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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 412 272
Rank change year-on-year +4 -140 -38
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 390 238 696
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.55% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.62% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 290 135 396
10th Percentile £49,694 £48,100 £41,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,250 £73,159 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% +11.75% -6.48%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £127,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +9.59% +10.61% -5.71%

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 73,420 38,536 56,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.29% 88.67% 81.27%
Number of salaries quoted 52,272 22,193 32,991
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -27 147 £91,250 +1.39% 534
North of England +17 90 £80,000 +52.38% 52
South West -26 59 £100,000 +60.00% 35
South East -50 44 £62,500 -13.79% 62
North West +2 43 £80,000 +28.00% 22
North East -31 30 £74,830 +42.53% 10
Midlands -36 23 £74,654 +2.97% 20
East of England -17 21 £100,000 +21.21% 55
Yorkshire -37 17 £83,774 +69.24% 20
West Midlands -27 15 £74,742 +3.09% 12
East Midlands -26 8 £39,194 -54.27% 7
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 (4.36%) Apache
2 12 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.54%) JBoss
4 5 (1.28%) nginx
4 5 (1.28%) WordPress
5 4 (1.03%) Camunda
6 2 (0.51%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Confluence
7 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (0.26%) InDesign
2 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.26%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Line 50
2 2 (0.51%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 160 (41.03%) AWS
2 94 (24.10%) Azure
3 57 (14.62%) GCP
4 36 (9.23%) GitHub
5 26 (6.67%) Serverless
6 22 (5.64%) Anthropic Claude
7 17 (4.36%) GitHub Copilot
7 17 (4.36%) OpenShift
8 14 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (2.82%) Amazon S3
9 11 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (2.82%) dbt
9 11 (2.82%) SaaS
10 10 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (2.05%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.79%) Amazon EMR
13 6 (1.54%) Amazon Bedrock
13 6 (1.54%) Datadog
13 6 (1.54%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.82%) Firewall
2 9 (2.31%) AMQP
3 7 (1.79%) Internet
3 7 (1.79%) VoIP
4 6 (1.54%) DHCP
4 6 (1.54%) DNS
4 6 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (1.54%) NX-OS
4 6 (1.54%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.28%) Network Security
5 5 (1.28%) SSL
6 3 (0.77%) CTI
7 2 (0.51%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.51%) LAN
7 2 (0.51%) MQTT
7 2 (0.51%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.51%) WAN
8 1 (0.26%) 5G
8 1 (0.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (7.44%) NoSQL
3 27 (6.92%) MySQL
4 24 (6.15%) Big Data
5 23 (5.90%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.56%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (2.31%) Metadata
8 7 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.79%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.79%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.54%) Cloudera CDH
9 6 (1.54%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.54%) Redis
10 4 (1.03%) FileMaker
10 4 (1.03%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.03%) Pinecone
11 3 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 24 (6.15%) Git
2 19 (4.87%) Claude Code
3 17 (4.36%) GitLab
4 12 (3.08%) JIRA
5 11 (2.82%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.05%) Subversion
7 7 (1.79%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.03%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.77%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.77%) Maven
9 3 (0.77%) Selenium
9 3 (0.77%) Snyk
10 2 (0.51%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.51%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.51%) MLflow
11 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.26%) CMake
11 1 (0.26%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 94 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 62 (15.90%) Finance
3 61 (15.64%) Public Sector
4 56 (14.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 31 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.41%) Law
7 17 (4.36%) Banking
7 17 (4.36%) Legal
8 16 (4.10%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.33%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.05%) Marketing
10 8 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.54%) Advertising
12 5 (1.28%) Front Office
12 5 (1.28%) Games
12 5 (1.28%) Police
13 4 (1.03%) Back Office
13 4 (1.03%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.77%) Automotive
14 3 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 108 (27.69%) Software Engineer
2 93 (23.85%) Lead
3 73 (18.72%) Senior
4 51 (13.08%) Architect
5 41 (10.51%) Developer
5 41 (10.51%) Lead Software Engineer
6 28 (7.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 26 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
7 26 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
8 24 (6.15%) Senior Software Engineer
9 16 (4.10%) Principal Software Engineer
10 15 (3.85%) Data Engineer
11 14 (3.59%) Linux Engineer
11 14 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.33%) Consultant
13 12 (3.08%) Java Engineer
14 11 (2.82%) Senior Consultant
14 11 (2.82%) Senior Developer
15 10 (2.56%) Embedded Engineer
15 10 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (12.82%) Terraform
2 46 (11.79%) Node.js
3 32 (8.21%) React
4 28 (7.18%) Kafka
5 22 (5.64%) REST
6 21 (5.38%) HTML
7 20 (5.13%) CSS
8 18 (4.62%) LangChain
8 18 (4.62%) Spring
9 16 (4.10%) RabbitMQ
9 16 (4.10%) RESTful
10 14 (3.59%) PyTorch
11 13 (3.33%) LlamaIndex
11 13 (3.33%) Spring Boot
11 13 (3.33%) TensorFlow
12 11 (2.82%) .NET
13 10 (2.56%) FastAPI
13 10 (2.56%) Model Context Protocol
13 10 (2.56%) scikit-learn
14 9 (2.31%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 58 (14.87%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.23%) Onboarding
3 35 (8.97%) Public Cloud
4 19 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (4.10%) AI Agents
6 15 (3.85%) Blog
7 14 (3.59%) Management Information System
8 12 (3.08%) Data Centre
9 11 (2.82%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (2.31%) Algorithms
11 9 (2.31%) Private Cloud
11 9 (2.31%) Social Media
12 8 (2.05%) Product Ownership
12 8 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.79%) PKI
13 7 (1.79%) Robotics
13 7 (1.79%) Security Posture
14 6 (1.54%) Autonomous Agent
15 5 (1.28%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.56%) Linux
2 18 (4.62%) Windows
3 12 (3.08%) Debian
4 11 (2.82%) Embedded Linux
5 8 (2.05%) CentOS
5 8 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.05%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.54%) Android
6 6 (1.54%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.54%) Unix
7 4 (1.03%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.77%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (44.87%) Software Engineering
2 134 (34.36%) AI
3 130 (33.33%) Agile
4 95 (24.36%) CI/CD
5 86 (22.05%) DevOps
6 85 (21.79%) Mentoring
7 74 (18.97%) Microservices
8 66 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (16.15%) LLM
10 61 (15.64%) Containerisation
11 59 (15.13%) Machine Learning
12 57 (14.62%) Infrastructure as Code
13 43 (11.03%) Roadmaps
13 43 (11.03%) TDD
14 42 (10.77%) Computer Science
15 39 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (10.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
16 37 (9.49%) Analytics
16 37 (9.49%) Cybersecurity
16 37 (9.49%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 123 (31.54%) Python
2 74 (18.97%) Java
3 62 (15.90%) JavaScript
4 36 (9.23%) SQL
5 33 (8.46%) TypeScript
6 31 (7.95%) C++
7 21 (5.38%) Bash
8 17 (4.36%) C
9 14 (3.59%) C#
9 14 (3.59%) Go
9 14 (3.59%) Scala
10 13 (3.33%) PHP
11 12 (3.08%) Rust
12 8 (2.05%) PowerShell
12 8 (2.05%) Ruby
13 7 (1.79%) Clojure
13 7 (1.79%) Erlang
14 4 (1.03%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.77%) Embedded C++
15 3 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 107 (27.44%) Security Cleared
2 69 (17.69%) Degree
3 60 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 53 (13.59%) DV Cleared
5 18 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (4.10%) PhD
7 15 (3.85%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.82%) AWS Certification
9 10 (2.56%) Master's Degree
9 10 (2.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 7 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.54%) CCNA
11 6 (1.54%) MCSE
11 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.28%) DBS Check
13 4 (1.03%) CISSP
14 3 (0.77%) CISM
14 3 (0.77%) GSEC
15 2 (0.51%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.13%) QA
2 19 (4.87%) Accessibility
3 15 (3.85%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.05%) WCAG
5 7 (1.79%) NCSC
6 6 (1.54%) SLA
7 4 (1.03%) ISO 14001
7 4 (1.03%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.51%) NIST
9 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.26%) MiFID
10 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (10.51%) Docker
2 13 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.54%) vSphere
5 5 (1.28%) Firmware
5 5 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.77%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.77%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.51%) KVM
8 1 (0.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.26%) IAG
8 1 (0.26%) QEMU
8 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 54 (13.85%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.62%) Ansible
3 9 (2.31%) Puppet
4 8 (2.05%) Istio
5 6 (1.54%) FortiGate
5 6 (1.54%) Grafana
5 6 (1.54%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.28%) Nagios
6 5 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.03%) Argo
7 4 (1.03%) Podman
8 3 (0.77%) Packer
9 2 (0.51%) linkerd
9 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.26%) Cilium
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 30 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.67%) Google
3 19 (4.87%) OpenAI
4 16 (4.10%) Red Hat
5 13 (3.33%) Oracle
6 9 (2.31%) Splunk
6 9 (2.31%) VMware
7 8 (2.05%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.79%) Apple
8 7 (1.79%) Cisco
8 7 (1.79%) FIS
9 6 (1.54%) Adobe
9 6 (1.54%) Confluent
9 6 (1.54%) SaltStack
9 6 (1.54%) YouTube
10 5 (1.28%) New Relic
11 4 (1.03%) Databricks
11 4 (1.03%) Sage
12 3 (0.77%) Intel
12 3 (0.77%) OutSystems