Open Source Jobs in the South West

Open Source
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 158 130
Rank change year-on-year -19 -28 -6
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 107 131 204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.17% 1.87% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.98% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 66 53 121
10th Percentile £48,125 £40,310 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,063 £53,725 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £70,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +47.37% -9.52%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
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
South 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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,698 6,620 7,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 84.16% 94.53% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5,535 3,691 4,984
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,892
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the South West

Open Source
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Open Source in the South West

Open Source
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Open Source in the South West

Open Source
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Bristol +4 50 £62,500 -7.41% 16
Gloucestershire -36 44 £65,000 -10.34% 1
Devon - 8 - - 4
Dorset -14 3 £67,500 -5.26%
Somerset +6 1 £42,500 - 5
Wiltshire -29 1 - - 3
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 22 (20.56%) Apache
2 13 (12.15%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.74%) Confluence
3 4 (3.74%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (3.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 62 (57.94%) AWS
2 55 (51.40%) Azure
3 18 (16.82%) GCP
4 17 (15.89%) Amazon EKS
4 17 (15.89%) Serverless
5 16 (14.95%) OpenShift
6 14 (13.08%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (12.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (3.74%) Miro
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.15%) AMQP
2 11 (10.28%) DNS
2 11 (10.28%) TCP/IP
3 9 (8.41%) Internet
4 7 (6.54%) HTTP
4 7 (6.54%) SMTP
5 4 (3.74%) BGP
5 4 (3.74%) SSL
6 2 (1.87%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.93%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.93%) PBX
7 1 (0.93%) RTP
7 1 (0.93%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.69%) Big Data
2 13 (12.15%) Cloudera CDH
2 13 (12.15%) Hadoop
3 10 (9.35%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (6.54%) Oracle Database
4 7 (6.54%) RDBMS
4 7 (6.54%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.80%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.87%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.93%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 33 (30.84%) GitLab
2 14 (13.08%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.41%) Git
4 4 (3.74%) Cypress.io
4 4 (3.74%) JIRA
4 4 (3.74%) Selenium
5 3 (2.80%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.80%) JDeveloper
General
1 13 (12.15%) Aerospace
1 13 (12.15%) Finance
1 13 (12.15%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.21%) Presentation Skills
3 11 (10.28%) Banking
3 11 (10.28%) Retail
4 9 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.54%) Publishing
6 4 (3.74%) Automotive
7 3 (2.80%) Marketing
8 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.87%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.87%) Law
9 1 (0.93%) Games
9 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (41.12%) Developer
2 27 (25.23%) Software Engineer
3 22 (20.56%) Lead
4 16 (14.95%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 15 (14.02%) Architect
6 14 (13.08%) Full Stack Developer
7 12 (11.21%) Software Developer
8 11 (10.28%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (10.28%) Technical Leader
9 10 (9.35%) Java Developer
10 8 (7.48%) Senior
11 7 (6.54%) Embedded Developer
11 7 (6.54%) Firmware Developer
11 7 (6.54%) Lead Developer
12 5 (4.67%) Senior Developer
13 4 (3.74%) Compiler Engineer
13 4 (3.74%) Digital Product Manager
13 4 (3.74%) Lead Architect
13 4 (3.74%) Lead Solutions Architect
13 4 (3.74%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (31.78%) React
2 29 (27.10%) Spring Boot
3 21 (19.63%) Spring
4 18 (16.82%) Node.js
5 17 (15.89%) RabbitMQ
6 15 (14.02%) AngularJS
7 13 (12.15%) gRPC
7 13 (12.15%) Material-UI
7 13 (12.15%) OpenAPI
7 13 (12.15%) REST
7 13 (12.15%) Swagger
8 7 (6.54%) Apache NiFi
9 5 (4.67%) Hibernate
9 5 (4.67%) Kafka
10 4 (3.74%) LLVM
11 3 (2.80%) RESTful
12 2 (1.87%) CSS
12 2 (1.87%) HTML
12 2 (1.87%) LDAP
12 2 (1.87%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (31.78%) Private Cloud
2 16 (14.95%) Cloud Native
3 10 (9.35%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (6.54%) CUDA
4 7 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.54%) GNSS
4 7 (6.54%) Public Cloud
4 7 (6.54%) Tandem
5 5 (4.67%) Blockchain
5 5 (4.67%) Robotics
6 4 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.74%) IoT
6 4 (3.74%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.80%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.80%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.87%) NHS
8 2 (1.87%) PropTech
9 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 31 (28.97%) Linux
2 17 (15.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (14.02%) Ubuntu
4 14 (13.08%) CentOS
4 14 (13.08%) Debian
5 10 (9.35%) Unix
6 9 (8.41%) Windows
7 2 (1.87%) Android
8 1 (0.93%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (75.70%) Agile
2 60 (56.07%) Software Engineering
3 38 (35.51%) DevOps
4 36 (33.64%) Continuous Integration
5 35 (32.71%) Containerisation
6 32 (29.91%) Kanban
6 32 (29.91%) Scrum
7 29 (27.10%) Full Stack Development
8 25 (23.36%) Actionable Insight
9 23 (21.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (21.50%) Microservices
10 22 (20.56%) Code Quality
10 22 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (19.63%) Collaborative Working
11 21 (19.63%) Requirements Analysis
12 20 (18.69%) API Development
13 17 (15.89%) CI/CD
14 15 (14.02%) Configuration Management
15 13 (12.15%) Progressive Web App
15 13 (12.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 74 (69.16%) Java
2 39 (36.45%) JavaScript
3 38 (35.51%) Python
4 27 (25.23%) TypeScript
5 12 (11.21%) C
6 10 (9.35%) Go
7 9 (8.41%) C++
8 5 (4.67%) Bash
8 5 (4.67%) SQL
9 3 (2.80%) Perl
9 3 (2.80%) Ruby
10 2 (1.87%) Bicep
10 2 (1.87%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 64 (59.81%) Security Cleared
2 46 (42.99%) SC Cleared
3 18 (16.82%) DV Cleared
4 14 (13.08%) Degree
5 4 (3.74%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.74%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.80%) QA
System Software
1 23 (21.50%) Docker
2 7 (6.54%) Embedded Firmware
2 7 (6.54%) Firmware
3 2 (1.87%) Shibboleth
4 1 (0.93%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 29 (27.10%) Kubernetes
2 24 (22.43%) Ansible
3 16 (14.95%) Terraform
4 13 (12.15%) Puppet
5 7 (6.54%) Kibana
6 6 (5.61%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (16.82%) Google
2 14 (13.08%) Red Hat
3 13 (12.15%) SaltStack
4 7 (6.54%) Oracle
5 4 (3.74%) Sparx
6 3 (2.80%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.93%) Cisco
7 1 (0.93%) Dialogic
7 1 (0.93%) ESRI
7 1 (0.93%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.93%) Ribbon