Open Source Jobs in the East of England

Open Source
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Open Source skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Open Source over the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 171 155
Rank change year-on-year -5 -16 -36
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 12 47 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.31% 0.73% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.94% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5 33 19
10th Percentile £46,000 £48,750 £49,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,001 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +39.13% +15.00%
75th Percentile £121,250 £100,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £135,500 £130,000 £74,000
England median annual salary £73,000 £65,465 £75,000
% change year-on-year +11.51% -12.71% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,460 5,009 3,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 90.53% 77.36% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,689 3,687 1,909
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £33,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,760 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.38% -12.00% +4.17%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the East of England

Open Source
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the East of England.

Salary trend for Open Source in the East of England

Open Source
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Open Source in the East of England

Open Source
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the East of England region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
Cambridgeshire +11 12 £90,000 +12.50% 32
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Bluetooth
1 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GDB
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) KGDB
General
1 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) German Language
4 1 (8.33%) Electronics
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Junior
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Firmware Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Firmware Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Node.js
1 2 (16.67%) Yocto
2 1 (8.33%) OpenEmbedded
2 1 (8.33%) POSIX
2 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Team
3 1 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Analytical Thinking
2 5 (41.67%) Generative AI
2 5 (41.67%) LLM
3 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 2 (16.67%) Linux Kernel Development
4 2 (16.67%) Mathematics
4 2 (16.67%) Physics
4 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
5 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (8.33%) Code Quality
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (8.33%) Issue Tracking
5 1 (8.33%) Key Management
5 1 (8.33%) Product Requirements
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) C
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) JTAG
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Firmware
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft