Open Source Job Trends in Birmingham

Open Source
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Open Source skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 95 115
Rank change year-on-year -14 +20 -15
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 3 7 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.098% 0.62% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.65% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 31
10th Percentile - £40,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £79,400 £51,815 £54,177
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,774 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.55% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £88,148 £73,750 £79,413
90th Percentile - - £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £28,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -60.69% +3.57% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,265 1,072 2,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 73.85% 94.62% 77.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,773 693 1,878
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,350
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,987 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Open Source job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Open Source
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Open Source.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Open Source

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
1 3 (100.00%) Lead Software Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Node.js
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Coaching
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL