Open Source Jobs in England

Open Source
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Open Source skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Open Source over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 253 208
Rank change year-on-year -94 -45 -64
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 400 1,011 1,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.78% 1.08% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.30% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 281 668 709
10th Percentile £51,346 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £64,509 £50,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £65,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.45% -12.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £115,000 £84,964 £89,852
90th Percentile £137,500 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £73,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.29% -6.67% +7.14%

All Process and 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 47,068 77,593 75,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 91.44% 82.52% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 24,489 54,995 47,414
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,164
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
% change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Open Source in England.

Salary trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

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 3 July 2025. 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 +25 169 £110,000 +33.33% 520
South East +47 148 £73,000 +62.22% 69
North of England -142 41 £65,000 +6.20% 97
North West -141 27 £68,505 +13.04% 61
West Midlands +32 11 £72,500 +3.57% 12
South West +29 11 £60,000 - 23
Midlands -1 11 £72,500 +3.57% 24
East of England -5 9 £90,000 +12.50% 72
Yorkshire 0 8 £49,000 -18.67% 30
North East +31 6 £60,942 -18.83% 6
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 54 (13.50%) Apache Spark
2 48 (12.00%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (11.00%) Apache
4 10 (2.50%) Confluence
5 4 (1.00%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.50%) CMS
7 2 (0.50%) Drupal
8 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.25%) IIS
8 1 (0.25%) Kinematics
8 1 (0.25%) nginx
8 1 (0.25%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.50%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 143 (35.75%) AWS
2 63 (15.75%) Serverless
3 61 (15.25%) Azure
4 56 (14.00%) Amazon ECS
4 56 (14.00%) dbt
5 54 (13.50%) AWS Lambda
6 51 (12.75%) OpenShift
7 41 (10.25%) GCP
8 26 (6.50%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (5.50%) Amazon S3
10 20 (5.00%) GitHub
11 16 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (3.00%) AWS KMS
14 11 (2.75%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 11 (2.75%) Route 53
15 10 (2.50%) AWS CodeBuild
15 10 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (2.50%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.50%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.50%) Bluetooth
2 6 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (1.50%) Wireless
3 4 (1.00%) Internet
4 2 (0.50%) Firewall
4 2 (0.50%) Network Security
4 2 (0.50%) SSH
5 1 (0.25%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.25%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.25%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.25%) WAN
5 1 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (11.25%) Amazon Athena
2 42 (10.50%) Apache Arrow
2 42 (10.50%) Apache Iceberg
2 42 (10.50%) Apache Ignite
2 42 (10.50%) Dremio
3 40 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (7.75%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (4.50%) DynamoDB
6 17 (4.25%) MongoDB
7 16 (4.00%) Redis
8 14 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (3.25%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (2.75%) MySQL
11 9 (2.25%) NoSQL
12 6 (1.50%) Relational Database
13 5 (1.25%) SQL Server
14 4 (1.00%) BigQuery
14 4 (1.00%) Data Lake
14 4 (1.00%) Flink
15 3 (0.75%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 42 (10.50%) Artifactory
2 41 (10.25%) Git
3 15 (3.75%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.75%) JUnit
4 14 (3.50%) Mockito
5 13 (3.25%) Maven
6 12 (3.00%) DbUnit
6 12 (3.00%) jMock
6 12 (3.00%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.75%) Bitbucket Server
7 11 (2.75%) JIRA
8 10 (2.50%) IntelliJ
9 9 (2.25%) GitLab
10 6 (1.50%) KGDB
11 5 (1.25%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.00%) rollup.js
12 4 (1.00%) Vite
13 3 (0.75%) GDB
14 2 (0.50%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.50%) MLflow
General
1 111 (27.75%) Finance
2 68 (17.00%) Social Skills
3 58 (14.50%) Law
4 48 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 42 (10.50%) Front Office
6 29 (7.25%) Banking
7 22 (5.50%) Public Sector
8 19 (4.75%) Marketing
9 18 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (3.25%) Legal
11 9 (2.25%) Retail
12 6 (1.50%) Games
13 4 (1.00%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.00%) Electronics
13 4 (1.00%) Music Industry
13 4 (1.00%) Public Speaking
13 4 (1.00%) Publishing
14 3 (0.75%) French Language
15 2 (0.50%) Advertising
15 2 (0.50%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 102 (25.50%) Architect
2 95 (23.75%) Software Architect
3 84 (21.00%) Senior
4 68 (17.00%) Lead
5 64 (16.00%) Software Engineer
6 55 (13.75%) Data Engineer
7 53 (13.25%) AWS Engineer
8 51 (12.75%) DevOps Engineer
9 48 (12.00%) AWS DevOps
9 48 (12.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 47 (11.75%) Python Engineer
11 41 (10.25%) Developer
12 30 (7.50%) Java Engineer
13 19 (4.75%) Java Software Engineer
14 16 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
15 15 (3.75%) Java Developer
16 13 (3.25%) Lead Software Engineer
17 11 (2.75%) Kubernetes Engineer
17 11 (2.75%) Senior Java Engineer
18 10 (2.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (24.00%) Middleware
2 61 (15.25%) Kafka
3 42 (10.50%) J2EE
3 42 (10.50%) PySpark
4 35 (8.75%) React
5 27 (6.75%) AngularJS
6 23 (5.75%) REST
7 22 (5.50%) RESTful
8 21 (5.25%) HTML
8 21 (5.25%) Spring
9 20 (5.00%) CSS
9 20 (5.00%) Spring Boot
10 16 (4.00%) Hibernate
11 15 (3.75%) Django
12 13 (3.25%) Node.js
13 12 (3.00%) ActiveMQ
13 12 (3.00%) JPA
13 12 (3.00%) PowerMock
13 12 (3.00%) SOAP
13 12 (3.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.75%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (5.75%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (4.50%) Algorithms
5 11 (2.75%) Mobile App
5 11 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.25%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.25%) Distributed Architecture
7 8 (2.00%) Mobile Banking
8 7 (1.75%) Private Cloud
8 7 (1.75%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (1.50%) EPoS
9 6 (1.50%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.25%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.00%) Blog
11 4 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.00%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 51 (12.75%) Linux
2 16 (4.00%) Unix
3 8 (2.00%) Windows
4 5 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.00%) Android
6 3 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.50%) CentOS
7 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Debian
8 1 (0.25%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.25%) SUSE
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (49.50%) DevOps
2 197 (49.25%) Agile
3 142 (35.50%) Software Engineering
4 138 (34.50%) Computer Science
5 123 (30.75%) Mentoring
6 116 (29.00%) SDLC
7 113 (28.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 110 (27.50%) Design Patterns
9 104 (26.00%) CI/CD
10 95 (23.75%) Configuration Management
11 94 (23.50%) UML
11 94 (23.50%) Waterfall
12 69 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
13 66 (16.50%) Microservices
14 61 (15.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 60 (15.00%) Data Engineering
16 45 (11.25%) Containerisation
17 42 (10.50%) Asset Management
18 41 (10.25%) TDD
19 40 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 126 (31.50%) Java
1 126 (31.50%) Python
2 64 (16.00%) Go
3 39 (9.75%) JavaScript
3 39 (9.75%) SQL
4 29 (7.25%) TypeScript
5 24 (6.00%) Kotlin
6 21 (5.25%) C++
7 14 (3.50%) C
8 8 (2.00%) PHP
9 7 (1.75%) C#
10 6 (1.50%) Bash
10 6 (1.50%) Fortran
11 5 (1.25%) Scala
12 4 (1.00%) Objective-C
12 4 (1.00%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.00%) Swift
13 3 (0.75%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.75%) Embedded C++
13 3 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 163 (40.75%) Degree
2 101 (25.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 94 (23.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 94 (23.50%) Chartered Engineer
4 39 (9.75%) Security Cleared
5 34 (8.50%) SC Cleared
6 25 (6.25%) Master's Degree
7 20 (5.00%) PhD
8 11 (2.75%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.00%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (23.50%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 13 (3.25%) Accessibility
2 13 (3.25%) QA
3 7 (1.75%) GDPR
4 6 (1.50%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.00%) WCAG
6 3 (0.75%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.75%) JTAG
7 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.50%) NIST
8 1 (0.25%) MiFID
8 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 106 (26.50%) Docker
2 6 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.00%) Firmware
3 4 (1.00%) Postfix
4 3 (0.75%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 90 (22.50%) Kubernetes
2 77 (19.25%) Terraform
3 10 (2.50%) AWS Copilot
4 7 (1.75%) Grafana
4 7 (1.75%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.50%) Istio
6 5 (1.25%) Puppet
7 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.50%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.50%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.25%) Ansible
9 1 (0.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (0.25%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 17 (4.25%) Google
2 16 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.50%) Atlassian
4 8 (2.00%) Palantir
5 7 (1.75%) Oracle
6 6 (1.50%) Confluent
7 4 (1.00%) Databricks
7 4 (1.00%) Foundry
7 4 (1.00%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (1.00%) VMware
8 3 (0.75%) Apple
8 3 (0.75%) Citrix
8 3 (0.75%) Informatica
8 3 (0.75%) RedGate
8 3 (0.75%) Talend
9 2 (0.50%) ArcSight
9 2 (0.50%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.50%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.50%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.50%) Splunk