Open Source Jobs in the North West

Open Source
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 147 180 201
Rank change year-on-year +33 +21 -57
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 152 131 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.57% 1.66% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 1.73% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 108 79 83
10th Percentile £43,375 £43,500 £26,400
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £43,436
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,603 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +4.17% +2.56%
75th Percentile £73,125 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £83,750 £89,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,069 7,579 8,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.15% 95.75% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 6,136 3,921 5,378
10th Percentile £27,875 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,298 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the North West

Open Source
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the North West.

Salary trend for Open Source in the North West

Open Source
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Open Source in the North West

Open Source
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Manchester +36 126 £55,000 -15.38% 17
Lancashire +3 13 £61,206 - 2
Merseyside +12 10 - -
Cheshire -12 3 £65,000 +8.33%
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 16 (10.53%) Apache
1 16 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.26%) WebLogic
3 5 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.29%) Confluence
4 4 (2.63%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 8 (5.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (3.95%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 40 (26.32%) AWS
2 39 (25.66%) Azure
3 19 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 17 (11.18%) GCP
4 17 (11.18%) Serverless
5 11 (7.24%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (7.24%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (7.24%) OpenShift
6 8 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (4.61%) dbt
8 5 (3.29%) Google Analytics
8 5 (3.29%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.29%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.97%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.32%) GitHub
11 1 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.66%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.66%) Linode
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.24%) AMQP
2 8 (5.26%) BGP
2 8 (5.26%) DNS
2 8 (5.26%) SSL
2 8 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.97%) Firewall
4 2 (1.32%) Network Security
5 1 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (17.11%) Relational Database
2 21 (13.82%) NoSQL
3 16 (10.53%) RDBMS
4 14 (9.21%) Oracle Database
5 12 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (7.24%) Big Data
6 11 (7.24%) Cloudera CDH
6 11 (7.24%) Hadoop
7 9 (5.92%) MySQL
8 8 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.29%) Airbyte
10 5 (3.29%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (3.29%) BigQuery
10 5 (3.29%) Looker
10 5 (3.29%) MongoDB
10 5 (3.29%) Power BI
10 5 (3.29%) Tableau
11 4 (2.63%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (2.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (8.55%) Git
2 8 (5.26%) GitLab
2 8 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.95%) JDeveloper
3 6 (3.95%) JIRA
4 5 (3.29%) Clang
5 3 (1.97%) webpack
6 1 (0.66%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.66%) Capybara
6 1 (0.66%) RSpec
General
1 52 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.84%) Finance
3 14 (9.21%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.24%) Aerospace
5 10 (6.58%) Automotive
5 10 (6.58%) Games
6 6 (3.95%) Health Technology
6 6 (3.95%) Law
7 5 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Banking
9 2 (1.32%) Digital Economy
10 1 (0.66%) Advertising
10 1 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (42.11%) Software Engineer
2 54 (35.53%) Senior
3 29 (19.08%) Lead
4 28 (18.42%) Developer
5 26 (17.11%) Architect
6 20 (13.16%) Solutions Architect
7 19 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
8 15 (9.87%) Technical Leader
9 14 (9.21%) Senior Architect
10 12 (7.89%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 11 (7.24%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 10 (6.58%) Full Stack Developer
12 10 (6.58%) PHP Developer
12 10 (6.58%) Python Engineer
13 9 (5.92%) Senior Developer
14 8 (5.26%) Compiler Engineer
14 8 (5.26%) Lead Architect
14 8 (5.26%) Lead Solutions Architect
15 7 (4.61%) C Software Engineer
15 7 (4.61%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (26.32%) Node.js
2 34 (22.37%) React
3 26 (17.11%) HTML
4 22 (14.47%) AngularJS
4 22 (14.47%) Spring Boot
5 19 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
6 16 (10.53%) CSS
7 14 (9.21%) JSON
7 14 (9.21%) REST
7 14 (9.21%) Spring
8 11 (7.24%) gRPC
8 11 (7.24%) Material-UI
8 11 (7.24%) OpenAPI
8 11 (7.24%) Swagger
9 10 (6.58%) Electron
10 9 (5.92%) RESTful
11 8 (5.26%) Kafka
11 8 (5.26%) LLVM
12 7 (4.61%) Express.js
12 7 (4.61%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.47%) Public Cloud
2 13 (8.55%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.58%) IoT
3 10 (6.58%) Private Cloud
4 8 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.61%) Device Driver
5 7 (4.61%) Embedded Systems
6 6 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.29%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.97%) Blog
8 3 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.97%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.97%) Media Streaming
8 3 (1.97%) NHS
8 3 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.32%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.32%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.32%) Cybercrime
9 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 62 (40.79%) Linux
2 19 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (7.24%) CentOS
3 11 (7.24%) Debian
3 11 (7.24%) Ubuntu
4 5 (3.29%) Windows
5 2 (1.32%) Unix
6 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (57.89%) Software Engineering
2 78 (51.32%) Agile
3 38 (25.00%) DevOps
4 37 (24.34%) Coaching
5 34 (22.37%) Continuous Integration
6 33 (21.71%) Mentoring
7 32 (21.05%) Actionable Insight
7 32 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (19.74%) Microservices
9 28 (18.42%) Computer Science
10 26 (17.11%) Scrum
11 25 (16.45%) Kanban
12 23 (15.13%) Code Quality
12 23 (15.13%) Containerisation
12 23 (15.13%) Design Patterns
13 22 (14.47%) CI/CD
14 20 (13.16%) Full Stack Development
15 19 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
16 18 (11.84%) Re-Platforming
17 17 (11.18%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 65 (42.76%) Python
2 48 (31.58%) Java
3 47 (30.92%) JavaScript
4 32 (21.05%) C
5 21 (13.82%) Rust
6 14 (9.21%) SQL
7 10 (6.58%) C++
7 10 (6.58%) COBOL
7 10 (6.58%) Micro Focus COBOL
7 10 (6.58%) PHP
7 10 (6.58%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.26%) Bash
9 7 (4.61%) Embedded C
9 7 (4.61%) Ruby
10 6 (3.95%) Go
10 6 (3.95%) Perl
11 5 (3.29%) C#
11 5 (3.29%) Fortran
12 3 (1.97%) Scala
13 2 (1.32%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 43 (28.29%) Degree
2 38 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 32 (21.05%) SC Cleared
4 27 (17.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (7.24%) DV Cleared
6 8 (5.26%) AWS Certification
6 8 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (5.26%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.97%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.32%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.95%) QA
2 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.32%) NIST
2 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (1.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.66%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (12.50%) Ansible
2 13 (8.55%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.55%) Terraform
3 11 (7.24%) Puppet
4 8 (5.26%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (11.84%) Oracle
2 16 (10.53%) Google
3 11 (7.24%) Red Hat
3 11 (7.24%) SaltStack
4 10 (6.58%) Micro Focus
5 8 (5.26%) Sparx
6 6 (3.95%) F5
7 5 (3.29%) Teradata
8 4 (2.63%) ESRI
9 3 (1.97%) Microsoft
10 1 (0.66%) Spotify
10 1 (0.66%) Veeam
10 1 (0.66%) VMware