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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 258 275
Rank change year-on-year -80 +17 -96
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 307 545 664
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 1.21% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.31% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 162 336 522
10th Percentile £33,000 £47,875 £42,775
25th Percentile £52,145 £56,809 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £85,650 £115,000 £87,188
90th Percentile £116,250 £137,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £69,724
% change year-on-year - +0.40% -7.04%

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 46,216 41,458 58,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.82% 92.03% 88.17%
Number of salaries quoted 28,077 20,221 46,108
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £40,879
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 -25 148 £85,000 -22.73% 48
North of England -39 49 £61,418 -3.66% 34
North West +8 41 £63,750 -1.92% 15
East of England +38 32 £30,370 -60.81% 11
South East -68 31 £57,500 +7.48% 30
Midlands -5 20 £55,000 -4.35% 11
South West -45 16 £75,000 -3.89% 16
East Midlands -3 15 £51,058 -7.17% 7
West Midlands -7 5 £66,901 +12.72% 4
Yorkshire -53 5 £42,410 -17.25% 14
North East -7 3 £73,801 +6.48% 5
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 16 (5.21%) Apache Spark
1 16 (5.21%) Appian
2 10 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.93%) Apache
4 7 (2.28%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.98%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.65%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.65%) Confluence
7 1 (0.33%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.33%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.33%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 44 (14.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.61%) SAP FS
2 6 (1.95%) Shopify
3 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.33%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 84 (27.36%) AWS
2 78 (25.41%) Azure
3 44 (14.33%) GCP
4 24 (7.82%) Serverless
5 18 (5.86%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (5.86%) Power Automate
6 17 (5.54%) GitHub
7 15 (4.89%) Anthropic Claude
7 15 (4.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (4.89%) PaaS
8 14 (4.56%) Amazon Alexa
9 13 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (3.91%) Azure AI
11 10 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (2.93%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (2.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (2.93%) IaaS
12 9 (2.93%) SaaS
13 8 (2.61%) Amazon S3
13 8 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (9.77%) Broadband
2 15 (4.89%) TCP/IP
3 10 (3.26%) HTTP
4 6 (1.95%) DNS
4 6 (1.95%) RTP
4 6 (1.95%) VoIP
5 5 (1.63%) AMQP
5 5 (1.63%) DHCP
6 4 (1.30%) SMTP
6 4 (1.30%) WAN
6 4 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.30%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.98%) DOCSIS
7 3 (0.98%) DSL
7 3 (0.98%) GPON
7 3 (0.98%) IPv4
7 3 (0.98%) IPv6
7 3 (0.98%) PPP
7 3 (0.98%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.65%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.86%) Pinecone
2 17 (5.54%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.56%) MySQL
4 13 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (3.58%) MongoDB
6 11 (3.58%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (2.61%) Big Data
8 8 (2.61%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.28%) Hadoop
9 7 (2.28%) Redis
10 6 (1.95%) Weaviate
11 5 (1.63%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.63%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.98%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.98%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.98%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 25 (8.14%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.49%) TeamCity
3 21 (6.84%) Git
4 14 (4.56%) JIRA
5 13 (4.23%) MLflow
6 8 (2.61%) Cypress.io
7 7 (2.28%) Burp Suite
7 7 (2.28%) GitLab
7 7 (2.28%) Metasploit
7 7 (2.28%) Selenium
8 6 (1.95%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.63%) Vite
10 2 (0.65%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.65%) Mocha
10 2 (0.65%) webpack
11 1 (0.33%) Appium
11 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.33%) Ranorex
11 1 (0.33%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.33%) WebDriver
General
1 66 (21.50%) Analytical Skills
2 62 (20.20%) Social Skills
3 32 (10.42%) Finance
4 29 (9.45%) German Language
5 20 (6.51%) Law
6 16 (5.21%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.21%) Retail
7 14 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (3.91%) Legal
10 11 (3.58%) French Language
10 11 (3.58%) Italian Language
11 9 (2.93%) Games
12 8 (2.61%) Dutch Language
13 7 (2.28%) Banking
13 7 (2.28%) Marketing
14 5 (1.63%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.30%) Back Office
16 3 (0.98%) Electronics
16 3 (0.98%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 105 (34.20%) Senior
2 59 (19.22%) Software Engineer
3 35 (11.40%) Lead
4 33 (10.75%) Developer
5 31 (10.10%) Architect
6 24 (7.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (7.49%) Senior Software Engineer
8 20 (6.51%) Data Engineer
9 19 (6.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 14 (4.56%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 14 (4.56%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 14 (4.56%) Software Architect
11 13 (4.23%) Java Developer
12 12 (3.91%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (3.91%) Scala Engineer
12 12 (3.91%) Senior Developer
13 11 (3.58%) Development Engineer
13 11 (3.58%) Software Developer
14 9 (2.93%) Lead Architect
14 9 (2.93%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (11.73%) REST
2 28 (9.12%) Django
2 28 (9.12%) React
3 25 (8.14%) PyTorch
4 23 (7.49%) Akka
4 23 (7.49%) TensorFlow
5 22 (7.17%) Web Services
6 21 (6.84%) RESTful
7 19 (6.19%) scikit-learn
8 18 (5.86%) FastAPI
8 18 (5.86%) Node.js
8 18 (5.86%) NumPy
8 18 (5.86%) Spring
8 18 (5.86%) Spring Boot
9 17 (5.54%) OAuth
9 17 (5.54%) OpenAPI
9 17 (5.54%) Pandas
9 17 (5.54%) Swagger
10 16 (5.21%) Faiss
11 15 (4.89%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 51 (16.61%) Cloud Native
2 37 (12.05%) Onboarding
3 30 (9.77%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (7.82%) Video\Live Streaming
5 23 (7.49%) Over-the-Top Content
6 18 (5.86%) Low-Code
7 15 (4.89%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (4.56%) Legacy Code
9 12 (3.91%) Security Posture
10 11 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (2.93%) AI Agents
12 9 (2.93%) Algorithms
13 8 (2.61%) Blog
14 7 (2.28%) Insider Threat
14 7 (2.28%) Product Ownership
15 6 (1.95%) Data Centre
15 6 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (1.95%) Private Cloud
16 5 (1.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (18.24%) Linux
2 18 (5.86%) Unix
3 11 (3.58%) Windows
4 9 (2.93%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.63%) CentOS
6 5 (1.63%) Debian
7 4 (1.30%) Android
7 4 (1.30%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.98%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.33%) Solaris
10 1 (0.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (34.53%) AI
2 92 (29.97%) Problem-Solving
3 91 (29.64%) Agile
4 85 (27.69%) CI/CD
5 84 (27.36%) Software Engineering
6 78 (25.41%) LLM
7 71 (23.13%) DevOps
7 71 (23.13%) Generative AI
8 64 (20.85%) Machine Learning
9 63 (20.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 53 (17.26%) Analytics
11 49 (15.96%) Containerisation
12 48 (15.64%) Analytical Thinking
13 38 (12.38%) Mentoring
14 37 (12.05%) Scrum
15 36 (11.73%) Clean Code
16 35 (11.40%) Microservices
16 35 (11.40%) TDD
17 34 (11.07%) Computer Science
18 33 (10.75%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 100 (32.57%) Python
2 74 (24.10%) Java
3 47 (15.31%) SQL
4 32 (10.42%) C++
4 32 (10.42%) Scala
5 30 (9.77%) C
5 30 (9.77%) JavaScript
6 21 (6.84%) Go
7 18 (5.86%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.21%) Rust
9 8 (2.61%) Bash
10 7 (2.28%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.95%) R
11 6 (1.95%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.63%) C#
13 4 (1.30%) Fortran
14 2 (0.65%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.33%) Korn
15 1 (0.33%) PHP
15 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (34.53%) Degree
2 47 (15.31%) Security Cleared
3 38 (12.38%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (5.21%) Master's Degree
6 14 (4.56%) DV Cleared
7 12 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (3.58%) Chartered Engineer
9 10 (3.26%) AWS Certification
9 10 (3.26%) GIAC
10 9 (2.93%) CISSP
10 9 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (2.61%) CompTIA Security+
11 8 (2.61%) OSCP
12 7 (2.28%) CCNA
12 7 (2.28%) CREST Certified
12 7 (2.28%) GPEN
12 7 (2.28%) MCSE
12 7 (2.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.10%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.58%) Accessibility
2 11 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 11 (3.58%) QA
3 8 (2.61%) GDPR
3 8 (2.61%) IFRS
3 8 (2.61%) IFRS 17
3 8 (2.61%) Solvency II
4 7 (2.28%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.28%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.28%) SLA
5 5 (1.63%) NIST
6 3 (0.98%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.65%) NCSC
8 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 87 (28.34%) Docker
2 16 (5.21%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (4.56%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.98%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.98%) KVM
4 3 (0.98%) QEMU
5 2 (0.65%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 104 (33.88%) Kubernetes
2 34 (11.07%) Terraform
3 19 (6.19%) Ansible
4 8 (2.61%) Nmap
5 6 (1.95%) AWS Copilot
6 5 (1.63%) Puppet
7 3 (0.98%) Argo
7 3 (0.98%) Grafana
7 3 (0.98%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.33%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.33%) Nagios
8 1 (0.33%) WMI
8 1 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 67 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.79%) OpenAI
3 18 (5.86%) SAP
4 17 (5.54%) Google
5 16 (5.21%) Oracle
6 12 (3.91%) Automation Anywhere
6 12 (3.91%) UiPath
7 10 (3.26%) Databricks
7 10 (3.26%) IBM
8 9 (2.93%) Cisco
9 8 (2.61%) Duck Creek
9 8 (2.61%) Guidewire
9 8 (2.61%) Informatica
9 8 (2.61%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.61%) SaltStack
9 8 (2.61%) Talend
10 7 (2.28%) IFS
10 7 (2.28%) MuleSoft
10 7 (2.28%) SnapLogic
10 7 (2.28%) Workday