Hybrid/Remote Open Source Development Contract Job Trends

Open Source Software Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Open Source Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 302 353
Rank change year-on-year -51 +51 +98
Contract jobs citing Open Source Development 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.008% 0.010% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% 0.011% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £805 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +46.36% +15.79% -36.67%
UK median daily rate £805 £550 £700
% change year-on-year +46.36% -21.43% +100.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Open Source Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,598 8,912 12,881
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.39% 91.62% 86.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,450 6,075 8,653
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.73% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £633 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 640 232 576
10th Percentile £17.21 £13.53 £15.08
25th Percentile £32.19 £18.89 £24.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.95 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.97% -16.41% -14.00%
75th Percentile £71.91 £65.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.25 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +73.07% -32.27% +7.14%

Open Source Development
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Open Source Development and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Open Source Development job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Open Source Development
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Open Source Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Open Source Development

Open Source Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Run
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Google Gemini
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google