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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 316 290
Rank change year-on-year -94 -26 -104
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 303 374 809
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.96% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 1.02% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 181 281 639
10th Percentile £43,000 £48,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £59,043 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £63,218
Median % change year-on-year - +18.64% -15.71%
75th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £125,000 £138,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £73,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.74% +12.31% -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 59,545 36,509 71,748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.99% 93.39% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 39,042 20,550 53,849
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £39,750
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 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 12 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 12 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 -47 144 £92,500 -15.91% 99
North of England -19 63 £65,362 +6.79% 14
North West +13 45 £75,000 +11.11% 8
South East -63 27 £60,000 -4.00% 30
South West -42 22 £55,000 -10.20% 18
East of England -6 21 £30,370 -66.26% 14
Midlands -29 14 £51,058 -16.58% 7
Yorkshire -55 14 £52,130 +5.31% 4
East Midlands - 9 £55,000 - 2
West Midlands -32 5 £28,500 -53.44% 5
North East -37 4 £52,130 -24.87% 2
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 15 (4.95%) Appian
2 12 (3.96%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.64%) Apache
5 4 (1.32%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.32%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.99%) WordPress
7 2 (0.66%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.66%) Confluence
8 1 (0.33%) Camunda
8 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 26 (8.58%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.33%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Line 50
2 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.33%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 91 (30.03%) AWS
2 84 (27.72%) Azure
3 43 (14.19%) GCP
4 28 (9.24%) Anthropic Claude
5 26 (8.58%) GitHub
6 24 (7.92%) Serverless
7 16 (5.28%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (4.95%) OpenShift
9 12 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (3.63%) Azure AI
10 11 (3.63%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (3.63%) Power Automate
11 10 (3.30%) GitHub Copilot
12 9 (2.97%) Amazon Alexa
13 8 (2.64%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (2.64%) SaaS
14 7 (2.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 7 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (2.31%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.59%) Broadband
2 10 (3.30%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.64%) Network Security
4 7 (2.31%) HTTP
4 7 (2.31%) VoIP
5 5 (1.65%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (1.32%) AMQP
6 4 (1.32%) DNS
6 4 (1.32%) SMTP
7 3 (0.99%) LAN
7 3 (0.99%) RTP
7 3 (0.99%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.99%) WAN
7 3 (0.99%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.33%) Firewall
8 1 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.33%) LTE
8 1 (0.33%) VPN
8 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.92%) MongoDB
2 20 (6.60%) MySQL
2 20 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (6.27%) Pinecone
4 18 (5.94%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.62%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.98%) Hadoop
7 6 (1.98%) Neo4j
8 5 (1.65%) Big Data
8 5 (1.65%) Redis
9 4 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.32%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.32%) DocumentDB
9 4 (1.32%) FileMaker
9 4 (1.32%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (1.32%) GIS
9 4 (1.32%) QGIS
9 4 (1.32%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 30 (9.90%) Jenkins
2 22 (7.26%) TeamCity
3 14 (4.62%) Git
4 12 (3.96%) Claude Code
5 11 (3.63%) MLflow
6 6 (1.98%) Selenium
7 4 (1.32%) Burp Suite
7 4 (1.32%) JIRA
7 4 (1.32%) Metasploit
8 3 (0.99%) GitLab
9 2 (0.66%) Maven
10 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
General
1 55 (18.15%) Social Skills
2 50 (16.50%) Finance
3 48 (15.84%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.25%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.28%) German Language
6 14 (4.62%) Banking
6 14 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (4.29%) Law
8 9 (2.97%) Italian Language
8 9 (2.97%) Retail
9 8 (2.64%) Tech for Good
10 7 (2.31%) Legal
11 6 (1.98%) Back Office
11 6 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.65%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.65%) Marketing
13 4 (1.32%) French Language
13 4 (1.32%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.99%) Front Office
14 3 (0.99%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 91 (30.03%) Senior
2 76 (25.08%) Software Engineer
3 38 (12.54%) Developer
4 28 (9.24%) Senior Software Engineer
5 27 (8.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 26 (8.58%) Lead
7 18 (5.94%) Principal Engineer
8 17 (5.61%) Java Engineer
9 16 (5.28%) Architect
10 15 (4.95%) Java Software Engineer
11 12 (3.96%) Data Engineer
11 12 (3.96%) Scala Engineer
12 11 (3.63%) Automation Engineer
13 10 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (3.30%) Development Engineer
13 10 (3.30%) Java Developer
13 10 (3.30%) Senior Developer
13 10 (3.30%) Senior Development Engineer
13 10 (3.30%) Senior Software Development Engineer
13 10 (3.30%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.22%) REST
2 26 (8.58%) Node.js
2 26 (8.58%) RESTful
3 23 (7.59%) React
4 22 (7.26%) Akka
4 22 (7.26%) Django
5 21 (6.93%) Kafka
5 21 (6.93%) PyTorch
6 20 (6.60%) TensorFlow
7 19 (6.27%) FastAPI
8 17 (5.61%) NumPy
8 17 (5.61%) scikit-learn
9 16 (5.28%) Pandas
10 15 (4.95%) OAuth
10 15 (4.95%) OpenAPI
10 15 (4.95%) Swagger
11 14 (4.62%) Flask
11 14 (4.62%) pytest
12 13 (4.29%) Faiss
12 13 (4.29%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.19%) Cloud Native
2 32 (10.56%) Onboarding
3 23 (7.59%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (7.26%) Over-the-Top Content
5 14 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (3.63%) Low-Code
6 11 (3.63%) Security Posture
7 10 (3.30%) Blog
8 9 (2.97%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.64%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.31%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.98%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.65%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.65%) Mobile Payment
12 5 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.32%) FPGA
13 4 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (9.57%) Linux
2 14 (4.62%) Windows
3 8 (2.64%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.31%) Unix
5 6 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.65%) Android
6 5 (1.65%) CentOS
7 4 (1.32%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.32%) Debian
7 4 (1.32%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.33%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.33%) OpenBSD
8 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (38.94%) Software Engineering
2 110 (36.30%) AI
3 73 (24.09%) Agile
3 73 (24.09%) CI/CD
3 73 (24.09%) DevOps
3 73 (24.09%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (22.44%) LLM
5 64 (21.12%) Generative AI
6 63 (20.79%) Machine Learning
7 60 (19.80%) Mentoring
8 58 (19.14%) Microservices
9 54 (17.82%) Analytics
9 54 (17.82%) TDD
10 48 (15.84%) Containerisation
11 47 (15.51%) Test Automation
12 37 (12.21%) Roadmaps
13 34 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (11.22%) Scrum
14 33 (10.89%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
15 32 (10.56%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 107 (35.31%) Python
2 66 (21.78%) Java
3 44 (14.52%) SQL
4 30 (9.90%) Scala
5 25 (8.25%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.94%) Go
7 17 (5.61%) TypeScript
8 15 (4.95%) C++
9 10 (3.30%) C
10 9 (2.97%) PHP
11 5 (1.65%) C#
11 5 (1.65%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.32%) Bash
12 4 (1.32%) Rust
13 3 (0.99%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.99%) Ruby
14 2 (0.66%) Clojure
14 2 (0.66%) Erlang
14 2 (0.66%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 75 (24.75%) Degree
2 30 (9.90%) Security Cleared
3 24 (7.92%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.62%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.96%) PhD
6 11 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.64%) Master's Degree
8 7 (2.31%) DBS Check
8 7 (2.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (1.98%) CISSP
9 6 (1.98%) GIAC
9 6 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.65%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.32%) CEH
11 4 (1.32%) CISMP
11 4 (1.32%) CREST Certified
11 4 (1.32%) GPEN
11 4 (1.32%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.59%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.62%) QA
3 5 (1.65%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.65%) SLA
4 4 (1.32%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (1.32%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.32%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.66%) NIST
5 2 (0.66%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.33%) IFRS
6 1 (0.33%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 71 (23.43%) Docker
2 9 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.99%) Kamailio
3 3 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.66%) KVM
5 1 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.33%) Firmware
5 1 (0.33%) QEMU
5 1 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 80 (26.40%) Kubernetes
2 36 (11.88%) Terraform
3 16 (5.28%) Ansible
4 8 (2.64%) Istio
5 6 (1.98%) Puppet
6 5 (1.65%) Argo
7 4 (1.32%) Nmap
7 4 (1.32%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.99%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.66%) Grafana
10 1 (0.33%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.33%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 52 (17.16%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.57%) OpenAI
3 18 (5.94%) Google
4 11 (3.63%) Automation Anywhere
4 11 (3.63%) UiPath
5 8 (2.64%) Confluent
5 8 (2.64%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.31%) Databricks
6 7 (2.31%) Oracle
7 5 (1.65%) Cisco
8 4 (1.32%) Adobe
8 4 (1.32%) Apple
8 4 (1.32%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.32%) PayPal
8 4 (1.32%) Sage
8 4 (1.32%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.99%) BT
9 3 (0.99%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.99%) Splunk
9 3 (0.99%) VMware