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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 367 258
Rank change year-on-year -52 -109 -42
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 332 312 948
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.72% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.80% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 250 214 669
10th Percentile £46,939 £48,950 £42,500
25th Percentile £59,617 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +14.57% -12.71%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £127,500 £137,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £78,319 £73,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +7.29% +11.51% -12.71%

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 64,347 39,118 73,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.05% 90.53% 82.51%
Number of salaries quoted 45,425 22,207 52,903
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,898 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £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 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -44 143 £92,500 -15.91% 133
North of England 0 80 £75,000 +15.38% 11
North West +23 52 £75,000 +9.48% 2
South East -58 41 £62,500 - 26
South West -34 34 £87,500 +45.83% 18
Yorkshire -21 18 £80,000 +63.27% 9
Midlands -25 16 £64,827 -10.58% 3
West Midlands -13 12 £74,742 +3.09% 3
North East -43 10 £74,742 +42.37%
East of England -14 8 £135,500 +50.56% 14
East Midlands - 4 £55,000 -
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 (3.92%) Apache
1 13 (3.92%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.51%) WordPress
3 4 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.20%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.90%) Apache Solr
4 3 (0.90%) Appian
5 2 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.60%) Camunda
6 1 (0.30%) CMS
6 1 (0.30%) Confluence
6 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.30%) InDesign
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.30%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Line 50
2 2 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 137 (41.27%) AWS
2 92 (27.71%) Azure
3 46 (13.86%) GCP
4 38 (11.45%) GitHub
5 30 (9.04%) Serverless
6 25 (7.53%) Anthropic Claude
7 17 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (5.12%) GitHub Copilot
7 17 (5.12%) OpenShift
8 15 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (4.52%) SaaS
9 14 (4.22%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (3.01%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (3.01%) dbt
11 8 (2.41%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (2.41%) PaaS
11 8 (2.41%) Power Platform
12 6 (1.81%) Amazon EMR
12 6 (1.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.31%) Broadband
2 9 (2.71%) VoIP
3 8 (2.41%) AMQP
4 7 (2.11%) Network Security
5 6 (1.81%) Software-Defined Radio
6 5 (1.51%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.20%) HTTP
8 3 (0.90%) Firewall
8 3 (0.90%) RTP
8 3 (0.90%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.90%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.60%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.60%) DNS
9 2 (0.60%) LAN
9 2 (0.60%) WAN
10 1 (0.30%) LTE
10 1 (0.30%) MQTT
10 1 (0.30%) NX-OS
10 1 (0.30%) SMTP
10 1 (0.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (12.35%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (12.05%) MySQL
3 35 (10.54%) NoSQL
4 33 (9.94%) MongoDB
5 16 (4.82%) Big Data
6 14 (4.22%) SQL Server
7 11 (3.31%) Redis
8 10 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (2.41%) Metadata
9 8 (2.41%) Pinecone
10 7 (2.11%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.81%) Cloudera CDH
11 6 (1.81%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.81%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.51%) Neo4j
13 4 (1.20%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 21 (6.33%) Git
2 20 (6.02%) Jenkins
3 19 (5.72%) Claude Code
4 10 (3.01%) TeamCity
5 6 (1.81%) GitLab
5 6 (1.81%) JIRA
5 6 (1.81%) Selenium
6 3 (0.90%) MLflow
7 2 (0.60%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.60%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.60%) Maven
8 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.30%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.30%) CMake
8 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.30%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.30%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.30%) Valgrind
8 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (20.48%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.87%) Finance
3 38 (11.45%) Public Sector
4 29 (8.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (6.02%) Banking
7 14 (4.22%) Law
7 14 (4.22%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.71%) Legal
9 8 (2.41%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.81%) Advertising
10 6 (1.81%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.81%) Back Office
10 6 (1.81%) Front Office
10 6 (1.81%) Marketing
11 4 (1.20%) Retail
12 3 (0.90%) French Language
12 3 (0.90%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.90%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.90%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 99 (29.82%) Software Engineer
2 70 (21.08%) Senior
3 58 (17.47%) Lead
4 43 (12.95%) Developer
5 35 (10.54%) Architect
6 26 (7.83%) Lead Software Engineer
7 23 (6.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 21 (6.33%) Senior Software Engineer
9 20 (6.02%) Principal Engineer
10 16 (4.82%) Cloud Architect
11 13 (3.92%) Java Engineer
12 11 (3.31%) Data Engineer
12 11 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (3.01%) Java Developer
13 10 (3.01%) Java Software Engineer
13 10 (3.01%) Python Developer
14 9 (2.71%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (2.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (2.71%) Principal Software Engineer
15 8 (2.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (12.05%) Node.js
2 32 (9.64%) RESTful
3 30 (9.04%) REST
4 29 (8.73%) Kafka
5 28 (8.43%) React
6 19 (5.72%) Spring
7 17 (5.12%) Spring Boot
8 13 (3.92%) .NET
8 13 (3.92%) FastAPI
8 13 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
9 12 (3.61%) Flask
10 11 (3.31%) Django
10 11 (3.31%) HTML
11 10 (3.01%) Akka
11 10 (3.01%) CSS
11 10 (3.01%) LangChain
11 10 (3.01%) NumPy
11 10 (3.01%) PyTorch
12 9 (2.71%) LangGraph
12 9 (2.71%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 56 (16.87%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.33%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.52%) Public Cloud
4 12 (3.61%) AI Agents
5 11 (3.31%) Algorithms
5 11 (3.31%) Video\Live Streaming
6 10 (3.01%) Distributed Computing
6 10 (3.01%) Over-the-Top Content
7 8 (2.41%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.41%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.11%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.11%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.11%) Robotics
9 6 (1.81%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.51%) Blog
10 5 (1.51%) FPGA
10 5 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.51%) Mobile Payment
11 4 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 34 (10.24%) Linux
2 12 (3.61%) Windows
3 11 (3.31%) Debian
3 11 (3.31%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.11%) CentOS
4 7 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.11%) Unix
5 5 (1.51%) Android
6 4 (1.20%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.20%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.90%) Gentoo
8 1 (0.30%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.30%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (49.70%) Software Engineering
2 104 (31.33%) Agile
3 95 (28.61%) AI
4 88 (26.51%) CI/CD
5 84 (25.30%) Microservices
6 81 (24.40%) DevOps
7 80 (24.10%) Mentoring
8 61 (18.37%) TDD
9 56 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (14.46%) Containerisation
11 47 (14.16%) Test Automation
12 45 (13.55%) Machine Learning
12 45 (13.55%) Roadmaps
13 43 (12.95%) Analytics
14 42 (12.65%) LLM
15 38 (11.45%) Coaching
16 33 (9.94%) Generative AI
16 33 (9.94%) Infrastructure as Code
17 30 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
18 28 (8.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 112 (33.73%) Python
2 84 (25.30%) Java
3 54 (16.27%) SQL
4 47 (14.16%) JavaScript
5 26 (7.83%) C++
6 24 (7.23%) Scala
7 21 (6.33%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.82%) C
9 15 (4.52%) Go
9 15 (4.52%) PHP
10 11 (3.31%) Bash
11 9 (2.71%) Rust
12 8 (2.41%) Ruby
13 7 (2.11%) C#
13 7 (2.11%) Clojure
13 7 (2.11%) Erlang
14 4 (1.20%) MATLAB
14 4 (1.20%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.90%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.30%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 69 (20.78%) Security Cleared
2 44 (13.25%) Degree
3 39 (11.75%) SC Cleared
4 31 (9.34%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.61%) PhD
6 10 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.11%) DBS Check
7 7 (2.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 6 (1.81%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.20%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.60%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.60%) CISSP
10 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.30%) CISM
11 1 (0.30%) GIAC
11 1 (0.30%) GSEC
11 1 (0.30%) RHCE
11 1 (0.30%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.42%) QA
2 16 (4.82%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.51%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.20%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.20%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.20%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.60%) NIST
5 2 (0.60%) SLA
5 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.30%) MiFID
6 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 52 (15.66%) Docker
2 9 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.90%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.60%) Firmware
5 2 (0.60%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.60%) KVM
6 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) QEMU
6 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.30%) vSphere
6 1 (0.30%) Xen
Systems Management
1 60 (18.07%) Kubernetes
2 43 (12.95%) Terraform
3 16 (4.82%) Ansible
4 8 (2.41%) Istio
4 8 (2.41%) Puppet
5 5 (1.51%) Argo
6 3 (0.90%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (0.90%) Podman
6 3 (0.90%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.60%) Packer
8 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.30%) Grafana
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 32 (9.64%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.83%) Google
3 19 (5.72%) OpenAI
4 10 (3.01%) Oracle
5 9 (2.71%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.41%) Confluent
7 6 (1.81%) SaltStack
8 5 (1.51%) Adobe
9 4 (1.20%) Apple
9 4 (1.20%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.20%) PayPal
9 4 (1.20%) Sage
9 4 (1.20%) VMware
10 3 (0.90%) Automation Anywhere
10 3 (0.90%) BT
10 3 (0.90%) Databricks
10 3 (0.90%) Mitel
10 3 (0.90%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.90%) UiPath
11 2 (0.60%) mParticle