Open Source Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Open Source
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 253 250
Rank change year-on-year +97 -3 -28
Contract jobs citing Open Source 155 94 226
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.56% 0.65% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 0.74% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 65 153
10th Percentile £388 £328 £408
25th Percentile £472 £390 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -17.39% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £700
90th Percentile £838 £660 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £570 £600
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £71.93 -
UK median hourly rate - £26.97 £90.00
% change year-on-year - -70.03% +44.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,096 12,707 21,348
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.77% 87.21% 89.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 8,549 15,077
10th Percentile £325 £325 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +0.93%
75th Percentile £633 £638 £650
90th Percentile £755 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.57% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 554 508
10th Percentile £13.05 £15.05 £17.50
25th Percentile £18.89 £24.56 £25.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% -18.10% +31.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.88
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

Open Source
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Open Source trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Open Source
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Open Source.

Open Source daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Open Source over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Open Source daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Open Source
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Open Source.

Open Source hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 17 (10.97%) Apache Spark
2 16 (10.32%) Apache
2 16 (10.32%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (5.81%) OpenStack
4 6 (3.87%) Confluence
5 2 (1.29%) Camunda
5 2 (1.29%) Drupal
6 1 (0.65%) CMS
6 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.58%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 68 (43.87%) AWS
2 35 (22.58%) AWS Lambda
2 35 (22.58%) Serverless
3 20 (12.90%) Amazon ECS
3 20 (12.90%) Amazon EKS
3 20 (12.90%) Amazon S3
4 18 (11.61%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (10.32%) Azure
5 16 (10.32%) dbt
6 15 (9.68%) OpenShift
7 7 (4.52%) GitHub
8 6 (3.87%) Power Platform
9 5 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (3.23%) Entra ID
9 5 (3.23%) GCP
10 4 (2.58%) AWS KMS
10 4 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.58%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.58%) HTTPS
2 3 (1.94%) Bluetooth
2 3 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (1.94%) Wireless
3 2 (1.29%) DNS
3 2 (1.29%) MQTT
3 2 (1.29%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.65%) DHCP
4 1 (0.65%) HTTP
4 1 (0.65%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (23.87%) MongoDB
2 35 (22.58%) DB2
2 35 (22.58%) Relational Database
3 23 (14.84%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (9.68%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (9.68%) Apache Arrow
4 15 (9.68%) Apache Iceberg
4 15 (9.68%) Apache Ignite
4 15 (9.68%) Dremio
5 8 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (4.52%) Big Data
7 6 (3.87%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.58%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (2.58%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.58%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.58%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.29%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (1.29%) MySQL
10 2 (1.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 41 (26.45%) JUnit
2 17 (10.97%) Artifactory
3 14 (9.03%) Jenkins
4 13 (8.39%) Git
5 10 (6.45%) Selenium
6 8 (5.16%) Maven
7 6 (3.87%) GitLab
7 6 (3.87%) HP UFT
7 6 (3.87%) JIRA
8 5 (3.23%) Cypress.io
8 5 (3.23%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.58%) TestComplete
10 3 (1.94%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (1.94%) DbUnit
10 3 (1.94%) jMock
10 3 (1.94%) KGDB
10 3 (1.94%) Mockito
10 3 (1.94%) SpecFlow
10 3 (1.94%) Subversion
11 2 (1.29%) Terragrunt
General
1 69 (44.52%) Social Skills
2 60 (38.71%) Finance
3 56 (36.13%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (20.65%) Front Office
5 31 (20.00%) Banking
5 31 (20.00%) Public Sector
6 30 (19.35%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.52%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.29%) Digital Health
9 2 (1.29%) Games
9 2 (1.29%) Military
9 2 (1.29%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.65%) Marketing
10 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Police
10 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 55 (35.48%) Developer
2 41 (26.45%) Architect
3 40 (25.81%) Java Developer
4 27 (17.42%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 27 (17.42%) SQL Developer
5 21 (13.55%) AWS Architect
5 21 (13.55%) Senior
6 18 (11.61%) AWS Engineer
7 16 (10.32%) Data Engineer
7 16 (10.32%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (10.32%) Senior Developer
8 15 (9.68%) AWS DevOps
8 15 (9.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 15 (9.68%) Linux Developer
8 15 (9.68%) Python Engineer
8 15 (9.68%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
8 15 (9.68%) Senior Java Developer
8 15 (9.68%) Senior SQL Developer
9 12 (7.74%) Lead
9 12 (7.74%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (42.58%) Kafka
2 43 (27.74%) Spring
3 33 (21.29%) JMS
4 17 (10.97%) J2EE
5 16 (10.32%) PySpark
6 12 (7.74%) AngularJS
7 10 (6.45%) Node.js
7 10 (6.45%) Spring Boot
8 8 (5.16%) REST
9 7 (4.52%) Hibernate
9 7 (4.52%) RESTful
9 7 (4.52%) SOAP
10 6 (3.87%) React
11 5 (3.23%) Bootstrap
11 5 (3.23%) CSS
11 5 (3.23%) HTML
11 5 (3.23%) OpenID
11 5 (3.23%) Playwright
11 5 (3.23%) Spring Integration
11 5 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (25.16%) Data Structures
2 35 (22.58%) Equities
3 10 (6.45%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.87%) NHS
5 5 (3.23%) PKI
6 4 (2.58%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.58%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.58%) Derivative
6 4 (2.58%) Equity Derivative
6 4 (2.58%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.94%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (1.94%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.94%) Social Media
8 2 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.29%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.29%) SCADA
8 2 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (37.42%) Linux
2 10 (6.45%) Windows
3 4 (2.58%) Unix
4 3 (1.94%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.94%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.29%) Android
6 1 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.65%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (47.10%) Agile
2 57 (36.77%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (23.23%) DevOps
4 35 (22.58%) Database Tuning
4 35 (22.58%) Performance Tuning
4 35 (22.58%) SDLC
5 34 (21.94%) CI/CD
6 32 (20.65%) Multithreading
6 32 (20.65%) Software Engineering
7 29 (18.71%) Containerisation
8 21 (13.55%) High Availability
9 20 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (11.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 17 (10.97%) Data Engineering
12 16 (10.32%) Mentoring
13 15 (9.68%) Asset Management
14 14 (9.03%) Microservices
14 14 (9.03%) Test Automation
15 9 (5.81%) Event-Driven
15 9 (5.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 77 (49.68%) Java
2 76 (49.03%) Python
3 44 (28.39%) SQL
4 36 (23.23%) Shell Script
5 18 (11.61%) Go
5 18 (11.61%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.45%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.16%) C#
8 6 (3.87%) Bash
9 3 (1.94%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.94%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.29%) PHP
11 1 (0.65%) Bicep
11 1 (0.65%) C++
11 1 (0.65%) Perl
11 1 (0.65%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (21.29%) Security Cleared
2 32 (20.65%) SC Cleared
3 20 (12.90%) AWS Certification
3 20 (12.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 10 (6.45%) Degree
5 5 (3.23%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.29%) CITP
6 2 (1.29%) PhD
7 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.65%) CCNA
7 1 (0.65%) CCNP
7 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.52%) GDPR
2 3 (1.94%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.29%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.29%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.29%) HL7
3 2 (1.29%) NCSC
3 2 (1.29%) NIST
3 2 (1.29%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (18.06%) Docker
2 5 (3.23%) vSphere
3 3 (1.94%) Postfix
4 1 (0.65%) Ceph
4 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (22.58%) Kubernetes
2 28 (18.06%) Terraform
3 11 (7.10%) Ansible
4 5 (3.23%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.94%) Grafana
5 3 (1.94%) Puppet
6 2 (1.29%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.29%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.65%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 35 (22.58%) Sybase
2 12 (7.74%) Google
3 4 (2.58%) BiZZdesign
3 4 (2.58%) Bloomberg
3 4 (2.58%) Databricks
3 4 (2.58%) ForgeRock
3 4 (2.58%) Informatica
3 4 (2.58%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.58%) Ping Identity
3 4 (2.58%) Reuters
3 4 (2.58%) Sparx
4 3 (1.94%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.94%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (1.94%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.29%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (1.29%) Cerner
5 2 (1.29%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.29%) Sun
6 1 (0.65%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow