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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 395 254
Rank change year-on-year -31 -141 -25
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 329 277 821
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.64% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.71% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 258 179 569
10th Percentile £46,939 £48,200 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,125 £61,250 £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 £125,750 £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 66,240 39,044 63,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.89% 89.88% 81.85%
Number of salaries quoted 46,785 22,556 43,778
10th Percentile £31,175 £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% -11.29%
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% - -8.33%

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 26 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 26 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 -36 136 £92,500 -6.33% 209
North of England -3 74 £75,000 +15.38% 20
South West -28 45 £90,000 +50.00% 17
South East -42 43 £62,500 -13.79% 30
North West +16 41 £75,000 +9.48% 9
Yorkshire -28 18 £80,000 +63.27% 6
North East -41 15 £74,830 +42.53% 5
Midlands -32 14 £74,742 +3.09% 5
West Midlands -18 13 £74,830 +3.21% 4
East of England -18 9 £135,500 +33.83% 21
East Midlands - 1 £39,194 - 1
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 17 (5.17%) Apache
2 11 (3.34%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.52%) JBoss
3 5 (1.52%) WordPress
4 4 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.22%) GeoServer
4 4 (1.22%) nginx
5 3 (0.91%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.91%) Camunda
6 2 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.30%) Appian
7 1 (0.30%) CMS
7 1 (0.30%) Confluence
7 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (0.30%) InDesign
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.30%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Line 50
2 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 147 (44.68%) AWS
2 95 (28.88%) Azure
3 41 (12.46%) GCP
4 36 (10.94%) GitHub
5 27 (8.21%) Serverless
6 23 (6.99%) Anthropic Claude
7 18 (5.47%) GitHub Copilot
8 17 (5.17%) OpenShift
9 15 (4.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.26%) dbt
11 13 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (3.65%) SaaS
13 11 (3.34%) Amazon S3
14 9 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (2.43%) Amazon MSK
15 8 (2.43%) PaaS
15 8 (2.43%) Power Platform
16 7 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
17 6 (1.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.43%) VoIP
2 7 (2.13%) AMQP
3 6 (1.82%) Network Security
4 5 (1.52%) SSL
4 5 (1.52%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.22%) HTTP
5 4 (1.22%) Software-Defined Radio
6 3 (0.91%) Firewall
7 2 (0.61%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.61%) DNS
7 2 (0.61%) LAN
7 2 (0.61%) MQTT
7 2 (0.61%) RTP
7 2 (0.61%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.61%) WAN
7 2 (0.61%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.30%) DHCP
8 1 (0.30%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.30%) SMTP
8 1 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (13.07%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (12.16%) MySQL
3 39 (11.85%) NoSQL
4 34 (10.33%) MongoDB
5 16 (4.86%) Big Data
6 11 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (3.34%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.04%) Redis
8 7 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.13%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.13%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.13%) Metadata
9 6 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.52%) Neo4j
10 5 (1.52%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.22%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (1.22%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (1.22%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 21 (6.38%) Git
2 20 (6.08%) Claude Code
3 13 (3.95%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.13%) GitLab
4 7 (2.13%) Selenium
5 6 (1.82%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.82%) JIRA
6 3 (0.91%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.91%) Maven
6 3 (0.91%) Subversion
7 2 (0.61%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.30%) CMake
8 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.30%) Eclipse RCP
8 1 (0.30%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.30%) Valgrind
General
1 74 (22.49%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.81%) Finance
3 43 (13.07%) Public Sector
4 37 (11.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (6.08%) Banking
7 15 (4.56%) Law
7 15 (4.56%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.74%) Legal
9 8 (2.43%) Tech for Good
10 7 (2.13%) Aerospace
10 7 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.82%) Advertising
12 5 (1.52%) Back Office
12 5 (1.52%) Front Office
12 5 (1.52%) Marketing
13 3 (0.91%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.61%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 98 (29.79%) Software Engineer
2 64 (19.45%) Lead
2 64 (19.45%) Senior
3 44 (13.37%) Architect
4 38 (11.55%) Developer
5 32 (9.73%) Lead Software Engineer
6 24 (7.29%) Principal Engineer
7 21 (6.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 20 (6.08%) Cloud Architect
8 20 (6.08%) Senior Software Engineer
9 15 (4.56%) Java Engineer
10 14 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (3.95%) Data Engineer
12 12 (3.65%) Consultant
12 12 (3.65%) Principal Software Engineer
13 10 (3.04%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (2.74%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (2.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (2.74%) Senior Consultant
15 8 (2.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (12.46%) Node.js
2 31 (9.42%) Kafka
3 29 (8.81%) RESTful
4 26 (7.90%) React
5 24 (7.29%) REST
6 17 (5.17%) Spring
7 14 (4.26%) Spring Boot
8 13 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
9 12 (3.65%) HTML
10 11 (3.34%) .NET
10 11 (3.34%) CSS
11 10 (3.04%) LangChain
11 10 (3.04%) PyTorch
12 9 (2.74%) FastAPI
12 9 (2.74%) Flask
12 9 (2.74%) OAuth
13 8 (2.43%) Django
13 8 (2.43%) NumPy
13 8 (2.43%) Pandas
13 8 (2.43%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 53 (16.11%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.69%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.69%) Public Cloud
3 19 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.65%) Distributed Computing
5 11 (3.34%) AI Agents
6 9 (2.74%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.43%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.43%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.43%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.13%) Blog
8 7 (2.13%) Robotics
9 6 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.82%) Social Media
10 5 (1.52%) Mobile Payment
10 5 (1.52%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.52%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.22%) Autonomous Agent
11 4 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.22%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 36 (10.94%) Linux
2 13 (3.95%) Windows
3 10 (3.04%) Debian
4 8 (2.43%) Ubuntu
4 8 (2.43%) Unix
5 6 (1.82%) CentOS
5 6 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.22%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.91%) Android
7 3 (0.91%) Gentoo
8 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.30%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.30%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (49.54%) Software Engineering
2 109 (33.13%) Agile
3 97 (29.48%) AI
4 85 (25.84%) Microservices
5 84 (25.53%) CI/CD
6 80 (24.32%) DevOps
7 77 (23.40%) Mentoring
8 52 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (15.50%) TDD
10 47 (14.29%) Roadmaps
11 46 (13.98%) Containerisation
11 46 (13.98%) Test Automation
12 42 (12.77%) LLM
13 41 (12.46%) Machine Learning
14 37 (11.25%) Infrastructure as Code
15 34 (10.33%) Coaching
16 32 (9.73%) Analytics
16 32 (9.73%) Cybersecurity
17 31 (9.42%) Migration
18 30 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 110 (33.43%) Python
2 83 (25.23%) Java
3 48 (14.59%) JavaScript
4 47 (14.29%) SQL
5 27 (8.21%) C++
6 19 (5.78%) TypeScript
7 16 (4.86%) C
7 16 (4.86%) Go
8 14 (4.26%) Bash
8 14 (4.26%) PHP
9 11 (3.34%) Rust
9 11 (3.34%) Scala
10 9 (2.74%) C#
11 8 (2.43%) Ruby
12 7 (2.13%) Clojure
12 7 (2.13%) Erlang
13 4 (1.22%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.91%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.91%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (24.92%) Security Cleared
2 50 (15.20%) SC Cleared
3 47 (14.29%) Degree
4 36 (10.94%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.65%) PhD
6 8 (2.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 7 (2.13%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.82%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.22%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.91%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.61%) CISSP
12 1 (0.30%) CISM
12 1 (0.30%) HNC
12 1 (0.30%) HND
12 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.30%) RHCE
12 1 (0.30%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.47%) QA
2 16 (4.86%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.82%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.22%) ISO 14001
5 4 (1.22%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.61%) NIST
7 2 (0.61%) SLA
7 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.30%) MiFID
8 1 (0.30%) NCSC
8 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 46 (13.98%) Docker
2 10 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.91%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.91%) Firmware
5 3 (0.91%) KVM
6 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.61%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.30%) QEMU
7 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.30%) vSphere
7 1 (0.30%) Xen
Systems Management
1 51 (15.50%) Kubernetes
2 44 (13.37%) Terraform
3 17 (5.17%) Ansible
4 8 (2.43%) Istio
5 7 (2.13%) Puppet
6 4 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.22%) Argo
6 4 (1.22%) Nagios
6 4 (1.22%) Podman
6 4 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.91%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (0.91%) Packer
7 3 (0.91%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.30%) Grafana
9 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 25 (7.60%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.69%) Google
3 20 (6.08%) OpenAI
4 10 (3.04%) Oracle
4 10 (3.04%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.43%) Confluent
6 7 (2.13%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.82%) Splunk
8 5 (1.52%) Adobe
8 5 (1.52%) VMware
9 4 (1.22%) Apple
9 4 (1.22%) Databricks
9 4 (1.22%) New Relic
9 4 (1.22%) Sage
9 4 (1.22%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.91%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.61%) BT
11 2 (0.61%) Cisco
11 2 (0.61%) Mitel
11 2 (0.61%) TIBCO