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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 257 287
Rank change year-on-year -94 +30 -104
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 265 547 526
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 1.14% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 1.25% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 141 332 402
10th Percentile £30,370 £46,288 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +6.63% -13.33%
75th Percentile £85,700 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £120,000 £119,625
UK median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £69,447
% change year-on-year +6.48% -0.20% -7.40%

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 42,425 43,642 44,587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.21% 90.74% 89.79%
Number of salaries quoted 25,405 21,401 34,519
10th Percentile £28,675 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,628 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -3 134 £85,000 -19.05% 96
East of England +37 32 £30,370 -58.11% 43
North of England -46 31 £67,500 +10.28% 44
South East -71 28 £57,500 +4.55% 107
North West +5 22 £71,000 +9.23% 20
Midlands -4 19 £55,000 -15.38% 35
East Midlands 0 14 £51,058 -7.17% 25
South West -22 14 £77,500 -7.74% 36
Yorkshire -34 6 £48,750 -1.52% 18
West Midlands -8 5 £66,901 -3.47% 10
North East -2 3 £73,801 +6.48% 6
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 13 (4.91%) Apache Spark
1 13 (4.91%) Appian
2 9 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.64%) Anypoint
4 6 (2.26%) Apache
5 3 (1.13%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.75%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.75%) Confluence
7 1 (0.38%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.38%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.38%) Kinematics
Applications
1 45 (16.98%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.40%) SAP FS
2 6 (2.26%) Shopify
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 79 (29.81%) AWS
2 70 (26.42%) Azure
3 36 (13.58%) GCP
4 22 (8.30%) Serverless
5 17 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (5.66%) Amazon Alexa
6 15 (5.66%) PaaS
6 15 (5.66%) Power Automate
7 13 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (4.91%) GitHub
8 11 (4.15%) Anthropic Claude
9 10 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (3.40%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (3.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 9 (3.40%) Azure AI
10 9 (3.40%) IaaS
11 8 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (3.02%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.64%) Boomi
12 7 (2.64%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.17%) Broadband
2 15 (5.66%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.64%) HTTP
4 6 (2.26%) DNS
5 5 (1.89%) DHCP
6 4 (1.51%) SMTP
6 4 (1.51%) WAN
6 4 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.13%) AMQP
7 3 (1.13%) DOCSIS
7 3 (1.13%) DSL
7 3 (1.13%) GPON
7 3 (1.13%) IPv4
7 3 (1.13%) IPv6
7 3 (1.13%) PPP
7 3 (1.13%) RTP
7 3 (1.13%) VoIP
8 2 (0.75%) Firewall
8 2 (0.75%) Internet
8 2 (0.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.28%) Pinecone
2 12 (4.53%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.53%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.15%) MySQL
3 11 (4.15%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.77%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (2.64%) Redis
6 7 (2.64%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.26%) Big Data
7 6 (2.26%) Weaviate
8 5 (1.89%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.51%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.13%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (1.13%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.75%) DocumentDB
11 2 (0.75%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 16 (6.04%) Git
2 15 (5.66%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.91%) JIRA
3 13 (4.91%) TeamCity
4 10 (3.77%) MLflow
5 9 (3.40%) Cypress.io
6 8 (3.02%) GitLab
6 8 (3.02%) Selenium
7 7 (2.64%) Burp Suite
7 7 (2.64%) Metasploit
8 6 (2.26%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.89%) Vite
10 2 (0.75%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.75%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.75%) Gatling
10 2 (0.75%) Mocha
10 2 (0.75%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.75%) Tricentis qTest
10 2 (0.75%) WebDriver
10 2 (0.75%) webpack
General
1 66 (24.91%) Analytical Skills
2 53 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 30 (11.32%) German Language
4 22 (8.30%) Finance
4 22 (8.30%) Law
5 15 (5.66%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.91%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (4.91%) Retail
7 11 (4.15%) Legal
8 10 (3.77%) Games
9 9 (3.40%) Dutch Language
9 9 (3.40%) French Language
9 9 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (3.02%) Italian Language
11 7 (2.64%) Banking
12 5 (1.89%) Marketing
13 4 (1.51%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.13%) Back Office
14 3 (1.13%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 91 (34.34%) Senior
2 45 (16.98%) Software Engineer
3 34 (12.83%) Architect
3 34 (12.83%) Lead
4 25 (9.43%) Cloud Engineer
5 20 (7.55%) Developer
6 19 (7.17%) Data Engineer
6 19 (7.17%) Senior Software Engineer
7 17 (6.42%) Software Architect
8 15 (5.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 14 (5.28%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 14 (5.28%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 11 (4.15%) Development Engineer
11 9 (3.40%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (3.40%) IT Architect
11 9 (3.40%) Lead Architect
11 9 (3.40%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 9 (3.40%) Senior Developer
12 8 (3.02%) Java Engineer
12 8 (3.02%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (9.81%) REST
2 24 (9.06%) React
3 23 (8.68%) Django
4 22 (8.30%) PyTorch
5 20 (7.55%) TensorFlow
6 18 (6.79%) Web Services
7 16 (6.04%) Middleware
7 16 (6.04%) Node.js
7 16 (6.04%) RESTful
7 16 (6.04%) scikit-learn
8 15 (5.66%) Spring
8 15 (5.66%) Spring Boot
9 14 (5.28%) NumPy
10 13 (4.91%) Akka
10 13 (4.91%) FastAPI
10 13 (4.91%) Pandas
11 12 (4.53%) Faiss
11 12 (4.53%) Hugging Face
11 12 (4.53%) OpenAPI
11 12 (4.53%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.23%) Cloud Native
2 34 (12.83%) Onboarding
3 27 (10.19%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.66%) Low-Code
5 14 (5.28%) Legacy Code
6 13 (4.91%) Over-the-Top Content
6 13 (4.91%) Video\Live Streaming
7 12 (4.53%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (4.53%) Security Posture
8 10 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (3.02%) Blog
10 7 (2.64%) Insider Threat
10 7 (2.64%) Private Cloud
11 6 (2.26%) AI Agents
11 6 (2.26%) Algorithms
11 6 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.89%) Hackathon
12 5 (1.89%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 51 (19.25%) Linux
2 18 (6.79%) Unix
3 11 (4.15%) Windows
4 4 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.51%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.13%) CentOS
5 3 (1.13%) Debian
5 3 (1.13%) OpenWrt
6 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.75%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.38%) Android
7 1 (0.38%) Solaris
7 1 (0.38%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (35.09%) AI
2 86 (32.45%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (29.43%) Agile
4 70 (26.42%) LLM
5 68 (25.66%) CI/CD
5 68 (25.66%) Continuous Improvement
5 68 (25.66%) DevOps
6 62 (23.40%) Generative AI
7 60 (22.64%) Software Engineering
8 55 (20.75%) Machine Learning
9 49 (18.49%) Analytical Thinking
10 41 (15.47%) Containerisation
11 37 (13.96%) Analytics
12 36 (13.58%) Computer Science
13 34 (12.83%) Mentoring
13 34 (12.83%) SDLC
14 33 (12.45%) Clean Code
15 30 (11.32%) Decision-Making
16 29 (10.94%) Test Automation
17 28 (10.57%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 79 (29.81%) Python
2 63 (23.77%) Java
3 33 (12.45%) SQL
4 28 (10.57%) C++
5 26 (9.81%) C
5 26 (9.81%) JavaScript
6 20 (7.55%) Scala
7 19 (7.17%) Go
8 16 (6.04%) Rust
8 16 (6.04%) TypeScript
9 8 (3.02%) Bash
10 7 (2.64%) Kotlin
11 6 (2.26%) R
11 6 (2.26%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.89%) C#
13 4 (1.51%) Fortran
14 1 (0.38%) Korn
14 1 (0.38%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.38%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 109 (41.13%) Degree
2 44 (16.60%) Security Cleared
3 34 (12.83%) SC Cleared
4 25 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (6.79%) Master's Degree
6 15 (5.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (5.66%) DV Cleared
7 14 (5.28%) Chartered Engineer
8 10 (3.77%) GIAC
9 9 (3.40%) AWS Certification
9 9 (3.40%) CISSP
10 8 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (3.02%) CompTIA Security+
10 8 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (3.02%) OSCP
11 7 (2.64%) CCNA
11 7 (2.64%) CEH
11 7 (2.64%) CISMP
11 7 (2.64%) MCP
11 7 (2.64%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.19%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.28%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 13 (4.91%) QA
4 12 (4.53%) Accessibility
5 9 (3.40%) GDPR
5 9 (3.40%) IFRS
5 9 (3.40%) IFRS 17
5 9 (3.40%) Solvency II
6 7 (2.64%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (2.64%) SLA
7 5 (1.89%) NIST
8 4 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (1.13%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.13%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.75%) NCSC
11 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 67 (25.28%) Docker
2 16 (6.04%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (5.28%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (1.13%) KVM
4 3 (1.13%) QEMU
5 2 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 83 (31.32%) Kubernetes
2 29 (10.94%) Terraform
3 17 (6.42%) Ansible
4 8 (3.02%) Nmap
5 6 (2.26%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (1.13%) Grafana
6 3 (1.13%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.13%) Puppet
7 1 (0.38%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (0.38%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.38%) Nagios
7 1 (0.38%) WMI
7 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 59 (22.26%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.68%) OpenAI
3 20 (7.55%) SAP
4 15 (5.66%) Oracle
5 14 (5.28%) Google
6 11 (4.15%) Databricks
7 9 (3.40%) Automation Anywhere
7 9 (3.40%) Cisco
7 9 (3.40%) Duck Creek
7 9 (3.40%) Guidewire
7 9 (3.40%) IBM
7 9 (3.40%) UiPath
8 8 (3.02%) Informatica
8 8 (3.02%) Talend
9 7 (2.64%) Epicor
9 7 (2.64%) IFS
9 7 (2.64%) Infor
9 7 (2.64%) Jitterbit
9 7 (2.64%) MuleSoft
9 7 (2.64%) SnapLogic