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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 309 295
Rank change year-on-year -86 -14 -109
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 310 393 797
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 1.01% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 1.08% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 178 283 637
10th Percentile £42,410 £47,434 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,125 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,401 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +19.23% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,938 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £117,500 £138,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £74,651 £74,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.88% +13.85% -13.33%

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 60,661 36,230 71,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.64% 93.14% 85.49%
Number of salaries quoted 38,592 20,612 53,719
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £59,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% +9.09% -10.57%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -67 148 £92,500 -15.91% 103
North of England -37 63 £61,418 +0.35% 19
North West -7 44 £74,651 +12.68% 8
South East -79 28 £60,000 - 35
South West -48 23 £55,000 -8.33% 20
East of England -3 22 £30,370 -66.26% 16
Yorkshire -52 15 £52,130 +5.31% 8
Midlands -32 14 £51,058 -11.20% 6
East Midlands - 9 £55,000 - 1
West Midlands -27 5 £28,500 -50.43% 5
North East -30 4 £52,130 -24.87% 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 16 (5.16%) Appian
2 14 (4.52%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.90%) Apache
3 9 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.29%) Apache Solr
4 4 (1.29%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.97%) WordPress
6 2 (0.65%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.65%) Confluence
7 1 (0.32%) Camunda
7 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Applications
1 31 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.32%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.29%) Line 50
2 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 95 (30.65%) AWS
2 86 (27.74%) Azure
3 44 (14.19%) GCP
4 29 (9.35%) Anthropic Claude
5 26 (8.39%) GitHub
6 24 (7.74%) Serverless
7 17 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (5.16%) OpenShift
9 13 (4.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (3.87%) Azure AI
10 12 (3.87%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (3.87%) Power Automate
11 11 (3.55%) Amazon Alexa
12 10 (3.23%) GitHub Copilot
13 8 (2.58%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (2.58%) SaaS
14 7 (2.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 7 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.74%) Broadband
2 12 (3.87%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.58%) HTTP
3 8 (2.58%) VoIP
4 7 (2.26%) Network Security
5 5 (1.61%) AMQP
5 5 (1.61%) DNS
5 5 (1.61%) SMTP
5 5 (1.61%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (1.29%) RTP
6 4 (1.29%) WAN
7 3 (0.97%) LAN
7 3 (0.97%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.97%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.32%) Firewall
9 1 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.32%) LTE
9 1 (0.32%) VLAN
9 1 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.06%) MongoDB
2 22 (7.10%) MySQL
3 20 (6.45%) Pinecone
3 20 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (5.81%) NoSQL
5 15 (4.84%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (2.26%) Hadoop
7 6 (1.94%) Big Data
7 6 (1.94%) Neo4j
8 5 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.61%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (1.61%) Redis
9 4 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.29%) DocumentDB
9 4 (1.29%) FileMaker
9 4 (1.29%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (1.29%) GIS
9 4 (1.29%) QGIS
9 4 (1.29%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 30 (9.68%) Jenkins
2 22 (7.10%) TeamCity
3 15 (4.84%) Git
4 12 (3.87%) Claude Code
4 12 (3.87%) MLflow
5 6 (1.94%) JIRA
5 6 (1.94%) Selenium
6 4 (1.29%) Burp Suite
6 4 (1.29%) GitLab
6 4 (1.29%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.65%) Maven
8 1 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
General
1 54 (17.42%) Analytical Skills
1 54 (17.42%) Social Skills
2 51 (16.45%) Finance
3 26 (8.39%) Public Sector
4 19 (6.13%) German Language
5 14 (4.52%) Banking
5 14 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.55%) Law
7 10 (3.23%) Italian Language
8 9 (2.90%) Retail
9 8 (2.58%) Tech for Good
10 7 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.94%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.94%) Legal
12 5 (1.61%) Back Office
12 5 (1.61%) Marketing
13 4 (1.29%) French Language
14 3 (0.97%) Front Office
14 3 (0.97%) Portuguese Language
14 3 (0.97%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 93 (30.00%) Senior
2 74 (23.87%) Software Engineer
3 38 (12.26%) Developer
4 28 (9.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 26 (8.39%) Senior Software Engineer
6 23 (7.42%) Lead
7 19 (6.13%) Architect
8 18 (5.81%) Principal Engineer
9 17 (5.48%) Java Engineer
10 15 (4.84%) Java Software Engineer
11 13 (4.19%) Data Engineer
12 12 (3.87%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (3.87%) Scala Engineer
13 11 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (3.23%) Development Engineer
14 10 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.23%) Java Developer
14 10 (3.23%) Senior Development Engineer
14 10 (3.23%) Senior Software Development Engineer
14 10 (3.23%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (11.61%) REST
2 27 (8.71%) Node.js
2 27 (8.71%) RESTful
3 24 (7.74%) React
4 23 (7.42%) Django
5 22 (7.10%) Akka
5 22 (7.10%) PyTorch
6 21 (6.77%) TensorFlow
7 20 (6.45%) FastAPI
7 20 (6.45%) Kafka
8 18 (5.81%) NumPy
8 18 (5.81%) scikit-learn
9 17 (5.48%) OAuth
9 17 (5.48%) OpenAPI
9 17 (5.48%) Pandas
9 17 (5.48%) Swagger
10 15 (4.84%) Flask
10 15 (4.84%) pytest
11 14 (4.52%) Hugging Face
11 14 (4.52%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 42 (13.55%) Cloud Native
2 36 (11.61%) Onboarding
3 23 (7.42%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (7.10%) Over-the-Top Content
5 15 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (3.87%) Low-Code
8 10 (3.23%) Blog
8 10 (3.23%) Security Posture
9 9 (2.90%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.58%) Product Ownership
11 7 (2.26%) Algorithms
11 7 (2.26%) Management Information System
11 7 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.61%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.61%) GNSS
12 5 (1.61%) Mobile Payment
13 4 (1.29%) Hackathon
13 4 (1.29%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.00%) Linux
2 14 (4.52%) Windows
3 9 (2.90%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.26%) Unix
5 6 (1.94%) CentOS
6 5 (1.61%) Android
6 5 (1.61%) Debian
7 4 (1.29%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.29%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.32%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.32%) OpenBSD
8 1 (0.32%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (37.42%) AI
1 116 (37.42%) Software Engineering
2 81 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (25.16%) Agile
4 75 (24.19%) CI/CD
5 74 (23.87%) DevOps
5 74 (23.87%) LLM
6 70 (22.58%) Generative AI
7 66 (21.29%) Machine Learning
8 59 (19.03%) Mentoring
8 59 (19.03%) Microservices
9 55 (17.74%) Analytics
10 54 (17.42%) TDD
11 50 (16.13%) Containerisation
12 49 (15.81%) Test Automation
13 36 (11.61%) Roadmaps
14 35 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 35 (11.29%) Scrum
15 34 (10.97%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
16 33 (10.65%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 112 (36.13%) Python
2 65 (20.97%) Java
3 46 (14.84%) SQL
4 29 (9.35%) Scala
5 27 (8.71%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.81%) Go
6 18 (5.81%) TypeScript
7 15 (4.84%) C++
8 9 (2.90%) C
8 9 (2.90%) PHP
9 5 (1.61%) C#
9 5 (1.61%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.29%) Bash
11 3 (0.97%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.97%) Ruby
12 2 (0.65%) Rust
13 1 (0.32%) F#
13 1 (0.32%) Korn
13 1 (0.32%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.32%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 82 (26.45%) Degree
2 32 (10.32%) Security Cleared
3 26 (8.39%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.84%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.87%) PhD
6 8 (2.58%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.26%) DBS Check
7 7 (2.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 6 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.94%) GIAC
8 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.61%) Chartered Engineer
9 5 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.61%) CISSP
9 5 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.61%) OSCP
10 4 (1.29%) CCNA
10 4 (1.29%) CEH
10 4 (1.29%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.84%) QA
3 5 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 5 (1.61%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.61%) SLA
4 4 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (1.29%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.29%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.97%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.65%) NIST
6 2 (0.65%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 73 (23.55%) Docker
2 9 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.97%) Kamailio
3 3 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.65%) KVM
5 1 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.32%) Firmware
5 1 (0.32%) QEMU
5 1 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.32%) Xen
Systems Management
1 84 (27.10%) Kubernetes
2 39 (12.58%) Terraform
3 17 (5.48%) Ansible
4 8 (2.58%) Istio
5 7 (2.26%) Puppet
6 5 (1.61%) Argo
7 4 (1.29%) Nmap
7 4 (1.29%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.97%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.65%) Grafana
10 1 (0.32%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 56 (18.06%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.68%) OpenAI
3 19 (6.13%) Google
4 12 (3.87%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (3.87%) UiPath
5 9 (2.90%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.58%) Confluent
6 8 (2.58%) Databricks
6 8 (2.58%) Oracle
7 5 (1.61%) Cisco
7 5 (1.61%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.29%) Adobe
8 4 (1.29%) Apple
8 4 (1.29%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.29%) PayPal
8 4 (1.29%) Sage
9 3 (0.97%) BT
9 3 (0.97%) Palantir
9 3 (0.97%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.97%) Sybase