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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 422 267
Rank change year-on-year +5 -155 -27
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 380 238 701
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.55% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.62% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 281 135 391
10th Percentile £46,939 £48,100 £40,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,000 £73,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +12.33% +11.51% -6.48%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £123,500 £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 73,754 38,333 56,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.28% 88.82% 81.58%
Number of salaries quoted 52,343 22,038 32,065
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
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 16 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 16 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 -30 136 £87,500 +2.94% 1,069
North of England -10 89 £80,000 +44.80% 95
South West -21 59 £100,000 +37.93% 50
South East -58 47 £62,500 -7.41% 84
North West +5 43 £80,000 +25.49% 54
North East -37 31 £74,830 +42.53% 17
Midlands -20 23 £74,654 +2.97% 36
East of England -21 20 £100,000 +21.21% 105
Yorkshire -26 15 £83,774 +69.24% 24
West Midlands -36 15 £74,742 +3.09% 29
East Midlands -24 8 £39,194 -54.27% 7
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 19 (5.00%) Apache
2 13 (3.42%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.58%) JBoss
4 5 (1.32%) nginx
4 5 (1.32%) WordPress
5 3 (0.79%) Camunda
6 2 (0.53%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.53%) 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 (1.58%) 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 (1.05%) Line 50
2 2 (0.53%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 152 (40.00%) AWS
2 86 (22.63%) Azure
3 50 (13.16%) GCP
4 36 (9.47%) GitHub
5 27 (7.11%) Serverless
6 21 (5.53%) Anthropic Claude
7 17 (4.47%) GitHub Copilot
8 15 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (3.16%) OpenShift
9 12 (3.16%) SaaS
10 11 (2.89%) Amazon S3
10 11 (2.89%) dbt
11 10 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (2.11%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.84%) Amazon EMR
15 6 (1.58%) Amazon Bedrock
15 6 (1.58%) Datadog
15 6 (1.58%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.89%) Firewall
2 10 (2.63%) AMQP
3 7 (1.84%) Internet
3 7 (1.84%) VoIP
4 6 (1.58%) DHCP
4 6 (1.58%) DNS
4 6 (1.58%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (1.58%) NX-OS
4 6 (1.58%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.32%) Network Security
5 5 (1.32%) SSL
6 3 (0.79%) CTI
7 2 (0.53%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.53%) LAN
7 2 (0.53%) MQTT
7 2 (0.53%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.53%) WAN
8 1 (0.26%) 5G
8 1 (0.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (7.37%) NoSQL
3 26 (6.84%) MySQL
4 25 (6.58%) Big Data
5 22 (5.79%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.63%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (2.37%) Metadata
8 7 (1.84%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.84%) Cloudera CDH
8 7 (1.84%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.84%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.84%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.58%) Redis
10 4 (1.05%) FileMaker
10 4 (1.05%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.05%) Pinecone
11 3 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 25 (6.58%) Git
2 18 (4.74%) Claude Code
3 17 (4.47%) GitLab
4 12 (3.16%) JIRA
5 11 (2.89%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.11%) Subversion
7 7 (1.84%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.05%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.79%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.79%) Maven
9 3 (0.79%) Selenium
9 3 (0.79%) Snyk
10 2 (0.53%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.53%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.53%) MLflow
11 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.26%) CMake
11 1 (0.26%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 95 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 58 (15.26%) Public Sector
3 57 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 55 (14.47%) Finance
5 30 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (6.32%) Law
7 18 (4.74%) Legal
8 16 (4.21%) Manufacturing
9 14 (3.68%) Aerospace
10 10 (2.63%) Banking
11 9 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (2.11%) Marketing
13 6 (1.58%) Advertising
14 5 (1.32%) Games
14 5 (1.32%) Police
15 4 (1.05%) Automotive
15 4 (1.05%) Financial Institution
15 4 (1.05%) Front Office
15 4 (1.05%) Retail
16 3 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 109 (28.68%) Software Engineer
2 94 (24.74%) Lead
3 66 (17.37%) Senior
4 51 (13.42%) Architect
5 41 (10.79%) Lead Software Engineer
6 38 (10.00%) Developer
7 28 (7.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 26 (6.84%) Cloud Architect
9 24 (6.32%) Principal Engineer
10 23 (6.05%) Senior Software Engineer
11 16 (4.21%) Principal Software Engineer
12 15 (3.95%) Data Engineer
13 14 (3.68%) Linux Engineer
13 14 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (3.42%) Consultant
15 12 (3.16%) Java Engineer
16 11 (2.89%) Senior Consultant
16 11 (2.89%) Senior Developer
17 10 (2.63%) Embedded Engineer
17 10 (2.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (12.11%) Node.js
2 44 (11.58%) Terraform
3 33 (8.68%) React
4 22 (5.79%) REST
5 21 (5.53%) HTML
6 20 (5.26%) CSS
6 20 (5.26%) Kafka
6 20 (5.26%) LangChain
7 17 (4.47%) Spring
8 16 (4.21%) RabbitMQ
9 15 (3.95%) RESTful
10 14 (3.68%) LlamaIndex
10 14 (3.68%) PyTorch
11 13 (3.42%) Spring Boot
11 13 (3.42%) TensorFlow
12 10 (2.63%) FastAPI
12 10 (2.63%) Model Context Protocol
12 10 (2.63%) scikit-learn
13 9 (2.37%) gRPC
13 9 (2.37%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 59 (15.53%) Cloud Native
2 38 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 35 (9.21%) Public Cloud
4 18 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.95%) AI Agents
5 15 (3.95%) Blog
6 14 (3.68%) Management Information System
7 12 (3.16%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.63%) Data Structures
8 10 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
9 9 (2.37%) Algorithms
9 9 (2.37%) Private Cloud
9 9 (2.37%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.37%) Social Media
10 7 (1.84%) PKI
10 7 (1.84%) Robotics
10 7 (1.84%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.58%) Autonomous Agent
12 5 (1.32%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.89%) Linux
2 18 (4.74%) Windows
3 13 (3.42%) Debian
4 11 (2.89%) Embedded Linux
5 9 (2.37%) CentOS
5 9 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.37%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.58%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.58%) Unix
7 5 (1.32%) Android
8 4 (1.05%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.79%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (45.79%) Software Engineering
2 135 (35.53%) AI
3 131 (34.47%) Agile
4 93 (24.47%) CI/CD
5 83 (21.84%) Mentoring
6 80 (21.05%) DevOps
7 70 (18.42%) Microservices
8 65 (17.11%) LLM
8 65 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (15.53%) Machine Learning
10 57 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 55 (14.47%) Containerisation
12 43 (11.32%) Computer Science
13 42 (11.05%) Roadmaps
14 41 (10.79%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
15 39 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (10.26%) TDD
16 38 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
17 37 (9.74%) Coaching
17 37 (9.74%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 119 (31.32%) Python
2 74 (19.47%) Java
3 63 (16.58%) JavaScript
4 35 (9.21%) TypeScript
5 34 (8.95%) SQL
6 32 (8.42%) C++
7 21 (5.53%) Bash
8 17 (4.47%) C
9 14 (3.68%) Scala
10 13 (3.42%) C#
10 13 (3.42%) PHP
11 12 (3.16%) Rust
12 8 (2.11%) Go
12 8 (2.11%) PowerShell
13 7 (1.84%) Clojure
13 7 (1.84%) Erlang
13 7 (1.84%) Ruby
14 4 (1.05%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.79%) Embedded C++
15 3 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 107 (28.16%) Security Cleared
2 68 (17.89%) Degree
3 60 (15.79%) SC Cleared
4 53 (13.95%) DV Cleared
5 19 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (4.21%) Azure Certification
6 16 (4.21%) PhD
7 15 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (3.16%) AWS Certification
9 10 (2.63%) Master's Degree
10 9 (2.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 7 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.58%) CCNA
12 6 (1.58%) MCSE
12 6 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (1.32%) DBS Check
14 4 (1.05%) CISSP
15 3 (0.79%) CISM
15 3 (0.79%) GSEC
16 2 (0.53%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.26%) QA
2 17 (4.47%) Accessibility
3 15 (3.95%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.11%) NCSC
4 8 (2.11%) WCAG
5 6 (1.58%) SLA
6 4 (1.05%) ISO 14001
6 4 (1.05%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.53%) NIST
8 2 (0.53%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.26%) MiFID
9 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 33 (8.68%) Docker
2 9 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.58%) vSphere
5 5 (1.32%) Firmware
5 5 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.79%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.53%) 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 47 (12.37%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.00%) Ansible
3 10 (2.63%) Puppet
4 6 (1.58%) FortiGate
4 6 (1.58%) Grafana
5 5 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (1.32%) Nagios
5 5 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.05%) Argo
6 4 (1.05%) Podman
7 3 (0.79%) Packer
8 2 (0.53%) Istio
8 2 (0.53%) linkerd
8 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.26%) Cilium
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 31 (8.16%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.37%) Google
3 19 (5.00%) OpenAI
4 18 (4.74%) Red Hat
5 14 (3.68%) Oracle
6 9 (2.37%) Splunk
6 9 (2.37%) VMware
7 8 (2.11%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.11%) YouTube
8 7 (1.84%) Apple
8 7 (1.84%) Cisco
8 7 (1.84%) FIS
8 7 (1.84%) SaltStack
9 6 (1.58%) Adobe
10 5 (1.32%) New Relic
11 4 (1.05%) Databricks
11 4 (1.05%) OutSystems
11 4 (1.05%) Sage
12 3 (0.79%) Intel
13 2 (0.53%) IBM