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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 259 276
Rank change year-on-year -88 +17 -101
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 300 562 573
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 1.17% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.29% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 156 345 443
10th Percentile £35,193 £46,942 £41,650
25th Percentile £52,109 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,308 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +6.06% -12.87%
75th Percentile £85,700 £102,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,875 £125,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £73,151 £69,308 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.54% -0.99% -6.67%

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 43,923 43,618 49,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.63% 91.16% 89.04%
Number of salaries quoted 26,498 21,317 38,753
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,400 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -9 148 £85,000 -20.93% 56
North of England -26 43 £62,500 +2.11% 79
North West +7 34 £67,500 +3.85% 34
East of England +32 32 £30,370 -58.11% 51
South East -66 29 £57,500 +4.55% 103
Midlands -2 21 £55,000 -12.84% 58
South West -20 17 £77,500 -7.50% 53
East Midlands +6 16 £53,029 -3.58% 45
Yorkshire -36 6 £48,750 -1.52% 36
West Midlands 0 5 £66,901 -0.38% 10
North East -2 3 £73,801 +6.48% 9
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 15 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.67%) Appian
3 9 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.67%) Apache
5 7 (2.33%) Anypoint
6 3 (1.00%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.67%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.67%) Confluence
8 1 (0.33%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.33%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.33%) Kinematics
Applications
1 44 (14.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.00%) SAP FS
2 6 (2.00%) Shopify
3 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.33%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 85 (28.33%) AWS
2 78 (26.00%) Azure
3 43 (14.33%) GCP
4 25 (8.33%) Serverless
5 19 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (5.33%) Power Automate
7 15 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (5.00%) PaaS
8 14 (4.67%) Amazon Alexa
8 14 (4.67%) GitHub
9 13 (4.33%) Anthropic Claude
10 11 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (3.33%) Azure AI
12 9 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (3.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (3.00%) IaaS
13 8 (2.67%) Amazon S3
14 7 (2.33%) Boomi
14 7 (2.33%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.00%) Broadband
2 15 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.67%) HTTP
4 6 (2.00%) DNS
5 5 (1.67%) AMQP
5 5 (1.67%) DHCP
6 4 (1.33%) RTP
6 4 (1.33%) SMTP
6 4 (1.33%) VoIP
6 4 (1.33%) WAN
6 4 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.00%) DOCSIS
7 3 (1.00%) DSL
7 3 (1.00%) GPON
7 3 (1.00%) IPv4
7 3 (1.00%) IPv6
7 3 (1.00%) PPP
8 2 (0.67%) Firewall
8 2 (0.67%) Internet
8 2 (0.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.33%) Pinecone
2 15 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 12 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (4.00%) MySQL
3 12 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (3.67%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.67%) Big Data
8 7 (2.33%) Redis
8 7 (2.33%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.00%) Hadoop
9 6 (2.00%) Weaviate
10 5 (1.67%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.67%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.00%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.00%) Sybase ASE
13 2 (0.67%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 25 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.67%) TeamCity
3 20 (6.67%) Git
4 13 (4.33%) JIRA
5 11 (3.67%) MLflow
6 9 (3.00%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.67%) GitLab
7 8 (2.67%) Selenium
8 7 (2.33%) Burp Suite
8 7 (2.33%) Metasploit
9 6 (2.00%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.67%) Vite
11 2 (0.67%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.67%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.67%) Gatling
11 2 (0.67%) Mocha
11 2 (0.67%) Ranorex
11 2 (0.67%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.67%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.67%) webpack
General
1 67 (22.33%) Analytical Skills
2 58 (19.33%) Social Skills
3 29 (9.67%) German Language
4 28 (9.33%) Finance
5 22 (7.33%) Law
6 17 (5.67%) Retail
7 15 (5.00%) Public Sector
8 14 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (4.33%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (3.67%) French Language
10 11 (3.67%) Legal
11 10 (3.33%) Games
11 10 (3.33%) Italian Language
12 9 (3.00%) Dutch Language
13 7 (2.33%) Banking
13 7 (2.33%) Marketing
14 5 (1.67%) Aerospace
15 3 (1.00%) Back Office
15 3 (1.00%) Financial Institution
15 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 103 (34.33%) Senior
2 57 (19.00%) Software Engineer
3 36 (12.00%) Lead
4 34 (11.33%) Architect
5 27 (9.00%) Developer
6 24 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (7.67%) Senior Software Engineer
8 20 (6.67%) Data Engineer
9 18 (6.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 16 (5.33%) Software Architect
11 14 (4.67%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 14 (4.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 12 (4.00%) Scala Engineer
12 12 (4.00%) Senior Developer
13 11 (3.67%) Development Engineer
14 10 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
15 9 (3.00%) IT Architect
15 9 (3.00%) Java Developer
15 9 (3.00%) Lead Architect
15 9 (3.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (10.33%) REST
2 27 (9.00%) React
3 24 (8.00%) Django
4 23 (7.67%) Akka
4 23 (7.67%) PyTorch
5 21 (7.00%) TensorFlow
6 20 (6.67%) Web Services
7 18 (6.00%) Node.js
8 17 (5.67%) RESTful
8 17 (5.67%) scikit-learn
8 17 (5.67%) Spring
8 17 (5.67%) Spring Boot
9 15 (5.00%) FastAPI
9 15 (5.00%) Middleware
9 15 (5.00%) NumPy
9 15 (5.00%) OpenAPI
9 15 (5.00%) Swagger
10 14 (4.67%) Faiss
10 14 (4.67%) Pandas
11 13 (4.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 50 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 36 (12.00%) Onboarding
3 30 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (8.00%) Video\Live Streaming
5 23 (7.67%) Over-the-Top Content
6 16 (5.33%) Low-Code
7 14 (4.67%) Legacy Code
8 12 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (4.00%) Security Posture
9 11 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (3.00%) AI Agents
11 8 (2.67%) Blog
11 8 (2.67%) Product Ownership
12 7 (2.33%) Algorithms
12 7 (2.33%) Insider Threat
12 7 (2.33%) Private Cloud
13 6 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (1.67%) Data Centre
14 5 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (18.00%) Linux
2 18 (6.00%) Unix
3 11 (3.67%) Windows
4 7 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.33%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.67%) CentOS
5 5 (1.67%) Debian
6 4 (1.33%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.00%) Android
7 3 (1.00%) OpenWrt
8 2 (0.67%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.33%) Solaris
9 1 (0.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (34.67%) AI
2 94 (31.33%) Agile
3 91 (30.33%) Problem-Solving
4 77 (25.67%) LLM
4 77 (25.67%) Software Engineering
5 76 (25.33%) CI/CD
6 72 (24.00%) DevOps
7 68 (22.67%) Generative AI
8 67 (22.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 63 (21.00%) Machine Learning
10 54 (18.00%) Analytics
11 48 (16.00%) Analytical Thinking
12 45 (15.00%) Containerisation
13 39 (13.00%) Mentoring
14 36 (12.00%) Computer Science
15 35 (11.67%) Clean Code
15 35 (11.67%) Scrum
16 34 (11.33%) TDD
17 33 (11.00%) Decision-Making
17 33 (11.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 92 (30.67%) Python
2 68 (22.67%) Java
3 39 (13.00%) SQL
4 32 (10.67%) Scala
5 30 (10.00%) C++
6 29 (9.67%) JavaScript
7 27 (9.00%) C
8 20 (6.67%) Go
9 18 (6.00%) TypeScript
10 16 (5.33%) Rust
11 8 (2.67%) Bash
12 7 (2.33%) Kotlin
13 6 (2.00%) R
13 6 (2.00%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.67%) C#
15 4 (1.33%) Fortran
16 1 (0.33%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.33%) PromQL
16 1 (0.33%) Solidity
16 1 (0.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 108 (36.00%) Degree
2 45 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 35 (11.67%) SC Cleared
4 23 (7.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (5.67%) Master's Degree
6 15 (5.00%) DV Cleared
7 14 (4.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (4.33%) Chartered Engineer
9 10 (3.33%) GIAC
10 9 (3.00%) AWS Certification
10 9 (3.00%) CISSP
10 9 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
11 8 (2.67%) OSCP
12 7 (2.33%) CCNA
12 7 (2.33%) CEH
12 7 (2.33%) CISMP
12 7 (2.33%) CREST Certified
12 7 (2.33%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.33%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 12 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 12 (4.00%) QA
4 9 (3.00%) GDPR
4 9 (3.00%) IFRS
4 9 (3.00%) IFRS 17
4 9 (3.00%) Solvency II
5 7 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 7 (2.33%) SLA
6 5 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.67%) NIST
7 4 (1.33%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.00%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.67%) NCSC
10 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 80 (26.67%) Docker
2 16 (5.33%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (4.67%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (1.00%) KVM
4 3 (1.00%) QEMU
5 2 (0.67%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.33%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 98 (32.67%) Kubernetes
2 32 (10.67%) Terraform
3 19 (6.33%) Ansible
4 8 (2.67%) Nmap
5 6 (2.00%) AWS Copilot
6 5 (1.67%) Puppet
7 3 (1.00%) Grafana
7 3 (1.00%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.33%) Argo
8 1 (0.33%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.33%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.33%) Nagios
8 1 (0.33%) WMI
8 1 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 66 (22.00%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.67%) OpenAI
3 19 (6.33%) SAP
4 17 (5.67%) Oracle
5 16 (5.33%) Google
6 11 (3.67%) Databricks
7 10 (3.33%) Automation Anywhere
7 10 (3.33%) UiPath
8 9 (3.00%) Cisco
8 9 (3.00%) Duck Creek
8 9 (3.00%) Guidewire
8 9 (3.00%) IBM
9 8 (2.67%) Informatica
9 8 (2.67%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.67%) SaltStack
9 8 (2.67%) Talend
10 7 (2.33%) IFS
10 7 (2.33%) Jitterbit
10 7 (2.33%) MuleSoft
10 7 (2.33%) SnapLogic