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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 417 267
Rank change year-on-year +8 -150 -30
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 390 239 696
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.55% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.62% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 290 135 395
10th Percentile £46,939 £48,100 £40,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £73,159 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +12.77% +11.75% -6.48%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £127,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +9.59% +11.51% -6.48%

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 73,230 38,473 56,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.20% 88.68% 81.32%
Number of salaries quoted 52,112 22,159 32,915
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,229 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 September 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 September 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 -16 146 £92,500 +2.78% 537
North of England +4 90 £80,000 +52.38% 40
South West -30 59 £100,000 +60.00% 29
South East -39 46 £62,500 -13.79% 49
North West +5 43 £80,000 +28.00% 18
North East -36 31 £74,830 +42.53% 8
Midlands -27 23 £74,654 +2.97% 10
East of England -16 20 £100,000 +21.21% 39
Yorkshire -41 16 £83,774 +69.24% 14
West Midlands -36 15 £74,742 +3.09% 8
East Midlands -28 8 £39,194 -54.27% 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 17 (4.36%) Apache
2 12 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.54%) JBoss
4 5 (1.28%) nginx
4 5 (1.28%) WordPress
5 3 (0.77%) Camunda
6 2 (0.51%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Confluence
7 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (0.26%) InDesign
2 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.26%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Line 50
2 2 (0.51%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 159 (40.77%) AWS
2 93 (23.85%) Azure
3 57 (14.62%) GCP
4 36 (9.23%) GitHub
5 26 (6.67%) Serverless
6 22 (5.64%) Anthropic Claude
7 17 (4.36%) GitHub Copilot
7 17 (4.36%) OpenShift
8 14 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (2.82%) Amazon S3
9 11 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (2.82%) dbt
9 11 (2.82%) SaaS
10 10 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (2.05%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.79%) Amazon EMR
13 6 (1.54%) Amazon Bedrock
13 6 (1.54%) Amazon MSK
13 6 (1.54%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.82%) Firewall
2 9 (2.31%) AMQP
3 7 (1.79%) Internet
3 7 (1.79%) VoIP
4 6 (1.54%) DHCP
4 6 (1.54%) DNS
4 6 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (1.54%) NX-OS
4 6 (1.54%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.28%) Network Security
5 5 (1.28%) SSL
6 3 (0.77%) CTI
7 2 (0.51%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.51%) LAN
7 2 (0.51%) MQTT
7 2 (0.51%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.51%) WAN
8 1 (0.26%) 5G
8 1 (0.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (7.44%) NoSQL
3 27 (6.92%) MySQL
4 24 (6.15%) Big Data
5 23 (5.90%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.56%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (2.31%) Metadata
8 7 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.79%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.79%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.54%) Cloudera CDH
9 6 (1.54%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.54%) Redis
10 4 (1.03%) FileMaker
10 4 (1.03%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.03%) Pinecone
11 3 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 25 (6.41%) Git
2 19 (4.87%) Claude Code
3 17 (4.36%) GitLab
4 12 (3.08%) JIRA
5 11 (2.82%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.05%) Subversion
7 7 (1.79%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.03%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.77%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.77%) Maven
9 3 (0.77%) Selenium
9 3 (0.77%) Snyk
10 2 (0.51%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.51%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.51%) MLflow
11 1 (0.26%) Codeship
11 1 (0.26%) DBeaver
11 1 (0.26%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.26%) IDA Disassembler
11 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 96 (24.62%) Social Skills
2 63 (16.15%) Finance
3 61 (15.64%) Public Sector
4 57 (14.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 31 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.41%) Law
7 17 (4.36%) Banking
7 17 (4.36%) Legal
8 16 (4.10%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.33%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.05%) Marketing
10 8 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.54%) Advertising
12 5 (1.28%) Games
12 5 (1.28%) Police
13 4 (1.03%) Back Office
13 4 (1.03%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.03%) Front Office
14 3 (0.77%) Automotive
14 3 (0.77%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 110 (28.21%) Software Engineer
2 94 (24.10%) Lead
3 73 (18.72%) Senior
4 51 (13.08%) Architect
5 41 (10.51%) Lead Software Engineer
6 39 (10.00%) Developer
7 29 (7.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 26 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
9 25 (6.41%) Principal Engineer
10 24 (6.15%) Senior Software Engineer
11 16 (4.10%) Principal Software Engineer
12 15 (3.85%) Data Engineer
13 14 (3.59%) Linux Engineer
13 14 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (3.33%) Consultant
15 11 (2.82%) Java Engineer
15 11 (2.82%) Senior Consultant
15 11 (2.82%) Senior Developer
16 10 (2.56%) Embedded Engineer
16 10 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (12.56%) Terraform
2 46 (11.79%) Node.js
3 32 (8.21%) React
4 26 (6.67%) Kafka
5 21 (5.38%) HTML
5 21 (5.38%) REST
6 20 (5.13%) CSS
7 19 (4.87%) LangChain
8 17 (4.36%) Spring
9 16 (4.10%) RESTful
10 15 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
11 14 (3.59%) LlamaIndex
11 14 (3.59%) PyTorch
12 13 (3.33%) Spring Boot
12 13 (3.33%) TensorFlow
13 11 (2.82%) .NET
14 10 (2.56%) FastAPI
14 10 (2.56%) Model Context Protocol
14 10 (2.56%) scikit-learn
15 9 (2.31%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 59 (15.13%) Cloud Native
2 37 (9.49%) Onboarding
3 35 (8.97%) Public Cloud
4 19 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.85%) AI Agents
5 15 (3.85%) Blog
6 14 (3.59%) Management Information System
7 12 (3.08%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.56%) Data Structures
8 10 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
9 9 (2.31%) Algorithms
9 9 (2.31%) Private Cloud
9 9 (2.31%) Social Media
10 8 (2.05%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.79%) PKI
11 7 (1.79%) Robotics
11 7 (1.79%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.54%) Autonomous Agent
13 5 (1.28%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 48 (12.31%) Linux
2 18 (4.62%) Windows
3 12 (3.08%) Debian
4 11 (2.82%) Embedded Linux
5 8 (2.05%) CentOS
5 8 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.05%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.54%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.54%) Unix
7 5 (1.28%) Android
8 4 (1.03%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.77%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (44.87%) Software Engineering
2 135 (34.62%) AI
3 130 (33.33%) Agile
4 95 (24.36%) CI/CD
5 87 (22.31%) DevOps
6 85 (21.79%) Mentoring
7 73 (18.72%) Microservices
8 69 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
9 64 (16.41%) LLM
10 61 (15.64%) Containerisation
11 60 (15.38%) Machine Learning
12 57 (14.62%) Infrastructure as Code
13 43 (11.03%) Computer Science
13 43 (11.03%) Roadmaps
14 42 (10.77%) TDD
15 40 (10.26%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
16 39 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 38 (9.74%) Technical Leadership
18 37 (9.49%) Coaching
18 37 (9.49%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 127 (32.56%) Python
2 74 (18.97%) Java
3 63 (16.15%) JavaScript
4 36 (9.23%) SQL
5 35 (8.97%) TypeScript
6 32 (8.21%) C++
7 21 (5.38%) Bash
8 17 (4.36%) C
9 14 (3.59%) C#
9 14 (3.59%) Go
9 14 (3.59%) Scala
10 13 (3.33%) PHP
11 12 (3.08%) Rust
12 8 (2.05%) PowerShell
12 8 (2.05%) Ruby
13 7 (1.79%) Clojure
13 7 (1.79%) Erlang
14 4 (1.03%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.77%) Embedded C++
15 3 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 106 (27.18%) Security Cleared
2 70 (17.95%) Degree
3 59 (15.13%) SC Cleared
4 52 (13.33%) DV Cleared
5 19 (4.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (4.36%) PhD
7 16 (4.10%) Azure Certification
8 15 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (3.08%) AWS Certification
10 10 (2.56%) Master's Degree
11 9 (2.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 7 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (1.54%) CCNA
13 6 (1.54%) MCSE
13 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (1.28%) DBS Check
15 4 (1.03%) CISSP
16 3 (0.77%) CISM
16 3 (0.77%) GSEC
17 2 (0.51%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.13%) QA
2 19 (4.87%) Accessibility
3 15 (3.85%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.05%) NCSC
4 8 (2.05%) WCAG
5 6 (1.54%) SLA
6 4 (1.03%) ISO 14001
6 4 (1.03%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.51%) NIST
8 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.26%) MiFID
9 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 40 (10.26%) Docker
2 13 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.54%) vSphere
5 5 (1.28%) Firmware
5 5 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.77%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.77%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.51%) KVM
8 1 (0.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.26%) IAG
8 1 (0.26%) QEMU
8 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 53 (13.59%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.62%) Ansible
3 9 (2.31%) Puppet
4 8 (2.05%) Istio
5 6 (1.54%) FortiGate
5 6 (1.54%) Grafana
6 5 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.28%) Nagios
6 5 (1.28%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.03%) Argo
7 4 (1.03%) Podman
8 3 (0.77%) Packer
9 2 (0.51%) linkerd
9 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.26%) Cilium
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 30 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.92%) Google
3 19 (4.87%) OpenAI
4 16 (4.10%) Red Hat
5 13 (3.33%) Oracle
6 9 (2.31%) Splunk
6 9 (2.31%) VMware
7 8 (2.05%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.79%) Apple
8 7 (1.79%) Cisco
8 7 (1.79%) FIS
9 6 (1.54%) Adobe
9 6 (1.54%) Confluent
9 6 (1.54%) SaltStack
9 6 (1.54%) YouTube
10 5 (1.28%) New Relic
11 4 (1.03%) Databricks
11 4 (1.03%) Sage
12 3 (0.77%) Intel
12 3 (0.77%) OutSystems