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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 296 300
Rank change year-on-year -93 +4 -114
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 328 398 778
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 1.05% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.13% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 193 286 626
10th Percentile £41,482 £48,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £59,043 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +19.23% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £117,000 £138,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £74,651 £75,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year -0.47% +13.21% -11.67%

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 59,680 35,184 71,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.01% 93.01% 85.59%
Number of salaries quoted 37,727 20,624 53,592
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,450 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.93%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -40 155 £91,250 -17.05% 95
North of England -42 65 £61,418 +0.35% 22
North West -11 45 £67,860 +4.40% 16
South East -90 30 £60,000 -2.04% 31
East of England -13 25 £30,370 -66.26% 20
South West -48 23 £55,000 -10.20% 14
Midlands -29 17 £51,058 -13.98% 15
Yorkshire -63 16 £52,130 +5.31% 4
East Midlands - 11 £53,029 - 1
West Midlands -24 6 £28,500 -51.98% 14
North East -42 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 16 (4.88%) Appian
2 15 (4.57%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.74%) Apache
3 9 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.22%) Apache Solr
4 4 (1.22%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.91%) WordPress
6 2 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.61%) Confluence
7 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.30%) Camunda
7 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 34 (10.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.30%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Line 50
2 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.30%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.30%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 101 (30.79%) AWS
2 95 (28.96%) Azure
3 47 (14.33%) GCP
4 27 (8.23%) Anthropic Claude
5 26 (7.93%) Serverless
6 24 (7.32%) GitHub
7 18 (5.49%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (4.88%) OpenShift
9 14 (4.27%) Power Automate
10 12 (3.66%) Amazon Alexa
10 12 (3.66%) Azure AI
10 12 (3.66%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (2.74%) GitHub Copilot
14 8 (2.44%) Amazon MSK
14 8 (2.44%) SaaS
15 7 (2.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 7 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.93%) Broadband
2 13 (3.96%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.74%) VoIP
4 8 (2.44%) HTTP
5 7 (2.13%) Network Security
6 5 (1.52%) AMQP
6 5 (1.52%) DNS
6 5 (1.52%) RTP
6 5 (1.52%) SMTP
6 5 (1.52%) Software-Defined Radio
6 5 (1.52%) WAN
7 3 (0.91%) LAN
7 3 (0.91%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.91%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.61%) DHCP
8 2 (0.61%) GPON
8 2 (0.61%) IPv4
8 2 (0.61%) PPP
8 2 (0.61%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.93%) MongoDB
2 23 (7.01%) MySQL
3 21 (6.40%) NoSQL
4 20 (6.10%) Pinecone
4 20 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (4.88%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.13%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.83%) Big Data
8 6 (1.83%) Neo4j
9 5 (1.52%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.52%) Redis
10 4 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.22%) DocumentDB
10 4 (1.22%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.22%) FileMaker
10 4 (1.22%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.22%) QGIS
10 4 (1.22%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 31 (9.45%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.01%) TeamCity
3 15 (4.57%) Git
4 13 (3.96%) MLflow
5 10 (3.05%) Claude Code
6 7 (2.13%) JIRA
7 6 (1.83%) GitLab
7 6 (1.83%) Selenium
8 5 (1.52%) Burp Suite
8 5 (1.52%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.30%) Maven
General
1 58 (17.68%) Social Skills
2 57 (17.38%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (15.85%) Finance
4 27 (8.23%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.40%) German Language
6 15 (4.57%) Banking
7 14 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (3.96%) Law
9 10 (3.05%) Italian Language
9 10 (3.05%) Retail
10 8 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.44%) Tech for Good
11 7 (2.13%) Legal
12 6 (1.83%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.52%) Back Office
13 5 (1.52%) Marketing
14 4 (1.22%) French Language
15 3 (0.91%) Advertising
15 3 (0.91%) Portuguese Language
15 3 (0.91%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 97 (29.57%) Senior
2 78 (23.78%) Software Engineer
3 39 (11.89%) Developer
4 27 (8.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 27 (8.23%) Senior Software Engineer
5 23 (7.01%) Architect
6 22 (6.71%) Lead
7 18 (5.49%) Principal Engineer
8 17 (5.18%) Data Engineer
9 16 (4.88%) Java Engineer
10 15 (4.57%) Java Software Engineer
11 12 (3.66%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (3.66%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (3.66%) Scala Engineer
12 11 (3.35%) Development Engineer
12 11 (3.35%) Senior Developer
13 10 (3.05%) Java Developer
13 10 (3.05%) Software Architect
13 10 (3.05%) Software Developer
13 10 (3.05%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (11.28%) REST
2 29 (8.84%) RESTful
3 28 (8.54%) Node.js
4 26 (7.93%) React
5 24 (7.32%) PyTorch
6 23 (7.01%) Akka
6 23 (7.01%) Django
6 23 (7.01%) TensorFlow
7 20 (6.10%) FastAPI
7 20 (6.10%) Kafka
8 18 (5.49%) NumPy
8 18 (5.49%) scikit-learn
9 17 (5.18%) OAuth
9 17 (5.18%) OpenAPI
9 17 (5.18%) Pandas
9 17 (5.18%) Swagger
10 15 (4.57%) Flask
10 15 (4.57%) Hugging Face
10 15 (4.57%) pytest
10 15 (4.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 47 (14.33%) Cloud Native
2 38 (11.59%) Onboarding
3 24 (7.32%) Video\Live Streaming
4 23 (7.01%) Over-the-Top Content
5 16 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (4.57%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (4.27%) Low-Code
8 11 (3.35%) AI Agents
8 11 (3.35%) Security Posture
9 10 (3.05%) Blog
10 9 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (2.44%) Product Ownership
12 7 (2.13%) Algorithms
12 7 (2.13%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.52%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.52%) GNSS
13 5 (1.52%) Insider Threat
13 5 (1.52%) Mobile Payment
14 4 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 36 (10.98%) Linux
2 15 (4.57%) Windows
3 10 (3.05%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.74%) Unix
5 7 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.83%) CentOS
7 5 (1.52%) Android
7 5 (1.52%) Debian
8 4 (1.22%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.22%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.61%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.30%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.30%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.30%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (37.50%) AI
2 119 (36.28%) Software Engineering
3 90 (27.44%) Problem-Solving
4 86 (26.22%) Agile
5 81 (24.70%) CI/CD
6 80 (24.39%) DevOps
7 77 (23.48%) LLM
8 74 (22.56%) Generative AI
9 70 (21.34%) Machine Learning
10 62 (18.90%) Mentoring
10 62 (18.90%) Microservices
11 59 (17.99%) Analytics
12 54 (16.46%) TDD
13 53 (16.16%) Containerisation
14 51 (15.55%) Test Automation
15 41 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (11.28%) Analytical Thinking
16 37 (11.28%) Scrum
17 35 (10.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
17 35 (10.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 113 (34.45%) Python
2 70 (21.34%) Java
3 50 (15.24%) SQL
4 31 (9.45%) Scala
5 30 (9.15%) JavaScript
6 20 (6.10%) Go
7 18 (5.49%) C++
7 18 (5.49%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.96%) C
9 9 (2.74%) PHP
10 6 (1.83%) C#
11 5 (1.52%) Bash
11 5 (1.52%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.22%) Rust
13 3 (0.91%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.91%) Ruby
14 2 (0.61%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.30%) F#
15 1 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 89 (27.13%) Degree
2 35 (10.67%) Security Cleared
3 27 (8.23%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (4.57%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.66%) PhD
6 9 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.44%) Chartered Engineer
7 8 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 7 (2.13%) DBS Check
8 7 (2.13%) GIAC
8 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.83%) CISSP
9 6 (1.83%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (1.83%) OSCP
10 5 (1.52%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.52%) CCNA
10 5 (1.52%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.93%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.57%) QA
3 8 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 5 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.52%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.52%) SLA
5 4 (1.22%) ISO 14001
5 4 (1.22%) ISO 9001
5 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.61%) NIST
7 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.30%) GDPR
8 1 (0.30%) IFRS
8 1 (0.30%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.30%) Solvency II
System Software
1 77 (23.48%) Docker
2 11 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.91%) Kamailio
3 3 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.61%) KVM
4 2 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.30%) Firmware
5 1 (0.30%) QEMU
5 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.30%) Xen
Systems Management
1 89 (27.13%) Kubernetes
2 38 (11.59%) Terraform
3 17 (5.18%) Ansible
4 8 (2.44%) Istio
5 7 (2.13%) Puppet
6 5 (1.52%) Argo
6 5 (1.52%) Nmap
7 4 (1.22%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.91%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.61%) Grafana
10 1 (0.30%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 61 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.76%) OpenAI
3 19 (5.79%) Google
4 12 (3.66%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (3.66%) Databricks
4 12 (3.66%) UiPath
5 11 (3.35%) Oracle
6 10 (3.05%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.44%) Confluent
8 7 (2.13%) Cisco
9 5 (1.52%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.22%) Adobe
10 4 (1.22%) Apple
10 4 (1.22%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.22%) IBM
10 4 (1.22%) Palantir
10 4 (1.22%) PayPal
10 4 (1.22%) Sage
11 3 (0.91%) BT
11 3 (0.91%) VMware