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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 408 269
Rank change year-on-year -14 -139 -34
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 385 239 709
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.55% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.62% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 289 137 395
10th Percentile £46,751 £48,150 £40,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,000 £73,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +12.33% +11.51% -6.48%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £126,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +9.59% +11.51% -6.48%

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 75,204 38,242 56,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.41% 88.75% 81.74%
Number of salaries quoted 53,160 22,012 31,934
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,215 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -45 139 £86,250 +1.47% 896
North of England -14 91 £80,000 +44.80% 73
South West -23 58 £100,000 +37.93% 42
South East -50 48 £62,500 -7.41% 71
North West -2 43 £80,000 +25.49% 39
North East -33 33 £74,830 +42.53% 15
Midlands -37 23 £74,654 +2.97% 28
East of England -23 20 £100,000 +21.21% 94
Yorkshire -30 15 £83,774 +69.24% 19
West Midlands -43 15 £74,742 +3.09% 23
East Midlands -28 8 £39,194 -54.27% 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 19 (4.94%) Apache
2 13 (3.38%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.56%) JBoss
4 5 (1.30%) nginx
4 5 (1.30%) WordPress
5 4 (1.04%) Camunda
6 2 (0.52%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (0.26%) InDesign
2 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.26%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.04%) Line 50
2 2 (0.52%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 157 (40.78%) AWS
2 87 (22.60%) Azure
3 52 (13.51%) GCP
4 36 (9.35%) GitHub
5 26 (6.75%) Serverless
6 20 (5.19%) Anthropic Claude
7 16 (4.16%) GitHub Copilot
8 15 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (3.12%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.12%) SaaS
11 11 (2.86%) dbt
11 11 (2.86%) OpenShift
12 10 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (1.82%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (1.82%) Datadog
13 7 (1.82%) Power Platform
14 6 (1.56%) Google Gemini
15 5 (1.30%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.86%) Firewall
2 10 (2.60%) AMQP
3 7 (1.82%) Internet
3 7 (1.82%) VoIP
4 6 (1.56%) DHCP
4 6 (1.56%) DNS
4 6 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (1.56%) NX-OS
5 5 (1.30%) Network Security
5 5 (1.30%) SSL
5 5 (1.30%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.78%) CTI
7 2 (0.52%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.52%) MQTT
7 2 (0.52%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.26%) 5G
8 1 (0.26%) HTTP
8 1 (0.26%) LAN
8 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.27%) NoSQL
1 28 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (6.49%) Big Data
2 25 (6.49%) MySQL
3 22 (5.71%) MongoDB
4 10 (2.60%) Metadata
4 10 (2.60%) SQL Server
5 9 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (1.82%) Cloudera CDH
6 7 (1.82%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.82%) DynamoDB
6 7 (1.82%) Hadoop
7 6 (1.56%) Redis
8 4 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.04%) FileMaker
8 4 (1.04%) Neo4j
8 4 (1.04%) Pinecone
9 3 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 25 (6.49%) Git
2 19 (4.94%) GitLab
3 17 (4.42%) Claude Code
4 13 (3.38%) JIRA
5 10 (2.60%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.08%) Subversion
7 7 (1.82%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.04%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.04%) Snyk
9 3 (0.78%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.78%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.78%) Maven
9 3 (0.78%) Selenium
10 2 (0.52%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.52%) MLflow
11 1 (0.26%) Codeship
11 1 (0.26%) DBeaver
11 1 (0.26%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.26%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 97 (25.19%) Social Skills
2 61 (15.84%) Public Sector
3 60 (15.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 54 (14.03%) Finance
5 30 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (5.97%) Law
7 18 (4.68%) Legal
8 16 (4.16%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.38%) Aerospace
10 9 (2.34%) Banking
10 9 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.08%) Marketing
12 6 (1.56%) Advertising
12 6 (1.56%) Police
13 5 (1.30%) Games
14 4 (1.04%) Automotive
14 4 (1.04%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.04%) Front Office
14 4 (1.04%) Retail
15 3 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 108 (28.05%) Software Engineer
2 96 (24.94%) Lead
3 65 (16.88%) Senior
4 53 (13.77%) Architect
5 41 (10.65%) Lead Software Engineer
6 37 (9.61%) Developer
7 29 (7.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 28 (7.27%) Cloud Architect
9 24 (6.23%) Principal Engineer
10 21 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
11 17 (4.42%) Principal Software Engineer
12 15 (3.90%) Data Engineer
13 14 (3.64%) Java Engineer
13 14 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (3.38%) Consultant
14 13 (3.38%) Linux Engineer
15 11 (2.86%) Senior Consultant
15 11 (2.86%) Senior Developer
16 10 (2.60%) Embedded Engineer
17 9 (2.34%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (11.17%) Node.js
1 43 (11.17%) Terraform
2 32 (8.31%) React
3 22 (5.71%) REST
4 21 (5.45%) HTML
4 21 (5.45%) LangChain
5 20 (5.19%) CSS
5 20 (5.19%) Kafka
6 18 (4.68%) Spring
7 16 (4.16%) LlamaIndex
7 16 (4.16%) RabbitMQ
7 16 (4.16%) RESTful
8 14 (3.64%) Spring Boot
9 13 (3.38%) PyTorch
10 12 (3.12%) TensorFlow
11 10 (2.60%) FastAPI
11 10 (2.60%) Model Context Protocol
11 10 (2.60%) OAuth
11 10 (2.60%) scikit-learn
12 9 (2.34%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 62 (16.10%) Cloud Native
2 41 (10.65%) Onboarding
3 35 (9.09%) Public Cloud
4 18 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.90%) AI Agents
5 15 (3.90%) Blog
6 13 (3.38%) Management Information System
7 12 (3.12%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.60%) Data Structures
8 10 (2.60%) Distributed Computing
9 9 (2.34%) Algorithms
9 9 (2.34%) Private Cloud
9 9 (2.34%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.34%) Social Media
10 7 (1.82%) PKI
10 7 (1.82%) Robotics
10 7 (1.82%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.56%) Autonomous Agent
12 5 (1.30%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 48 (12.47%) Linux
2 18 (4.68%) Windows
3 13 (3.38%) Debian
4 11 (2.86%) Embedded Linux
5 9 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.34%) Ubuntu
6 8 (2.08%) CentOS
7 6 (1.56%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.56%) Unix
8 5 (1.30%) Android
9 4 (1.04%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.78%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (44.94%) Software Engineering
2 134 (34.81%) AI
3 130 (33.77%) Agile
4 99 (25.71%) CI/CD
5 82 (21.30%) Mentoring
6 80 (20.78%) DevOps
7 70 (18.18%) Microservices
8 67 (17.40%) LLM
8 67 (17.40%) Problem-Solving
9 61 (15.84%) Infrastructure as Code
10 58 (15.06%) Containerisation
10 58 (15.06%) Machine Learning
11 44 (11.43%) Computer Science
12 43 (11.17%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 41 (10.65%) Stakeholder Management
14 40 (10.39%) Roadmaps
14 40 (10.39%) Technical Leadership
15 38 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (9.61%) Cybersecurity
16 37 (9.61%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 120 (31.17%) Python
2 78 (20.26%) Java
3 63 (16.36%) JavaScript
4 35 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 34 (8.83%) SQL
6 33 (8.57%) C++
7 21 (5.45%) Bash
8 17 (4.42%) C
9 14 (3.64%) Scala
10 13 (3.38%) C#
10 13 (3.38%) PHP
11 12 (3.12%) Rust
12 8 (2.08%) Go
12 8 (2.08%) PowerShell
13 7 (1.82%) Clojure
13 7 (1.82%) Erlang
13 7 (1.82%) Ruby
14 4 (1.04%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.78%) Embedded C++
15 3 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 111 (28.83%) Security Cleared
2 68 (17.66%) Degree
3 61 (15.84%) SC Cleared
4 54 (14.03%) DV Cleared
5 21 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (4.68%) Azure Certification
7 16 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (3.90%) PhD
9 14 (3.64%) AWS Certification
10 10 (2.60%) Master's Degree
11 9 (2.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 7 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (1.56%) CCNA
13 6 (1.56%) MCSE
13 6 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (1.30%) DBS Check
15 4 (1.04%) CISSP
16 3 (0.78%) CISM
16 3 (0.78%) GSEC
17 2 (0.52%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.19%) QA
2 17 (4.42%) Accessibility
3 15 (3.90%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.34%) NCSC
5 8 (2.08%) WCAG
6 6 (1.56%) SLA
7 4 (1.04%) ISO 14001
7 4 (1.04%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.52%) NIST
9 2 (0.52%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.26%) MiFID
10 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 35 (9.09%) Docker
2 8 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.56%) vSphere
5 5 (1.30%) Firmware
5 5 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.78%) Active Directory
7 2 (0.52%) KVM
7 2 (0.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.26%) IAG
8 1 (0.26%) QEMU
8 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 48 (12.47%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.68%) Ansible
3 10 (2.60%) Puppet
4 7 (1.82%) Grafana
5 6 (1.56%) FortiGate
5 6 (1.56%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.30%) Nagios
6 5 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.04%) Argo
7 4 (1.04%) Podman
8 3 (0.78%) Packer
9 2 (0.52%) Istio
9 2 (0.52%) linkerd
9 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.26%) Cilium
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 29 (7.53%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.01%) Google
3 18 (4.68%) OpenAI
4 17 (4.42%) Red Hat
5 13 (3.38%) Oracle
6 10 (2.60%) Splunk
7 8 (2.08%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.08%) VMware
7 8 (2.08%) YouTube
8 7 (1.82%) Apple
8 7 (1.82%) FIS
8 7 (1.82%) SaltStack
9 6 (1.56%) Adobe
9 6 (1.56%) Cisco
10 5 (1.30%) New Relic
11 4 (1.04%) OutSystems
11 4 (1.04%) Sage
12 3 (0.78%) Databricks
12 3 (0.78%) Intel
13 2 (0.52%) IBM