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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 408 255
Rank change year-on-year -3 -153 -16
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 397 241 692
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.56% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.62% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 291 141 373
10th Percentile £46,939 £48,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £63,626 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,000 £73,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.33% +8.15% -3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £86,000
90th Percentile £109,000 £121,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,000 £69,308
% change year-on-year +9.59% +5.33% -0.99%

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 76,345 38,619 53,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.62% 89.01% 82.66%
Number of salaries quoted 53,555 21,921 28,813
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,681 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -42 142 £81,250 -1.52% 998
North of England -12 92 £80,000 +28.00% 97
South West -19 65 £100,000 +33.33% 43
South East -48 49 £62,500 -3.85% 86
North West -2 40 £80,000 +12.68% 49
North East -32 39 £74,830 +42.53% 16
Midlands -39 22 £74,654 +2.97% 35
East of England -31 20 £100,000 +229.27% 95
West Midlands -40 14 £74,830 +3.21% 26
Yorkshire -28 13 £83,774 +29.38% 32
East Midlands -29 8 £39,194 -54.27% 9
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 21 (5.29%) Apache
2 14 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.51%) JBoss
4 5 (1.26%) Camunda
4 5 (1.26%) nginx
5 3 (0.76%) WordPress
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.25%) CMS
6 1 (0.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) InDesign
2 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.25%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Line 50
2 2 (0.50%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.25%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 162 (40.81%) AWS
2 92 (23.17%) Azure
3 59 (14.86%) GCP
4 35 (8.82%) GitHub
5 26 (6.55%) Serverless
6 19 (4.79%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (4.28%) SaaS
8 16 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (3.78%) Amazon S3
9 15 (3.78%) Anthropic Claude
10 13 (3.27%) GitHub Copilot
11 11 (2.77%) dbt
11 11 (2.77%) OpenShift
12 10 (2.52%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (1.76%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (1.76%) Datadog
13 7 (1.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (1.76%) Power Platform
14 6 (1.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.28%) Firewall
2 12 (3.02%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.77%) AMQP
4 10 (2.52%) Network Security
5 6 (1.51%) BGP
5 6 (1.51%) DHCP
5 6 (1.51%) DNS
5 6 (1.51%) Internet
5 6 (1.51%) Intrusion Detection
5 6 (1.51%) NX-OS
5 6 (1.51%) VoIP
5 6 (1.51%) VPN
6 5 (1.26%) SSL
7 3 (0.76%) CTI
8 2 (0.50%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.50%) MQTT
8 2 (0.50%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (0.50%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.25%) 5G
9 1 (0.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (10.08%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (7.56%) NoSQL
3 29 (7.30%) Big Data
3 29 (7.30%) MySQL
4 21 (5.29%) MongoDB
5 12 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (2.77%) Metadata
7 10 (2.52%) Redis
7 10 (2.52%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.02%) Cloudera CDH
8 8 (2.02%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.76%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.76%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.76%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.01%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.76%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 27 (6.80%) Git
2 22 (5.54%) GitLab
3 13 (3.27%) Claude Code
4 12 (3.02%) JIRA
5 9 (2.27%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.02%) Subversion
7 7 (1.76%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.76%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.01%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.01%) Snyk
9 3 (0.76%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.76%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.76%) Maven
10 2 (0.50%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.50%) JUnit
10 2 (0.50%) MLflow
10 2 (0.50%) Mockito
11 1 (0.25%) Codeship
11 1 (0.25%) DBeaver
11 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 108 (27.20%) Social Skills
2 74 (18.64%) Public Sector
3 67 (16.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 59 (14.86%) Finance
5 29 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (5.04%) Law
7 18 (4.53%) Legal
8 16 (4.03%) Aerospace
9 15 (3.78%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.52%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.02%) Back Office
11 8 (2.02%) Marketing
12 7 (1.76%) Banking
13 6 (1.51%) Police
14 5 (1.26%) Games
14 5 (1.26%) Retail
15 4 (1.01%) Advertising
15 4 (1.01%) Automotive
15 4 (1.01%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 110 (27.71%) Software Engineer
2 102 (25.69%) Lead
3 70 (17.63%) Senior
4 56 (14.11%) Architect
5 45 (11.34%) Lead Software Engineer
6 38 (9.57%) Developer
7 28 (7.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 28 (7.05%) Cloud Architect
8 21 (5.29%) Principal Engineer
9 20 (5.04%) Data Engineer
10 17 (4.28%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (4.03%) Java Engineer
11 16 (4.03%) Principal Software Engineer
12 15 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (3.27%) Consultant
13 13 (3.27%) Linux Engineer
14 12 (3.02%) Security Engineer
14 12 (3.02%) Senior Developer
15 11 (2.77%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (13.35%) Terraform
2 38 (9.57%) Node.js
3 29 (7.30%) React
4 24 (6.05%) REST
5 21 (5.29%) Kafka
5 21 (5.29%) LangChain
5 21 (5.29%) Spring
6 20 (5.04%) HTML
7 19 (4.79%) CSS
7 19 (4.79%) RESTful
8 17 (4.28%) RabbitMQ
8 17 (4.28%) Spring Boot
9 16 (4.03%) LlamaIndex
10 12 (3.02%) PyTorch
11 11 (2.77%) OAuth
11 11 (2.77%) OpenAPI
11 11 (2.77%) TensorFlow
12 10 (2.52%) gRPC
12 10 (2.52%) OpenID
12 10 (2.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 69 (17.38%) Cloud Native
2 43 (10.83%) Onboarding
3 39 (9.82%) Public Cloud
4 25 (6.30%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (5.79%) Blog
6 22 (5.54%) Management Information System
7 14 (3.53%) AI Agents
8 12 (3.02%) Data Centre
9 11 (2.77%) Private Cloud
10 10 (2.52%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.52%) Distributed Computing
10 10 (2.52%) Security Posture
10 10 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (2.27%) Algorithms
11 9 (2.27%) Product Ownership
11 9 (2.27%) Social Media
12 7 (1.76%) PKI
12 7 (1.76%) Robotics
13 6 (1.51%) Autonomous Agent
13 6 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 52 (13.10%) Linux
2 19 (4.79%) Windows
3 14 (3.53%) Debian
4 11 (2.77%) Embedded Linux
5 10 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (2.27%) CentOS
6 9 (2.27%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.51%) Android
7 6 (1.51%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.26%) Unix
9 3 (0.76%) Gentoo
9 3 (0.76%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.50%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (41.56%) Software Engineering
2 145 (36.52%) Agile
3 130 (32.75%) AI
4 106 (26.70%) CI/CD
5 76 (19.14%) Mentoring
6 74 (18.64%) DevOps
6 74 (18.64%) Microservices
7 72 (18.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 69 (17.38%) LLM
9 66 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
10 61 (15.37%) Containerisation
11 55 (13.85%) Machine Learning
12 46 (11.59%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 45 (11.34%) Computer Science
13 45 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
13 45 (11.34%) Technical Leadership
14 40 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 40 (10.08%) TDD
15 39 (9.82%) Cybersecurity
15 39 (9.82%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 128 (32.24%) Python
2 89 (22.42%) Java
3 60 (15.11%) JavaScript
4 45 (11.34%) SQL
5 34 (8.56%) C++
5 34 (8.56%) TypeScript
6 21 (5.29%) Bash
7 18 (4.53%) C
8 16 (4.03%) Scala
9 14 (3.53%) Go
10 11 (2.77%) Rust
11 10 (2.52%) C#
11 10 (2.52%) PHP
11 10 (2.52%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.76%) Clojure
12 7 (1.76%) Erlang
12 7 (1.76%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.76%) Ruby
13 4 (1.01%) Embedded C++
14 3 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 120 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 68 (17.13%) Degree
3 67 (16.88%) SC Cleared
4 56 (14.11%) DV Cleared
5 23 (5.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (5.04%) Azure Certification
7 17 (4.28%) AWS Certification
8 16 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.53%) PhD
10 13 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (2.52%) CISSP
11 10 (2.52%) Master's Degree
12 9 (2.27%) CISM
12 9 (2.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 7 (1.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (1.51%) CCNA
14 6 (1.51%) CCSP
14 6 (1.51%) MCSE
14 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (1.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.04%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.78%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.27%) QA
4 10 (2.52%) NCSC
5 9 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.27%) WCAG
6 7 (1.76%) NIST
6 7 (1.76%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.51%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.51%) SLA
8 3 (0.76%) ISO 14001
8 3 (0.76%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.25%) MiFID
9 1 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 39 (9.82%) Docker
2 7 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.51%) vSphere
4 5 (1.26%) Firmware
4 5 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.76%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.50%) Snort
6 2 (0.50%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.25%) IAG
7 1 (0.25%) KVM
Systems Management
1 58 (14.61%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.04%) Ansible
3 16 (4.03%) Grafana
4 10 (2.52%) Puppet
5 7 (1.76%) Cilium
6 6 (1.51%) FortiGate
6 6 (1.51%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (1.26%) Nagios
7 5 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.01%) Packer
8 4 (1.01%) Podman
9 3 (0.76%) Argo
10 2 (0.50%) Istio
10 2 (0.50%) linkerd
10 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 33 (8.31%) Google
2 28 (7.05%) Microsoft
3 17 (4.28%) Red Hat
4 16 (4.03%) OpenAI
5 13 (3.27%) Oracle
5 13 (3.27%) Splunk
6 11 (2.77%) Atlassian
7 9 (2.27%) VMware
7 9 (2.27%) YouTube
8 8 (2.02%) SaltStack
9 7 (1.76%) FIS
10 6 (1.51%) Apple
10 6 (1.51%) Cisco
11 5 (1.26%) Adobe
11 5 (1.26%) New Relic
12 4 (1.01%) OutSystems
13 3 (0.76%) Databricks
13 3 (0.76%) Intel
13 3 (0.76%) Sage
13 3 (0.76%) Thales