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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 339 288
Rank change year-on-year -75 -51 -102
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 298 326 847
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.86% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.92% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 201 241 650
10th Percentile £46,939 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £48,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,677 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.40% +23.08% -13.33%
75th Percentile £98,750 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £127,500 £138,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +15.38% -13.33%

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 61,164 35,487 72,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.89% 93.36% 84.12%
Number of salaries quoted 40,556 18,984 54,206
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,779 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £72,761
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -9.84%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -49 133 £92,500 -15.91% 157
North of England -6 72 £75,000 +11.01% 16
North West +16 46 £75,000 +5.72% 13
South East -56 29 £60,000 -4.00% 35
South West -51 23 £57,500 -4.17% 19
Yorkshire -43 20 £74,653 +52.35% 3
Midlands -35 16 £53,029 -21.58% 3
East of England -18 14 £80,000 -20.99% 16
East Midlands - 9 £55,000 - 2
West Midlands -48 7 £28,500 -57.86% 1
North East -41 6 £67,952 -0.38%
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 11 (3.69%) Apache Spark
1 11 (3.69%) Appian
2 10 (3.36%) Apache
3 5 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.34%) Apache Solr
4 4 (1.34%) GeoServer
4 4 (1.34%) WordPress
5 2 (0.67%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.67%) Confluence
6 1 (0.34%) Camunda
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) InDesign
2 1 (0.34%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.34%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.34%) Line 50
2 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 106 (35.57%) AWS
2 95 (31.88%) Azure
3 44 (14.77%) GCP
4 29 (9.73%) Anthropic Claude
5 28 (9.40%) GitHub
6 24 (8.05%) Serverless
7 16 (5.37%) OpenShift
8 14 (4.70%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (4.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (4.36%) GitHub Copilot
10 9 (3.02%) Azure AI
10 9 (3.02%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (3.02%) Power Automate
10 9 (3.02%) SaaS
11 8 (2.68%) Amazon MSK
12 7 (2.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.01%) Google Gemini
13 6 (2.01%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.72%) Broadband
2 8 (2.68%) Network Security
2 8 (2.68%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.68%) VoIP
3 6 (2.01%) Software-Defined Radio
4 5 (1.68%) AMQP
4 5 (1.68%) HTTP
5 3 (1.01%) LAN
5 3 (1.01%) RTP
5 3 (1.01%) Unified Communications
5 3 (1.01%) WAN
5 3 (1.01%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.67%) DNS
6 2 (0.67%) SMTP
7 1 (0.34%) Firewall
7 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.34%) Internet
7 1 (0.34%) SSL
7 1 (0.34%) VPN
7 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.74%) MongoDB
2 32 (10.74%) MySQL
2 32 (10.74%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (9.73%) NoSQL
4 15 (5.03%) Pinecone
5 12 (4.03%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.01%) Big Data
7 6 (2.01%) Hadoop
7 6 (2.01%) Neo4j
7 6 (2.01%) Redis
8 5 (1.68%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.34%) DocumentDB
9 4 (1.34%) FileMaker
9 4 (1.34%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (1.34%) GIS
9 4 (1.34%) QGIS
10 3 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.01%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 30 (10.07%) Jenkins
2 22 (7.38%) TeamCity
3 15 (5.03%) Claude Code
4 14 (4.70%) Git
5 9 (3.02%) MLflow
6 6 (2.01%) Selenium
7 5 (1.68%) Burp Suite
7 5 (1.68%) JIRA
8 4 (1.34%) GitLab
8 4 (1.34%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.67%) Maven
10 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.34%) CMake
10 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.34%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.34%) Valgrind
10 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 55 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 49 (16.44%) Finance
3 36 (12.08%) Public Sector
4 29 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.70%) Banking
5 14 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.03%) Law
7 9 (3.02%) Retail
8 8 (2.68%) German Language
8 8 (2.68%) Legal
8 8 (2.68%) Tech for Good
9 6 (2.01%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.01%) Back Office
9 6 (2.01%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.01%) Marketing
10 5 (1.68%) Italian Language
11 4 (1.34%) Advertising
11 4 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.01%) French Language
12 3 (1.01%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 91 (30.54%) Software Engineer
2 75 (25.17%) Senior
3 42 (14.09%) Lead
4 41 (13.76%) Developer
5 26 (8.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 25 (8.39%) Senior Software Engineer
7 18 (6.04%) Lead Software Engineer
7 18 (6.04%) Principal Engineer
8 14 (4.70%) Java Engineer
9 13 (4.36%) Architect
10 12 (4.03%) Java Software Engineer
10 12 (4.03%) Scala Engineer
10 12 (4.03%) Senior Developer
11 11 (3.69%) Data Engineer
11 11 (3.69%) Java Developer
12 10 (3.36%) Python Developer
12 10 (3.36%) Software Developer
13 9 (3.02%) Automation Engineer
13 9 (3.02%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (2.68%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (12.75%) Node.js
2 35 (11.74%) RESTful
3 31 (10.40%) REST
4 23 (7.72%) React
5 22 (7.38%) Akka
6 20 (6.71%) Kafka
7 18 (6.04%) Django
8 17 (5.70%) PyTorch
9 16 (5.37%) TensorFlow
10 15 (5.03%) FastAPI
10 15 (5.03%) NumPy
10 15 (5.03%) Spring
11 14 (4.70%) OAuth
11 14 (4.70%) OpenAPI
11 14 (4.70%) Pandas
11 14 (4.70%) Spring Boot
11 14 (4.70%) Swagger
12 13 (4.36%) pytest
12 13 (4.36%) scikit-learn
13 12 (4.03%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 42 (14.09%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.72%) Video\Live Streaming
3 22 (7.38%) Over-the-Top Content
4 18 (6.04%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.69%) Security Posture
8 9 (3.02%) AI Agents
8 9 (3.02%) Algorithms
8 9 (3.02%) Low-Code
9 8 (2.68%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.35%) Management Information System
10 7 (2.35%) Public Cloud
11 6 (2.01%) Blog
12 5 (1.68%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.68%) FPGA
12 5 (1.68%) Mobile Payment
13 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.34%) Insider Threat
13 4 (1.34%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.40%) Linux
2 11 (3.69%) Windows
3 10 (3.36%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.35%) Unix
5 6 (2.01%) CentOS
5 6 (2.01%) Debian
6 5 (1.68%) Android
7 4 (1.34%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.34%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.34%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.34%) OpenBSD
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (46.64%) Software Engineering
2 93 (31.21%) AI
3 85 (28.52%) Agile
4 71 (23.83%) CI/CD
5 68 (22.82%) DevOps
6 67 (22.48%) Mentoring
6 67 (22.48%) Microservices
7 66 (22.15%) TDD
8 58 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (18.12%) Machine Learning
10 51 (17.11%) LLM
11 50 (16.78%) Analytics
12 47 (15.77%) Generative AI
13 44 (14.77%) Test Automation
14 42 (14.09%) Containerisation
15 39 (13.09%) Coaching
16 36 (12.08%) Roadmaps
17 35 (11.74%) Scrum
18 33 (11.07%) Kanban
19 32 (10.74%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 105 (35.23%) Python
2 76 (25.50%) Java
3 54 (18.12%) SQL
4 36 (12.08%) JavaScript
5 32 (10.74%) Scala
6 18 (6.04%) C++
7 17 (5.70%) Go
8 16 (5.37%) TypeScript
9 14 (4.70%) C
10 11 (3.69%) PHP
11 6 (2.01%) Rust
12 5 (1.68%) Bash
12 5 (1.68%) C#
13 4 (1.34%) Clojure
13 4 (1.34%) Erlang
13 4 (1.34%) MATLAB
14 3 (1.01%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.01%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.01%) Ruby
15 1 (0.34%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 53 (17.79%) Degree
2 32 (10.74%) Security Cleared
3 23 (7.72%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.03%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.03%) PhD
6 9 (3.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 8 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.35%) DBS Check
9 6 (2.01%) CISSP
9 6 (2.01%) GIAC
9 6 (2.01%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.68%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.34%) CCNA
11 4 (1.34%) CEH
11 4 (1.34%) CISMP
11 4 (1.34%) CREST Certified
11 4 (1.34%) GPEN
11 4 (1.34%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.70%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.03%) QA
3 5 (1.68%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.34%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (1.34%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.34%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.01%) SLA
6 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.67%) NIST
6 2 (0.67%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.34%) MiFID
System Software
1 65 (21.81%) Docker
2 9 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.01%) Kamailio
3 3 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.67%) Firmware
4 2 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.67%) KVM
5 1 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.34%) QEMU
5 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.34%) Xen
Systems Management
1 75 (25.17%) Kubernetes
2 35 (11.74%) Terraform
3 12 (4.03%) Ansible
4 8 (2.68%) Istio
5 7 (2.35%) Puppet
6 5 (1.68%) Argo
7 4 (1.34%) Nmap
8 3 (1.01%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.34%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.34%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.34%) QRadar
Vendors
1 37 (12.42%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.72%) OpenAI
3 20 (6.71%) Google
4 9 (3.02%) Automation Anywhere
4 9 (3.02%) Red Hat
4 9 (3.02%) UiPath
5 8 (2.68%) Confluent
6 7 (2.35%) Databricks
6 7 (2.35%) Oracle
7 5 (1.68%) Adobe
7 5 (1.68%) Cisco
7 5 (1.68%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.34%) Apple
8 4 (1.34%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.34%) PayPal
8 4 (1.34%) Sage
9 3 (1.01%) BT
9 3 (1.01%) Mitel
9 3 (1.01%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.01%) VMware