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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 332 280
Rank change year-on-year -83 -52 -89
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 300 325 851
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.85% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.91% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 203 244 649
10th Percentile £46,939 £50,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £61,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,677 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% +19.23% -13.33%
75th Percentile £98,750 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £127,000 £138,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +15.38% -13.33%

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 61,552 35,586 72,734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.01% 93.32% 83.95%
Number of salaries quoted 40,904 19,071 54,305
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -9.84%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -60 134 £92,500 -15.91% 159
North of England -12 72 £75,000 +11.11% 12
North West +19 48 £75,000 +5.72% 11
South East -64 28 £60,000 -4.00% 34
South West -44 25 £57,500 -4.17% 18
Yorkshire -46 18 £80,000 +63.27% 1
Midlands -29 16 £53,029 -24.31% 3
East of England -22 14 £80,000 -20.99% 16
East Midlands - 9 £55,000 - 2
West Midlands -37 7 £28,500 -59.32% 1
North East -45 6 £67,952 +1.36%
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 11 (3.67%) Apache
2 10 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.33%) Appian
3 5 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.33%) Apache Solr
4 4 (1.33%) GeoServer
4 4 (1.33%) WordPress
5 2 (0.67%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.67%) Camunda
5 2 (0.67%) Confluence
6 1 (0.33%) CMS
6 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.33%) InDesign
2 1 (0.33%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.33%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.33%) Line 50
2 2 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 108 (36.00%) AWS
2 97 (32.33%) Azure
3 44 (14.67%) GCP
4 29 (9.67%) Anthropic Claude
5 27 (9.00%) GitHub
6 26 (8.67%) Serverless
7 16 (5.33%) OpenShift
8 14 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (4.33%) GitHub Copilot
10 11 (3.67%) SaaS
11 9 (3.00%) Azure AI
11 9 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (3.00%) Power Automate
12 8 (2.67%) Amazon MSK
13 7 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 7 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (2.33%) Google Gemini
13 7 (2.33%) PaaS
14 6 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.67%) Broadband
2 9 (3.00%) VoIP
3 7 (2.33%) Network Security
3 7 (2.33%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.00%) Software-Defined Radio
5 5 (1.67%) AMQP
5 5 (1.67%) HTTP
6 3 (1.00%) LAN
6 3 (1.00%) RTP
6 3 (1.00%) Unified Communications
6 3 (1.00%) WAN
6 3 (1.00%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.67%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.67%) DNS
7 2 (0.67%) SMTP
8 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.33%) Internet
8 1 (0.33%) SSL
8 1 (0.33%) VPN
8 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.00%) MongoDB
2 32 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (10.33%) MySQL
4 29 (9.67%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.67%) Pinecone
6 12 (4.00%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.00%) Big Data
8 6 (2.00%) Hadoop
8 6 (2.00%) Neo4j
8 6 (2.00%) Redis
9 5 (1.67%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.33%) DocumentDB
10 4 (1.33%) FileMaker
10 4 (1.33%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.33%) GIS
10 4 (1.33%) QGIS
11 3 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 30 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 22 (7.33%) TeamCity
3 17 (5.67%) Git
4 15 (5.00%) Claude Code
5 9 (3.00%) MLflow
6 6 (2.00%) JIRA
6 6 (2.00%) Selenium
7 5 (1.67%) Burp Suite
8 4 (1.33%) Metasploit
9 3 (1.00%) GitLab
10 2 (0.67%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.67%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.67%) Maven
11 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.33%) CMake
11 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.33%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.33%) Valgrind
11 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 55 (18.33%) Social Skills
2 51 (17.00%) Finance
3 35 (11.67%) Public Sector
4 29 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.67%) Banking
5 14 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.00%) Law
7 9 (3.00%) Retail
8 8 (2.67%) German Language
8 8 (2.67%) Legal
8 8 (2.67%) Tech for Good
9 6 (2.00%) Back Office
9 6 (2.00%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.67%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.67%) Italian Language
10 5 (1.67%) Marketing
11 4 (1.33%) Advertising
11 4 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.00%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (1.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 92 (30.67%) Software Engineer
2 74 (24.67%) Senior
3 45 (15.00%) Developer
4 43 (14.33%) Lead
5 26 (8.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 25 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
7 19 (6.33%) Principal Engineer
8 18 (6.00%) Lead Software Engineer
9 15 (5.00%) Java Engineer
10 14 (4.67%) Architect
11 12 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
11 12 (4.00%) Scala Engineer
11 12 (4.00%) Senior Developer
12 11 (3.67%) Java Developer
13 10 (3.33%) Data Engineer
13 10 (3.33%) Python Developer
13 10 (3.33%) Software Developer
14 9 (3.00%) Automation Engineer
14 9 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
15 8 (2.67%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (12.33%) Node.js
2 36 (12.00%) RESTful
3 32 (10.67%) REST
4 24 (8.00%) React
5 22 (7.33%) Akka
5 22 (7.33%) Kafka
6 17 (5.67%) Django
7 16 (5.33%) NumPy
7 16 (5.33%) PyTorch
7 16 (5.33%) Spring
8 15 (5.00%) OAuth
8 15 (5.00%) Pandas
8 15 (5.00%) TensorFlow
9 14 (4.67%) FastAPI
9 14 (4.67%) OpenAPI
9 14 (4.67%) pytest
9 14 (4.67%) Spring Boot
9 14 (4.67%) Swagger
10 13 (4.33%) .NET
11 12 (4.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.67%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.67%) Video\Live Streaming
3 22 (7.33%) Over-the-Top Content
4 18 (6.00%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (3.67%) Security Posture
7 10 (3.33%) AI Agents
8 9 (3.00%) Algorithms
8 9 (3.00%) Low-Code
8 9 (3.00%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.33%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.00%) Blog
10 6 (2.00%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.67%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.67%) FPGA
11 5 (1.67%) Mobile Payment
12 4 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.33%) Insider Threat
12 4 (1.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.33%) Linux
2 10 (3.33%) Ubuntu
2 10 (3.33%) Windows
3 7 (2.33%) Debian
3 7 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.33%) Unix
4 6 (2.00%) CentOS
5 5 (1.67%) Android
6 4 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.33%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.33%) FreeBSD
7 1 (0.33%) OpenBSD
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (46.67%) Software Engineering
2 95 (31.67%) AI
3 89 (29.67%) Agile
4 77 (25.67%) CI/CD
5 68 (22.67%) DevOps
5 68 (22.67%) Mentoring
5 68 (22.67%) Microservices
6 67 (22.33%) TDD
7 61 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (17.33%) Machine Learning
9 51 (17.00%) LLM
10 50 (16.67%) Analytics
11 48 (16.00%) Generative AI
12 44 (14.67%) Test Automation
13 43 (14.33%) Containerisation
14 39 (13.00%) Coaching
15 38 (12.67%) Scrum
16 36 (12.00%) Roadmaps
17 33 (11.00%) Kanban
18 31 (10.33%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 103 (34.33%) Python
2 76 (25.33%) Java
3 55 (18.33%) SQL
4 38 (12.67%) JavaScript
5 30 (10.00%) Scala
6 19 (6.33%) C++
7 16 (5.33%) Go
7 16 (5.33%) TypeScript
8 14 (4.67%) PHP
9 13 (4.33%) C
10 7 (2.33%) Bash
11 6 (2.00%) Rust
12 5 (1.67%) C#
13 4 (1.33%) Clojure
13 4 (1.33%) Erlang
13 4 (1.33%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.33%) Ruby
14 3 (1.00%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.00%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.33%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 52 (17.33%) Degree
2 36 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 25 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.00%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.00%) PhD
6 9 (3.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 7 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.33%) DBS Check
8 6 (2.00%) CISSP
8 6 (2.00%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.67%) GIAC
9 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.33%) CCNA
10 4 (1.33%) CEH
10 4 (1.33%) CISMP
10 4 (1.33%) CREST Certified
10 4 (1.33%) GPEN
10 4 (1.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.00%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.33%) QA
3 5 (1.67%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.33%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (1.33%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.33%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.67%) NIST
5 2 (0.67%) SLA
5 2 (0.67%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.33%) MiFID
6 1 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 68 (22.67%) Docker
2 8 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.00%) Kamailio
3 3 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.67%) Firmware
4 2 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.67%) KVM
5 1 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.33%) QEMU
5 1 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 77 (25.67%) Kubernetes
2 35 (11.67%) Terraform
3 11 (3.67%) Ansible
4 8 (2.67%) Istio
5 7 (2.33%) Puppet
6 5 (1.67%) Argo
7 4 (1.33%) Nmap
8 3 (1.00%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.33%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 37 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.33%) OpenAI
3 20 (6.67%) Google
4 9 (3.00%) Automation Anywhere
4 9 (3.00%) Red Hat
4 9 (3.00%) UiPath
5 8 (2.67%) Confluent
6 5 (1.67%) Adobe
6 5 (1.67%) Cisco
6 5 (1.67%) Databricks
6 5 (1.67%) Oracle
6 5 (1.67%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.33%) Apple
7 4 (1.33%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.33%) PayPal
7 4 (1.33%) Sage
8 3 (1.00%) BT
8 3 (1.00%) Mitel
8 3 (1.00%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.00%) VMware