Open Source Job Trends in Darlington

Open Source
Durham > Darlington

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 13 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -10
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 2 5 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Darlington 7.41% 8.06% 4.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.53% 8.77% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £79,600 £72,250
90th Percentile - - £76,660
Durham median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% +4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Darlington

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 Darlington.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19 57 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Darlington 70.37% 91.94% 96.59%
Number of salaries quoted 9 27 68
10th Percentile - £42,250 £27,873
25th Percentile £25,087 £55,348 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £43,394
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +59.72% -8.64%
75th Percentile £78,790 £78,300 £55,313
90th Percentile £80,448 £80,000 £65,565
Durham median annual salary £40,000 £57,850 £47,500
% change year-on-year -30.86% +21.79% +17.28%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Darlington

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

Open Source job vacancy trend in Darlington

Open Source
Salary Trend in Darlington

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Darlington citing Open Source.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Darlington citing Open Source

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Darlington 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) dbt
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Pulumi
1 2 (100.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google