Open Source Development Job Trends in the City of London

Open Source Software Development
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Open Source Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 - 175
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Open Source Development 2 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.13% - 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £107,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 - £55,000
75th Percentile £122,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £115,000 - £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -21.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,517 2,602 2,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.01% 93.83% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,236 1,709 2,681
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.35% -1.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £116,250
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -

Open Source Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Open Source Development job vacancy trend in the City of London

Open Source Development
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Open Source Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Open Source Development

Open Source Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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