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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 415 256
Rank change year-on-year -14 -159 -29
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 350 252 779
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.58% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.64% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 264 152 527
10th Percentile £48,289 £47,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £69,047 £58,438 £49,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,250 £75,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +9.67% +14.57% -9.08%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,125 £84,964
90th Percentile £121,875 £127,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +9.59% +11.51% -6.58%

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 69,329 39,151 59,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.66% 89.41% 81.35%
Number of salaries quoted 48,879 22,544 38,747
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -29 148 £90,000 -4.00% 395
North of England -15 69 £80,000 +35.59% 41
South West -10 54 £98,000 +56.80% 32
South East -25 44 £63,750 -12.07% 39
North West +13 36 £80,000 +16.78% 22
North East -43 19 £74,830 +42.53% 8
Midlands -33 17 £74,742 +3.09% 18
Yorkshire -21 14 £83,774 +70.97% 11
East of England -21 13 £100,000 +11.11% 46
West Midlands -25 13 £74,830 +3.21% 16
East Midlands -25 4 £39,194 -54.27% 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 18 (5.14%) Apache
2 11 (3.14%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.71%) JBoss
4 5 (1.43%) nginx
4 5 (1.43%) WordPress
5 4 (1.14%) Camunda
6 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.86%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.86%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.57%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.29%) CMS
8 1 (0.29%) Confluence
8 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (0.29%) InDesign
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.29%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.29%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.14%) Line 50
2 1 (0.29%) Magento
2 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 154 (44.00%) AWS
2 95 (27.14%) Azure
3 51 (14.57%) GCP
4 35 (10.00%) GitHub
5 27 (7.71%) Serverless
6 23 (6.57%) Anthropic Claude
7 19 (5.43%) GitHub Copilot
8 18 (5.14%) OpenShift
9 16 (4.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (4.00%) dbt
11 13 (3.71%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (3.14%) Amazon S3
12 11 (3.14%) SaaS
13 10 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.29%) Amazon MSK
14 8 (2.29%) Power Platform
15 7 (2.00%) Amazon EMR
15 7 (2.00%) PaaS
16 6 (1.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.29%) AMQP
1 8 (2.29%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.71%) Firewall
2 6 (1.71%) Network Security
2 6 (1.71%) SSL
2 6 (1.71%) VoIP
3 4 (1.14%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.57%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (0.57%) DNS
5 2 (0.57%) HTTP
5 2 (0.57%) LAN
5 2 (0.57%) MQTT
5 2 (0.57%) WAN
6 1 (0.29%) DHCP
6 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.29%) Internet
6 1 (0.29%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.29%) SMTP
6 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (10.57%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (9.71%) NoSQL
3 32 (9.14%) MySQL
4 26 (7.43%) MongoDB
5 22 (6.29%) Big Data
6 11 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (2.86%) Redis
7 10 (2.86%) SQL Server
8 9 (2.57%) Metadata
9 7 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.00%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.00%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.43%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (1.43%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.43%) Neo4j
12 4 (1.14%) FileMaker
12 4 (1.14%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 23 (6.57%) Git
2 21 (6.00%) Claude Code
3 13 (3.71%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.57%) GitLab
5 7 (2.00%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.00%) Selenium
5 7 (2.00%) Subversion
6 6 (1.71%) JIRA
7 4 (1.14%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.86%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.86%) Maven
9 2 (0.57%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.57%) Snyk
10 1 (0.29%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.29%) Codeship
10 1 (0.29%) DBeaver
10 1 (0.29%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.29%) IDA Disassembler
10 1 (0.29%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 75 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 57 (16.29%) Finance
3 49 (14.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 43 (12.29%) Public Sector
5 30 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (5.43%) Banking
7 18 (5.14%) Law
8 16 (4.57%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.71%) Legal
10 10 (2.86%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.29%) Marketing
11 8 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.71%) Advertising
13 5 (1.43%) Back Office
13 5 (1.43%) Front Office
13 5 (1.43%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.86%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.57%) Games
15 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 103 (29.43%) Software Engineer
2 77 (22.00%) Lead
3 69 (19.71%) Senior
4 46 (13.14%) Architect
5 36 (10.29%) Lead Software Engineer
6 31 (8.86%) Developer
7 27 (7.71%) Principal Engineer
8 24 (6.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 23 (6.57%) Cloud Architect
9 23 (6.57%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (4.86%) Data Engineer
11 15 (4.29%) Principal Software Engineer
12 14 (4.00%) Consultant
12 14 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (3.71%) Java Engineer
14 11 (3.14%) Senior Consultant
15 9 (2.57%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (2.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 8 (2.29%) AWS DevOps
16 8 (2.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (11.71%) Node.js
2 32 (9.14%) Kafka
3 28 (8.00%) React
4 23 (6.57%) REST
5 21 (6.00%) RESTful
6 16 (4.57%) Spring
7 15 (4.29%) RabbitMQ
8 14 (4.00%) HTML
9 13 (3.71%) .NET
9 13 (3.71%) CSS
9 13 (3.71%) LangChain
10 12 (3.43%) PyTorch
10 12 (3.43%) Spring Boot
11 11 (3.14%) TensorFlow
12 9 (2.57%) Model Context Protocol
12 9 (2.57%) NumPy
12 9 (2.57%) Pandas
13 8 (2.29%) FastAPI
13 8 (2.29%) LlamaIndex
13 8 (2.29%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 56 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 28 (8.00%) Public Cloud
3 27 (7.71%) Onboarding
4 20 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.43%) AI Agents
5 12 (3.43%) Distributed Computing
6 11 (3.14%) Blog
7 10 (2.86%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.57%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.29%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.29%) Security Posture
10 7 (2.00%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.00%) Robotics
10 7 (2.00%) Social Media
11 6 (1.71%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.43%) Hackathon
12 5 (1.43%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.43%) Mobile Payment
12 5 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.29%) Linux
2 13 (3.71%) Windows
3 11 (3.14%) Debian
4 9 (2.57%) Unix
5 7 (2.00%) CentOS
5 7 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.00%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.14%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.86%) Android
7 3 (0.86%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.86%) Gentoo
8 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.29%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.29%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (47.43%) Software Engineering
2 117 (33.43%) Agile
3 111 (31.71%) AI
4 83 (23.71%) CI/CD
5 80 (22.86%) DevOps
6 79 (22.57%) Microservices
7 71 (20.29%) Mentoring
8 57 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
9 53 (15.14%) Containerisation
10 49 (14.00%) Machine Learning
11 48 (13.71%) LLM
12 44 (12.57%) Infrastructure as Code
13 42 (12.00%) Roadmaps
13 42 (12.00%) TDD
14 40 (11.43%) Test Automation
15 37 (10.57%) Analytics
16 34 (9.71%) Cybersecurity
17 32 (9.14%) Computer Science
17 32 (9.14%) Migration
18 30 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 116 (33.14%) Python
2 75 (21.43%) Java
3 51 (14.57%) JavaScript
4 39 (11.14%) SQL
5 28 (8.00%) C++
6 20 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 19 (5.43%) Bash
8 18 (5.14%) C
9 15 (4.29%) Go
10 14 (4.00%) PHP
11 13 (3.71%) C#
12 12 (3.43%) Rust
12 12 (3.43%) Scala
13 7 (2.00%) Clojure
13 7 (2.00%) Erlang
13 7 (2.00%) Ruby
14 4 (1.14%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.86%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.86%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 95 (27.14%) Security Cleared
2 56 (16.00%) Degree
3 55 (15.71%) SC Cleared
4 43 (12.29%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.29%) PhD
6 13 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.86%) Azure Certification
9 9 (2.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 8 (2.29%) Master's Degree
11 7 (2.00%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.14%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.57%) CISSP
13 2 (0.57%) GIAC
14 1 (0.29%) CISM
14 1 (0.29%) GSEC
14 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.29%) RHCE
14 1 (0.29%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.71%) QA
2 14 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.57%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.14%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.14%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.14%) NCSC
5 3 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.57%) NIST
6 2 (0.57%) SLA
6 2 (0.57%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.29%) MiFID
7 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (13.43%) Docker
2 10 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.43%) Firmware
3 5 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.86%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.86%) KVM
4 3 (0.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.29%) IAG
6 1 (0.29%) QEMU
6 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.29%) vSphere
6 1 (0.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 52 (14.86%) Kubernetes
2 47 (13.43%) Terraform
3 18 (5.14%) Ansible
4 8 (2.29%) Istio
4 8 (2.29%) Puppet
5 5 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (1.43%) Nagios
5 5 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.14%) Podman
6 4 (1.14%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.86%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (0.86%) Packer
8 2 (0.57%) Argo
8 2 (0.57%) Grafana
8 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.29%) Cilium
9 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.29%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 25 (7.14%) Google
1 25 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.43%) OpenAI
3 14 (4.00%) Red Hat
4 12 (3.43%) Oracle
5 8 (2.29%) Atlassian
5 8 (2.29%) Confluent
6 7 (2.00%) Splunk
7 6 (1.71%) Adobe
8 5 (1.43%) Databricks
8 5 (1.43%) New Relic
8 5 (1.43%) SaltStack
8 5 (1.43%) VMware
9 4 (1.14%) Apple
9 4 (1.14%) Sage
10 2 (0.57%) Cisco
10 2 (0.57%) IBM
10 2 (0.57%) OutSystems
10 2 (0.57%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.29%) Instagram