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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 406 263
Rank change year-on-year -2 -143 -22
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 400 233 705
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.54% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.60% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 299 140 378
10th Percentile £46,751 £47,900 £41,250
25th Percentile £63,626 £54,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,000 £73,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.33% +10.61% -5.71%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,313 £85,750
90th Percentile £109,200 £121,375 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.34% +7.41% -3.57%

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 76,510 38,541 55,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.60% 89.13% 82.33%
Number of salaries quoted 53,897 21,791 29,983
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £78,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.93% -2.56%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -32 143 £85,000 - 935
North of England -3 93 £80,000 +37.93% 86
South West -16 63 £100,000 +37.93% 61
South East -43 51 £62,500 -3.85% 81
North West -10 42 £80,000 +23.08% 47
North East -30 37 £74,830 +42.53% 12
Midlands -40 23 £74,654 +2.97% 32
East of England -31 20 £100,000 +128.57% 99
West Midlands -39 15 £74,742 +3.09% 24
Yorkshire -25 14 £83,774 +69.24% 27
East Midlands -33 8 £39,194 -54.27% 8
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 (4.75%) Apache
2 13 (3.25%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.50%) JBoss
4 5 (1.25%) Camunda
4 5 (1.25%) nginx
5 4 (1.00%) WordPress
6 2 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.25%) CMS
7 1 (0.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (0.25%) InDesign
2 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.25%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Line 50
2 2 (0.50%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.25%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 160 (40.00%) AWS
2 89 (22.25%) Azure
3 56 (14.00%) GCP
4 35 (8.75%) GitHub
5 26 (6.50%) Serverless
6 18 (4.50%) Anthropic Claude
7 15 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (3.75%) GitHub Copilot
8 14 (3.50%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (3.50%) Amazon S3
8 14 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (3.50%) SaaS
9 11 (2.75%) dbt
10 10 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (2.50%) OpenShift
11 7 (1.75%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (1.75%) Datadog
11 7 (1.75%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.25%) Amazon Bedrock
12 5 (1.25%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.50%) Firewall
2 10 (2.50%) AMQP
2 10 (2.50%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.00%) Network Security
4 7 (1.75%) Internet
4 7 (1.75%) VoIP
5 6 (1.50%) DHCP
5 6 (1.50%) DNS
5 6 (1.50%) Intrusion Detection
5 6 (1.50%) NX-OS
6 5 (1.25%) SSL
7 3 (0.75%) BGP
7 3 (0.75%) CTI
7 3 (0.75%) VPN
8 2 (0.50%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.50%) MQTT
8 2 (0.50%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (0.50%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.25%) HTTP
9 1 (0.25%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (7.25%) NoSQL
3 28 (7.00%) MySQL
4 26 (6.50%) Big Data
5 22 (5.50%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (2.75%) Metadata
7 10 (2.50%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.00%) Redis
9 7 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.75%) Cloudera CDH
9 7 (1.75%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.75%) DynamoDB
9 7 (1.75%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.00%) FileMaker
10 4 (1.00%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.75%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 26 (6.50%) Git
2 20 (5.00%) GitLab
3 16 (4.00%) Claude Code
4 12 (3.00%) JIRA
5 9 (2.25%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.00%) Subversion
7 7 (1.75%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.00%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.00%) Snyk
8 4 (1.00%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.75%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.75%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.75%) Maven
10 2 (0.50%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.50%) JUnit
10 2 (0.50%) MLflow
10 2 (0.50%) Mockito
11 1 (0.25%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.25%) IDA Disassembler
11 1 (0.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 104 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 69 (17.25%) Public Sector
3 65 (16.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 58 (14.50%) Finance
5 30 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (5.50%) Law
7 18 (4.50%) Legal
8 16 (4.00%) Manufacturing
9 14 (3.50%) Aerospace
10 10 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.00%) Marketing
12 7 (1.75%) Banking
12 7 (1.75%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.50%) Police
14 5 (1.25%) Advertising
14 5 (1.25%) Back Office
14 5 (1.25%) Games
14 5 (1.25%) Retail
15 4 (1.00%) Automotive
16 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 111 (27.75%) Software Engineer
2 101 (25.25%) Lead
3 67 (16.75%) Senior
4 56 (14.00%) Architect
5 44 (11.00%) Lead Software Engineer
6 39 (9.75%) Developer
7 30 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 28 (7.00%) Cloud Architect
9 23 (5.75%) Principal Engineer
10 19 (4.75%) Data Engineer
10 19 (4.75%) Senior Software Engineer
11 17 (4.25%) Principal Software Engineer
12 16 (4.00%) Java Engineer
12 16 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (3.25%) Consultant
13 13 (3.25%) Linux Engineer
14 12 (3.00%) Cloud Engineer
14 12 (3.00%) Senior Developer
15 11 (2.75%) Senior Consultant
16 10 (2.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (11.75%) Terraform
2 38 (9.50%) Node.js
3 29 (7.25%) React
4 23 (5.75%) REST
5 22 (5.50%) LangChain
6 21 (5.25%) HTML
7 20 (5.00%) CSS
7 20 (5.00%) Kafka
7 20 (5.00%) Spring
8 19 (4.75%) RESTful
9 17 (4.25%) LlamaIndex
10 16 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
10 16 (4.00%) Spring Boot
11 12 (3.00%) PyTorch
12 11 (2.75%) OAuth
12 11 (2.75%) TensorFlow
13 10 (2.50%) Model Context Protocol
13 10 (2.50%) OpenAPI
13 10 (2.50%) OpenID
14 9 (2.25%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 64 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 43 (10.75%) Onboarding
3 38 (9.50%) Public Cloud
4 21 (5.25%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (5.00%) Blog
6 19 (4.75%) Management Information System
7 15 (3.75%) AI Agents
8 12 (3.00%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
9 10 (2.50%) Private Cloud
9 10 (2.50%) Security Posture
9 10 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.25%) Algorithms
10 9 (2.25%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.25%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.25%) Social Media
11 7 (1.75%) PKI
11 7 (1.75%) Robotics
12 6 (1.50%) Autonomous Agent
12 6 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 51 (12.75%) Linux
2 20 (5.00%) Windows
3 13 (3.25%) Debian
4 11 (2.75%) Embedded Linux
5 9 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.25%) Ubuntu
6 8 (2.00%) CentOS
7 6 (1.50%) Android
7 6 (1.50%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.50%) Unix
8 4 (1.00%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.75%) Gentoo
10 2 (0.50%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (43.25%) Software Engineering
2 137 (34.25%) Agile
3 134 (33.50%) AI
4 104 (26.00%) CI/CD
5 82 (20.50%) Mentoring
6 77 (19.25%) DevOps
7 72 (18.00%) Microservices
8 69 (17.25%) LLM
9 67 (16.75%) Infrastructure as Code
9 67 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
10 59 (14.75%) Containerisation
11 56 (14.00%) Machine Learning
12 49 (12.25%) Computer Science
13 45 (11.25%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 45 (11.25%) Technical Leadership
14 44 (11.00%) Stakeholder Management
15 41 (10.25%) Coaching
16 40 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 39 (9.75%) Cybersecurity
17 39 (9.75%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 129 (32.25%) Python
2 86 (21.50%) Java
3 60 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 41 (10.25%) SQL
5 34 (8.50%) TypeScript
6 33 (8.25%) C++
7 21 (5.25%) Bash
8 17 (4.25%) C
9 15 (3.75%) Scala
10 13 (3.25%) C#
11 12 (3.00%) PHP
12 11 (2.75%) Go
12 11 (2.75%) Rust
13 10 (2.50%) PowerShell
14 7 (1.75%) Clojure
14 7 (1.75%) Erlang
14 7 (1.75%) Ruby
15 6 (1.50%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.75%) Embedded C++
16 3 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 115 (28.75%) Security Cleared
2 73 (18.25%) Degree
3 63 (15.75%) SC Cleared
4 55 (13.75%) DV Cleared
5 23 (5.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (5.00%) Azure Certification
7 19 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (4.00%) AWS Certification
8 16 (4.00%) PhD
9 10 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (2.50%) Master's Degree
10 9 (2.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 7 (1.75%) CISSP
12 6 (1.50%) CCNA
12 6 (1.50%) CISM
12 6 (1.50%) MCSE
12 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (1.25%) DBS Check
14 4 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.75%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.50%) Accessibility
1 18 (4.50%) QA
2 15 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.50%) NCSC
4 8 (2.00%) WCAG
5 6 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.50%) SLA
6 5 (1.25%) NIST
6 5 (1.25%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.00%) ISO 14001
7 4 (1.00%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.25%) MiFID
9 1 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 38 (9.50%) Docker
2 8 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.50%) vSphere
5 5 (1.25%) Firmware
5 5 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.75%) Active Directory
7 2 (0.50%) KVM
7 2 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.50%) Snort
7 2 (0.50%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.25%) IAG
8 1 (0.25%) QEMU
8 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 54 (13.50%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.50%) Ansible
3 12 (3.00%) Grafana
4 10 (2.50%) Puppet
5 6 (1.50%) FortiGate
5 6 (1.50%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.25%) Nagios
6 5 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.00%) Cilium
7 4 (1.00%) Podman
8 3 (0.75%) Argo
8 3 (0.75%) Packer
9 2 (0.50%) Istio
9 2 (0.50%) linkerd
9 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 31 (7.75%) Google
2 28 (7.00%) Microsoft
3 17 (4.25%) OpenAI
3 17 (4.25%) Red Hat
4 13 (3.25%) Oracle
4 13 (3.25%) Splunk
5 10 (2.50%) VMware
6 9 (2.25%) Atlassian
6 9 (2.25%) YouTube
7 7 (1.75%) Apple
7 7 (1.75%) FIS
7 7 (1.75%) SaltStack
8 6 (1.50%) Adobe
8 6 (1.50%) Cisco
9 5 (1.25%) New Relic
10 4 (1.00%) OutSystems
10 4 (1.00%) Sage
11 3 (0.75%) Databricks
11 3 (0.75%) Intel
11 3 (0.75%) Thales