Open Source Development Job Trends in Central London

Open Source Software Development
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Open Source Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 - 182
Rank change year-on-year - - +127
Permanent jobs citing Open Source Development 2 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.11% - 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £107,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.43%
75th Percentile £122,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median annual salary £115,000 £100,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% +29.03% +6.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Open Source Development 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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,783 3,005 3,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 95.96% 93.91% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,444 1,940 2,926
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £74,250 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +3.45%

Open Source Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Open Source Development job vacancy trend in Central London

Open Source Development
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Open Source Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Open Source Development

Open Source Development
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source Development within the Central London region over the 6 months to 24 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London - 2 £115,000 - 3
Open Source Development
London

Open Source Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Blockchain Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Rust Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blockchain
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Rust