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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 416 259
Rank change year-on-year -5 -157 -19
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 392 238 700
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.56% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.63% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 292 137 386
10th Percentile £46,094 £48,150 £40,625
25th Percentile £66,561 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,000 £73,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +12.33% +11.51% -6.48%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £114,625 £125,000 £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 75,504 37,986 54,786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.43% 88.72% 81.76%
Number of salaries quoted 53,373 21,807 30,739
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,742 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -6.94%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
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 23 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 23 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 -32 144 £85,000 - 833
North of England -2 90 £80,000 +44.80% 87
South West -26 60 £100,000 +37.93% 53
South East -53 49 £62,500 -3.85% 75
North West -8 43 £80,000 +25.49% 48
North East -41 33 £74,830 +42.53% 14
Midlands -46 23 £74,654 +2.97% 26
East of England -27 20 £100,000 +21.21% 99
West Midlands -36 15 £74,742 +3.09% 19
Yorkshire -32 14 £83,774 +69.24% 25
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 19 (4.85%) Apache
2 13 (3.32%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.53%) JBoss
4 5 (1.28%) nginx
4 5 (1.28%) WordPress
5 4 (1.02%) 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
Applications
1 6 (1.53%) 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 (1.02%) Line 50
2 2 (0.51%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 158 (40.31%) AWS
2 87 (22.19%) Azure
3 53 (13.52%) GCP
4 35 (8.93%) GitHub
5 26 (6.63%) Serverless
6 20 (5.10%) Anthropic Claude
7 16 (4.08%) GitHub Copilot
8 15 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (3.06%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.06%) SaaS
11 11 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (2.81%) dbt
11 11 (2.81%) OpenShift
12 10 (2.55%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (1.79%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (1.79%) Datadog
13 7 (1.79%) Power Platform
14 6 (1.53%) Google Gemini
15 5 (1.28%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.06%) Firewall
2 10 (2.55%) AMQP
3 7 (1.79%) Internet
3 7 (1.79%) TCP/IP
3 7 (1.79%) VoIP
4 6 (1.53%) DHCP
4 6 (1.53%) DNS
4 6 (1.53%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (1.53%) Network Security
4 6 (1.53%) NX-OS
5 5 (1.28%) SSL
6 3 (0.77%) CTI
7 2 (0.51%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.51%) MQTT
7 2 (0.51%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.26%) BGP
8 1 (0.26%) HTTP
8 1 (0.26%) VPN
8 1 (0.26%) WAN
8 1 (0.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.40%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 25 (6.38%) Big Data
3 25 (6.38%) MySQL
4 22 (5.61%) MongoDB
5 11 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.55%) Metadata
6 10 (2.55%) SQL Server
7 7 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.79%) Cloudera CDH
7 7 (1.79%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.79%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.79%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.53%) Redis
9 5 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.02%) FileMaker
10 4 (1.02%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.02%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (6.38%) Git
2 19 (4.85%) GitLab
3 17 (4.34%) Claude Code
4 12 (3.06%) JIRA
5 10 (2.55%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.04%) Subversion
7 7 (1.79%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.02%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.02%) Snyk
9 3 (0.77%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.77%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.77%) Maven
9 3 (0.77%) Selenium
10 2 (0.51%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.51%) MLflow
10 2 (0.51%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.26%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.26%) IDA Disassembler
11 1 (0.26%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 100 (25.51%) Social Skills
2 62 (15.82%) Public Sector
3 60 (15.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 58 (14.80%) Finance
5 30 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (5.87%) Law
7 18 (4.59%) Legal
8 16 (4.08%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.32%) Aerospace
10 10 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.30%) Banking
12 8 (2.04%) Marketing
13 6 (1.53%) Advertising
13 6 (1.53%) Police
14 5 (1.28%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.28%) Games
14 5 (1.28%) Retail
15 4 (1.02%) Automotive
15 4 (1.02%) Front Office
16 3 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 109 (27.81%) Software Engineer
2 98 (25.00%) Lead
3 66 (16.84%) Senior
4 54 (13.78%) Architect
5 42 (10.71%) Lead Software Engineer
6 39 (9.95%) Developer
7 29 (7.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 28 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
9 24 (6.12%) Principal Engineer
10 21 (5.36%) Senior Software Engineer
11 17 (4.34%) Data Engineer
11 17 (4.34%) Principal Software Engineer
12 15 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (3.57%) Java Engineer
14 13 (3.32%) Consultant
14 13 (3.32%) Linux Engineer
15 12 (3.06%) Senior Developer
16 11 (2.81%) Senior Consultant
17 10 (2.55%) Embedded Engineer
18 9 (2.30%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (11.22%) Terraform
2 43 (10.97%) Node.js
3 32 (8.16%) React
4 24 (6.12%) REST
5 21 (5.36%) HTML
5 21 (5.36%) LangChain
6 20 (5.10%) CSS
6 20 (5.10%) Kafka
7 18 (4.59%) Spring
8 16 (4.08%) LlamaIndex
8 16 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
8 16 (4.08%) RESTful
9 14 (3.57%) Spring Boot
10 13 (3.32%) PyTorch
11 12 (3.06%) TensorFlow
12 10 (2.55%) FastAPI
12 10 (2.55%) Model Context Protocol
12 10 (2.55%) OAuth
12 10 (2.55%) scikit-learn
13 9 (2.30%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 63 (16.07%) Cloud Native
2 42 (10.71%) Onboarding
3 36 (9.18%) Public Cloud
4 19 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (4.08%) Blog
6 15 (3.83%) AI Agents
6 15 (3.83%) Management Information System
7 12 (3.06%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.55%) Data Structures
8 10 (2.55%) Distributed Computing
8 10 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.30%) Algorithms
9 9 (2.30%) Private Cloud
9 9 (2.30%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.30%) Social Media
10 8 (2.04%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.79%) PKI
11 7 (1.79%) Robotics
12 6 (1.53%) Autonomous Agent
13 5 (1.28%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.50%) Linux
2 19 (4.85%) Windows
3 13 (3.32%) Debian
4 11 (2.81%) Embedded Linux
5 9 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.30%) Ubuntu
6 8 (2.04%) CentOS
7 6 (1.53%) Android
7 6 (1.53%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.53%) Unix
8 4 (1.02%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.77%) Gentoo
10 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (44.39%) Software Engineering
2 135 (34.44%) AI
3 132 (33.67%) Agile
4 100 (25.51%) CI/CD
5 83 (21.17%) Mentoring
6 80 (20.41%) DevOps
7 71 (18.11%) Microservices
8 69 (17.60%) LLM
9 67 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
10 62 (15.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 58 (14.80%) Containerisation
11 58 (14.80%) Machine Learning
12 47 (11.99%) Computer Science
13 43 (10.97%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 43 (10.97%) Stakeholder Management
14 41 (10.46%) Technical Leadership
15 40 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 40 (10.20%) Roadmaps
16 38 (9.69%) Coaching
16 38 (9.69%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 124 (31.63%) Python
2 80 (20.41%) Java
3 63 (16.07%) JavaScript
4 37 (9.44%) TypeScript
5 36 (9.18%) SQL
6 33 (8.42%) C++
7 21 (5.36%) Bash
8 17 (4.34%) C
9 14 (3.57%) Scala
10 13 (3.32%) C#
10 13 (3.32%) PHP
11 12 (3.06%) Rust
12 9 (2.30%) Go
12 9 (2.30%) PowerShell
13 7 (1.79%) Clojure
13 7 (1.79%) Erlang
13 7 (1.79%) Ruby
14 5 (1.28%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.77%) Embedded C++
15 3 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 110 (28.06%) Security Cleared
2 70 (17.86%) Degree
3 60 (15.31%) SC Cleared
4 54 (13.78%) DV Cleared
5 21 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (4.59%) Azure Certification
6 18 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (3.83%) PhD
8 14 (3.57%) AWS Certification
9 10 (2.55%) Master's Degree
10 9 (2.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 8 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.53%) CCNA
12 6 (1.53%) MCSE
12 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (1.28%) CISSP
13 5 (1.28%) DBS Check
14 4 (1.02%) CISM
15 3 (0.77%) GSEC
16 2 (0.51%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.10%) QA
2 18 (4.59%) Accessibility
3 15 (3.83%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.30%) NCSC
5 8 (2.04%) WCAG
6 6 (1.53%) SLA
7 4 (1.02%) ISO 14001
7 4 (1.02%) ISO 9001
7 4 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.77%) NIST
8 3 (0.77%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.26%) MiFID
9 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 37 (9.44%) Docker
2 8 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.53%) vSphere
5 5 (1.28%) Firmware
5 5 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.77%) Active Directory
7 2 (0.51%) KVM
7 2 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.26%) IAG
8 1 (0.26%) QEMU
8 1 (0.26%) Snort
8 1 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 49 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.59%) Ansible
3 10 (2.55%) Puppet
4 8 (2.04%) Grafana
5 6 (1.53%) FortiGate
5 6 (1.53%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.28%) Nagios
6 5 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.02%) Argo
7 4 (1.02%) Podman
8 3 (0.77%) Packer
9 2 (0.51%) Cilium
9 2 (0.51%) Istio
9 2 (0.51%) linkerd
9 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 30 (7.65%) Google
1 30 (7.65%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.59%) OpenAI
3 17 (4.34%) Red Hat
4 13 (3.32%) Oracle
5 11 (2.81%) Splunk
6 9 (2.30%) VMware
6 9 (2.30%) YouTube
7 8 (2.04%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.79%) Apple
8 7 (1.79%) FIS
8 7 (1.79%) SaltStack
9 6 (1.53%) Adobe
9 6 (1.53%) Cisco
10 5 (1.28%) New Relic
11 4 (1.02%) OutSystems
11 4 (1.02%) Sage
12 3 (0.77%) Databricks
12 3 (0.77%) Intel
13 2 (0.51%) TIBCO