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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 107 91
Rank change year-on-year +16 -16 +7
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 8 19 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.64% 0.87% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.05% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 8 15 10
10th Percentile £53,875 £58,938 £54,101
25th Percentile £65,359 £63,485 £59,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.57%
75th Percentile £74,890 £76,685 £91,934
90th Percentile £78,455 £79,450 £91,991
West Midlands median annual salary £72,500 £69,308 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.61% -0.99% -

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 1,088 1,808 1,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.32% 83.20% 93.71%
Number of salaries quoted 755 890 953
10th Percentile £31,500 £35,000 £31,552
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,435 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% +5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,480 £90,000 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Open Source in Birmingham

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon S3
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (50.00%) AWS KMS
3 4 (50.00%) Route 53
4 3 (37.50%) Azure
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (12.50%) dbt
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) PaaS
5 1 (12.50%) Pulumi
5 1 (12.50%) Sentry
5 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (62.50%) DynamoDB
2 5 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (50.00%) DbUnit
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
1 4 (50.00%) jMock
1 4 (50.00%) JUnit
1 4 (50.00%) Maven
1 4 (50.00%) Mockito
1 4 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Lead
1 4 (50.00%) Lead Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Lead Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) AngularJS
1 5 (62.50%) RESTful
1 5 (62.50%) Web Services
2 4 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (50.00%) Bootstrap
2 4 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (50.00%) JPA
2 4 (50.00%) PowerMock
2 4 (50.00%) SOAP
2 4 (50.00%) Spring
2 4 (50.00%) Spring Batch
2 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (50.00%) Spring Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Django
3 2 (25.00%) React
4 1 (12.50%) Node.js
4 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) BDD
2 5 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (62.50%) Microservices
2 5 (62.50%) TDD
2 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
3 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) Kanban
3 4 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) ATDD
6 1 (12.50%) Coaching
6 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (12.50%) DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) Exploratory Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Non-Functional Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Operational Acceptance Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) Google