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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 339 271
Rank change year-on-year -75 -68 -68
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 308 326 924
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.82% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.89% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 221 236 671
10th Percentile £48,165 £49,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £127,500 £137,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year +9.59% +11.45% -12.67%

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 60,775 36,652 77,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.04% 92.67% 81.96%
Number of salaries quoted 42,765 20,021 56,403
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £29,288
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -65 137 £92,500 -15.91% 165
North of England -2 71 £75,000 +15.38% 163
North West +19 47 £75,000 +9.48% 69
South East -45 38 £62,500 - 180
South West -38 27 £57,500 -4.17% 68
Yorkshire -31 18 £80,000 +63.27% 63
Midlands -17 15 £55,000 -24.14% 97
East of England -11 9 £112,750 +11.36% 120
East Midlands - 8 £55,000 - 50
West Midlands -22 7 £28,500 -60.69% 47
North East -48 6 £67,952 +1.36% 31
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 13 (4.22%) Apache
2 12 (3.90%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.27%) Appian
4 5 (1.62%) WordPress
5 4 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.30%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.97%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.65%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.65%) Camunda
7 2 (0.65%) Confluence
8 1 (0.32%) CMS
8 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.32%) InDesign
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.32%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.32%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.30%) Line 50
2 2 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 114 (37.01%) AWS
2 97 (31.49%) Azure
3 48 (15.58%) GCP
4 30 (9.74%) GitHub
5 28 (9.09%) Serverless
6 26 (8.44%) Anthropic Claude
7 17 (5.52%) OpenShift
8 15 (4.87%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (4.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (4.55%) SaaS
10 13 (4.22%) GitHub Copilot
11 9 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.60%) Amazon MSK
13 7 (2.27%) Azure AI
13 7 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (2.27%) PaaS
13 7 (2.27%) Power Automate
13 7 (2.27%) Power Platform
14 6 (1.95%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.47%) Broadband
2 9 (2.92%) VoIP
3 7 (2.27%) Network Security
4 6 (1.95%) AMQP
4 6 (1.95%) Software-Defined Radio
4 6 (1.95%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.30%) HTTP
6 3 (0.97%) LAN
6 3 (0.97%) RTP
6 3 (0.97%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.97%) WAN
6 3 (0.97%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.65%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.32%) DNS
8 1 (0.32%) Firewall
8 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.32%) Internet
8 1 (0.32%) SMTP
8 1 (0.32%) SSL
8 1 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (11.04%) MongoDB
3 33 (10.71%) MySQL
4 32 (10.39%) NoSQL
5 13 (4.22%) SQL Server
6 12 (3.90%) Pinecone
7 9 (2.92%) Redis
8 8 (2.60%) Big Data
9 7 (2.27%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.95%) Cloudera CDH
10 6 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.62%) Neo4j
12 4 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.30%) FileMaker
12 4 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (1.30%) GIS
12 4 (1.30%) QGIS
13 3 (0.97%) DocumentDB
13 3 (0.97%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 32 (10.39%) Jenkins
2 22 (7.14%) TeamCity
3 19 (6.17%) Git
4 15 (4.87%) Claude Code
5 7 (2.27%) MLflow
6 6 (1.95%) JIRA
6 6 (1.95%) Selenium
7 4 (1.30%) Burp Suite
7 4 (1.30%) GitLab
8 3 (0.97%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.65%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.65%) Maven
10 1 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.32%) CMake
10 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.32%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.32%) Valgrind
10 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 56 (18.18%) Finance
1 56 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 35 (11.36%) Public Sector
3 23 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.84%) Banking
5 17 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (3.90%) Law
7 11 (3.57%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.60%) Legal
8 8 (2.60%) Retail
8 8 (2.60%) Tech for Good
9 6 (1.95%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.95%) Back Office
9 6 (1.95%) Front Office
10 5 (1.62%) Advertising
10 5 (1.62%) Marketing
11 3 (0.97%) French Language
11 3 (0.97%) Italian Language
11 3 (0.97%) Portuguese Language
11 3 (0.97%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 95 (30.84%) Software Engineer
2 66 (21.43%) Senior
3 52 (16.88%) Lead
4 46 (14.94%) Developer
5 24 (7.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 22 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
7 21 (6.82%) Lead Software Engineer
8 19 (6.17%) Principal Engineer
9 14 (4.55%) Data Engineer
10 13 (4.22%) Architect
10 13 (4.22%) Java Engineer
11 12 (3.90%) Scala Engineer
12 11 (3.57%) Senior Developer
13 10 (3.25%) Java Developer
13 10 (3.25%) Java Software Engineer
13 10 (3.25%) Python Developer
13 10 (3.25%) Software Developer
14 9 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
15 8 (2.60%) DevOps Engineer
15 8 (2.60%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (12.99%) Node.js
2 34 (11.04%) RESTful
3 33 (10.71%) REST
4 25 (8.12%) Kafka
5 23 (7.47%) React
6 22 (7.14%) Akka
7 19 (6.17%) Spring
8 17 (5.52%) Spring Boot
9 16 (5.19%) FastAPI
10 15 (4.87%) Flask
10 15 (4.87%) PyTorch
11 14 (4.55%) Django
11 14 (4.55%) NumPy
11 14 (4.55%) TensorFlow
12 13 (4.22%) .NET
12 13 (4.22%) LangChain
12 13 (4.22%) OAuth
12 13 (4.22%) OpenAPI
12 13 (4.22%) Pandas
12 13 (4.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.47%) Video\Live Streaming
3 22 (7.14%) Over-the-Top Content
4 13 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.90%) AI Agents
5 12 (3.90%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.57%) Algorithms
7 10 (3.25%) Security Posture
8 9 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.92%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.92%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.27%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.27%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.95%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.95%) Robotics
11 5 (1.62%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.62%) FPGA
11 5 (1.62%) Mobile Payment
12 4 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.39%) Linux
2 11 (3.57%) Ubuntu
2 11 (3.57%) Windows
3 9 (2.92%) Debian
4 8 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.27%) CentOS
5 7 (2.27%) Unix
6 5 (1.62%) Android
7 4 (1.30%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.30%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.32%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.32%) Gentoo
8 1 (0.32%) OpenBSD
8 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (49.68%) Software Engineering
2 96 (31.17%) Agile
3 91 (29.55%) AI
4 78 (25.32%) CI/CD
5 71 (23.05%) TDD
6 70 (22.73%) Microservices
7 69 (22.40%) DevOps
8 67 (21.75%) Mentoring
9 56 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (16.88%) Analytics
11 47 (15.26%) Machine Learning
12 44 (14.29%) Test Automation
13 43 (13.96%) LLM
14 41 (13.31%) Scrum
15 40 (12.99%) Containerisation
16 39 (12.66%) Coaching
17 36 (11.69%) Generative AI
17 36 (11.69%) Kanban
17 36 (11.69%) Roadmaps
18 31 (10.06%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 109 (35.39%) Python
2 79 (25.65%) Java
3 55 (17.86%) SQL
4 43 (13.96%) JavaScript
5 33 (10.71%) Scala
6 23 (7.47%) C++
7 15 (4.87%) C
7 15 (4.87%) Go
7 15 (4.87%) PHP
7 15 (4.87%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.92%) Bash
9 8 (2.60%) Rust
10 6 (1.95%) Clojure
10 6 (1.95%) Erlang
11 5 (1.62%) C#
11 5 (1.62%) Ruby
12 4 (1.30%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.97%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.32%) F#
14 1 (0.32%) Korn
Qualifications
1 42 (13.64%) Degree
2 39 (12.66%) Security Cleared
3 26 (8.44%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.82%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.90%) PhD
6 8 (2.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 7 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.27%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.62%) CISSP
9 4 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (1.30%) GIAC
9 4 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.97%) CEH
10 3 (0.97%) CISMP
10 3 (0.97%) CREST Certified
10 3 (0.97%) GPEN
10 3 (0.97%) MCSE
10 3 (0.97%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.84%) QA
2 13 (4.22%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.62%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.30%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.30%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.30%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.65%) NIST
6 2 (0.65%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.32%) MiFID
7 1 (0.32%) SLA
7 1 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 66 (21.43%) Docker
2 8 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.97%) Kamailio
3 3 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.65%) Firmware
4 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.65%) KVM
5 1 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.32%) Embedded 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 75 (24.35%) Kubernetes
2 36 (11.69%) Terraform
3 13 (4.22%) Ansible
4 8 (2.60%) Istio
4 8 (2.60%) Puppet
5 5 (1.62%) Argo
6 3 (0.97%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (0.97%) Nmap
7 2 (0.65%) Packer
7 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.32%) Podman
8 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.32%) QRadar
Vendors
1 34 (11.04%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.44%) Google
3 23 (7.47%) OpenAI
4 10 (3.25%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.60%) Confluent
6 7 (2.27%) Automation Anywhere
6 7 (2.27%) UiPath
7 6 (1.95%) SaltStack
8 5 (1.62%) Adobe
8 5 (1.62%) Databricks
8 5 (1.62%) Oracle
9 4 (1.30%) Apple
9 4 (1.30%) Cisco
9 4 (1.30%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.30%) PayPal
9 4 (1.30%) Sage
10 3 (0.97%) BT
10 3 (0.97%) Mitel
10 3 (0.97%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.97%) VMware