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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 424 267
Rank change year-on-year +18 -157 -35
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 376 238 720
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.55% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.63% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 283 137 428
10th Percentile £51,300 £47,000 £42,125
25th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £52,261
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £73,159 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.77% +10.85% -5.71%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £127,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,000 £69,308
% change year-on-year +9.59% +5.33% -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 71,441 38,014 56,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.31% 88.54% 81.05%
Number of salaries quoted 50,865 21,889 34,478
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,000 £41,254
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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
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 4 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 4 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 -19 148 £92,500 +2.78% 876
North of England -6 85 £80,000 +52.38% 61
South West -25 57 £100,000 +60.00% 48
South East -53 41 £62,500 -13.79% 64
North West +2 39 £80,000 +25.49% 35
North East -37 30 £74,830 +42.53% 11
Midlands -27 22 £74,654 +2.97% 24
East of England -16 18 £100,000 +11.11% 88
Yorkshire -34 16 £81,887 +66.27% 16
West Midlands -23 15 £74,742 +3.09% 20
East Midlands -28 7 £39,194 -54.27% 4
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 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.53%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.53%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Confluence
7 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.06%) 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 2 (0.53%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 159 (42.29%) AWS
2 93 (24.73%) Azure
3 55 (14.63%) GCP
4 37 (9.84%) GitHub
5 24 (6.38%) Serverless
6 22 (5.85%) Anthropic Claude
7 18 (4.79%) GitHub Copilot
8 16 (4.26%) OpenShift
9 14 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.93%) Amazon S3
11 11 (2.93%) dbt
12 10 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.66%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (2.66%) SaaS
13 8 (2.13%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.86%) Amazon EMR
15 6 (1.60%) Amazon Bedrock
15 6 (1.60%) Datadog
15 6 (1.60%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.39%) Firewall
2 8 (2.13%) AMQP
3 6 (1.60%) Internet
3 6 (1.60%) Intrusion Detection
3 6 (1.60%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.60%) VoIP
4 5 (1.33%) Network Security
4 5 (1.33%) SSL
5 4 (1.06%) DHCP
5 4 (1.06%) DNS
5 4 (1.06%) 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%) CTI
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%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 24 (6.38%) Git
2 20 (5.32%) Claude Code
3 15 (3.99%) GitLab
4 11 (2.93%) Jenkins
5 10 (2.66%) JIRA
6 8 (2.13%) Subversion
7 7 (1.86%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.06%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.80%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.80%) Maven
9 3 (0.80%) Selenium
9 3 (0.80%) Snyk
10 2 (0.53%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.53%) Eclipse RCP
11 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.27%) CMake
11 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.27%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 85 (22.61%) Social Skills
2 61 (16.22%) Finance
2 61 (16.22%) Public Sector
3 56 (14.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.38%) Law
6 17 (4.52%) Banking
7 16 (4.26%) Legal
7 16 (4.26%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.66%) Aerospace
9 8 (2.13%) Marketing
10 7 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.60%) Advertising
12 5 (1.33%) Front Office
12 5 (1.33%) Police
13 4 (1.06%) Back Office
13 4 (1.06%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.80%) Games
14 3 (0.80%) Retail
15 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 105 (27.93%) Software Engineer
2 91 (24.20%) Lead
3 72 (19.15%) Senior
4 51 (13.56%) Architect
5 40 (10.64%) Lead Software Engineer
6 39 (10.37%) Developer
7 28 (7.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 27 (7.18%) Principal Engineer
9 26 (6.91%) Cloud Architect
10 24 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
11 16 (4.26%) Data Engineer
11 16 (4.26%) Principal Software Engineer
12 14 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (3.46%) Consultant
13 13 (3.46%) Linux Engineer
14 12 (3.19%) Java Engineer
15 11 (2.93%) Senior Consultant
15 11 (2.93%) Senior Developer
16 9 (2.39%) Embedded Engineer
17 8 (2.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (12.50%) Terraform
2 45 (11.97%) Node.js
3 30 (7.98%) React
4 29 (7.71%) Kafka
5 21 (5.59%) HTML
5 21 (5.59%) REST
6 20 (5.32%) CSS
7 18 (4.79%) LangChain
8 17 (4.52%) Spring
9 16 (4.26%) RESTful
10 15 (3.99%) RabbitMQ
11 13 (3.46%) LlamaIndex
12 12 (3.19%) PyTorch
12 12 (3.19%) Spring Boot
13 11 (2.93%) .NET
13 11 (2.93%) TensorFlow
14 9 (2.39%) Model Context Protocol
15 8 (2.13%) FastAPI
15 8 (2.13%) Pandas
15 8 (2.13%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.43%) Cloud Native
2 34 (9.04%) Public Cloud
3 33 (8.78%) Onboarding
4 19 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (3.72%) Blog
6 13 (3.46%) AI Agents
7 11 (2.93%) Distributed Computing
7 11 (2.93%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.66%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.66%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.39%) Private Cloud
9 9 (2.39%) Social Media
10 7 (1.86%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.86%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.86%) Robotics
10 7 (1.86%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.33%) Autonomous Agent
11 5 (1.33%) Hackathon
11 5 (1.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 45 (11.97%) Linux
2 16 (4.26%) Windows
3 11 (2.93%) Debian
4 8 (2.13%) Embedded Linux
5 7 (1.86%) CentOS
5 7 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.86%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.60%) Unix
7 4 (1.06%) Android
7 4 (1.06%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.80%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.80%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (44.95%) Software Engineering
2 128 (34.04%) Agile
3 125 (33.24%) AI
4 93 (24.73%) CI/CD
5 84 (22.34%) DevOps
6 82 (21.81%) Mentoring
7 74 (19.68%) Microservices
8 64 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
9 58 (15.43%) Containerisation
9 58 (15.43%) LLM
10 56 (14.89%) Machine Learning
11 54 (14.36%) Infrastructure as Code
12 43 (11.44%) Roadmaps
12 43 (11.44%) TDD
13 38 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (9.84%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
14 37 (9.84%) Technical Leadership
15 36 (9.57%) Analytics
15 36 (9.57%) Computer Science
16 35 (9.31%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 118 (31.38%) Python
2 70 (18.62%) Java
3 60 (15.96%) JavaScript
4 35 (9.31%) SQL
5 30 (7.98%) TypeScript
6 28 (7.45%) C++
7 21 (5.59%) Bash
8 17 (4.52%) C
9 15 (3.99%) Go
10 14 (3.72%) C#
10 14 (3.72%) Scala
11 13 (3.46%) PHP
12 12 (3.19%) Rust
13 7 (1.86%) Clojure
13 7 (1.86%) Erlang
13 7 (1.86%) Ruby
14 6 (1.60%) PowerShell
15 4 (1.06%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.80%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.53%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 103 (27.39%) Security Cleared
2 62 (16.49%) Degree
3 56 (14.89%) SC Cleared
4 51 (13.56%) DV Cleared
5 18 (4.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (3.99%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.72%) PhD
8 11 (2.93%) AWS Certification
9 9 (2.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 7 (1.86%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.06%) CCNA
12 4 (1.06%) CISSP
12 4 (1.06%) DBS Check
12 4 (1.06%) MCSE
12 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.80%) CISM
13 3 (0.80%) GSEC
14 2 (0.53%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.32%) QA
2 18 (4.79%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.46%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.13%) WCAG
5 7 (1.86%) NCSC
6 4 (1.06%) ISO 14001
6 4 (1.06%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.06%) SLA
7 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
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 42 (11.17%) Docker
2 11 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.33%) Firmware
4 5 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.06%) vSphere
6 3 (0.80%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.80%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.53%) KVM
8 1 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.27%) IAG
8 1 (0.27%) QEMU
8 1 (0.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 55 (14.63%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.52%) Ansible
3 8 (2.13%) Istio
3 8 (2.13%) Puppet
4 6 (1.60%) Grafana
4 6 (1.60%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (1.33%) Nagios
5 5 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.06%) Argo
6 4 (1.06%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.06%) Podman
7 3 (0.80%) Packer
8 2 (0.53%) linkerd
8 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.27%) Cilium
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 28 (7.45%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.38%) Google
3 19 (5.05%) OpenAI
4 15 (3.99%) Red Hat
5 13 (3.46%) Oracle
6 9 (2.39%) Splunk
7 8 (2.13%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.86%) VMware
9 6 (1.60%) Adobe
9 6 (1.60%) Confluent
10 5 (1.33%) Apple
10 5 (1.33%) Cisco
10 5 (1.33%) FIS
10 5 (1.33%) New Relic
10 5 (1.33%) SaltStack
11 4 (1.06%) Databricks
11 4 (1.06%) Sage
11 4 (1.06%) YouTube
12 3 (0.80%) Intel
12 3 (0.80%) OutSystems