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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 276 293
Rank change year-on-year -90 +17 -107
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 345 399 773
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 1.07% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 1.15% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 198 292 626
10th Percentile £40,125 £48,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £59,761 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,051 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +19.23% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,938 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £117,500 £138,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -1.60% +8.00% -7.40%

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 58,241 34,721 70,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.47% 93.08% 85.88%
Number of salaries quoted 36,707 20,549 53,733
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 19 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 19 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 -42 163 £93,750 -14.77% 60
North of England -45 68 £61,418 +0.35% 15
North West -3 47 £67,860 +4.40% 7
South East -95 30 £60,000 - 18
East of England -19 29 £30,370 -66.26% 16
South West -48 25 £55,000 -10.20% 16
Midlands -30 17 £51,058 -20.74% 8
Yorkshire -52 16 £52,130 +5.31% 6
East Midlands -44 12 £51,058 -
West Midlands -27 5 £28,500 -55.76% 8
North East -32 5 £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 18 (5.22%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.64%) Appian
3 12 (3.48%) Apache
4 11 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.45%) Apache Solr
6 4 (1.16%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.87%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.58%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.58%) Confluence
8 2 (0.58%) WordPress
9 1 (0.29%) Camunda
9 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 40 (11.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.29%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Line 50
1 3 (0.87%) Shopify
2 2 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.29%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.29%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 113 (32.75%) AWS
2 103 (29.86%) Azure
3 55 (15.94%) GCP
4 26 (7.54%) Anthropic Claude
4 26 (7.54%) Serverless
5 22 (6.38%) GitHub
6 19 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (4.93%) OpenShift
8 16 (4.64%) Power Automate
9 14 (4.06%) Amazon Alexa
10 13 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (3.48%) Azure AI
11 12 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (3.19%) SaaS
13 10 (2.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 9 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (2.32%) Amazon MSK
15 8 (2.32%) GitHub Copilot
15 8 (2.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.54%) Broadband
2 15 (4.35%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.32%) HTTP
3 8 (2.32%) VoIP
4 6 (1.74%) AMQP
4 6 (1.74%) Network Security
5 5 (1.45%) DNS
5 5 (1.45%) RTP
5 5 (1.45%) SMTP
5 5 (1.45%) Software-Defined Radio
5 5 (1.45%) WAN
6 3 (0.87%) LAN
6 3 (0.87%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.87%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.58%) DOCSIS
7 2 (0.58%) Firewall
7 2 (0.58%) IPv4
7 2 (0.58%) IPv6
7 2 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.83%) MongoDB
2 24 (6.96%) MySQL
3 23 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (6.09%) NoSQL
5 20 (5.80%) Pinecone
6 16 (4.64%) SQL Server
7 10 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (2.32%) Big Data
8 8 (2.32%) Hadoop
9 7 (2.03%) Neo4j
9 7 (2.03%) Redis
10 6 (1.74%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.45%) DocumentDB
11 5 (1.45%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.16%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (1.16%) GIS
12 4 (1.16%) QGIS
12 4 (1.16%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 31 (8.99%) Jenkins
2 23 (6.67%) TeamCity
3 16 (4.64%) Git
4 13 (3.77%) MLflow
5 9 (2.61%) Claude Code
6 7 (2.03%) JIRA
7 6 (1.74%) Burp Suite
7 6 (1.74%) GitLab
7 6 (1.74%) Metasploit
7 6 (1.74%) Selenium
8 1 (0.29%) Maven
General
1 61 (17.68%) Social Skills
2 60 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (16.52%) Finance
4 29 (8.41%) Public Sector
5 25 (7.25%) German Language
6 19 (5.51%) Law
7 18 (5.22%) Banking
8 14 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (4.06%) Retail
9 11 (3.19%) Italian Language
10 10 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (2.32%) Back Office
11 8 (2.32%) Legal
11 8 (2.32%) Tech for Good
12 7 (2.03%) Aerospace
12 7 (2.03%) Marketing
13 4 (1.16%) French Language
13 4 (1.16%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.87%) Electronics
14 3 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 104 (30.14%) Senior
2 81 (23.48%) Software Engineer
3 40 (11.59%) Developer
4 27 (7.83%) Senior Software Engineer
5 26 (7.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 24 (6.96%) Lead
7 23 (6.67%) Architect
8 20 (5.80%) Data Engineer
9 18 (5.22%) Principal Engineer
10 16 (4.64%) Java Engineer
11 15 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
12 12 (3.48%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (3.48%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (3.48%) Development Engineer
12 12 (3.48%) Java Developer
12 12 (3.48%) Scala Engineer
13 11 (3.19%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (3.19%) Senior Developer
13 11 (3.19%) Software Developer
14 10 (2.90%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (11.59%) REST
2 31 (8.99%) RESTful
3 28 (8.12%) Node.js
4 27 (7.83%) React
5 26 (7.54%) PyTorch
6 25 (7.25%) Django
6 25 (7.25%) TensorFlow
7 23 (6.67%) Akka
8 22 (6.38%) Kafka
9 21 (6.09%) NumPy
10 20 (5.80%) FastAPI
10 20 (5.80%) Pandas
10 20 (5.80%) scikit-learn
11 18 (5.22%) OpenAPI
11 18 (5.22%) Swagger
12 17 (4.93%) OAuth
12 17 (4.93%) Web Services
13 15 (4.35%) Flask
13 15 (4.35%) Hugging Face
13 15 (4.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 53 (15.36%) Cloud Native
2 42 (12.17%) Onboarding
3 24 (6.96%) Video\Live Streaming
4 23 (6.67%) Over-the-Top Content
5 18 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (4.64%) Low-Code
7 15 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (4.35%) Security Posture
8 11 (3.19%) AI Agents
9 9 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.32%) Algorithms
10 8 (2.32%) Data Centre
10 8 (2.32%) Product Ownership
11 7 (2.03%) Blog
11 7 (2.03%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.74%) Insider Threat
13 5 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (1.45%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.46%) Linux
2 14 (4.06%) Windows
3 12 (3.48%) Unix
4 11 (3.19%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.03%) CentOS
7 6 (1.74%) Debian
8 5 (1.45%) Android
9 4 (1.16%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.87%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.58%) OpenWrt
11 2 (0.58%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.29%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.29%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (37.39%) AI
2 124 (35.94%) Software Engineering
3 101 (29.28%) Problem-Solving
4 92 (26.67%) Agile
5 88 (25.51%) CI/CD
6 82 (23.77%) DevOps
6 82 (23.77%) LLM
7 79 (22.90%) Generative AI
8 71 (20.58%) Machine Learning
9 63 (18.26%) Mentoring
9 63 (18.26%) Microservices
10 60 (17.39%) Analytics
11 58 (16.81%) Containerisation
12 54 (15.65%) TDD
13 51 (14.78%) Test Automation
14 46 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 43 (12.46%) Analytical Thinking
16 38 (11.01%) Scrum
17 35 (10.14%) Kanban
17 35 (10.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 121 (35.07%) Python
2 77 (22.32%) Java
3 55 (15.94%) SQL
4 32 (9.28%) JavaScript
5 31 (8.99%) Scala
6 21 (6.09%) C++
6 21 (6.09%) Go
7 18 (5.22%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.93%) C
9 8 (2.32%) C#
10 7 (2.03%) PHP
11 6 (1.74%) Rust
12 5 (1.45%) Bash
12 5 (1.45%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.16%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.16%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.87%) Ruby
15 2 (0.58%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.58%) R
16 1 (0.29%) F#
Qualifications
1 93 (26.96%) Degree
2 38 (11.01%) Security Cleared
3 31 (8.99%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 9 (2.61%) PhD
7 8 (2.32%) Chartered Engineer
7 8 (2.32%) GIAC
7 8 (2.32%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.03%) CISSP
8 7 (2.03%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (2.03%) OSCP
9 6 (1.74%) CCNA
9 6 (1.74%) CEH
9 6 (1.74%) CISMP
9 6 (1.74%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.41%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.06%) QA
3 8 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 8 (2.32%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.32%) SLA
4 7 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.45%) NIST
6 5 (1.45%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.87%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.87%) GDPR
7 3 (0.87%) ISO 14001
7 3 (0.87%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.29%) IFRS
8 1 (0.29%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.29%) Solvency II
System Software
1 84 (24.35%) Docker
2 13 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.87%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.58%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.58%) KVM
6 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.29%) Firmware
6 1 (0.29%) QEMU
6 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 100 (28.99%) Kubernetes
2 43 (12.46%) Terraform
3 18 (5.22%) Ansible
4 8 (2.32%) Istio
4 8 (2.32%) Puppet
5 6 (1.74%) Nmap
6 5 (1.45%) Argo
6 5 (1.45%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (1.16%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.58%) Grafana
9 1 (0.29%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.29%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 68 (19.71%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.99%) OpenAI
3 21 (6.09%) Google
4 13 (3.77%) Oracle
5 12 (3.48%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (3.48%) Databricks
5 12 (3.48%) UiPath
6 11 (3.19%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.32%) Cisco
7 8 (2.32%) Confluent
8 7 (2.03%) SAP
9 6 (1.74%) IBM
9 6 (1.74%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.16%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.16%) Palantir
10 4 (1.16%) PayPal
11 3 (0.87%) BT
11 3 (0.87%) Infor
11 3 (0.87%) Mitel
11 3 (0.87%) VMware