Open Source Job Trends in England

Open Source
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Open Source skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 388 258
Rank change year-on-year -46 -130 -31
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 321 281 844
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.65% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.72% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 253 183 589
10th Percentile £46,939 £48,300 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,875 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +15.38% -10.34%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £127,000 £137,500 £96,500
UK median annual salary £78,502 £73,159 £65,465
% change year-on-year +7.30% +11.75% -9.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 65,772 38,931 65,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.80% 89.97% 81.95%
Number of salaries quoted 46,496 22,437 45,318
10th Percentile £31,037 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Open Source job vacancy trend in England

Open Source
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Open Source.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Open Source

Open Source
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in England over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Open Source in England

Open Source
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 24 July 2026. 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
London -38 134 £92,500 -7.50% 224
North of England -7 72 £75,000 +15.38% 25
South West -24 43 £90,000 +50.00% 17
South East -31 42 £62,500 -13.79% 31
North West +10 41 £75,000 +9.48% 13
Yorkshire -23 18 £80,000 +63.27% 7
Midlands -31 14 £74,742 +3.09% 6
West Midlands -31 13 £74,830 +3.21% 4
North East -41 13 £74,830 +42.53% 5
East of England -15 8 £135,500 +33.83% 17
East Midlands - 1 £39,194 - 2
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (4.36%) Apache
2 10 (3.12%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.56%) WordPress
4 4 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.25%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.93%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.93%) JBoss
5 3 (0.93%) nginx
6 2 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.62%) Camunda
7 1 (0.31%) Appian
7 1 (0.31%) CMS
7 1 (0.31%) Confluence
7 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.31%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (0.31%) InDesign
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.31%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Line 50
2 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 142 (44.24%) AWS
2 89 (27.73%) Azure
3 38 (11.84%) GCP
4 36 (11.21%) GitHub
5 27 (8.41%) Serverless
6 23 (7.17%) Anthropic Claude
7 18 (5.61%) GitHub Copilot
8 16 (4.98%) OpenShift
9 15 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.36%) dbt
11 13 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (3.74%) SaaS
13 11 (3.43%) Amazon S3
14 9 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (2.49%) Amazon MSK
15 8 (2.49%) PaaS
16 7 (2.18%) Amazon EMR
16 7 (2.18%) Power Platform
17 6 (1.87%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.49%) VoIP
2 7 (2.18%) AMQP
3 6 (1.87%) Network Security
4 5 (1.56%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.25%) HTTP
5 4 (1.25%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (1.25%) SSL
6 3 (0.93%) Firewall
7 2 (0.62%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.62%) DNS
7 2 (0.62%) LAN
7 2 (0.62%) MQTT
7 2 (0.62%) RTP
7 2 (0.62%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.62%) WAN
7 2 (0.62%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.31%) DHCP
8 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.31%) SMTP
8 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (13.08%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (12.15%) MySQL
2 39 (12.15%) NoSQL
3 33 (10.28%) MongoDB
4 16 (4.98%) Big Data
5 11 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (3.43%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.12%) Redis
7 7 (2.18%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (2.18%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.18%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.18%) Metadata
8 6 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.56%) Neo4j
9 5 (1.56%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.25%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.25%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 20 (6.23%) Claude Code
2 19 (5.92%) Git
3 12 (3.74%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.18%) GitLab
4 7 (2.18%) Selenium
5 6 (1.87%) JIRA
6 5 (1.56%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.62%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.62%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.62%) Maven
7 2 (0.62%) Subversion
8 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.31%) CMake
8 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.31%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.31%) Eclipse RCP
8 1 (0.31%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.31%) Valgrind
8 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 72 (22.43%) Social Skills
2 50 (15.58%) Finance
3 40 (12.46%) Public Sector
4 34 (10.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (6.23%) Banking
7 15 (4.67%) Law
7 15 (4.67%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.80%) Legal
9 8 (2.49%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.87%) Advertising
10 6 (1.87%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.56%) Back Office
11 5 (1.56%) Front Office
11 5 (1.56%) Marketing
11 5 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.93%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.62%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 97 (30.22%) Software Engineer
2 63 (19.63%) Senior
3 62 (19.31%) Lead
4 44 (13.71%) Architect
5 36 (11.21%) Developer
6 31 (9.66%) Lead Software Engineer
7 23 (7.17%) Principal Engineer
8 20 (6.23%) Cloud Architect
8 20 (6.23%) Senior Software Engineer
9 19 (5.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 14 (4.36%) Java Engineer
10 14 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (3.74%) Data Engineer
11 12 (3.74%) Principal Software Engineer
12 11 (3.43%) Consultant
13 10 (3.12%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (2.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 8 (2.49%) DevOps Engineer
15 8 (2.49%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (12.77%) Node.js
2 29 (9.03%) Kafka
2 29 (9.03%) RESTful
3 25 (7.79%) React
4 23 (7.17%) REST
5 16 (4.98%) Spring
6 14 (4.36%) Spring Boot
7 11 (3.43%) .NET
7 11 (3.43%) HTML
7 11 (3.43%) RabbitMQ
8 10 (3.12%) CSS
8 10 (3.12%) PyTorch
9 9 (2.80%) FastAPI
9 9 (2.80%) Flask
9 9 (2.80%) LangChain
10 8 (2.49%) Django
10 8 (2.49%) NumPy
10 8 (2.49%) OAuth
10 8 (2.49%) Pandas
10 8 (2.49%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 51 (15.89%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.85%) Public Cloud
3 20 (6.23%) Onboarding
4 18 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.74%) Distributed Computing
6 10 (3.12%) AI Agents
7 9 (2.80%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.49%) Algorithms
8 8 (2.49%) Security Posture
9 7 (2.18%) Blog
9 7 (2.18%) Robotics
10 6 (1.87%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.87%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.56%) Mobile Payment
11 5 (1.56%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.25%) Autonomous Agent
12 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.25%) Hackathon
12 4 (1.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.90%) Linux
2 12 (3.74%) Windows
3 10 (3.12%) Debian
4 8 (2.49%) Ubuntu
4 8 (2.49%) Unix
5 5 (1.56%) CentOS
5 5 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.25%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.93%) Android
7 3 (0.93%) Gentoo
8 2 (0.62%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.31%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.31%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (49.84%) Software Engineering
2 103 (32.09%) Agile
3 94 (29.28%) AI
4 83 (25.86%) Microservices
5 81 (25.23%) CI/CD
6 77 (23.99%) DevOps
7 74 (23.05%) Mentoring
8 51 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (15.89%) TDD
9 47 (14.64%) Roadmaps
10 45 (14.02%) Test Automation
11 44 (13.71%) Containerisation
12 40 (12.46%) LLM
13 38 (11.84%) Machine Learning
14 35 (10.90%) Infrastructure as Code
15 34 (10.59%) Coaching
16 31 (9.66%) Analytics
16 31 (9.66%) Migration
17 30 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
17 30 (9.35%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 105 (32.71%) Python
2 81 (25.23%) Java
3 47 (14.64%) JavaScript
4 46 (14.33%) SQL
5 26 (8.10%) C++
6 19 (5.92%) TypeScript
7 16 (4.98%) C
8 15 (4.67%) Go
9 14 (4.36%) Bash
9 14 (4.36%) PHP
10 11 (3.43%) Rust
10 11 (3.43%) Scala
11 8 (2.49%) C#
11 8 (2.49%) Ruby
12 7 (2.18%) Clojure
12 7 (2.18%) Erlang
13 4 (1.25%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.93%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.93%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.31%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 80 (24.92%) Security Cleared
2 48 (14.95%) SC Cleared
3 46 (14.33%) Degree
4 34 (10.59%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.74%) PhD
6 8 (2.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 7 (2.18%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.25%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.62%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.62%) CISSP
10 1 (0.31%) CISM
10 1 (0.31%) GIAC
10 1 (0.31%) GSEC
10 1 (0.31%) HNC
10 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.31%) RHCE
10 1 (0.31%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.61%) QA
2 15 (4.67%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.56%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.25%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.25%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.93%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.62%) NIST
6 2 (0.62%) SLA
6 2 (0.62%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.31%) MiFID
7 1 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 43 (13.40%) Docker
2 10 (3.12%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.93%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.93%) KVM
4 3 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.62%) Firmware
5 2 (0.62%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.62%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.31%) QEMU
6 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.31%) vSphere
6 1 (0.31%) Xen
Systems Management
1 49 (15.26%) Kubernetes
2 42 (13.08%) Terraform
3 16 (4.98%) Ansible
4 8 (2.49%) Istio
5 7 (2.18%) Puppet
6 4 (1.25%) Argo
6 4 (1.25%) Podman
7 3 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.93%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (0.93%) Nagios
7 3 (0.93%) Packer
7 3 (0.93%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.62%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.31%) Grafana
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.31%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 25 (7.79%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.85%) Google
3 20 (6.23%) OpenAI
4 9 (2.80%) Oracle
4 9 (2.80%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.49%) Confluent
6 5 (1.56%) Adobe
6 5 (1.56%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.56%) Splunk
6 5 (1.56%) VMware
7 4 (1.25%) Apple
7 4 (1.25%) Sage
7 4 (1.25%) SaltStack
8 3 (0.93%) Databricks
8 3 (0.93%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.93%) New Relic
9 2 (0.62%) BT
9 2 (0.62%) Cisco
9 2 (0.62%) Mitel
9 2 (0.62%) TIBCO