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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 324 285
Rank change year-on-year -76 -39 -97
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 307 366 811
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.94% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 1.01% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 186 275 637
10th Percentile £44,875 £48,100 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £63,218
Median % change year-on-year - +18.64% -15.71%
75th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £121,250 £138,750 £111,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £73,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.74% +12.31% -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 59,806 36,392 71,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.87% 93.41% 85.15%
Number of salaries quoted 39,236 20,177 53,681
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,750 £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 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 15 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 15 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 -59 142 £92,500 -15.91% 105
North of England -10 69 £75,000 +15.38% 12
North West +19 46 £75,000 +11.01% 9
South East -77 26 £60,000 -4.00% 32
South West -45 23 £55,000 -10.20% 18
East of England -2 21 £30,370 -66.26% 14
Yorkshire -51 17 £69,305 +40.01% 3
Midlands -28 16 £51,058 -16.58% 4
East Midlands - 9 £55,000 - 2
West Midlands -33 7 £28,500 -53.44% 2
North East -35 6 £67,952 -2.06%
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 14 (4.56%) Appian
2 11 (3.58%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.93%) Apache
4 6 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.30%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.30%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.98%) WordPress
7 2 (0.65%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.65%) Confluence
8 1 (0.33%) Camunda
8 1 (0.33%) CMS
8 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 26 (8.47%) 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 (1.30%) Line 50
2 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.33%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 99 (32.25%) AWS
2 93 (30.29%) Azure
3 44 (14.33%) GCP
4 28 (9.12%) Anthropic Claude
5 25 (8.14%) GitHub
6 24 (7.82%) Serverless
7 16 (5.21%) OpenShift
8 15 (4.89%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (3.58%) Azure AI
10 11 (3.58%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (3.58%) Power Automate
11 10 (3.26%) GitHub Copilot
12 9 (2.93%) Amazon Alexa
13 8 (2.61%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (2.61%) SaaS
14 7 (2.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 7 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (2.28%) PaaS
15 6 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.49%) Broadband
2 10 (3.26%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.61%) Network Security
4 7 (2.28%) HTTP
4 7 (2.28%) VoIP
5 5 (1.63%) AMQP
5 5 (1.63%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (1.30%) DNS
6 4 (1.30%) SMTP
7 3 (0.98%) LAN
7 3 (0.98%) RTP
7 3 (0.98%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.98%) WAN
7 3 (0.98%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.33%) LTE
8 1 (0.33%) SSL
8 1 (0.33%) VLAN
8 1 (0.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.42%) MongoDB
2 28 (9.12%) MySQL
3 26 (8.47%) NoSQL
3 26 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (5.86%) Pinecone
5 14 (4.56%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.95%) Hadoop
7 6 (1.95%) Neo4j
8 5 (1.63%) Big Data
8 5 (1.63%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (1.63%) Redis
9 4 (1.30%) DocumentDB
9 4 (1.30%) FileMaker
9 4 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (1.30%) GIS
9 4 (1.30%) QGIS
10 3 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.98%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 30 (9.77%) Jenkins
2 22 (7.17%) TeamCity
3 14 (4.56%) Git
4 12 (3.91%) Claude Code
5 11 (3.58%) MLflow
6 6 (1.95%) Selenium
7 4 (1.30%) Burp Suite
7 4 (1.30%) JIRA
7 4 (1.30%) Metasploit
8 3 (0.98%) GitLab
9 2 (0.65%) Maven
10 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
General
1 54 (17.59%) Social Skills
2 50 (16.29%) Finance
3 47 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (10.75%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.21%) German Language
6 14 (4.56%) Banking
6 14 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (4.23%) Law
8 9 (2.93%) Italian Language
8 9 (2.93%) Retail
9 8 (2.61%) Tech for Good
10 7 (2.28%) Legal
11 6 (1.95%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.95%) Back Office
11 6 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.95%) Marketing
12 4 (1.30%) French Language
12 4 (1.30%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.98%) Advertising
13 3 (0.98%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 90 (29.32%) Senior
2 84 (27.36%) Software Engineer
3 38 (12.38%) Developer
4 32 (10.42%) Lead
5 27 (8.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 27 (8.79%) Senior Software Engineer
6 18 (5.86%) Principal Engineer
7 16 (5.21%) Java Engineer
8 15 (4.89%) Architect
9 14 (4.56%) Java Software Engineer
10 12 (3.91%) Scala Engineer
11 11 (3.58%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (3.58%) Data Engineer
12 10 (3.26%) Java Developer
12 10 (3.26%) Lead Software Engineer
12 10 (3.26%) Python Developer
12 10 (3.26%) Senior Developer
12 10 (3.26%) Software Developer
13 9 (2.93%) Development Engineer
13 9 (2.93%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.07%) Node.js
1 34 (11.07%) REST
1 34 (11.07%) RESTful
2 23 (7.49%) React
3 22 (7.17%) Akka
4 21 (6.84%) Django
5 20 (6.51%) PyTorch
6 19 (6.19%) Kafka
6 19 (6.19%) TensorFlow
7 18 (5.86%) FastAPI
8 17 (5.54%) NumPy
9 16 (5.21%) OpenAPI
9 16 (5.21%) Pandas
9 16 (5.21%) scikit-learn
9 16 (5.21%) Swagger
10 15 (4.89%) OAuth
11 14 (4.56%) Flask
11 14 (4.56%) pytest
11 14 (4.56%) Spring
12 13 (4.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.01%) Cloud Native
2 32 (10.42%) Onboarding
3 23 (7.49%) Video\Live Streaming
4 22 (7.17%) Over-the-Top Content
5 14 (4.56%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (3.58%) Low-Code
7 11 (3.58%) Security Posture
8 9 (2.93%) AI Agents
8 9 (2.93%) Blog
9 8 (2.61%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.28%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.28%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.63%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.63%) Mobile Payment
13 4 (1.30%) FPGA
13 4 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.77%) Linux
2 14 (4.56%) Windows
3 9 (2.93%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.28%) Unix
5 6 (1.95%) CentOS
6 5 (1.63%) Android
6 5 (1.63%) Debian
7 4 (1.30%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.30%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.33%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.33%) OpenBSD
8 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (41.04%) Software Engineering
2 109 (35.50%) AI
3 81 (26.38%) Agile
4 73 (23.78%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (22.48%) CI/CD
6 68 (22.15%) DevOps
7 67 (21.82%) LLM
8 66 (21.50%) Mentoring
8 66 (21.50%) Microservices
9 64 (20.85%) Generative AI
10 62 (20.20%) TDD
11 61 (19.87%) Machine Learning
12 50 (16.29%) Analytics
13 47 (15.31%) Test Automation
14 46 (14.98%) Containerisation
15 36 (11.73%) Coaching
15 36 (11.73%) Roadmaps
16 35 (11.40%) Scrum
17 33 (10.75%) Kanban
18 32 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 106 (34.53%) Python
2 72 (23.45%) Java
3 52 (16.94%) SQL
4 33 (10.75%) JavaScript
5 29 (9.45%) Scala
6 17 (5.54%) Go
7 16 (5.21%) TypeScript
8 15 (4.89%) C++
9 10 (3.26%) C
10 9 (2.93%) PHP
11 5 (1.63%) C#
12 4 (1.30%) Bash
12 4 (1.30%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.30%) Rust
13 3 (0.98%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.98%) Ruby
14 2 (0.65%) Clojure
14 2 (0.65%) Erlang
14 2 (0.65%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.33%) F#
Qualifications
1 74 (24.10%) Degree
2 28 (9.12%) Security Cleared
3 22 (7.17%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.89%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.91%) PhD
6 10 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.28%) DBS Check
7 7 (2.28%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 6 (1.95%) CISSP
8 6 (1.95%) GIAC
8 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.63%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.30%) CCNA
10 4 (1.30%) CEH
10 4 (1.30%) CISMP
10 4 (1.30%) CREST Certified
10 4 (1.30%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.84%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.56%) QA
3 5 (1.63%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.30%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (1.30%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.30%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.30%) SLA
5 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.65%) NIST
6 2 (0.65%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.33%) IFRS
7 1 (0.33%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 68 (22.15%) Docker
2 9 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.98%) Kamailio
3 3 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.65%) KVM
5 1 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.33%) 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 78 (25.41%) Kubernetes
2 34 (11.07%) Terraform
3 14 (4.56%) Ansible
4 8 (2.61%) Istio
5 7 (2.28%) Puppet
6 5 (1.63%) Argo
7 4 (1.30%) Nmap
8 3 (0.98%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.33%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.33%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 52 (16.94%) Microsoft
2 28 (9.12%) OpenAI
3 19 (6.19%) Google
4 11 (3.58%) Automation Anywhere
4 11 (3.58%) UiPath
5 9 (2.93%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.61%) Confluent
7 7 (2.28%) Databricks
7 7 (2.28%) Oracle
8 5 (1.63%) Adobe
8 5 (1.63%) Cisco
8 5 (1.63%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.30%) Apple
9 4 (1.30%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.30%) PayPal
9 4 (1.30%) Sage
10 3 (0.98%) IBM
10 3 (0.98%) Mitel
10 3 (0.98%) Sybase
10 3 (0.98%) VMware