Open Source Jobs in England

Open Source
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Open Source skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Open Source over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 186 146
Rank change year-on-year -88 -40 -2
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 870 1,837 3,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.02% 1.99% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 2.08% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 635 865 1,382
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,604
25th Percentile £48,250 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £84,964 £92,040 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £105,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Open Source is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,147 88,376 126,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.80% 95.62% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,950 52,212 73,732
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,243 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Open Source in England.

Salary trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Open Source in England

Open Source
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -155 244 £81,500 +1.50% 116
North of England +40 234 £61,206 +2.01% 39
North West +19 152 £60,603 -3.04% 20
South East +5 142 £45,000 -35.71% 31
South West -38 110 £65,000 -7.14% 33
Midlands -11 77 £61,206 -12.56% 26
Yorkshire +77 62 £61,206 +2.01% 16
East of England +9 50 £80,001 +39.13% 15
West Midlands +4 48 £61,206 -12.56% 15
East Midlands -16 29 £75,000 -3.23% 11
North East -16 20 £61,206 +28.39% 3
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 52 (5.98%) Apache
2 41 (4.71%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.22%) WebLogic
4 14 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.61%) Confluence
4 14 (1.61%) nginx
5 11 (1.26%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.92%) Apache Pig
6 8 (0.92%) Drupal
7 7 (0.80%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.46%) CMS
8 4 (0.46%) IIS
8 4 (0.46%) OpenZeppelin
9 3 (0.34%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.23%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.23%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 48 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 28 (3.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (0.92%) Shopify
3 6 (0.69%) Magento
4 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 337 (38.74%) AWS
2 279 (32.07%) Azure
3 116 (13.33%) Serverless
4 90 (10.34%) GCP
5 71 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
6 69 (7.93%) Amazon SQS
7 68 (7.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 63 (7.24%) OpenShift
9 53 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
10 48 (5.52%) Amazon S3
11 40 (4.60%) Amazon ECS
12 38 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (4.14%) GitHub
14 34 (3.91%) SaaS
15 21 (2.41%) IaaS
16 19 (2.18%) PaaS
17 18 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
17 18 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
18 16 (1.84%) dbt
19 12 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 71 (8.16%) DNS
2 49 (5.63%) TCP/IP
3 48 (5.52%) Firewall
4 42 (4.83%) BGP
5 36 (4.14%) SSL
6 25 (2.87%) AMQP
7 21 (2.41%) LAN
7 21 (2.41%) WAN
8 20 (2.30%) HTTP
9 15 (1.72%) Internet
9 15 (1.72%) VPN
10 14 (1.61%) MPLS
11 10 (1.15%) DHCP
12 8 (0.92%) Network Security
12 8 (0.92%) SMTP
13 7 (0.80%) DWDM
13 7 (0.80%) EIGRP
13 7 (0.80%) IGRP
13 7 (0.80%) OSPF
13 7 (0.80%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (8.74%) Relational Database
2 67 (7.70%) Amazon RDS
3 64 (7.36%) NoSQL
4 57 (6.55%) RDBMS
5 54 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (5.86%) Big Data
7 49 (5.63%) Oracle Database
8 45 (5.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 43 (4.94%) MySQL
10 39 (4.48%) Hadoop
11 25 (2.87%) Cloudera CDH
12 24 (2.76%) SQL Server
13 23 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
15 13 (1.49%) MongoDB
16 9 (1.03%) Apache Hive
16 9 (1.03%) MariaDB
16 9 (1.03%) Metadata
16 9 (1.03%) Power BI
16 9 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 115 (13.22%) Git
2 103 (11.84%) Jenkins
3 88 (10.11%) GitLab
4 34 (3.91%) Artifactory
5 21 (2.41%) JDeveloper
6 20 (2.30%) JIRA
7 16 (1.84%) SonarQube
8 14 (1.61%) JUnit
9 12 (1.38%) Subversion
10 11 (1.26%) Selenium
11 10 (1.15%) CircleCI
11 10 (1.15%) GNU Toolchain
11 10 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
11 10 (1.15%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.03%) Cypress.io
12 9 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.92%) Checkstyle
14 6 (0.69%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.57%) Clang
15 5 (0.57%) JMeter
General
1 235 (27.01%) Social Skills
2 119 (13.68%) Finance
3 52 (5.98%) Public Sector
4 40 (4.60%) Front Office
5 38 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
8 26 (2.99%) Aerospace
8 26 (2.99%) Banking
9 24 (2.76%) Law
9 24 (2.76%) Retail
10 23 (2.64%) Games
11 22 (2.53%) Automotive
12 21 (2.41%) Marketing
13 9 (1.03%) Health Technology
14 8 (0.92%) Publishing
15 7 (0.80%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.80%) Legal
16 5 (0.57%) Advertising
16 5 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 184 (21.15%) Senior
2 167 (19.20%) Software Engineer
3 165 (18.97%) Developer
4 150 (17.24%) Architect
4 150 (17.24%) Lead
5 74 (8.51%) Technical Leader
6 73 (8.39%) Solutions Architect
7 50 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
8 45 (5.17%) AWS Engineer
9 43 (4.94%) Senior Architect
10 42 (4.83%) Full Stack Developer
11 40 (4.60%) AWS DevOps
12 39 (4.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 39 (4.48%) Technical Architect
13 38 (4.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 36 (4.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 36 (4.14%) Senior Software Engineer
15 32 (3.68%) Senior Solutions Architect
16 30 (3.45%) Senior Developer
17 29 (3.33%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (16.09%) React
2 114 (13.10%) Node.js
3 88 (10.11%) Spring Boot
4 71 (8.16%) REST
5 55 (6.32%) RabbitMQ
5 55 (6.32%) Spring
6 50 (5.75%) AngularJS
7 45 (5.17%) HTML
8 43 (4.94%) J2EE
9 42 (4.83%) Kafka
10 34 (3.91%) PyTorch
11 32 (3.68%) .NET
12 31 (3.56%) TensorFlow
13 27 (3.10%) CSS
14 25 (2.87%) gRPC
14 25 (2.87%) Material-UI
14 25 (2.87%) OpenAPI
14 25 (2.87%) Swagger
15 21 (2.41%) SAML
16 20 (2.30%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 86 (9.89%) Private Cloud
2 85 (9.77%) Public Cloud
3 79 (9.08%) Self-Motivation
4 74 (8.51%) Management Information System
5 56 (6.44%) Cloud Native
6 43 (4.94%) Algorithms
7 42 (4.83%) Tandem
8 40 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
9 37 (4.25%) Enterprise Software
10 33 (3.79%) Blockchain
10 33 (3.79%) Embedded Systems
11 29 (3.33%) Data Centre
12 28 (3.22%) Product Ownership
13 25 (2.87%) IoT
14 24 (2.76%) Blog
15 22 (2.53%) Data Structures
16 19 (2.18%) Client/Server
17 17 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
18 15 (1.72%) Life Science
18 15 (1.72%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 237 (27.24%) Linux
2 63 (7.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 44 (5.06%) Unix
4 41 (4.71%) Ubuntu
5 40 (4.60%) Windows
6 37 (4.25%) CentOS
6 37 (4.25%) Debian
7 9 (1.03%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.92%) Android
9 7 (0.80%) Embedded Linux
10 6 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.57%) Windows 10
11 5 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.46%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.46%) VMS
13 1 (0.11%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.11%) Rocky
13 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (51.49%) Agile
2 372 (42.76%) Software Engineering
3 242 (27.82%) DevOps
4 209 (24.02%) Mentoring
4 209 (24.02%) Problem-Solving
5 179 (20.57%) Coaching
6 172 (19.77%) CI/CD
7 156 (17.93%) Continuous Integration
8 154 (17.70%) Microservices
9 145 (16.67%) Scrum
10 144 (16.55%) Actionable Insight
11 137 (15.75%) Containerisation
12 128 (14.71%) Full Stack Development
13 120 (13.79%) Decision-Making
14 118 (13.56%) Kanban
15 117 (13.45%) Collaborative Working
16 108 (12.41%) Computer Science
17 99 (11.38%) Project Management
18 91 (10.46%) Roadmaps
19 84 (9.66%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 354 (40.69%) Python
2 320 (36.78%) Java
3 164 (18.85%) JavaScript
4 119 (13.68%) C
5 98 (11.26%) TypeScript
6 96 (11.03%) SQL
7 95 (10.92%) Go
8 81 (9.31%) Bash
9 77 (8.85%) C++
10 45 (5.17%) C#
11 38 (4.37%) Rust
12 36 (4.14%) Ruby
13 31 (3.56%) PHP
14 29 (3.33%) COBOL
14 29 (3.33%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 29 (3.33%) PowerShell
15 27 (3.10%) Perl
16 22 (2.53%) Embedded C
17 14 (1.61%) Fortran
18 12 (1.38%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 217 (24.94%) Security Cleared
2 163 (18.74%) SC Cleared
3 160 (18.39%) Degree
4 49 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (4.71%) Azure Certification
6 35 (4.02%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.91%) Master's Degree
8 32 (3.68%) AWS Certification
9 30 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 30 (3.45%) PhD
10 8 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.80%) CCNA
12 5 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.34%) CISSP
13 3 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.23%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.23%) GCIA
14 2 (0.23%) GCIH
14 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.40%) PMO
2 46 (5.29%) QA
3 15 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.69%) NCSC
6 5 (0.57%) NIST
7 3 (0.34%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.34%) GDPR
8 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 154 (17.70%) Docker
2 20 (2.30%) Virtual Servers
3 11 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.15%) Firmware
5 9 (1.03%) Embedded Firmware
6 8 (0.92%) HDFS
7 7 (0.80%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 3 (0.34%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.34%) KVM
9 3 (0.34%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.23%) Ceph
10 2 (0.23%) QEMU
10 2 (0.23%) Shibboleth
10 2 (0.23%) vSphere
10 2 (0.23%) Xen
11 1 (0.11%) LXC
11 1 (0.11%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 162 (18.62%) Kubernetes
2 102 (11.72%) Terraform
3 83 (9.54%) Ansible
4 52 (5.98%) Puppet
5 36 (4.14%) Progress Chef
6 9 (1.03%) Grafana
7 8 (0.92%) Kibana
8 6 (0.69%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 5 (0.57%) Kiali
9 5 (0.57%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.46%) Salt
11 3 (0.34%) Consul
11 3 (0.34%) Nessus
11 3 (0.34%) Podman
12 2 (0.23%) Knative
12 2 (0.23%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.23%) Marathon
12 2 (0.23%) Mesos
12 2 (0.23%) Nagios
12 2 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 69 (7.93%) Google
2 54 (6.21%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.21%) Oracle
3 31 (3.56%) Red Hat
4 29 (3.33%) Micro Focus
5 28 (3.22%) Sparx
6 25 (2.87%) SaltStack
7 21 (2.41%) Cisco
8 12 (1.38%) Fortinet
8 12 (1.38%) Juniper
8 12 (1.38%) OpenAI
8 12 (1.38%) VMware
9 10 (1.15%) Splunk
10 8 (0.92%) Apple
10 8 (0.92%) ESRI
10 8 (0.92%) Palo Alto
11 7 (0.80%) Arista
11 7 (0.80%) CheckPoint
11 7 (0.80%) Tufin
12 6 (0.69%) F5