £74.06 £33.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £30.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.58 £17.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year +29.00% -14.63% +7.89%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Open Source job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Open Source
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Open Source.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Open Source

Open Source
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Open Source.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Open Source

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
Leeds -3 8 £375 -36.17% 8
Open Source
Yorkshire

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Flink
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JMeter
1 2 (25.00%) JUnit
1 2 (25.00%) Maven
1 2 (25.00%) Postman
1 2 (25.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
1 2 (25.00%) TestNG
2 1 (12.50%) Mockito
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Android Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Android Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Android Jetpack
1 5 (62.50%) Android SDK
1 5 (62.50%) Jetpack Compose
2 3 (37.50%) Dagger
2 3 (37.50%) Retrofit
3 2 (25.00%) CSS
3 2 (25.00%) CSS3
3 2 (25.00%) HTML
3 2 (25.00%) HTML5
3 2 (25.00%) Playwright
3 2 (25.00%) RESTful
3 2 (25.00%) RxJava
3 2 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (12.50%) Apache Beam
4 1 (12.50%) JDBC
4 1 (12.50%) Kafka
4 1 (12.50%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Android Development
1 5 (62.50%) Benchmarking
1 5 (62.50%) MVVM
1 5 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (62.50%) SOLID
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) API Testing
2 2 (25.00%) BDD
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (25.00%) Push Notifications
2 2 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 2 (25.00%) TDD
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Test Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (25.00%) Web Design
3 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) Kotlin
3 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Cloudera