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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 390 259
Rank change year-on-year -48 -131 -28
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 320 282 866
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.65% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.72% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 253 184 606
10th Percentile £46,939 £48,325 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,188 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +15.38% -10.34%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £127,000 £137,500 £98,750
UK median annual salary £78,319 £74,080 £65,465
% change year-on-year +5.72% +13.16% -9.70%

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 65,658 38,950 66,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.80% 90.00% 82.04%
Number of salaries quoted 46,449 22,420 46,231
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,669 £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 £74,280
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -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 23 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 23 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 -42 134 £92,500 -11.90% 231
North of England 0 73 £75,000 +15.38% 26
North West +16 43 £75,000 +9.48% 17
South East -32 43 £62,500 -13.79% 30
South West -26 40 £90,000 +50.00% 21
Yorkshire -21 18 £80,000 +63.27% 6
Midlands -27 14 £74,742 +3.09% 8
West Midlands -28 13 £74,830 +3.21% 6
North East -48 12 £74,742 +42.37% 3
East of England -9 8 £135,500 +33.83% 17
East Midlands - 1 £39,194 - 2
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 12 (3.75%) Apache
2 10 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.56%) WordPress
4 4 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.25%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.94%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.63%) Appian
6 2 (0.63%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.63%) Camunda
7 1 (0.31%) CMS
7 1 (0.31%) Confluence
7 1 (0.31%) JBoss
7 1 (0.31%) nginx
7 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.31%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (0.31%) InDesign
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.31%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Line 50
2 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 139 (43.44%) AWS
2 87 (27.19%) Azure
3 38 (11.88%) GCP
4 36 (11.25%) GitHub
5 27 (8.44%) Serverless
6 24 (7.50%) Anthropic Claude
7 18 (5.63%) GitHub Copilot
8 16 (5.00%) OpenShift
9 15 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.38%) Cloud Computing
10 14 (4.38%) dbt
11 13 (4.06%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (4.06%) SaaS
12 11 (3.44%) Amazon S3
13 9 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.50%) Amazon MSK
14 8 (2.50%) PaaS
15 7 (2.19%) Amazon EMR
15 7 (2.19%) Power Platform
16 6 (1.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.50%) VoIP
2 7 (2.19%) AMQP
3 6 (1.88%) Network Security
4 5 (1.56%) Software-Defined Radio
4 5 (1.56%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.25%) HTTP
6 3 (0.94%) Firewall
7 2 (0.63%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.63%) DNS
7 2 (0.63%) LAN
7 2 (0.63%) MQTT
7 2 (0.63%) RTP
7 2 (0.63%) SSL
7 2 (0.63%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.63%) WAN
7 2 (0.63%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.31%) DHCP
8 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.31%) SMTP
8 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (13.44%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (12.19%) MySQL
2 39 (12.19%) NoSQL
3 33 (10.31%) MongoDB
4 15 (4.69%) Big Data
5 12 (3.75%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (3.13%) Redis
8 7 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.19%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.19%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.19%) Metadata
9 6 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.88%) Pinecone
10 5 (1.56%) Neo4j
11 4 (1.25%) FileMaker
11 4 (1.25%) GIS
11 4 (1.25%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 20 (6.25%) Claude Code
2 17 (5.31%) Git
3 12 (3.75%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.19%) GitLab
4 7 (2.19%) Selenium
5 6 (1.88%) JIRA
6 3 (0.94%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.63%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.63%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.63%) Maven
7 2 (0.63%) MLflow
8 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.31%) CMake
8 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.31%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.31%) Eclipse RCP
8 1 (0.31%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.31%) Valgrind
8 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 72 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 50 (15.63%) Finance
3 39 (12.19%) Public Sector
4 32 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (6.25%) Banking
7 15 (4.69%) Manufacturing
8 14 (4.38%) Law
9 8 (2.50%) Legal
9 8 (2.50%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.88%) Advertising
10 6 (1.88%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.56%) Back Office
11 5 (1.56%) Front Office
12 4 (1.25%) Marketing
13 3 (0.94%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.63%) Electronics
14 2 (0.63%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 97 (30.31%) Software Engineer
2 61 (19.06%) Senior
3 60 (18.75%) Lead
4 43 (13.44%) Architect
5 36 (11.25%) Developer
6 31 (9.69%) Lead Software Engineer
7 23 (7.19%) Principal Engineer
8 20 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 20 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
9 19 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (4.38%) Java Engineer
10 14 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (3.75%) Principal Software Engineer
12 11 (3.44%) Consultant
12 11 (3.44%) Data Engineer
13 10 (3.13%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (2.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (2.81%) Python Developer
15 8 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (12.81%) Node.js
2 30 (9.38%) RESTful
3 29 (9.06%) Kafka
4 24 (7.50%) React
4 24 (7.50%) REST
5 16 (5.00%) Spring
6 14 (4.38%) Spring Boot
7 12 (3.75%) .NET
8 11 (3.44%) FastAPI
8 11 (3.44%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (3.13%) Flask
9 10 (3.13%) HTML
9 10 (3.13%) PyTorch
10 9 (2.81%) CSS
10 9 (2.81%) Django
11 8 (2.50%) LangChain
11 8 (2.50%) Model Context Protocol
11 8 (2.50%) NumPy
11 8 (2.50%) Pandas
11 8 (2.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 52 (16.25%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.56%) Public Cloud
3 20 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 18 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.75%) Distributed Computing
6 10 (3.13%) AI Agents
6 10 (3.13%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.81%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.50%) Security Posture
9 7 (2.19%) Robotics
10 6 (1.88%) Blog
10 6 (1.88%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.56%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.56%) Mobile Payment
11 5 (1.56%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.25%) Autonomous Agent
12 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.25%) FPGA
12 4 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.25%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.94%) Linux
2 12 (3.75%) Windows
3 10 (3.13%) Debian
4 8 (2.50%) Ubuntu
4 8 (2.50%) Unix
5 5 (1.56%) CentOS
5 5 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.25%) Android
6 4 (1.25%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.94%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.94%) Gentoo
8 1 (0.31%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.31%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (50.63%) Software Engineering
2 100 (31.25%) Agile
3 93 (29.06%) AI
4 84 (26.25%) Microservices
5 83 (25.94%) CI/CD
6 78 (24.38%) DevOps
7 75 (23.44%) Mentoring
8 53 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (15.94%) TDD
10 47 (14.69%) Test Automation
11 46 (14.38%) Containerisation
11 46 (14.38%) Roadmaps
12 39 (12.19%) LLM
12 39 (12.19%) Machine Learning
13 34 (10.63%) Coaching
13 34 (10.63%) Infrastructure as Code
14 31 (9.69%) Cybersecurity
14 31 (9.69%) Migration
15 30 (9.38%) Analytics
15 30 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 107 (33.44%) Python
2 82 (25.63%) Java
3 49 (15.31%) SQL
4 46 (14.38%) JavaScript
5 27 (8.44%) C++
6 20 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.31%) C
8 15 (4.69%) Go
9 14 (4.38%) Bash
9 14 (4.38%) PHP
10 11 (3.44%) Rust
10 11 (3.44%) Scala
11 8 (2.50%) C#
11 8 (2.50%) Ruby
12 7 (2.19%) Clojure
12 7 (2.19%) Erlang
13 4 (1.25%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.25%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.94%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.31%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 80 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 48 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 47 (14.69%) Degree
4 34 (10.63%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.44%) PhD
7 8 (2.50%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 5 (1.56%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.94%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.63%) CISSP
11 1 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.31%) CISM
11 1 (0.31%) GIAC
11 1 (0.31%) GSEC
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.31%) RHCE
11 1 (0.31%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.63%) QA
2 16 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.56%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.25%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.25%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.94%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.63%) NIST
6 2 (0.63%) SLA
6 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.31%) MiFID
7 1 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 45 (14.06%) Docker
2 10 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.94%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.94%) Firmware
4 3 (0.94%) KVM
5 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.63%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.31%) QEMU
6 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.31%) vSphere
6 1 (0.31%) Xen
Systems Management
1 50 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 43 (13.44%) Terraform
3 16 (5.00%) Ansible
4 8 (2.50%) Istio
5 7 (2.19%) Puppet
6 4 (1.25%) Argo
6 4 (1.25%) Podman
7 3 (0.94%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (0.94%) Packer
7 3 (0.94%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.31%) Grafana
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.31%) Nagios
9 1 (0.31%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.31%) QRadar
9 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (7.81%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.19%) Google
3 21 (6.56%) OpenAI
4 9 (2.81%) Oracle
5 8 (2.50%) Confluent
6 7 (2.19%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.56%) Adobe
7 5 (1.56%) VMware
8 4 (1.25%) Apple
8 4 (1.25%) Sage
8 4 (1.25%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.94%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.94%) Databricks
9 3 (0.94%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.94%) Splunk
10 2 (0.63%) Automation Anywhere
10 2 (0.63%) BT
10 2 (0.63%) Mitel
10 2 (0.63%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.63%) UiPath