Open Source Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Open Source
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Open Source skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 73 95
Rank change year-on-year -41 +22 +26
Contract jobs citing Open Source 20 6 15
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.00% 0.65% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.74% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 7
10th Percentile £396 £541 £510
25th Percentile £413 £554 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £597 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.19% -0.46% -
75th Percentile £538 £623 £691
90th Percentile £645 £624 £743
England median daily rate £550 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -3.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.25 - -
Median hourly rate £15.50 - -
75th Percentile £15.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £15.50 £26.50 £21.25
% change year-on-year -41.51% +24.71% -61.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,786 812 1,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.39% 88.26% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 489 1,013
10th Percentile £300 £231 £263
25th Percentile £402 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £674
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 23 50
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.64 £11.10
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.25 £12.25
Median hourly rate £22.92 £27.50 £15.37
Median % change year-on-year -16.65% +78.98% +44.54%
75th Percentile £53.13 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £57.93 £85.61 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Open Source job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Open Source
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Open Source
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Open Source in Yorkshire

Open Source
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Open Source
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 10 February 2026. 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
West Yorkshire - 12 £425 - 9
South Yorkshire -61 6 £525 -12.10% 7
North Yorkshire - 2 - -
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (5.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (5.00%) NAS
2 1 (5.00%) SAN
2 1 (5.00%) VLAN
2 1 (5.00%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (20.00%) Redis
3 2 (10.00%) Metadata
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Mocha
2 2 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) Jaeger
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) Mockito
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Senior
3 5 (25.00%) Android Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Android Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Applications Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Data Scientist
6 1 (5.00%) Delphi Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) CSS
1 6 (30.00%) HTML
2 5 (25.00%) Android Jetpack
2 5 (25.00%) Android SDK
2 5 (25.00%) Jetpack Compose
3 4 (20.00%) Hugging Face
3 4 (20.00%) Jest
3 4 (20.00%) Node.js
3 4 (20.00%) OpenCV
3 4 (20.00%) PyTorch
3 4 (20.00%) Regular Expression
3 4 (20.00%) SpaCy
3 4 (20.00%) TensorFlow
4 3 (15.00%) Dagger
4 3 (15.00%) Express.js
4 3 (15.00%) React
4 3 (15.00%) Retrofit
5 2 (10.00%) CSS3
5 2 (10.00%) RxJava
5 2 (10.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.00%) Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Code
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Android
2 4 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (10.00%) Windows
4 1 (5.00%) CentOS
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Agile
1 6 (30.00%) DevOps
2 5 (25.00%) Android Development
2 5 (25.00%) Benchmarking
2 5 (25.00%) MVVM
2 5 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (25.00%) SOLID
3 4 (20.00%) AI
3 4 (20.00%) Deep Learning
3 4 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 4 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 4 (20.00%) Image Processing
3 4 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 4 (20.00%) OCR
3 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.00%) Data Science
4 3 (15.00%) KYC
4 3 (15.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (30.00%) Python
1 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) Java
2 5 (25.00%) Kotlin
3 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (10.00%) Bash
4 2 (10.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) Delphi
4 2 (10.00%) PHP
5 1 (5.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) WCAG
2 3 (15.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (10.00%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
3 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 2 (10.00%) ISO17020
3 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.00%) Ceph
3 1 (5.00%) KVM
3 1 (5.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
2 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) VMware