Open Source Job Trends in Devon

Open Source
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Devon requiring Open Source skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 57 61
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 1 11 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 0.24% 1.41% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 2.07% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £90,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £72,500 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.00% -10.71% +27.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 367 532 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 88.22% 68.29% 96.85%
Number of salaries quoted 258 330 356
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,598 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £30,431
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +5.88% -1.10%
75th Percentile £48,750 £60,073 £54,050
90th Percentile £67,545 £68,750 £66,750
South West median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Devon

Open Source
Salary Trend in Devon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Open Source.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Open Source

Open Source
Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the Devon region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Plymouth - 1 £77,500 - 1
Open Source
South West

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Weaviate
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Faiss
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CUDA
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NVIDIA