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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 260 284
Rank change year-on-year -86 +24 -103
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 335 431 757
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 1.17% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.26% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 186 319 612
10th Percentile £41,830 £48,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,901 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £96,875 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £118,125 £138,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £70,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.31% +1.07% -6.67%

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 53,541 34,289 67,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.05% 93.25% 86.40%
Number of salaries quoted 33,552 20,470 52,037
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,620 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -53 162 £95,000 -13.64% 78
North of England -36 65 £61,418 -5.51% 21
North West -6 45 £61,418 -7.29% 9
East of England -8 31 £30,370 -63.74% 21
South East -86 25 £60,000 - 20
South West -43 22 £55,000 -15.38% 12
Midlands -22 18 £55,000 -15.38% 6
East Midlands -26 14 £51,058 - 1
Yorkshire -55 14 £52,130 +5.31% 8
North East -24 6 £62,966 -9.15% 4
West Midlands -23 4 £73,801 +13.54% 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 18 (5.37%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.78%) Appian
3 11 (3.28%) Apache
3 11 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.79%) Anypoint
5 4 (1.19%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.90%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.60%) Confluence
7 2 (0.60%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.30%) Camunda
8 1 (0.30%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.30%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 42 (12.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.79%) Shopify
2 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.60%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.30%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 112 (33.43%) AWS
2 106 (31.64%) Azure
3 56 (16.72%) GCP
4 21 (6.27%) Serverless
5 19 (5.67%) Anthropic Claude
6 18 (5.37%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (5.37%) Power Automate
7 16 (4.78%) GitHub
8 15 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (4.18%) Amazon Alexa
9 14 (4.18%) OpenShift
10 13 (3.88%) PaaS
11 12 (3.58%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 12 (3.58%) Azure AI
11 12 (3.58%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (3.28%) SaaS
13 10 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (2.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 9 (2.69%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.36%) Broadband
2 19 (5.67%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.39%) HTTP
4 6 (1.79%) RTP
4 6 (1.79%) VoIP
5 5 (1.49%) AMQP
5 5 (1.49%) DNS
5 5 (1.49%) SMTP
5 5 (1.49%) WAN
6 4 (1.19%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.90%) DOCSIS
7 3 (0.90%) DSL
7 3 (0.90%) Firewall
7 3 (0.90%) GPON
7 3 (0.90%) IPv4
7 3 (0.90%) IPv6
7 3 (0.90%) Network Security
7 3 (0.90%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.90%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (7.46%) MySQL
3 22 (6.57%) MongoDB
4 19 (5.67%) NoSQL
5 18 (5.37%) Pinecone
6 16 (4.78%) SQL Server
7 14 (4.18%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (3.58%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (3.28%) Redis
10 8 (2.39%) Big Data
11 7 (2.09%) Hadoop
11 7 (2.09%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (1.49%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (1.49%) DynamoDB
14 4 (1.19%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (1.19%) GIS
14 4 (1.19%) QGIS
14 4 (1.19%) Weaviate
15 3 (0.90%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 27 (8.06%) Jenkins
2 23 (6.87%) TeamCity
3 16 (4.78%) Git
4 13 (3.88%) MLflow
5 9 (2.69%) JIRA
6 7 (2.09%) Burp Suite
6 7 (2.09%) Metasploit
7 6 (1.79%) Selenium
8 4 (1.19%) Claude Code
8 4 (1.19%) GitLab
9 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.30%) Hardhat
9 1 (0.30%) Mocha
9 1 (0.30%) webpack
General
1 60 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
2 58 (17.31%) Social Skills
3 52 (15.52%) Finance
4 31 (9.25%) Public Sector
5 27 (8.06%) German Language
6 18 (5.37%) Law
7 17 (5.07%) Banking
8 16 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (4.48%) Retail
10 12 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (3.58%) Legal
11 11 (3.28%) Italian Language
12 9 (2.69%) Tech for Good
13 7 (2.09%) Back Office
13 7 (2.09%) Marketing
14 6 (1.79%) Aerospace
15 5 (1.49%) French Language
16 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.90%) Portuguese Language
16 3 (0.90%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 105 (31.34%) Senior
2 74 (22.09%) Software Engineer
3 40 (11.94%) Developer
4 26 (7.76%) Architect
5 24 (7.16%) Senior Software Engineer
6 22 (6.57%) Lead
7 21 (6.27%) Data Engineer
8 20 (5.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 18 (5.37%) Java Engineer
10 17 (5.07%) Java Software Engineer
11 15 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (4.48%) Development Engineer
12 12 (3.58%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (3.58%) Java Developer
12 12 (3.58%) Principal Engineer
12 12 (3.58%) Scala Engineer
12 12 (3.58%) Software Architect
13 11 (3.28%) Senior Developer
13 11 (3.28%) Software Developer
13 11 (3.28%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (11.34%) REST
2 33 (9.85%) RESTful
3 32 (9.55%) Django
4 26 (7.76%) Node.js
4 26 (7.76%) React
5 24 (7.16%) PyTorch
6 23 (6.87%) Akka
6 23 (6.87%) TensorFlow
7 22 (6.57%) Web Services
8 20 (5.97%) Kafka
9 19 (5.67%) NumPy
10 18 (5.37%) FastAPI
10 18 (5.37%) Pandas
10 18 (5.37%) scikit-learn
11 17 (5.07%) OAuth
11 17 (5.07%) OpenAPI
11 17 (5.07%) Swagger
12 15 (4.48%) Flask
12 15 (4.48%) pytest
13 14 (4.18%) Faiss
Miscellaneous
1 48 (14.33%) Cloud Native
2 43 (12.84%) Onboarding
3 24 (7.16%) Video\Live Streaming
4 23 (6.87%) Over-the-Top Content
5 22 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (5.37%) Low-Code
7 15 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (3.88%) Security Posture
9 10 (2.99%) AI Agents
9 10 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.69%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (2.39%) Blog
11 8 (2.39%) Data Centre
11 8 (2.39%) Legacy Code
11 8 (2.39%) Product Ownership
12 7 (2.09%) Algorithms
12 7 (2.09%) Insider Threat
12 7 (2.09%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (1.49%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 49 (14.63%) Linux
2 16 (4.78%) Unix
3 11 (3.28%) Windows
4 9 (2.69%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.79%) CentOS
7 5 (1.49%) Android
7 5 (1.49%) Debian
8 4 (1.19%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.90%) OpenWrt
10 2 (0.60%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.30%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.30%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.30%) Solaris
11 1 (0.30%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (34.03%) AI
2 105 (31.34%) Software Engineering
3 99 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
4 98 (29.25%) Agile
5 84 (25.07%) CI/CD
6 77 (22.99%) LLM
7 73 (21.79%) DevOps
7 73 (21.79%) Generative AI
8 67 (20.00%) Machine Learning
9 58 (17.31%) Analytics
10 56 (16.72%) Mentoring
10 56 (16.72%) Microservices
11 55 (16.42%) Containerisation
12 53 (15.82%) TDD
13 49 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
14 47 (14.03%) Analytical Thinking
14 47 (14.03%) Test Automation
15 36 (10.75%) Scrum
16 33 (9.85%) Kanban
17 32 (9.55%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 117 (34.93%) Python
2 80 (23.88%) Java
3 58 (17.31%) SQL
4 32 (9.55%) JavaScript
4 32 (9.55%) Scala
5 25 (7.46%) C++
6 24 (7.16%) Go
7 21 (6.27%) C
8 15 (4.48%) TypeScript
9 11 (3.28%) Rust
10 7 (2.09%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.79%) C#
11 6 (1.79%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.90%) Bash
12 3 (0.90%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.90%) PHP
12 3 (0.90%) R
13 2 (0.60%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.60%) Ruby
14 1 (0.30%) Korn
Qualifications
1 92 (27.46%) Degree
2 44 (13.13%) Security Cleared
3 37 (11.04%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.28%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.99%) GIAC
6 10 (2.99%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.69%) Chartered Engineer
7 9 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.39%) CISSP
8 8 (2.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 8 (2.39%) OSCP
9 7 (2.09%) CCNA
9 7 (2.09%) CEH
9 7 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.09%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (2.09%) CREST Certified
9 7 (2.09%) GPEN
9 7 (2.09%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.25%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 8 (2.39%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.39%) SLA
4 7 (2.09%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (2.09%) GDPR
5 6 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.79%) QA
6 4 (1.19%) NIST
7 3 (0.90%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.60%) IFRS
8 2 (0.60%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.60%) Solvency II
System Software
1 88 (26.27%) Docker
2 18 (5.37%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.39%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.90%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.60%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.60%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.60%) KVM
5 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.30%) Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) QEMU
6 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 101 (30.15%) Kubernetes
2 46 (13.73%) Terraform
3 16 (4.78%) Ansible
4 9 (2.69%) AWS Copilot
5 8 (2.39%) Istio
6 7 (2.09%) Nmap
7 5 (1.49%) Puppet
8 4 (1.19%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.90%) Argo
10 2 (0.60%) Grafana
11 1 (0.30%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.30%) WMI
Vendors
1 70 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.06%) OpenAI
3 20 (5.97%) Google
4 16 (4.78%) Oracle
5 12 (3.58%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (3.58%) Databricks
5 12 (3.58%) UiPath
6 11 (3.28%) SAP
7 9 (2.69%) Cisco
7 9 (2.69%) IBM
7 9 (2.69%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.39%) Confluent
9 6 (1.79%) IFS
9 6 (1.79%) Infor
9 6 (1.79%) Jitterbit
9 6 (1.79%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.79%) SaltStack
9 6 (1.79%) SnapLogic
9 6 (1.79%) Talend
9 6 (1.79%) Workday