Open Source Jobs in the UK excluding London

Open Source
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 264 220
Rank change year-on-year +17 -44 -11
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 833 751 1,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.17% 1.25% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.31% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 497 339 607
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,300
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £67,500 £56,774
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% +18.89% +3.23%
75th Percentile £80,001 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,622 57,306 66,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.99% 95.62% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 41,241 29,485 41,027
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
North of England +51 239 £61,206 +2.01% 39
Scotland +24 158 £75,000 +8.00% 13
North West +21 155 £60,603 -3.04% 17
South East +5 144 £45,000 -35.71% 31
South West -23 113 £63,750 -8.93% 29
Midlands -24 79 £61,206 -12.56% 27
Yorkshire +80 64 £61,206 +28.85% 16
East of England +17 50 £80,001 +39.13% 16
West Midlands -11 50 £61,206 -12.56% 19
East Midlands -13 29 £75,000 -6.25% 8
Northern Ireland +34 26 £75,400 - 4
Wales -1 24 £75,000 -36.33% 4
North East -14 20 £61,206 +28.39% 6
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 120 (14.41%) Apache Spark
2 42 (5.04%) Apache
3 40 (4.80%) WebLogic
4 15 (1.80%) Confluence
5 11 (1.32%) nginx
5 11 (1.32%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.60%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.48%) IIS
9 2 (0.24%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) Kinematics
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 48 (5.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 40 (4.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (0.96%) Shopify
3 6 (0.72%) Magento
4 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 341 (40.94%) AWS
2 252 (30.25%) Azure
3 72 (8.64%) Serverless
4 66 (7.92%) Amazon EKS
5 65 (7.80%) GCP
6 40 (4.80%) Amazon SQS
7 39 (4.68%) OpenShift
8 37 (4.44%) SaaS
9 33 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
10 32 (3.84%) AWS CloudFormation
11 28 (3.36%) GitHub
12 15 (1.80%) dbt
13 12 (1.44%) Google Analytics
14 11 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (0.96%) IaaS
16 7 (0.84%) Contentful
16 7 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (0.84%) Google Tag Manager
16 7 (0.84%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 70 (8.40%) DNS
2 63 (7.56%) TCP/IP
3 40 (4.80%) BGP
3 40 (4.80%) SSL
4 33 (3.96%) Firewall
5 26 (3.12%) AMQP
6 18 (2.16%) Internet
7 14 (1.68%) HTTP
8 8 (0.96%) SMTP
9 7 (0.84%) LAN
9 7 (0.84%) WAN
10 6 (0.72%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.36%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.36%) VoIP
12 2 (0.24%) DHCP
12 2 (0.24%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.24%) NGN
12 2 (0.24%) PBX
12 2 (0.24%) RTP
12 2 (0.24%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (17.05%) NoSQL
2 99 (11.88%) Relational Database
3 86 (10.32%) Apache Hive
3 86 (10.32%) Big Data
3 86 (10.32%) Hadoop
3 86 (10.32%) HBase
4 76 (9.12%) RDBMS
5 71 (8.52%) Oracle Database
6 47 (5.64%) Amazon RDS
7 46 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (4.32%) MySQL
9 26 (3.12%) Cloudera CDH
10 20 (2.40%) SQL Server
11 13 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (1.20%) MongoDB
14 9 (1.08%) MariaDB
14 9 (1.08%) SQLite
15 6 (0.72%) Redis
15 6 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 186 (22.33%) Git
2 136 (16.33%) Jenkins
3 86 (10.32%) Bitbucket Server
3 86 (10.32%) GitLab
4 30 (3.60%) JDeveloper
5 18 (2.16%) JIRA
6 15 (1.80%) Cypress.io
7 10 (1.20%) GNU Toolchain
7 10 (1.20%) Selenium
7 10 (1.20%) Subversion
8 7 (0.84%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.84%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.72%) CircleCI
9 6 (0.72%) MSTest
9 6 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
9 6 (0.72%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.60%) Appium
10 5 (0.60%) Clang
11 4 (0.48%) Burp Suite
General
1 253 (30.37%) Social Skills
2 151 (18.13%) Finance
3 122 (14.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 100 (12.00%) Law
5 77 (9.24%) Legal
6 48 (5.76%) Public Sector
7 35 (4.20%) Marketing
8 33 (3.96%) Banking
9 32 (3.84%) Retail
10 31 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
11 28 (3.36%) Aerospace
12 22 (2.64%) Automotive
13 21 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (2.16%) Games
15 14 (1.68%) Military
16 8 (0.96%) Multimedia
17 7 (0.84%) Electronics
17 7 (0.84%) Publishing
18 6 (0.72%) Health Technology
19 4 (0.48%) Police
Job Titles
1 252 (30.25%) Software Engineer
2 219 (26.29%) Developer
3 148 (17.77%) Architect
4 144 (17.29%) Lead
5 137 (16.45%) Senior
6 91 (10.92%) Solutions Architect
7 72 (8.64%) AWS Engineer
8 68 (8.16%) AWS Software Engineer
8 68 (8.16%) Technical Leader
9 61 (7.32%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 60 (7.20%) Database Developer
11 56 (6.72%) Database Engineer
12 41 (4.92%) Full Stack Developer
12 41 (4.92%) Lead Architect
13 40 (4.80%) Lead Solutions Architect
14 38 (4.56%) AWS Developer
14 38 (4.56%) Senior Architect
15 37 (4.44%) AWS Database Engineer
16 36 (4.32%) Senior Developer
17 35 (4.20%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (17.65%) React
2 145 (17.41%) Node.js
3 95 (11.40%) Spring Boot
4 66 (7.92%) RabbitMQ
5 64 (7.68%) REST
6 59 (7.08%) AngularJS
7 54 (6.48%) Spring
8 36 (4.32%) Swagger
9 34 (4.08%) HTML
10 31 (3.72%) CSS
11 28 (3.36%) Express.js
12 26 (3.12%) gRPC
12 26 (3.12%) Material-UI
12 26 (3.12%) OpenAPI
13 21 (2.52%) Kafka
14 20 (2.40%) SAML
15 18 (2.16%) Django
15 18 (2.16%) OAuth
15 18 (2.16%) OpenID
15 18 (2.16%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 114 (13.69%) Algorithms
2 88 (10.56%) Public Cloud
3 85 (10.20%) Private Cloud
4 70 (8.40%) Management Information System
5 66 (7.92%) Self-Motivation
6 46 (5.52%) Enterprise Software
7 45 (5.40%) Cloud Native
8 31 (3.72%) Embedded Systems
9 26 (3.12%) IoT
10 25 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
11 21 (2.52%) Blockchain
12 16 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (1.92%) Product Ownership
13 15 (1.80%) Mobile App
14 14 (1.68%) Data Structures
14 14 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
15 12 (1.44%) Device Driver
15 12 (1.44%) NHS
16 11 (1.32%) Robotics
16 11 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 240 (28.81%) Linux
2 136 (16.33%) Unix
3 79 (9.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 47 (5.64%) Windows
5 38 (4.56%) CentOS
6 35 (4.20%) Ubuntu
7 31 (3.72%) Debian
8 16 (1.92%) Embedded Linux
9 14 (1.68%) Mac OS X
10 9 (1.08%) Android
11 7 (0.84%) Windows Server
12 6 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.60%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.12%) Rocky
15 1 (0.12%) Solaris
15 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 492 (59.06%) Agile
2 381 (45.74%) Software Engineering
3 222 (26.65%) DevOps
4 200 (24.01%) Microservices
5 198 (23.77%) CI/CD
6 195 (23.41%) Problem-Solving
7 187 (22.45%) Actionable Insight
8 168 (20.17%) Mentoring
9 165 (19.81%) Continuous Integration
10 152 (18.25%) Coaching
10 152 (18.25%) SDLC
11 145 (17.41%) Test Automation
12 141 (16.93%) Scrum
13 135 (16.21%) Containerisation
14 133 (15.97%) Artificial Intelligence
15 128 (15.37%) Kanban
16 123 (14.77%) Collaborative Working
17 120 (14.41%) TDD
18 114 (13.69%) Machine Learning
19 112 (13.45%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 329 (39.50%) Python
2 302 (36.25%) Java
3 167 (20.05%) JavaScript
4 139 (16.69%) SQL
5 111 (13.33%) C
6 87 (10.44%) TypeScript
7 86 (10.32%) PL/SQL
8 83 (9.96%) Bash
9 69 (8.28%) C++
10 43 (5.16%) Go
11 41 (4.92%) Perl
12 38 (4.56%) Ruby
13 29 (3.48%) COBOL
13 29 (3.48%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 25 (3.00%) C#
15 24 (2.88%) Rust
16 20 (2.40%) Embedded C
17 18 (2.16%) PHP
18 13 (1.56%) Fortran
19 12 (1.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 239 (28.69%) Security Cleared
2 182 (21.85%) SC Cleared
3 149 (17.89%) Degree
4 52 (6.24%) Azure Certification
5 43 (5.16%) AWS Certification
6 40 (4.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 36 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (4.08%) DV Cleared
9 24 (2.88%) Master's Degree
10 18 (2.16%) PhD
11 15 (1.80%) GCIA
11 15 (1.80%) GCIH
11 15 (1.80%) GREM
12 14 (1.68%) CISM
12 14 (1.68%) CISSP
13 2 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.24%) CREST Certified
13 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.12%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.64%) PMO
2 46 (5.52%) QA
3 11 (1.32%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.72%) GDPR
4 6 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.72%) JTAG
5 5 (0.60%) NIST
6 4 (0.48%) SEPA
7 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 93 (11.16%) Docker
2 86 (10.32%) HDFS
3 21 (2.52%) Firmware
4 19 (2.28%) Virtual Servers
5 10 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (1.08%) Active Directory
6 9 (1.08%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (0.72%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 3 (0.36%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.36%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.24%) KVM
10 2 (0.24%) QEMU
10 2 (0.24%) Shibboleth
10 2 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.24%) vSphere
10 2 (0.24%) Xen
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 149 (17.89%) Terraform
2 106 (12.73%) Kubernetes
3 72 (8.64%) Ansible
4 39 (4.68%) Puppet
5 25 (3.00%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.84%) Grafana
6 7 (0.84%) Kibana
7 5 (0.60%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.60%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.24%) Podman
9 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.12%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 88 (10.56%) Databricks
2 86 (10.32%) Informatica
3 76 (9.12%) Oracle
4 58 (6.96%) Google
5 56 (6.72%) Cloudera
6 41 (4.92%) Microsoft
7 40 (4.80%) Sparx
8 30 (3.60%) Red Hat
9 29 (3.48%) Micro Focus
10 26 (3.12%) SaltStack
11 14 (1.68%) Dell
12 11 (1.32%) VMware
13 8 (0.96%) Cisco
14 7 (0.84%) Apple
15 6 (0.72%) ESRI
15 6 (0.72%) F5
15 6 (0.72%) Juniper
16 5 (0.60%) Fortinet
16 5 (0.60%) Teradata
17 4 (0.48%) Splunk