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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 412 264
Rank change year-on-year -7 -148 -31
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 376 248 738
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.57% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.64% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 284 143 450
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £73,000 £68,404
Median % change year-on-year +13.01% +6.72% -2.28%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £127,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £69,308
% change year-on-year +10.34% +4.61% -0.99%

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 71,233 38,821 57,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.35% 88.70% 81.24%
Number of salaries quoted 50,689 22,542 35,770
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £41,250
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 £76,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%

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 1 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 1 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 -18 152 £92,500 +2.78% 794
North of England -1 81 £80,000 +52.38% 60
South West -25 59 £100,000 +60.00% 47
South East -50 42 £63,750 -7.27% 61
North West 0 39 £80,000 +25.49% 33
North East -39 26 £74,830 +42.53% 10
Midlands -33 21 £74,654 +2.97% 25
East of England -15 16 £100,000 +11.11% 84
Yorkshire -32 16 £81,887 +67.12% 17
West Midlands -19 14 £74,742 +3.09% 20
East Midlands -14 7 £39,194 -54.27% 5
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 (4.52%) Apache
2 10 (2.66%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.60%) JBoss
4 5 (1.33%) nginx
4 5 (1.33%) WordPress
5 4 (1.06%) Camunda
6 3 (0.80%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.53%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.27%) CMS
8 1 (0.27%) Confluence
8 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (0.27%) InDesign
2 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.27%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Line 50
2 1 (0.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 160 (42.55%) AWS
2 94 (25.00%) Azure
3 54 (14.36%) GCP
4 38 (10.11%) GitHub
5 26 (6.91%) Serverless
6 23 (6.12%) Anthropic Claude
7 19 (5.05%) GitHub Copilot
8 18 (4.79%) OpenShift
9 16 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.93%) Amazon S3
11 11 (2.93%) dbt
11 11 (2.93%) SaaS
12 10 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.66%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (2.13%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (2.13%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.86%) Amazon EMR
15 6 (1.60%) Amazon Bedrock
15 6 (1.60%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.13%) AMQP
1 8 (2.13%) Firewall
2 6 (1.60%) Intrusion Detection
2 6 (1.60%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.60%) VoIP
3 5 (1.33%) Network Security
3 5 (1.33%) SSL
4 4 (1.06%) Internet
5 3 (0.80%) DHCP
5 3 (0.80%) DNS
5 3 (0.80%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.53%) Asterisk PBX
6 2 (0.53%) LAN
6 2 (0.53%) MQTT
6 2 (0.53%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.53%) WAN
7 1 (0.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.98%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (7.71%) NoSQL
3 27 (7.18%) MySQL
4 23 (6.12%) MongoDB
5 22 (5.85%) Big Data
6 10 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.66%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.39%) Metadata
8 7 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.86%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.86%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.60%) Redis
10 5 (1.33%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.33%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.06%) FileMaker
11 4 (1.06%) Neo4j
11 4 (1.06%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.80%) GIS
12 3 (0.80%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 24 (6.38%) Git
2 21 (5.59%) Claude Code
3 14 (3.72%) GitLab
4 13 (3.46%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.39%) JIRA
6 8 (2.13%) Subversion
7 7 (1.86%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.33%) Selenium
9 4 (1.06%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.80%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.80%) Maven
10 3 (0.80%) Snyk
11 2 (0.53%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.53%) Eclipse RCP
12 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.27%) CMake
12 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.27%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.27%) Valgrind
General
1 83 (22.07%) Social Skills
2 64 (17.02%) Finance
3 60 (15.96%) Public Sector
4 53 (14.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (5.85%) Law
7 19 (5.05%) Banking
8 16 (4.26%) Legal
8 16 (4.26%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.66%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.13%) Marketing
11 7 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.60%) Advertising
13 5 (1.33%) Front Office
14 4 (1.06%) Back Office
14 4 (1.06%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.80%) Police
15 3 (0.80%) Retail
15 3 (0.80%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (28.46%) Software Engineer
2 89 (23.67%) Lead
3 75 (19.95%) Senior
4 50 (13.30%) Architect
5 40 (10.64%) Lead Software Engineer
6 38 (10.11%) Developer
7 28 (7.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 28 (7.45%) Principal Engineer
8 26 (6.91%) Cloud Architect
9 24 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (4.26%) Data Engineer
10 16 (4.26%) Principal Software Engineer
11 14 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.46%) Consultant
13 12 (3.19%) Linux Engineer
14 11 (2.93%) Java Engineer
14 11 (2.93%) Senior Consultant
14 11 (2.93%) Senior Developer
15 9 (2.39%) AWS Engineer
16 8 (2.13%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (13.56%) Terraform
2 47 (12.50%) Node.js
3 31 (8.24%) Kafka
4 30 (7.98%) React
5 21 (5.59%) HTML
5 21 (5.59%) REST
6 20 (5.32%) CSS
7 17 (4.52%) Spring
8 16 (4.26%) LangChain
8 16 (4.26%) RESTful
9 15 (3.99%) RabbitMQ
10 14 (3.72%) .NET
11 12 (3.19%) PyTorch
11 12 (3.19%) Spring Boot
12 11 (2.93%) LlamaIndex
12 11 (2.93%) TensorFlow
13 9 (2.39%) Model Context Protocol
14 8 (2.13%) FastAPI
14 8 (2.13%) NumPy
14 8 (2.13%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.43%) Cloud Native
2 34 (9.04%) Public Cloud
3 31 (8.24%) Onboarding
4 20 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (3.72%) AI Agents
5 14 (3.72%) Blog
6 12 (3.19%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.93%) Distributed Computing
8 10 (2.66%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.39%) Data Centre
9 9 (2.39%) Private Cloud
10 8 (2.13%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.86%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.86%) Robotics
11 7 (1.86%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.86%) Social Media
12 6 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.33%) Autonomous Agent
13 5 (1.33%) Hackathon
13 5 (1.33%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 43 (11.44%) Linux
2 15 (3.99%) Windows
3 11 (2.93%) Debian
4 7 (1.86%) CentOS
4 7 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.86%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.60%) Embedded Linux
5 6 (1.60%) Unix
6 4 (1.06%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.80%) Android
7 3 (0.80%) Gentoo
8 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (45.74%) Software Engineering
2 128 (34.04%) Agile
3 122 (32.45%) AI
4 93 (24.73%) CI/CD
5 84 (22.34%) DevOps
6 80 (21.28%) Mentoring
7 77 (20.48%) Microservices
8 60 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (15.69%) Containerisation
10 55 (14.63%) LLM
10 55 (14.63%) Machine Learning
11 51 (13.56%) Infrastructure as Code
12 45 (11.97%) TDD
13 41 (10.90%) Roadmaps
14 38 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (9.84%) Analytics
16 36 (9.57%) Technical Leadership
16 36 (9.57%) Test Automation
17 35 (9.31%) Computer Science
17 35 (9.31%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 121 (32.18%) Python
2 72 (19.15%) Java
3 62 (16.49%) JavaScript
4 35 (9.31%) SQL
5 30 (7.98%) TypeScript
6 27 (7.18%) C++
7 21 (5.59%) Bash
8 17 (4.52%) C
8 17 (4.52%) Go
9 14 (3.72%) C#
9 14 (3.72%) Scala
10 13 (3.46%) PHP
11 12 (3.19%) Rust
12 7 (1.86%) Clojure
12 7 (1.86%) Erlang
12 7 (1.86%) Ruby
13 5 (1.33%) PowerShell
14 4 (1.06%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.80%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.53%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 102 (27.13%) Security Cleared
2 61 (16.22%) Degree
3 55 (14.63%) SC Cleared
4 50 (13.30%) DV Cleared
5 16 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.99%) PhD
7 13 (3.46%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.66%) AWS Certification
9 9 (2.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 7 (1.86%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.06%) CISSP
11 4 (1.06%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.80%) CCNA
12 3 (0.80%) CISM
12 3 (0.80%) GSEC
12 3 (0.80%) MCSE
12 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.53%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.59%) QA
2 18 (4.79%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.46%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.13%) WCAG
5 6 (1.60%) NCSC
6 4 (1.06%) ISO 14001
6 4 (1.06%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.80%) SLA
8 2 (0.53%) NIST
8 2 (0.53%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.27%) MiFID
9 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 45 (11.97%) Docker
2 12 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.33%) Firmware
4 5 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.80%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.80%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 3 (0.80%) vSphere
6 2 (0.53%) KVM
7 1 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.27%) IAG
7 1 (0.27%) QEMU
7 1 (0.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 58 (15.43%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.52%) Ansible
3 10 (2.66%) Istio
4 8 (2.13%) Puppet
5 6 (1.60%) Grafana
5 6 (1.60%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.33%) Nagios
6 5 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.06%) Argo
7 4 (1.06%) Podman
8 3 (0.80%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.80%) Packer
9 2 (0.53%) linkerd
9 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.27%) Cilium
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 26 (6.91%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.38%) Google
3 19 (5.05%) OpenAI
4 14 (3.72%) Red Hat
5 12 (3.19%) Oracle
6 9 (2.39%) Splunk
7 8 (2.13%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.13%) Confluent
8 6 (1.60%) Adobe
8 6 (1.60%) VMware
9 5 (1.33%) Databricks
9 5 (1.33%) New Relic
9 5 (1.33%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.06%) Apple
10 4 (1.06%) Cisco
10 4 (1.06%) Sage
11 3 (0.80%) Intel
11 3 (0.80%) YouTube
12 2 (0.53%) FIS
12 2 (0.53%) OutSystems