Open Source Jobs with Work from Home Options

Open Source
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 164 115
Rank change year-on-year -25 -49 +37
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 584 920 2,347
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.73% 2.24% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 2.33% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 387 519 738
10th Percentile £42,650 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £84,964 £89,852 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £97,290
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,884 39,545 66,696
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.37% 96.08% 96.99%
Number of salaries quoted 23,455 27,516 41,159
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Open Source
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Open Source trend for jobs with a WFH option

Open Source
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Open Source.

Open Source salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Open Source
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Open Source over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Open Source salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 46 (7.88%) WebLogic
2 19 (3.25%) Apache
3 11 (1.88%) IIS
4 10 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.37%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.03%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.86%) Confluence
8 2 (0.34%) CMS
8 2 (0.34%) Drupal
9 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 46 (7.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 228 (39.04%) AWS
2 220 (37.67%) Azure
3 48 (8.22%) Serverless
4 46 (7.88%) Amazon EKS
4 46 (7.88%) Amazon SQS
5 35 (5.99%) SaaS
6 31 (5.31%) GCP
7 27 (4.62%) GitHub
8 16 (2.74%) dbt
8 16 (2.74%) OpenShift
9 12 (2.05%) IaaS
10 9 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (1.37%) PaaS
11 8 (1.37%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.86%) Amazon S3
13 5 (0.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 65 (11.13%) DNS
2 56 (9.59%) TCP/IP
3 46 (7.88%) BGP
3 46 (7.88%) SSL
4 18 (3.08%) Firewall
5 9 (1.54%) Internet
6 4 (0.68%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.51%) HTTP
7 3 (0.51%) VoIP
8 2 (0.34%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.34%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.34%) Network Security
8 2 (0.34%) NGN
8 2 (0.34%) PBX
8 2 (0.34%) RTP
8 2 (0.34%) VSAN
9 1 (0.17%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (19.01%) Relational Database
2 90 (15.41%) RDBMS
3 82 (14.04%) Oracle Database
4 54 (9.25%) Amazon RDS
5 48 (8.22%) NoSQL
6 20 (3.42%) Big Data
6 20 (3.42%) SQL Server
7 18 (3.08%) MySQL
7 18 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.20%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.20%) Power BI
11 7 (1.20%) Tableau
12 6 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.03%) SQLite
13 5 (0.86%) Airbyte
13 5 (0.86%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.86%) Looker
Development Applications
1 75 (12.84%) GitLab
2 61 (10.45%) Git
3 36 (6.16%) JDeveloper
4 22 (3.77%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.54%) JIRA
6 8 (1.37%) Selenium
7 7 (1.20%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.86%) Clang
9 4 (0.68%) Charles Proxy
9 4 (0.68%) Snakemake
10 3 (0.51%) Appium
10 3 (0.51%) Burp Suite
10 3 (0.51%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.51%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.51%) JMeter
10 3 (0.51%) Metasploit
10 3 (0.51%) sqlmap
10 3 (0.51%) webpack
11 2 (0.34%) Phabricator
11 2 (0.34%) Vagrant
General
1 176 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 48 (8.22%) Finance
3 37 (6.34%) Public Sector
4 26 (4.45%) Banking
5 25 (4.28%) Retail
6 23 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.91%) Games
8 15 (2.57%) Automotive
8 15 (2.57%) Marketing
9 14 (2.40%) Military
10 12 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (1.37%) Multimedia
12 7 (1.20%) Publishing
13 6 (1.03%) Legal
14 3 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.34%) Advertising
15 2 (0.34%) Law
15 2 (0.34%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 150 (25.68%) Architect
2 141 (24.14%) Lead
3 139 (23.80%) Developer
4 107 (18.32%) Senior
5 103 (17.64%) Software Engineer
6 95 (16.27%) Solutions Architect
7 68 (11.64%) Technical Leader
8 47 (8.05%) Lead Architect
9 46 (7.88%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 38 (6.51%) Full Stack Developer
10 38 (6.51%) Senior Architect
11 36 (6.16%) Ruby Engineer
11 36 (6.16%) Senior Developer
12 32 (5.48%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 30 (5.14%) Technical Architect
14 28 (4.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 28 (4.79%) Senior Front-End Developer
15 22 (3.77%) Analyst
16 16 (2.74%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
17 15 (2.57%) Compiler Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (20.38%) React
2 97 (16.61%) Node.js
3 69 (11.82%) Spring Boot
4 46 (7.88%) RabbitMQ
5 34 (5.82%) AngularJS
6 29 (4.97%) Express.js
7 26 (4.45%) HTML
8 24 (4.11%) Django
9 23 (3.94%) CSS
9 23 (3.94%) REST
10 22 (3.77%) Spring
11 16 (2.74%) Kafka
11 16 (2.74%) SAML
12 15 (2.57%) .NET
12 15 (2.57%) LLVM
12 15 (2.57%) OAuth
12 15 (2.57%) OpenID
13 13 (2.23%) JSON
13 13 (2.23%) RESTful
14 12 (2.05%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 89 (15.24%) Public Cloud
2 82 (14.04%) Private Cloud
3 48 (8.22%) Enterprise Software
4 28 (4.79%) Cloud Native
5 18 (3.08%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.74%) Embedded Systems
7 15 (2.57%) Data Structures
7 15 (2.57%) IoT
8 14 (2.40%) Algorithms
8 14 (2.40%) Blockchain
9 12 (2.05%) NHS
10 11 (1.88%) RISC-V
11 10 (1.71%) Blog
11 10 (1.71%) Client/Server
11 10 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.71%) Life Science
11 10 (1.71%) Virtual Reality
12 9 (1.54%) Robotics
13 8 (1.37%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 157 (26.88%) Linux
2 52 (8.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 26 (4.45%) Unix
3 26 (4.45%) Windows
4 14 (2.40%) Mac OS X
4 14 (2.40%) Ubuntu
5 12 (2.05%) Android
5 12 (2.05%) Debian
6 7 (1.20%) Embedded Linux
7 6 (1.03%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.86%) CentOS
9 2 (0.34%) Solaris
9 2 (0.34%) VMS
9 2 (0.34%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.17%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (59.59%) Agile
2 216 (36.99%) Software Engineering
3 205 (35.10%) DevOps
4 147 (25.17%) Continuous Integration
5 126 (21.58%) Actionable Insight
6 122 (20.89%) Mentoring
7 118 (20.21%) Microservices
8 111 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
9 110 (18.84%) Scrum
10 103 (17.64%) Kanban
11 102 (17.47%) Coaching
12 101 (17.29%) Full Stack Development
13 96 (16.44%) Containerisation
14 81 (13.87%) Code Quality
15 78 (13.36%) Design Patterns
16 75 (12.84%) Re-Platforming
17 70 (11.99%) Project Management
18 67 (11.47%) CI/CD
19 61 (10.45%) Collaborative Working
19 61 (10.45%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 194 (33.22%) Java
2 173 (29.62%) Python
3 139 (23.80%) JavaScript
4 84 (14.38%) C
5 83 (14.21%) TypeScript
6 64 (10.96%) Go
7 62 (10.62%) Bash
8 46 (7.88%) Ruby
9 45 (7.71%) SQL
10 40 (6.85%) C++
11 36 (6.16%) Perl
12 29 (4.97%) COBOL
12 29 (4.97%) Micro Focus COBOL
13 23 (3.94%) PHP
14 18 (3.08%) Rust
15 17 (2.91%) C#
15 17 (2.91%) PowerShell
16 16 (2.74%) Embedded C
17 12 (2.05%) T-SQL
18 9 (1.54%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 201 (34.42%) Security Cleared
2 156 (26.71%) SC Cleared
3 119 (20.38%) Degree
4 60 (10.27%) Azure Certification
5 51 (8.73%) AWS Certification
6 48 (8.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 23 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (3.25%) Master's Degree
9 14 (2.40%) CISM
9 14 (2.40%) CISSP
9 14 (2.40%) GCIA
9 14 (2.40%) GCIH
9 14 (2.40%) GREM
10 10 (1.71%) PhD
11 6 (1.03%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.34%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (7.19%) QA
2 6 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.86%) NIST
4 4 (0.68%) SEPA
5 2 (0.34%) GDPR
5 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (11.99%) Docker
2 16 (2.74%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.51%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.34%) vSphere
6 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.17%) Firmware
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.17%) Postfix
6 1 (0.17%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 69 (11.82%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.19%) Ansible
3 33 (5.65%) Terraform
4 17 (2.91%) Progress Chef
5 7 (1.20%) Kibana
6 6 (1.03%) Grafana
7 4 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.68%) Puppet
8 3 (0.51%) Podman
9 2 (0.34%) Marathon
9 2 (0.34%) Mesos
10 1 (0.17%) Consul
10 1 (0.17%) Packer
10 1 (0.17%) Salt
Vendors
1 83 (14.21%) Oracle
2 46 (7.88%) Sparx
3 29 (4.97%) Micro Focus
3 29 (4.97%) Microsoft
4 17 (2.91%) Google
5 14 (2.40%) Dell
6 5 (0.86%) Teradata
7 4 (0.68%) Splunk
7 4 (0.68%) VMware
8 3 (0.51%) Cisco
8 3 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (0.51%) Dialogic
8 3 (0.51%) Ribbon
9 2 (0.34%) Databricks
9 2 (0.34%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.34%) Remedy
10 1 (0.17%) ESRI
10 1 (0.17%) Juniper