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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 402 260
Rank change year-on-year -20 -142 -26
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 344 272 808
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.63% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.70% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 267 175 560
10th Percentile £46,939 £48,100 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,875 £48,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +15.38% -9.72%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £124,250 £137,500 £96,375
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +15.38% -9.72%

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 67,388 39,043 61,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.82% 89.74% 81.57%
Number of salaries quoted 47,625 22,552 42,071
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,920 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +1.67% -11.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 31 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 31 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 -32 142 £92,500 -6.33% 240
North of England +6 76 £75,000 +25.00% 28
South West -22 49 £90,000 +44.00% 28
South East -47 44 £63,750 -12.07% 31
North West +20 42 £77,500 +11.70% 12
Yorkshire -24 19 £80,000 +63.27% 10
Midlands -37 15 £74,742 +3.09% 8
North East -41 15 £74,830 +42.53% 6
West Midlands -19 13 £74,830 +3.21% 7
East of England -18 11 £135,500 +33.83% 22
East Midlands - 2 £39,194 - 1
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 (5.23%) Apache
2 11 (3.20%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.74%) JBoss
4 5 (1.45%) nginx
4 5 (1.45%) WordPress
5 4 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.16%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.87%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.87%) Camunda
7 2 (0.58%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.29%) CMS
8 1 (0.29%) Confluence
8 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (0.29%) InDesign
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.29%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.29%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.16%) Line 50
2 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 153 (44.48%) AWS
2 96 (27.91%) Azure
3 42 (12.21%) GCP
4 36 (10.47%) GitHub
5 27 (7.85%) Serverless
6 23 (6.69%) Anthropic Claude
7 19 (5.52%) GitHub Copilot
8 17 (4.94%) OpenShift
9 15 (4.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.07%) dbt
11 13 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (3.78%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (3.49%) SaaS
13 11 (3.20%) Amazon S3
14 9 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (2.33%) Amazon MSK
15 8 (2.33%) PaaS
15 8 (2.33%) Power Platform
16 7 (2.03%) Amazon EMR
17 6 (1.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.03%) AMQP
1 7 (2.03%) VoIP
2 6 (1.74%) Network Security
2 6 (1.74%) SSL
2 6 (1.74%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.16%) Firewall
3 4 (1.16%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.87%) HTTP
5 2 (0.58%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (0.58%) DNS
5 2 (0.58%) LAN
5 2 (0.58%) MQTT
5 2 (0.58%) WAN
6 1 (0.29%) DHCP
6 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.29%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.29%) SMTP
6 1 (0.29%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.29%) VPN
6 1 (0.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (11.34%) MySQL
2 39 (11.34%) NoSQL
3 33 (9.59%) MongoDB
4 17 (4.94%) Big Data
5 11 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.91%) Redis
6 10 (2.91%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.33%) Metadata
8 7 (2.03%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.03%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.03%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.45%) Neo4j
11 4 (1.16%) FileMaker
11 4 (1.16%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (1.16%) GIS
11 4 (1.16%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 22 (6.40%) Git
2 21 (6.10%) Claude Code
3 13 (3.78%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.33%) GitLab
5 7 (2.03%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.03%) Selenium
6 6 (1.74%) JIRA
7 5 (1.45%) Subversion
8 4 (1.16%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.87%) Maven
10 2 (0.58%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.58%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.58%) Snyk
11 1 (0.29%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.29%) Codeship
11 1 (0.29%) DBeaver
11 1 (0.29%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.29%) IDA Disassembler
11 1 (0.29%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 75 (21.80%) Social Skills
2 53 (15.41%) Finance
3 43 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 39 (11.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (5.81%) Banking
7 16 (4.65%) Manufacturing
8 15 (4.36%) Law
9 9 (2.62%) Legal
10 8 (2.33%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.33%) Tech for Good
11 6 (1.74%) Advertising
12 5 (1.45%) Back Office
12 5 (1.45%) Front Office
12 5 (1.45%) Marketing
13 3 (0.87%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.58%) Games
14 2 (0.58%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 102 (29.65%) Software Engineer
2 67 (19.48%) Lead
3 66 (19.19%) Senior
4 47 (13.66%) Architect
5 38 (11.05%) Developer
6 33 (9.59%) Lead Software Engineer
7 25 (7.27%) Principal Engineer
8 23 (6.69%) Cloud Architect
9 21 (6.10%) Senior Software Engineer
10 20 (5.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 16 (4.65%) Java Engineer
12 15 (4.36%) Data Engineer
13 14 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (3.78%) Consultant
14 13 (3.78%) Principal Software Engineer
15 10 (2.91%) Java Software Engineer
15 10 (2.91%) Senior Consultant
16 9 (2.62%) AWS Engineer
16 9 (2.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 8 (2.33%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (11.92%) Node.js
2 31 (9.01%) Kafka
3 27 (7.85%) React
3 27 (7.85%) RESTful
4 21 (6.10%) REST
5 16 (4.65%) Spring
6 13 (3.78%) .NET
6 13 (3.78%) HTML
6 13 (3.78%) RabbitMQ
6 13 (3.78%) Spring Boot
7 12 (3.49%) CSS
8 10 (2.91%) LangChain
9 9 (2.62%) Model Context Protocol
9 9 (2.62%) PyTorch
10 8 (2.33%) FastAPI
10 8 (2.33%) OAuth
10 8 (2.33%) TensorFlow
11 7 (2.03%) Flask
11 7 (2.03%) NumPy
11 7 (2.03%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 56 (16.28%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.98%) Public Cloud
3 22 (6.40%) Onboarding
4 20 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (3.78%) Distributed Computing
6 11 (3.20%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.91%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.62%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.62%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.33%) Security Posture
10 7 (2.03%) Blog
10 7 (2.03%) Robotics
10 7 (2.03%) Social Media
11 6 (1.74%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.74%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.74%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.45%) Hackathon
12 5 (1.45%) Mobile Payment
12 5 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 38 (11.05%) Linux
2 13 (3.78%) Windows
3 10 (2.91%) Debian
4 9 (2.62%) Unix
5 7 (2.03%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.74%) CentOS
6 6 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.16%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.87%) Android
8 3 (0.87%) Gentoo
9 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.29%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.29%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (49.13%) Software Engineering
2 113 (32.85%) Agile
3 100 (29.07%) AI
4 88 (25.58%) Microservices
5 85 (24.71%) CI/CD
6 82 (23.84%) DevOps
7 77 (22.38%) Mentoring
8 55 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (14.53%) TDD
10 48 (13.95%) Containerisation
11 47 (13.66%) Roadmaps
12 45 (13.08%) Test Automation
13 42 (12.21%) LLM
13 42 (12.21%) Machine Learning
14 38 (11.05%) Infrastructure as Code
15 35 (10.17%) Cybersecurity
16 34 (9.88%) Analytics
16 34 (9.88%) Coaching
17 31 (9.01%) Migration
18 30 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 113 (32.85%) Python
2 83 (24.13%) Java
3 49 (14.24%) JavaScript
4 46 (13.37%) SQL
5 28 (8.14%) C++
6 19 (5.52%) TypeScript
7 17 (4.94%) C
8 16 (4.65%) Bash
8 16 (4.65%) Go
9 14 (4.07%) PHP
10 12 (3.49%) Rust
11 11 (3.20%) C#
11 11 (3.20%) Scala
12 8 (2.33%) Ruby
13 7 (2.03%) Clojure
13 7 (2.03%) Erlang
14 4 (1.16%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.87%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.87%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 88 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 53 (15.41%) Degree
3 51 (14.83%) SC Cleared
4 40 (11.63%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.49%) PhD
7 9 (2.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 8 (2.33%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.74%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.16%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.87%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.58%) CISSP
12 2 (0.58%) GIAC
13 1 (0.29%) CISM
13 1 (0.29%) GSEC
13 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.29%) RHCE
13 1 (0.29%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.52%) QA
2 15 (4.36%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.03%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.16%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.16%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.58%) NCSC
5 2 (0.58%) NIST
5 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.58%) SLA
5 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.29%) MiFID
6 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 45 (13.08%) Docker
2 10 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.16%) Firmware
5 3 (0.87%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.87%) KVM
5 3 (0.87%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.29%) IAG
7 1 (0.29%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.29%) QEMU
7 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.29%) vSphere
7 1 (0.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 49 (14.24%) Kubernetes
2 45 (13.08%) Terraform
3 17 (4.94%) Ansible
4 8 (2.33%) Istio
5 7 (2.03%) Puppet
6 5 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.45%) Nagios
6 5 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.16%) Podman
8 3 (0.87%) Argo
8 3 (0.87%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (0.87%) Packer
8 3 (0.87%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.29%) Grafana
10 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.29%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 24 (6.98%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.69%) Google
3 19 (5.52%) OpenAI
4 11 (3.20%) Red Hat
5 10 (2.91%) Oracle
6 8 (2.33%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.33%) Confluent
7 7 (2.03%) Splunk
8 5 (1.45%) Adobe
8 5 (1.45%) New Relic
8 5 (1.45%) VMware
9 4 (1.16%) Apple
9 4 (1.16%) Databricks
9 4 (1.16%) Sage
9 4 (1.16%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.58%) Cisco
10 2 (0.58%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.58%) IBM
10 2 (0.58%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.29%) Mitel