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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 418 261
Rank change year-on-year +10 -157 -15
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 399 232 703
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 297 139 376
10th Percentile £46,563 £47,800 £41,250
25th Percentile £63,626 £54,250 £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 £95,625 £85,250
90th Percentile £109,400 £121,500 £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 76,388 38,475 54,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.58% 89.15% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 53,883 21,744 29,840
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,215 £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 £78,267
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,274
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%

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 1 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 1 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 -31 142 £85,000 - 728
North of England -11 94 £80,000 +37.93% 83
South West -23 62 £100,000 +37.93% 54
South East -53 51 £62,500 -3.85% 68
North West -6 43 £80,000 +23.08% 46
North East -34 37 £74,830 +42.53% 11
Midlands -36 23 £74,654 +2.97% 30
East of England -19 20 £100,000 +128.57% 90
West Midlands -43 15 £74,742 +3.09% 23
Yorkshire -27 14 £83,774 +69.24% 26
East Midlands -28 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 (4.76%) Apache
2 13 (3.26%) 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%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
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
1 161 (40.35%) AWS
2 91 (22.81%) Azure
3 56 (14.04%) GCP
4 35 (8.77%) GitHub
5 27 (6.77%) Serverless
6 20 (5.01%) Anthropic Claude
7 16 (4.01%) GitHub Copilot
8 15 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (3.26%) Amazon S3
10 13 (3.26%) SaaS
11 11 (2.76%) dbt
11 11 (2.76%) OpenShift
12 10 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (1.75%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (1.75%) Datadog
13 7 (1.75%) Power Platform
14 6 (1.50%) Google Gemini
15 5 (1.25%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.26%) Firewall
2 10 (2.51%) AMQP
3 9 (2.26%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.75%) Internet
4 7 (1.75%) Network Security
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%) CTI
8 2 (0.50%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.50%) BGP
8 2 (0.50%) MQTT
8 2 (0.50%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (0.50%) VPN
8 2 (0.50%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.25%) 5G
9 1 (0.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (7.52%) NoSQL
3 27 (6.77%) MySQL
4 25 (6.27%) Big Data
5 24 (6.02%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (2.76%) Metadata
7 10 (2.51%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.75%) Cloudera CDH
8 7 (1.75%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.75%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.75%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.50%) Redis
10 4 (1.00%) FileMaker
10 4 (1.00%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.00%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (6.27%) Git
2 20 (5.01%) GitLab
3 17 (4.26%) Claude Code
4 12 (3.01%) JIRA
5 10 (2.51%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.01%) Subversion
7 7 (1.75%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.00%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.00%) Snyk
9 3 (0.75%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.75%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.75%) Maven
9 3 (0.75%) TeamCity
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%) CMake
11 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.25%) Valgrind
General
1 103 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 68 (17.04%) Public Sector
3 64 (16.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 58 (14.54%) Finance
5 30 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (5.76%) Law
7 18 (4.51%) Legal
8 16 (4.01%) Manufacturing
9 14 (3.51%) Aerospace
10 10 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.01%) Banking
11 8 (2.01%) Marketing
12 6 (1.50%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.50%) Police
13 5 (1.25%) Advertising
13 5 (1.25%) Games
13 5 (1.25%) Retail
14 4 (1.00%) Automotive
14 4 (1.00%) Back Office
15 3 (0.75%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 111 (27.82%) Software Engineer
2 101 (25.31%) Lead
3 66 (16.54%) Senior
4 56 (14.04%) Architect
5 43 (10.78%) Lead Software Engineer
6 39 (9.77%) Developer
7 31 (7.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 28 (7.02%) Cloud Architect
9 23 (5.76%) Principal Engineer
10 20 (5.01%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (4.51%) Data Engineer
12 16 (4.01%) Java Engineer
12 16 (4.01%) Principal Software Engineer
12 16 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (3.26%) Consultant
13 13 (3.26%) Linux Engineer
14 12 (3.01%) Senior Developer
15 11 (2.76%) Senior Consultant
16 10 (2.51%) Cloud Engineer
16 10 (2.51%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (11.53%) Terraform
2 40 (10.03%) Node.js
3 31 (7.77%) React
4 24 (6.02%) REST
5 23 (5.76%) LangChain
6 21 (5.26%) HTML
7 20 (5.01%) CSS
7 20 (5.01%) Spring
8 19 (4.76%) Kafka
8 19 (4.76%) RESTful
9 18 (4.51%) LlamaIndex
10 16 (4.01%) RabbitMQ
10 16 (4.01%) Spring Boot
11 13 (3.26%) PyTorch
12 12 (3.01%) TensorFlow
13 11 (2.76%) OAuth
14 10 (2.51%) FastAPI
14 10 (2.51%) OpenAPI
14 10 (2.51%) OpenID
14 10 (2.51%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 65 (16.29%) Cloud Native
2 43 (10.78%) Onboarding
3 37 (9.27%) Public Cloud
4 20 (5.01%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (4.51%) Blog
5 18 (4.51%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.76%) AI Agents
7 12 (3.01%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.51%) Distributed Computing
8 10 (2.51%) Private Cloud
8 10 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.26%) Algorithms
9 9 (2.26%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.26%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.26%) Security Posture
9 9 (2.26%) Social Media
10 7 (1.75%) PKI
10 7 (1.75%) Robotics
11 6 (1.50%) Autonomous Agent
11 6 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 50 (12.53%) Linux
2 20 (5.01%) Windows
3 13 (3.26%) Debian
4 11 (2.76%) Embedded Linux
5 9 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.26%) Ubuntu
6 8 (2.01%) 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
1 174 (43.61%) Software Engineering
2 137 (34.34%) Agile
3 136 (34.09%) AI
4 104 (26.07%) CI/CD
5 83 (20.80%) Mentoring
6 80 (20.05%) DevOps
7 72 (18.05%) Microservices
8 70 (17.54%) LLM
9 67 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
10 66 (16.54%) Infrastructure as Code
11 60 (15.04%) Containerisation
12 58 (14.54%) Machine Learning
13 49 (12.28%) Computer Science
14 46 (11.53%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
15 45 (11.28%) Technical Leadership
16 44 (11.03%) Stakeholder Management
17 41 (10.28%) Coaching
18 40 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
19 39 (9.77%) Cybersecurity
19 39 (9.77%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 130 (32.58%) Python
2 84 (21.05%) Java
3 61 (15.29%) JavaScript
4 39 (9.77%) SQL
5 36 (9.02%) TypeScript
6 33 (8.27%) C++
7 21 (5.26%) Bash
8 17 (4.26%) C
9 14 (3.51%) Scala
10 13 (3.26%) C#
11 12 (3.01%) PHP
12 11 (2.76%) Rust
13 10 (2.51%) Go
13 10 (2.51%) PowerShell
14 7 (1.75%) Clojure
14 7 (1.75%) Erlang
14 7 (1.75%) Ruby
15 5 (1.25%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.75%) Embedded C++
16 3 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 114 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 73 (18.30%) Degree
3 62 (15.54%) SC Cleared
4 54 (13.53%) DV Cleared
5 23 (5.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (5.01%) Azure Certification
7 19 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (4.01%) AWS Certification
8 16 (4.01%) PhD
9 10 (2.51%) Master's Degree
10 9 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (2.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 6 (1.50%) CCNA
11 6 (1.50%) CISSP
11 6 (1.50%) MCSE
11 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.25%) CISM
12 5 (1.25%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.75%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.51%) Accessibility
1 18 (4.51%) QA
2 15 (3.76%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.51%) NCSC
4 8 (2.01%) WCAG
5 6 (1.50%) SLA
6 5 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.00%) ISO 14001
7 4 (1.00%) ISO 9001
7 4 (1.00%) NIST
7 4 (1.00%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.50%) 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 (9.52%) Docker
2 8 (2.01%) 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 (13.53%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.51%) Ansible
3 10 (2.51%) Grafana
3 10 (2.51%) Puppet
4 6 (1.50%) FortiGate
4 6 (1.50%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (1.25%) Nagios
5 5 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.00%) Argo
6 4 (1.00%) Podman
7 3 (0.75%) Cilium
7 3 (0.75%) Packer
8 2 (0.50%) Istio
8 2 (0.50%) linkerd
8 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 31 (7.77%) Google
2 29 (7.27%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.51%) OpenAI
4 17 (4.26%) Red Hat
5 13 (3.26%) Oracle
5 13 (3.26%) Splunk
6 10 (2.51%) VMware
7 9 (2.26%) YouTube
8 8 (2.01%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.75%) Apple
9 7 (1.75%) FIS
9 7 (1.75%) SaltStack
10 6 (1.50%) Adobe
10 6 (1.50%) Cisco
11 5 (1.25%) New Relic
12 4 (1.00%) OutSystems
12 4 (1.00%) Sage
13 3 (0.75%) Databricks
13 3 (0.75%) Intel
13 3 (0.75%) Thales