Open Source Jobs in Birmingham

Open Source
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Open Source skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Open Source over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 118 106
Rank change year-on-year +21 -12 +33
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 7 33 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.53% 1.07% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 1.37% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 7 30 27
10th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £51,815 £52,860 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £79,506 £81,250
90th Percentile - £84,964 £92,500
West Midlands median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +17.65%

All Process and 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 1,224 2,405 1,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 93.44% 77.86% 97.05%
Number of salaries quoted 717 1,861 1,298
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,315
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,531
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,332
Median % change year-on-year - -4.07% +4.24%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £81,250
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Birmingham

Open Source
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Open Source in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Open Source in Birmingham

Open Source
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Birmingham over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Open Source in Birmingham

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 4 (57.14%) Confluence
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon SQS
2 4 (57.14%) AWS KMS
2 4 (57.14%) Route 53
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (14.29%) dbt
5 1 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) Pulumi
5 1 (14.29%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (57.14%) DynamoDB
3 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (57.14%) DbUnit
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
1 4 (57.14%) jMock
1 4 (57.14%) JUnit
1 4 (57.14%) Maven
1 4 (57.14%) Mockito
1 4 (57.14%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Lead
1 4 (57.14%) Lead Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Lead Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Field Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Field Service Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (57.14%) AngularJS
1 4 (57.14%) Bootstrap
1 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
1 4 (57.14%) JPA
1 4 (57.14%) PowerMock
1 4 (57.14%) RESTful
1 4 (57.14%) SOAP
1 4 (57.14%) Spring
1 4 (57.14%) Spring Batch
1 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
1 4 (57.14%) Spring Integration
1 4 (57.14%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Driving Licence
3 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) BDD
2 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
2 4 (57.14%) Kanban
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) TDD
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Prototyping
3 1 (14.29%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Atlassian
2 2 (28.57%) Apple
2 2 (28.57%) Citrix
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Google