Open Source Job Trends in Belfast

Open Source
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Open Source skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 42 38
Rank change year-on-year +12 -4 +45
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 2 10 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 0.68% 2.51% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 3.01% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £69,066 - £54,810
25th Percentile £69,447 £64,471 £58,275
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,316 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.23% +6.63% +3.17%
75th Percentile £78,670 £76,685 £78,750
90th Percentile £78,742 £78,209 £81,000
County Antrim median annual salary £74,316 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.23% +6.63% +3.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

Open Source falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 236 332 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 79.73% 83.21% 92.19%
Number of salaries quoted 132 166 184
10th Percentile £30,000 £39,695 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,000 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +30.00% -
75th Percentile £69,063 £80,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £86,125 £95,000 £78,375
County Antrim median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +30.00% -

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Open Source relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Open Source job vacancy trend in Belfast

Open Source
Salary Trend in Belfast

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Open Source.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Open Source

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (50.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Django
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google