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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 254 265
Rank change year-on-year -103 +11 -74
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 269 656 543
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.57% 1.15% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.33% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 144 369 430
10th Percentile £34,755 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,109 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,401 £69,308 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +2.68% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £119,625 £116,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% -0.99% -

All Process and 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 39,846 49,142 41,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.96% 86.43% 93.61%
Number of salaries quoted 24,939 25,605 32,387
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 -7 141 £85,000 -5.56% 152
North of England -76 35 £70,000 +14.37% 38
East of England +50 32 £30,370 -58.11% 52
South East -52 29 £59,000 +1.72% 230
North West -33 22 £71,000 +9.23% 23
Midlands +14 14 £65,000 -0.71% 26
South West -26 12 £81,250 +6.56% 31
Yorkshire -25 9 £49,000 -7.55% 15
East Midlands +11 7 £51,058 -7.17% 20
West Midlands +11 7 £68,750 -0.80% 5
North East +3 4 £63,151 -6.29%
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 20 (7.43%) Apache Spark
2 14 (5.20%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.60%) Anypoint
3 7 (2.60%) Appian
4 5 (1.86%) Apache
5 3 (1.12%) Confluence
5 3 (1.12%) Kinematics
5 3 (1.12%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.74%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.37%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.37%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.37%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 44 (16.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Maya
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.35%) SAP FS
2 6 (2.23%) Shopify
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 82 (30.48%) AWS
2 66 (24.54%) Azure
3 45 (16.73%) GCP
4 23 (8.55%) Serverless
5 20 (7.43%) GitHub
6 16 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (5.95%) PaaS
7 14 (5.20%) Amazon Alexa
8 12 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (4.09%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (3.72%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.72%) Figma
10 10 (3.72%) IaaS
10 10 (3.72%) Power Automate
10 10 (3.72%) Prefect
11 9 (3.35%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (2.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 7 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.60%) dbt
13 7 (2.60%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.20%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.97%) Broadband
3 7 (2.60%) HTTP
4 6 (2.23%) DNS
5 5 (1.86%) DHCP
6 4 (1.49%) SMTP
7 3 (1.12%) DOCSIS
7 3 (1.12%) DSL
7 3 (1.12%) GPON
7 3 (1.12%) IPv4
7 3 (1.12%) IPv6
7 3 (1.12%) PPP
7 3 (1.12%) RTP
7 3 (1.12%) VoIP
7 3 (1.12%) WAN
7 3 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.74%) AMQP
8 2 (0.74%) Firewall
8 2 (0.74%) Internet
8 2 (0.74%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.58%) NoSQL
2 13 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (4.46%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.46%) MySQL
3 12 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (3.35%) Redis
5 8 (2.97%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.60%) Pinecone
6 7 (2.60%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.23%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.23%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.86%) Big Data
8 5 (1.86%) Weaviate
9 4 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.49%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.12%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.74%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (10.41%) Git
2 15 (5.58%) JIRA
3 10 (3.72%) Cypress.io
3 10 (3.72%) MLflow
4 8 (2.97%) GitLab
4 8 (2.97%) Selenium
5 7 (2.60%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.60%) Vite
6 4 (1.49%) CircleCI
6 4 (1.49%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.12%) Burp Suite
7 3 (1.12%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.12%) Metasploit
7 3 (1.12%) Mocha
7 3 (1.12%) webpack
8 2 (0.74%) Gatling
8 2 (0.74%) rollup.js
8 2 (0.74%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.74%) Tricentis qTest
8 2 (0.74%) WebDriver
General
1 66 (24.54%) Analytical Skills
2 54 (20.07%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.75%) Law
4 35 (13.01%) Finance
5 26 (9.67%) German Language
6 22 (8.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (7.06%) Public Sector
8 16 (5.95%) Legal
9 13 (4.83%) Banking
10 11 (4.09%) French Language
10 11 (4.09%) Games
10 11 (4.09%) Marketing
11 10 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (3.72%) Dutch Language
12 9 (3.35%) Retail
13 7 (2.60%) Italian Language
14 3 (1.12%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.12%) Multimedia
14 3 (1.12%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 87 (32.34%) Senior
2 46 (17.10%) Software Engineer
3 42 (15.61%) Lead
4 38 (14.13%) Architect
5 23 (8.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (8.18%) Software Architect
7 20 (7.43%) Developer
8 17 (6.32%) Data Engineer
9 16 (5.95%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (5.20%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 14 (5.20%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 14 (5.20%) Java Engineer
11 13 (4.83%) Java Software Engineer
11 13 (4.83%) Lead Software Engineer
12 12 (4.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
13 10 (3.72%) IT Architect
13 10 (3.72%) Lead Architect
14 9 (3.35%) Development Engineer
14 9 (3.35%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (9.67%) React
2 20 (7.43%) Middleware
2 20 (7.43%) PyTorch
3 19 (7.06%) TensorFlow
4 18 (6.69%) Node.js
4 18 (6.69%) REST
5 17 (6.32%) Django
5 17 (6.32%) Spring
5 17 (6.32%) Spring Boot
6 16 (5.95%) scikit-learn
7 14 (5.20%) Web Services
8 12 (4.46%) Hugging Face
8 12 (4.46%) Kafka
8 12 (4.46%) RESTful
9 11 (4.09%) GraphQL
10 9 (3.35%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.35%) Hibernate
10 9 (3.35%) JSON
10 9 (3.35%) Next.js
10 9 (3.35%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 50 (18.59%) Cloud Native
2 36 (13.38%) Distributed Systems
2 36 (13.38%) Onboarding
3 14 (5.20%) Legacy Code
4 13 (4.83%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (3.72%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.72%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.72%) Low-Code
5 10 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.97%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.60%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.60%) Robotics
8 6 (2.23%) Blog
8 6 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.86%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.86%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.86%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.49%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 52 (19.33%) Linux
2 19 (7.06%) Unix
3 11 (4.09%) Windows
4 5 (1.86%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.12%) OpenWrt
5 3 (1.12%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.74%) CentOS
6 2 (0.74%) Debian
6 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.37%) Android
7 1 (0.37%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.37%) Solaris
7 1 (0.37%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (36.43%) Problem-Solving
2 94 (34.94%) AI
3 82 (30.48%) DevOps
4 77 (28.62%) Agile
4 77 (28.62%) Continuous Improvement
5 73 (27.14%) CI/CD
6 72 (26.77%) Software Engineering
7 65 (24.16%) LLM
8 55 (20.45%) Generative AI
9 48 (17.84%) Analytical Thinking
9 48 (17.84%) Computer Science
9 48 (17.84%) Machine Learning
10 47 (17.47%) SDLC
11 45 (16.73%) Containerisation
11 45 (16.73%) Mentoring
12 36 (13.38%) Microservices
12 36 (13.38%) Test Automation
13 33 (12.27%) Clean Code
14 32 (11.90%) Design Patterns
15 29 (10.78%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 85 (31.60%) Python
2 77 (28.62%) Java
3 36 (13.38%) SQL
4 32 (11.90%) C++
5 30 (11.15%) JavaScript
6 27 (10.04%) C
7 21 (7.81%) Go
8 19 (7.06%) TypeScript
9 16 (5.95%) Kotlin
9 16 (5.95%) Rust
10 9 (3.35%) Bash
11 8 (2.97%) Scala
12 7 (2.60%) Shell Script
13 6 (2.23%) R
14 5 (1.86%) C#
15 4 (1.49%) Fortran
15 4 (1.49%) Objective-C
15 4 (1.49%) Swift
16 2 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 117 (43.49%) Degree
2 40 (14.87%) Security Cleared
3 33 (12.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 30 (11.15%) SC Cleared
5 23 (8.55%) Master's Degree
6 19 (7.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (6.69%) Chartered Engineer
8 14 (5.20%) DV Cleared
9 9 (3.35%) AWS Certification
9 9 (3.35%) PhD
10 6 (2.23%) GIAC
11 5 (1.86%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.86%) CISSP
12 4 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.49%) OSCP
13 3 (1.12%) CCNA
13 3 (1.12%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.81%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.69%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 17 (6.32%) Accessibility
3 17 (6.32%) QA
4 9 (3.35%) GDPR
4 9 (3.35%) IFRS
4 9 (3.35%) IFRS 17
4 9 (3.35%) Solvency II
5 6 (2.23%) SLA
6 5 (1.86%) NIST
7 4 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.12%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.12%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.74%) NCSC
9 2 (0.74%) WCAG
10 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
System Software
1 61 (22.68%) Docker
2 16 (5.95%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (5.20%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (1.12%) KVM
4 3 (1.12%) QEMU
5 2 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 75 (27.88%) Kubernetes
2 29 (10.78%) Terraform
3 14 (5.20%) Ansible
4 6 (2.23%) AWS Copilot
5 5 (1.86%) Kubeflow
6 4 (1.49%) Grafana
6 4 (1.49%) Nmap
6 4 (1.49%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.12%) Functional Safety
8 2 (0.74%) Puppet
9 1 (0.37%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (0.37%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.37%) Nagios
9 1 (0.37%) WMI
9 1 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 51 (18.96%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.06%) SAP
3 15 (5.58%) Google
4 14 (5.20%) Oracle
5 12 (4.46%) OpenAI
6 9 (3.35%) Duck Creek
6 9 (3.35%) Guidewire
6 9 (3.35%) IBM
6 9 (3.35%) Informatica
6 9 (3.35%) Talend
7 8 (2.97%) Databricks
7 8 (2.97%) Palantir
8 7 (2.60%) Dell
8 7 (2.60%) IFS
8 7 (2.60%) Infor
8 7 (2.60%) Jitterbit
8 7 (2.60%) MuleSoft
8 7 (2.60%) SnapLogic
8 7 (2.60%) Software AG
8 7 (2.60%) Workday