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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 374 256
Rank change year-on-year -45 -118 -33
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 328 303 941
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.70% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.77% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 254 203 663
10th Percentile £46,939 £48,050 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +14.57% -12.71%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £124,625 £137,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £73,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +2.74% +11.51% -12.71%

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 64,714 39,117 72,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.88% 90.26% 82.33%
Number of salaries quoted 45,706 22,312 52,075
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -60 139 £92,500 -15.91% 162
North of England +6 81 £74,830 +15.12% 111
North West +17 51 £75,000 +10.90% 52
South East -37 43 £62,500 -9.09% 111
South West -38 36 £87,500 +45.83% 51
Yorkshire -23 18 £80,000 +63.27% 47
Midlands -26 14 £74,742 +3.09% 66
West Midlands -25 13 £74,830 +3.21% 35
North East -52 12 £74,742 +42.37% 12
East of England -24 7 £135,500 +33.83% 63
East Midlands - 1 £39,194 - 31
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 (3.96%) Apache
1 13 (3.96%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.52%) WordPress
3 4 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.22%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.91%) Apache Solr
4 3 (0.91%) Appian
5 2 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.61%) Camunda
6 1 (0.30%) CMS
6 1 (0.30%) Confluence
6 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (0.30%) InDesign
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.30%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Line 50
2 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 145 (44.21%) AWS
2 95 (28.96%) Azure
3 46 (14.02%) GCP
4 39 (11.89%) GitHub
5 30 (9.15%) Serverless
6 26 (7.93%) Anthropic Claude
7 18 (5.49%) GitHub Copilot
8 17 (5.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (5.18%) OpenShift
9 16 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
10 15 (4.57%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (4.57%) SaaS
11 14 (4.27%) dbt
12 11 (3.35%) Amazon S3
12 11 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (2.44%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (2.44%) PaaS
13 8 (2.44%) Power Platform
14 7 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
15 6 (1.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.74%) AMQP
1 9 (2.74%) VoIP
2 7 (2.13%) Network Security
3 5 (1.52%) HTTP
3 5 (1.52%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (1.52%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.91%) Firewall
4 3 (0.91%) RTP
4 3 (0.91%) Unified Communications
4 3 (0.91%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.61%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (0.61%) Broadband
5 2 (0.61%) DNS
5 2 (0.61%) LAN
5 2 (0.61%) MQTT
5 2 (0.61%) WAN
6 1 (0.30%) DHCP
6 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.30%) SMTP
6 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (12.80%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (12.50%) MySQL
3 36 (10.98%) NoSQL
4 33 (10.06%) MongoDB
5 17 (5.18%) Big Data
6 13 (3.96%) SQL Server
7 11 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (3.35%) Redis
8 9 (2.74%) Metadata
9 8 (2.44%) Pinecone
10 7 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.13%) Data Lake
10 7 (2.13%) DynamoDB
10 7 (2.13%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.83%) Cloudera CDH
11 6 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.52%) Neo4j
13 4 (1.22%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 20 (6.10%) Claude Code
1 20 (6.10%) Git
2 12 (3.66%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.13%) GitLab
4 6 (1.83%) JIRA
4 6 (1.83%) Selenium
5 3 (0.91%) MLflow
6 2 (0.61%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.61%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.61%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.61%) Maven
7 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.30%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.30%) CMake
7 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.30%) Eclipse RCP
7 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.30%) Valgrind
7 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 76 (23.17%) Social Skills
2 54 (16.46%) Finance
3 39 (11.89%) Public Sector
4 35 (10.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (6.10%) Banking
7 15 (4.57%) Manufacturing
8 14 (4.27%) Law
9 9 (2.74%) Legal
10 8 (2.44%) Tech for Good
11 7 (2.13%) Marketing
12 6 (1.83%) Advertising
12 6 (1.83%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.83%) Back Office
13 5 (1.52%) Front Office
14 3 (0.91%) French Language
14 3 (0.91%) Italian Language
14 3 (0.91%) Portuguese Language
14 3 (0.91%) Retail
14 3 (0.91%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 95 (28.96%) Software Engineer
2 64 (19.51%) Senior
3 59 (17.99%) Lead
4 43 (13.11%) Architect
5 39 (11.89%) Developer
6 28 (8.54%) Lead Software Engineer
7 21 (6.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 21 (6.40%) Principal Engineer
8 19 (5.79%) Cloud Architect
8 19 (5.79%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (4.27%) Java Engineer
9 14 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (3.35%) Data Engineer
11 10 (3.05%) Consultant
11 10 (3.05%) Java Software Engineer
11 10 (3.05%) Principal Software Engineer
11 10 (3.05%) Python Developer
12 9 (2.74%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (2.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (2.74%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (12.20%) Node.js
2 32 (9.76%) RESTful
3 30 (9.15%) Kafka
3 30 (9.15%) REST
4 28 (8.54%) React
5 19 (5.79%) Spring
6 17 (5.18%) Spring Boot
7 14 (4.27%) RabbitMQ
8 13 (3.96%) .NET
9 12 (3.66%) FastAPI
9 12 (3.66%) Flask
10 11 (3.35%) Django
10 11 (3.35%) HTML
11 10 (3.05%) CSS
11 10 (3.05%) TensorFlow
12 9 (2.74%) LangChain
12 9 (2.74%) OpenAPI
12 9 (2.74%) Pandas
12 9 (2.74%) PyTorch
12 9 (2.74%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 55 (16.77%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.32%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.49%) Public Cloud
4 15 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.35%) AI Agents
5 11 (3.35%) Algorithms
5 11 (3.35%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.44%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.13%) Robotics
8 6 (1.83%) Blog
8 6 (1.83%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.52%) Mobile Payment
10 4 (1.22%) Autonomous Agent
10 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (10.98%) Linux
2 12 (3.66%) Debian
2 12 (3.66%) Windows
3 11 (3.35%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.13%) CentOS
4 7 (2.13%) Unix
5 6 (1.83%) Android
5 6 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.52%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.22%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.91%) Gentoo
9 1 (0.30%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.30%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (49.39%) Software Engineering
2 102 (31.10%) Agile
3 98 (29.88%) AI
4 89 (27.13%) CI/CD
5 86 (26.22%) Microservices
6 79 (24.09%) DevOps
6 79 (24.09%) Mentoring
7 56 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (16.16%) TDD
9 49 (14.94%) Containerisation
9 49 (14.94%) Test Automation
10 48 (14.63%) Roadmaps
11 44 (13.41%) Machine Learning
12 42 (12.80%) LLM
13 36 (10.98%) Analytics
13 36 (10.98%) Coaching
14 35 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
15 32 (9.76%) Generative AI
16 31 (9.45%) Migration
17 30 (9.15%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 113 (34.45%) Python
2 86 (26.22%) Java
3 51 (15.55%) SQL
4 48 (14.63%) JavaScript
5 26 (7.93%) C++
6 22 (6.71%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.18%) C
8 15 (4.57%) Go
8 15 (4.57%) PHP
8 15 (4.57%) Scala
9 12 (3.66%) Bash
10 10 (3.05%) Rust
11 8 (2.44%) Ruby
12 7 (2.13%) C#
12 7 (2.13%) Clojure
12 7 (2.13%) Erlang
13 4 (1.22%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.22%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.91%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.30%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 78 (23.78%) Security Cleared
2 47 (14.33%) Degree
2 47 (14.33%) SC Cleared
3 33 (10.06%) DV Cleared
4 12 (3.66%) PhD
5 11 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 7 (2.13%) DBS Check
7 7 (2.13%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.22%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.61%) CISSP
9 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.30%) CISM
10 1 (0.30%) GIAC
10 1 (0.30%) GSEC
10 1 (0.30%) HNC
10 1 (0.30%) RHCE
10 1 (0.30%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.49%) QA
2 17 (5.18%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.52%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.22%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.22%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.61%) NIST
5 2 (0.61%) SLA
5 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.30%) MiFID
6 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 44 (13.41%) Docker
2 10 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.91%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.91%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.91%) KVM
5 2 (0.61%) Firmware
5 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) QEMU
6 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.30%) vSphere
6 1 (0.30%) Xen
Systems Management
1 52 (15.85%) Kubernetes
2 44 (13.41%) Terraform
3 17 (5.18%) Ansible
4 8 (2.44%) Istio
4 8 (2.44%) Puppet
5 5 (1.52%) Argo
6 4 (1.22%) Podman
7 3 (0.91%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (0.91%) Packer
7 3 (0.91%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.30%) Grafana
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 30 (9.15%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.62%) Google
3 20 (6.10%) OpenAI
4 9 (2.74%) Oracle
5 8 (2.44%) Confluent
5 8 (2.44%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.83%) SaltStack
7 5 (1.52%) Adobe
7 5 (1.52%) VMware
8 4 (1.22%) Apple
8 4 (1.22%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.22%) PayPal
8 4 (1.22%) Sage
9 3 (0.91%) Automation Anywhere
9 3 (0.91%) BT
9 3 (0.91%) Databricks
9 3 (0.91%) IBM
9 3 (0.91%) Mitel
9 3 (0.91%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.91%) UiPath