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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 419 259
Rank change year-on-year 0 -160 -20
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 347 251 776
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.57% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.64% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 259 151 525
10th Percentile £49,388 £47,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £59,375 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +14.57% -9.08%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £84,964
90th Percentile £123,750 £127,500 £97,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +9.59% +11.51% -7.19%

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 69,384 39,107 59,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.66% 89.38% 81.32%
Number of salaries quoted 48,904 22,532 38,701
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -19 149 £90,000 -5.26% 342
North of England -18 65 £80,000 +35.59% 37
South West -14 55 £98,000 +56.80% 29
South East -38 44 £63,750 -12.07% 41
North West +6 35 £80,000 +16.78% 18
Midlands -21 17 £74,742 +3.09% 17
North East -49 17 £74,830 +42.53% 10
East of England -17 13 £100,000 +11.11% 38
West Midlands -23 13 £74,830 +3.21% 16
Yorkshire -33 13 £83,774 +70.97% 9
East Midlands -23 4 £39,194 -54.27% 1
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 (5.19%) Apache
2 11 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.73%) JBoss
4 5 (1.44%) nginx
4 5 (1.44%) WordPress
5 4 (1.15%) Camunda
6 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.86%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.86%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.58%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.29%) CMS
8 1 (0.29%) Confluence
8 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (0.29%) InDesign
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.29%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.29%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.15%) Line 50
2 1 (0.29%) Magento
2 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 148 (42.65%) AWS
2 88 (25.36%) Azure
3 48 (13.83%) GCP
4 35 (10.09%) GitHub
5 27 (7.78%) Serverless
6 23 (6.63%) Anthropic Claude
7 19 (5.48%) GitHub Copilot
8 18 (5.19%) OpenShift
9 14 (4.03%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (3.17%) Amazon S3
11 11 (3.17%) dbt
11 11 (3.17%) SaaS
12 10 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (2.31%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (2.31%) Power Platform
14 7 (2.02%) Amazon EMR
15 6 (1.73%) Amazon Bedrock
15 6 (1.73%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.31%) AMQP
2 6 (1.73%) Firewall
2 6 (1.73%) Network Security
2 6 (1.73%) SSL
2 6 (1.73%) VoIP
3 5 (1.44%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (1.15%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (0.58%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (0.58%) DNS
5 2 (0.58%) HTTP
5 2 (0.58%) Internet
5 2 (0.58%) LAN
5 2 (0.58%) MQTT
5 2 (0.58%) WAN
6 1 (0.29%) DHCP
6 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.29%) SMTP
6 1 (0.29%) VLAN
6 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.65%) NoSQL
1 30 (8.65%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (8.07%) MySQL
3 22 (6.34%) Big Data
3 22 (6.34%) MongoDB
4 11 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (2.88%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.59%) Metadata
7 7 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (2.02%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.02%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.02%) Redis
8 5 (1.44%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (1.44%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.44%) Neo4j
9 4 (1.15%) FileMaker
9 4 (1.15%) Pinecone
10 3 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.86%) GIS
Development Applications
1 24 (6.92%) Git
2 21 (6.05%) Claude Code
3 13 (3.75%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.59%) GitLab
5 7 (2.02%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.02%) Selenium
5 7 (2.02%) Subversion
6 6 (1.73%) JIRA
7 4 (1.15%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.86%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.86%) Maven
9 2 (0.58%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.58%) Snyk
10 1 (0.29%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.29%) Codeship
10 1 (0.29%) DBeaver
10 1 (0.29%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.29%) IDA Disassembler
10 1 (0.29%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 76 (21.90%) Social Skills
2 59 (17.00%) Finance
3 46 (13.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 41 (11.82%) Public Sector
5 30 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (5.48%) Banking
6 19 (5.48%) Law
7 16 (4.61%) Manufacturing
8 14 (4.03%) Legal
9 10 (2.88%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.31%) Marketing
10 8 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.73%) Advertising
12 5 (1.44%) Back Office
12 5 (1.44%) Front Office
12 5 (1.44%) Tech for Good
13 4 (1.15%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.58%) Games
14 2 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 100 (28.82%) Software Engineer
2 78 (22.48%) Lead
3 68 (19.60%) Senior
4 46 (13.26%) Architect
5 36 (10.37%) Lead Software Engineer
6 31 (8.93%) Developer
7 27 (7.78%) Principal Engineer
8 24 (6.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 24 (6.92%) Senior Software Engineer
9 23 (6.63%) Cloud Architect
10 17 (4.90%) Data Engineer
11 15 (4.32%) Principal Software Engineer
12 14 (4.03%) Consultant
12 14 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (3.17%) Senior Consultant
14 9 (2.59%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (2.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (2.59%) Java Engineer
15 8 (2.31%) AWS DevOps
15 8 (2.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (11.82%) Node.js
2 33 (9.51%) Kafka
3 29 (8.36%) React
4 23 (6.63%) REST
5 17 (4.90%) RESTful
5 17 (4.90%) Spring
6 16 (4.61%) RabbitMQ
7 14 (4.03%) HTML
8 13 (3.75%) .NET
8 13 (3.75%) CSS
8 13 (3.75%) LangChain
9 12 (3.46%) PyTorch
9 12 (3.46%) Spring Boot
10 11 (3.17%) TensorFlow
11 9 (2.59%) Model Context Protocol
11 9 (2.59%) NumPy
11 9 (2.59%) Pandas
12 8 (2.31%) FastAPI
12 8 (2.31%) LlamaIndex
12 8 (2.31%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 53 (15.27%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.36%) Public Cloud
3 28 (8.07%) Onboarding
4 20 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (3.75%) AI Agents
6 12 (3.46%) Blog
6 12 (3.46%) Distributed Computing
7 10 (2.88%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.59%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.31%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.31%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.31%) Security Posture
10 7 (2.02%) Management Information System
10 7 (2.02%) Private Cloud
10 7 (2.02%) Robotics
10 7 (2.02%) Social Media
11 5 (1.44%) Hackathon
11 5 (1.44%) Mobile Payment
11 5 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.15%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 40 (11.53%) Linux
2 13 (3.75%) Windows
3 11 (3.17%) Debian
4 7 (2.02%) CentOS
4 7 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.02%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.73%) Unix
6 4 (1.15%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.86%) Android
7 3 (0.86%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.86%) Gentoo
8 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.29%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.29%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (46.97%) Software Engineering
2 113 (32.56%) AI
3 111 (31.99%) Agile
4 81 (23.34%) CI/CD
5 78 (22.48%) DevOps
6 75 (21.61%) Microservices
7 68 (19.60%) Mentoring
8 57 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (14.70%) Containerisation
10 49 (14.12%) LLM
10 49 (14.12%) Machine Learning
11 43 (12.39%) Infrastructure as Code
12 42 (12.10%) Roadmaps
13 38 (10.95%) Analytics
14 36 (10.37%) TDD
14 36 (10.37%) Test Automation
15 34 (9.80%) Cybersecurity
16 33 (9.51%) Computer Science
17 30 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
17 30 (8.65%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 115 (33.14%) Python
2 69 (19.88%) Java
3 51 (14.70%) JavaScript
4 35 (10.09%) SQL
5 28 (8.07%) C++
6 21 (6.05%) TypeScript
7 20 (5.76%) Bash
8 18 (5.19%) C
9 16 (4.61%) Go
10 14 (4.03%) PHP
11 13 (3.75%) C#
12 12 (3.46%) Rust
12 12 (3.46%) Scala
13 7 (2.02%) Clojure
13 7 (2.02%) Erlang
13 7 (2.02%) Ruby
14 4 (1.15%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.15%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.86%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 94 (27.09%) Security Cleared
2 57 (16.43%) Degree
3 53 (15.27%) SC Cleared
4 45 (12.97%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.32%) PhD
6 14 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.88%) Azure Certification
9 9 (2.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 8 (2.31%) Master's Degree
11 7 (2.02%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.15%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.86%) CISSP
14 2 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.58%) CISM
14 2 (0.58%) GIAC
14 2 (0.58%) GSEC
15 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.29%) RHCE
15 1 (0.29%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.76%) QA
2 14 (4.03%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.59%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.15%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.15%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.15%) NCSC
5 3 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.58%) NIST
6 2 (0.58%) SLA
6 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.29%) MiFID
7 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (12.68%) Docker
2 10 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.44%) Firmware
3 5 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.86%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.86%) KVM
4 3 (0.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.29%) IAG
6 1 (0.29%) QEMU
6 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.29%) vSphere
6 1 (0.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 53 (15.27%) Kubernetes
2 46 (13.26%) Terraform
3 18 (5.19%) Ansible
4 9 (2.59%) Istio
5 8 (2.31%) Puppet
6 5 (1.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.44%) Nagios
6 5 (1.44%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.15%) Podman
8 3 (0.86%) Argo
8 3 (0.86%) Grafana
8 3 (0.86%) Packer
9 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.29%) Cilium
10 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.29%) linkerd
10 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.29%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 25 (7.20%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.63%) Google
3 19 (5.48%) OpenAI
4 14 (4.03%) Red Hat
5 12 (3.46%) Oracle
6 8 (2.31%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.31%) Confluent
7 7 (2.02%) Splunk
8 6 (1.73%) Adobe
9 5 (1.44%) Databricks
9 5 (1.44%) New Relic
9 5 (1.44%) SaltStack
9 5 (1.44%) VMware
10 4 (1.15%) Apple
10 4 (1.15%) Sage
11 2 (0.58%) Cisco
11 2 (0.58%) IBM
11 2 (0.58%) OutSystems
11 2 (0.58%) TIBCO
11 2 (0.58%) YouTube