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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 259 282
Rank change year-on-year -92 +23 -101
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 320 519 675
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.52% 1.22% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.31% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 177 337 532
10th Percentile £39,750 £48,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,809 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.59% +14.40% -16.67%
75th Percentile £85,500 £115,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £109,000 £138,750 £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 48,319 39,543 59,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.09% 92.88% 88.24%
Number of salaries quoted 29,618 19,881 46,684
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £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 24 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 24 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 -39 145 £90,000 -18.18% 61
North of England -30 60 £61,418 -5.51% 28
North West +5 44 £63,750 -1.92% 11
East of England +27 32 £30,370 -60.81% 17
South East -86 32 £57,500 +4.55% 23
Midlands -10 20 £55,000 -4.35% 9
South West -42 18 £62,500 -13.79% 16
East Midlands -12 15 £51,058 -7.17% 2
Yorkshire -43 10 £50,565 -4.59% 13
North East -10 6 £52,500 -24.25% 4
West Midlands -8 5 £66,901 +16.35% 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 17 (5.31%) Apache Spark
2 16 (5.00%) Appian
3 11 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.13%) Apache
5 7 (2.19%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.94%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.63%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.63%) Confluence
8 1 (0.31%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.31%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.31%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 44 (13.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.88%) Shopify
2 5 (1.56%) SAP FS
3 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.31%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 95 (29.69%) AWS
2 90 (28.13%) Azure
3 45 (14.06%) GCP
4 21 (6.56%) Serverless
5 18 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (5.63%) Power Automate
6 16 (5.00%) GitHub
7 15 (4.69%) Anthropic Claude
7 15 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (4.69%) PaaS
8 14 (4.38%) Amazon Alexa
9 13 (4.06%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (3.75%) Azure AI
11 11 (3.44%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (3.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 10 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (2.81%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 9 (2.81%) Pulumi
13 9 (2.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.06%) Broadband
2 18 (5.63%) TCP/IP
3 11 (3.44%) HTTP
4 7 (2.19%) DNS
5 6 (1.88%) RTP
5 6 (1.88%) VoIP
6 5 (1.56%) AMQP
6 5 (1.56%) DHCP
6 5 (1.56%) SMTP
7 4 (1.25%) Software-Defined Radio
7 4 (1.25%) WAN
7 4 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.94%) DOCSIS
8 3 (0.94%) DSL
8 3 (0.94%) Firewall
8 3 (0.94%) IPv4
8 3 (0.94%) IPv6
8 3 (0.94%) PPP
8 3 (0.94%) SSL
8 3 (0.94%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (7.50%) MySQL
3 21 (6.56%) MongoDB
3 21 (6.56%) NoSQL
4 18 (5.63%) Pinecone
5 17 (5.31%) SQL Server
6 15 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (3.44%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (3.13%) Redis
9 8 (2.50%) Big Data
9 8 (2.50%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.19%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.88%) Weaviate
12 5 (1.56%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (1.56%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.94%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.94%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.94%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 24 (7.50%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.19%) TeamCity
3 21 (6.56%) Git
4 13 (4.06%) MLflow
5 12 (3.75%) JIRA
6 7 (2.19%) Burp Suite
6 7 (2.19%) Metasploit
7 6 (1.88%) GitLab
8 5 (1.56%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.56%) Selenium
9 4 (1.25%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.94%) Vite
11 2 (0.63%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.63%) Mocha
11 2 (0.63%) webpack
12 1 (0.31%) Hardhat
General
1 64 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 61 (19.06%) Social Skills
3 33 (10.31%) Finance
4 29 (9.06%) German Language
5 26 (8.13%) Public Sector
6 17 (5.31%) Law
7 16 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (4.69%) Retail
9 13 (4.06%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (3.75%) Legal
11 11 (3.44%) Italian Language
12 8 (2.50%) Banking
12 8 (2.50%) French Language
13 7 (2.19%) Marketing
14 6 (1.88%) Games
15 5 (1.56%) Aerospace
15 5 (1.56%) Dutch Language
16 4 (1.25%) Back Office
16 4 (1.25%) Tech for Good
17 3 (0.94%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 104 (32.50%) Senior
2 70 (21.88%) Software Engineer
3 38 (11.88%) Developer
4 30 (9.38%) Architect
5 28 (8.75%) Lead
6 23 (7.19%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (7.19%) Senior Software Engineer
7 21 (6.56%) Data Engineer
8 18 (5.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 17 (5.31%) Java Engineer
9 17 (5.31%) Java Software Engineer
10 14 (4.38%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 14 (4.38%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 14 (4.38%) Software Architect
11 13 (4.06%) Java Developer
12 12 (3.75%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (3.75%) Scala Engineer
12 12 (3.75%) Senior Developer
13 11 (3.44%) Development Engineer
13 11 (3.44%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (11.25%) REST
2 32 (10.00%) Django
3 31 (9.69%) RESTful
4 27 (8.44%) React
5 24 (7.50%) PyTorch
6 23 (7.19%) Akka
6 23 (7.19%) TensorFlow
7 22 (6.88%) Web Services
8 19 (5.94%) NumPy
8 19 (5.94%) scikit-learn
9 18 (5.63%) FastAPI
9 18 (5.63%) Node.js
9 18 (5.63%) Pandas
10 17 (5.31%) OAuth
10 17 (5.31%) OpenAPI
10 17 (5.31%) Spring
10 17 (5.31%) Spring Boot
10 17 (5.31%) Swagger
11 16 (5.00%) Faiss
12 15 (4.69%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 59 (18.44%) Cloud Native
2 37 (11.56%) Onboarding
3 29 (9.06%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (7.50%) Video\Live Streaming
5 23 (7.19%) Over-the-Top Content
6 18 (5.63%) Low-Code
7 15 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (4.38%) Legacy Code
9 13 (4.06%) Security Posture
10 11 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (2.81%) Algorithms
11 9 (2.81%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (2.50%) AI Agents
12 8 (2.50%) Blog
12 8 (2.50%) Data Centre
13 7 (2.19%) Insider Threat
14 6 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.88%) Private Cloud
14 6 (1.88%) Product Ownership
15 5 (1.56%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 58 (18.13%) Linux
2 19 (5.94%) Unix
3 11 (3.44%) Windows
4 9 (2.81%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.56%) CentOS
6 5 (1.56%) Debian
7 4 (1.25%) Android
7 4 (1.25%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.94%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.63%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.31%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.31%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.31%) Solaris
10 1 (0.31%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (33.13%) AI
2 102 (31.88%) Agile
3 96 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 95 (29.69%) Problem-Solving
5 88 (27.50%) CI/CD
6 79 (24.69%) LLM
7 71 (22.19%) Generative AI
8 69 (21.56%) DevOps
9 63 (19.69%) Machine Learning
10 58 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 54 (16.88%) Analytics
12 49 (15.31%) Analytical Thinking
12 49 (15.31%) Containerisation
12 49 (15.31%) Mentoring
13 47 (14.69%) TDD
14 44 (13.75%) Microservices
15 41 (12.81%) Test Automation
16 38 (11.88%) Scrum
17 37 (11.56%) Clean Code
18 32 (10.00%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 106 (33.13%) Python
2 86 (26.88%) Java
3 58 (18.13%) SQL
4 32 (10.00%) C++
4 32 (10.00%) Scala
5 30 (9.38%) C
6 28 (8.75%) JavaScript
7 21 (6.56%) Go
8 16 (5.00%) Rust
8 16 (5.00%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.19%) Bash
9 7 (2.19%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.88%) R
10 6 (1.88%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.56%) C#
12 3 (0.94%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.63%) Fortran
13 2 (0.63%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.31%) PHP
14 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (31.25%) Degree
2 51 (15.94%) Security Cleared
3 41 (12.81%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (4.69%) DV Cleared
6 14 (4.38%) Master's Degree
7 12 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (3.44%) Chartered Engineer
9 10 (3.13%) GIAC
10 9 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (2.50%) AWS Certification
11 8 (2.50%) CISSP
11 8 (2.50%) OSCP
12 7 (2.19%) CCNA
12 7 (2.19%) CEH
12 7 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (2.19%) CISMP
12 7 (2.19%) GPEN
12 7 (2.19%) MCSE
12 7 (2.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 10 (3.13%) QA
4 8 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.50%) GDPR
4 8 (2.50%) SLA
5 7 (2.19%) Actionable Recommendations
5 7 (2.19%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.56%) IFRS
7 5 (1.56%) IFRS 17
7 5 (1.56%) Solvency II
8 4 (1.25%) NIST
9 3 (0.94%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 87 (27.19%) Docker
2 16 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (4.38%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.25%) KVM
5 3 (0.94%) Kamailio
5 3 (0.94%) QEMU
6 2 (0.63%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.31%) Firmware
7 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 103 (32.19%) Kubernetes
2 35 (10.94%) Terraform
3 19 (5.94%) Ansible
4 9 (2.81%) AWS Copilot
5 7 (2.19%) Nmap
6 5 (1.56%) Puppet
7 3 (0.94%) Argo
8 2 (0.63%) Grafana
8 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.31%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (0.31%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.31%) WMI
Vendors
1 68 (21.25%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.13%) OpenAI
3 20 (6.25%) Google
4 16 (5.00%) Oracle
5 15 (4.69%) SAP
6 12 (3.75%) Automation Anywhere
6 12 (3.75%) UiPath
7 10 (3.13%) Databricks
7 10 (3.13%) IBM
8 8 (2.50%) Cisco
8 8 (2.50%) Informatica
8 8 (2.50%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.50%) SaltStack
8 8 (2.50%) Talend
9 7 (2.19%) Dell
9 7 (2.19%) Epicor
9 7 (2.19%) Infor
9 7 (2.19%) Software AG
9 7 (2.19%) TIBCO
9 7 (2.19%) Workday