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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 259 278
Rank change year-on-year -90 +19 -104
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 336 443 752
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 1.17% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.25% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 189 323 608
10th Percentile £37,500 £48,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £119,500 £138,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.43% - -6.67%

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 52,241 35,401 65,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.72% 93.58% 86.88%
Number of salaries quoted 32,434 20,236 50,834
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £29,010
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -46 160 £95,000 -13.64% 94
North of England -42 65 £61,418 -5.51% 22
North West 0 46 £63,209 -4.59% 9
East of England +10 33 £30,370 -63.74% 20
South East -78 25 £60,000 - 22
South West -40 22 £55,000 -24.14% 13
Midlands -19 19 £55,000 -12.84% 3
East Midlands -33 15 £51,058 -
Yorkshire -47 13 £52,130 +5.31% 10
North East -25 6 £62,966 -9.15% 3
West Midlands -15 4 £73,801 +16.95% 3
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 18 (5.36%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.76%) Appian
3 12 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (3.27%) Apache
5 6 (1.79%) Anypoint
6 4 (1.19%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.89%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.60%) Confluence
8 2 (0.60%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.30%) Camunda
9 1 (0.30%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.30%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 44 (13.10%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.79%) Shopify
2 3 (0.89%) SAP FS
3 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.30%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 108 (32.14%) AWS
2 104 (30.95%) Azure
3 56 (16.67%) GCP
4 21 (6.25%) Serverless
5 19 (5.65%) Anthropic Claude
6 18 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (5.36%) Power Automate
7 17 (5.06%) GitHub
8 16 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (4.17%) Amazon Alexa
9 14 (4.17%) OpenShift
9 14 (4.17%) PaaS
10 12 (3.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 12 (3.57%) Azure AI
10 12 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (3.27%) SaaS
12 10 (2.98%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (2.68%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.33%) Broadband
2 19 (5.65%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.38%) HTTP
4 6 (1.79%) RTP
4 6 (1.79%) VoIP
5 5 (1.49%) AMQP
5 5 (1.49%) DNS
5 5 (1.49%) SMTP
5 5 (1.49%) WAN
6 4 (1.19%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.89%) DHCP
7 3 (0.89%) DOCSIS
7 3 (0.89%) DSL
7 3 (0.89%) Firewall
7 3 (0.89%) IPv4
7 3 (0.89%) IPv6
7 3 (0.89%) Network Security
7 3 (0.89%) PPP
7 3 (0.89%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (7.44%) MySQL
3 22 (6.55%) MongoDB
4 19 (5.65%) NoSQL
5 18 (5.36%) Pinecone
6 16 (4.76%) SQL Server
7 14 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (3.27%) Redis
10 8 (2.38%) Big Data
11 7 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.08%) Hadoop
11 7 (2.08%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.49%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (1.49%) DynamoDB
13 4 (1.19%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (1.19%) GIS
13 4 (1.19%) QGIS
13 4 (1.19%) Weaviate
14 3 (0.89%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 27 (8.04%) Jenkins
2 23 (6.85%) TeamCity
3 16 (4.76%) Git
4 13 (3.87%) MLflow
5 9 (2.68%) JIRA
6 7 (2.08%) Burp Suite
6 7 (2.08%) Metasploit
7 5 (1.49%) Selenium
8 4 (1.19%) Claude Code
8 4 (1.19%) GitLab
9 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.30%) Hardhat
9 1 (0.30%) Mocha
9 1 (0.30%) webpack
General
1 64 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
2 59 (17.56%) Social Skills
3 50 (14.88%) Finance
4 32 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 29 (8.63%) German Language
6 19 (5.65%) Law
7 16 (4.76%) Banking
7 16 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (4.46%) Retail
9 13 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (3.57%) Legal
11 11 (3.27%) Italian Language
12 9 (2.68%) Tech for Good
13 7 (2.08%) Back Office
13 7 (2.08%) Marketing
14 6 (1.79%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.79%) French Language
15 3 (0.89%) Games
15 3 (0.89%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.89%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 107 (31.85%) Senior
2 72 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 40 (11.90%) Developer
4 28 (8.33%) Architect
5 23 (6.85%) Lead
5 23 (6.85%) Senior Software Engineer
6 22 (6.55%) Data Engineer
7 20 (5.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 18 (5.36%) Java Engineer
9 17 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
9 17 (5.06%) Java Software Engineer
10 13 (3.87%) Development Engineer
10 13 (3.87%) Java Developer
10 13 (3.87%) Software Architect
11 12 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (3.57%) Scala Engineer
11 12 (3.57%) Senior Developer
12 11 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (3.27%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (3.27%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (11.31%) REST
2 33 (9.82%) RESTful
3 32 (9.52%) Django
4 24 (7.14%) PyTorch
4 24 (7.14%) React
5 23 (6.85%) Akka
5 23 (6.85%) Node.js
5 23 (6.85%) TensorFlow
6 22 (6.55%) Web Services
7 19 (5.65%) Kafka
7 19 (5.65%) NumPy
8 18 (5.36%) FastAPI
8 18 (5.36%) Pandas
8 18 (5.36%) scikit-learn
9 17 (5.06%) OAuth
9 17 (5.06%) OpenAPI
9 17 (5.06%) Swagger
10 15 (4.46%) Flask
10 15 (4.46%) pytest
10 15 (4.46%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 50 (14.88%) Cloud Native
2 41 (12.20%) Onboarding
3 26 (7.74%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (7.14%) Video\Live Streaming
5 23 (6.85%) Over-the-Top Content
6 18 (5.36%) Low-Code
7 15 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (3.87%) Security Posture
9 10 (2.98%) AI Agents
9 10 (2.98%) Legacy Code
9 10 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (2.38%) Blog
11 8 (2.38%) Data Centre
11 8 (2.38%) Product Ownership
12 7 (2.08%) Algorithms
12 7 (2.08%) Insider Threat
12 7 (2.08%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (1.49%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.18%) Linux
2 16 (4.76%) Unix
3 11 (3.27%) Windows
4 9 (2.68%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.79%) CentOS
7 5 (1.49%) Android
7 5 (1.49%) Debian
8 4 (1.19%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.89%) OpenWrt
10 2 (0.60%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.30%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.30%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.30%) Solaris
11 1 (0.30%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (33.33%) AI
2 101 (30.06%) Software Engineering
3 99 (29.46%) Agile
4 98 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (24.70%) CI/CD
6 77 (22.92%) LLM
7 75 (22.32%) Generative AI
8 72 (21.43%) DevOps
9 66 (19.64%) Machine Learning
10 59 (17.56%) Analytics
11 56 (16.67%) Containerisation
12 54 (16.07%) Microservices
13 53 (15.77%) Mentoring
14 51 (15.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 51 (15.18%) TDD
15 49 (14.58%) Analytical Thinking
16 46 (13.69%) Test Automation
17 36 (10.71%) Scrum
18 34 (10.12%) Clean Code
19 33 (9.82%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 118 (35.12%) Python
2 82 (24.40%) Java
3 59 (17.56%) SQL
4 32 (9.52%) Scala
5 29 (8.63%) JavaScript
6 27 (8.04%) C++
7 26 (7.74%) Go
8 23 (6.85%) C
9 13 (3.87%) Rust
9 13 (3.87%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.08%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.79%) C#
11 6 (1.79%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.89%) Bash
12 3 (0.89%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.89%) R
13 2 (0.60%) PHP
13 2 (0.60%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.60%) Ruby
14 1 (0.30%) Korn
Qualifications
1 96 (28.57%) Degree
2 45 (13.39%) Security Cleared
3 38 (11.31%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (2.98%) Chartered Engineer
7 10 (2.98%) GIAC
7 10 (2.98%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.38%) CISSP
9 8 (2.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 8 (2.38%) OSCP
10 7 (2.08%) CCNA
10 7 (2.08%) CEH
10 7 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (2.08%) CISMP
10 7 (2.08%) CREST Certified
10 7 (2.08%) GPEN
10 7 (2.08%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.82%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 8 (2.38%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.38%) SLA
4 7 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (2.08%) GDPR
5 6 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.19%) NIST
6 4 (1.19%) QA
7 3 (0.89%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.89%) IFRS
7 3 (0.89%) IFRS 17
7 3 (0.89%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.89%) Solvency II
System Software
1 90 (26.79%) Docker
2 20 (5.95%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (2.98%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.89%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.60%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.60%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.60%) KVM
5 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.30%) Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) QEMU
6 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 104 (30.95%) Kubernetes
2 47 (13.99%) Terraform
3 16 (4.76%) Ansible
4 9 (2.68%) AWS Copilot
5 8 (2.38%) Istio
6 7 (2.08%) Nmap
7 5 (1.49%) Puppet
8 3 (0.89%) Argo
8 3 (0.89%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.60%) Grafana
10 1 (0.30%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.30%) WMI
Vendors
1 70 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.04%) OpenAI
3 20 (5.95%) Google
4 16 (4.76%) Oracle
5 12 (3.57%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (3.57%) Databricks
5 12 (3.57%) SAP
5 12 (3.57%) UiPath
6 9 (2.68%) Cisco
6 9 (2.68%) IBM
6 9 (2.68%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.38%) Confluent
8 6 (1.79%) Epicor
8 6 (1.79%) IFS
8 6 (1.79%) Informatica
8 6 (1.79%) Jitterbit
8 6 (1.79%) MuleSoft
8 6 (1.79%) SnapLogic
8 6 (1.79%) Software AG
8 6 (1.79%) Workday