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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 349 268
Rank change year-on-year -77 -81 -63
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 315 322 937
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.81% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.87% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 225 233 678
10th Percentile £46,939 £48,800 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £127,500 £137,500 £106,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year +9.59% +11.45% -12.67%

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 61,081 36,808 78,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.11% 92.55% 81.88%
Number of salaries quoted 42,962 20,151 56,711
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 June 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 June 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 -60 141 £92,500 -15.91% 82
North of England +2 70 £75,000 +15.38% 25
North West +22 46 £75,000 +9.48% 15
South East -50 41 £61,250 -2.00% 23
South West -39 28 £60,000 - 15
Yorkshire -29 18 £80,000 +63.27% 8
Midlands -16 15 £55,000 -24.14% 5
East of England -16 9 £112,750 +11.36% 15
East Midlands - 8 £55,000 -
West Midlands -18 7 £28,500 -60.69% 5
North East -42 6 £67,952 +11.50% 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 12 (3.81%) Apache
2 11 (3.49%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.22%) Appian
4 5 (1.59%) WordPress
5 4 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.27%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.95%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.63%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.63%) Camunda
7 2 (0.63%) Confluence
8 1 (0.32%) CMS
8 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.32%) InDesign
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.32%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.32%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.27%) Line 50
2 2 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 116 (36.83%) AWS
2 97 (30.79%) Azure
3 48 (15.24%) GCP
4 32 (10.16%) GitHub
5 28 (8.89%) Serverless
6 27 (8.57%) Anthropic Claude
7 16 (5.08%) OpenShift
8 15 (4.76%) SaaS
9 14 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (4.44%) GitHub Copilot
10 9 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (2.54%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (2.54%) PaaS
12 7 (2.22%) Azure AI
12 7 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (2.22%) Power Automate
12 7 (2.22%) Power Platform
13 6 (1.90%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.30%) Broadband
2 9 (2.86%) VoIP
3 7 (2.22%) Network Security
4 6 (1.90%) AMQP
4 6 (1.90%) Software-Defined Radio
4 6 (1.90%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.27%) HTTP
6 3 (0.95%) LAN
6 3 (0.95%) RTP
6 3 (0.95%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.95%) WAN
6 3 (0.95%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.63%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.32%) Firewall
8 1 (0.32%) Internet
8 1 (0.32%) LTE
8 1 (0.32%) SMTP
8 1 (0.32%) VPN
8 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (11.11%) MySQL
3 34 (10.79%) MongoDB
4 33 (10.48%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.44%) SQL Server
6 12 (3.81%) Pinecone
7 9 (2.86%) Redis
8 8 (2.54%) Big Data
9 6 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.90%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.59%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.59%) Neo4j
11 4 (1.27%) FileMaker
11 4 (1.27%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (1.27%) GIS
11 4 (1.27%) QGIS
12 3 (0.95%) Metadata
12 3 (0.95%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 32 (10.16%) Jenkins
2 22 (6.98%) TeamCity
3 20 (6.35%) Git
4 16 (5.08%) Claude Code
5 7 (2.22%) MLflow
6 6 (1.90%) JIRA
6 6 (1.90%) Selenium
7 4 (1.27%) Burp Suite
7 4 (1.27%) GitLab
8 3 (0.95%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.63%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.63%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.63%) Maven
10 1 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.32%) CMake
10 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.32%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.32%) Valgrind
10 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (18.73%) Finance
2 57 (18.10%) Social Skills
3 36 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 23 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.03%) Banking
6 17 (5.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.81%) Law
7 12 (3.81%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.54%) Legal
8 8 (2.54%) Retail
8 8 (2.54%) Tech for Good
9 6 (1.90%) Back Office
9 6 (1.90%) Front Office
9 6 (1.90%) Marketing
10 5 (1.59%) Advertising
10 5 (1.59%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.95%) French Language
11 3 (0.95%) Italian Language
11 3 (0.95%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 98 (31.11%) Software Engineer
2 68 (21.59%) Senior
3 53 (16.83%) Lead
4 46 (14.60%) Developer
5 25 (7.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 22 (6.98%) Lead Software Engineer
6 22 (6.98%) Senior Software Engineer
7 19 (6.03%) Principal Engineer
8 14 (4.44%) Data Engineer
9 13 (4.13%) Architect
9 13 (4.13%) Java Engineer
10 12 (3.81%) Scala Engineer
11 11 (3.49%) Senior Developer
12 10 (3.17%) Java Developer
12 10 (3.17%) Java Software Engineer
12 10 (3.17%) Python Developer
12 10 (3.17%) Software Developer
13 9 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (2.54%) DevOps Engineer
14 8 (2.54%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (12.38%) Node.js
2 34 (10.79%) RESTful
3 33 (10.48%) REST
4 25 (7.94%) Kafka
5 24 (7.62%) React
6 22 (6.98%) Akka
7 18 (5.71%) Spring
8 16 (5.08%) FastAPI
8 16 (5.08%) Spring Boot
9 15 (4.76%) Flask
9 15 (4.76%) PyTorch
10 14 (4.44%) Django
10 14 (4.44%) NumPy
10 14 (4.44%) TensorFlow
11 13 (4.13%) .NET
11 13 (4.13%) LangChain
11 13 (4.13%) Pandas
12 12 (3.81%) OAuth
12 12 (3.81%) OpenAPI
12 12 (3.81%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 45 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.30%) Video\Live Streaming
3 22 (6.98%) Over-the-Top Content
4 14 (4.44%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.13%) AI Agents
5 13 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.49%) Algorithms
6 11 (3.49%) Security Posture
7 10 (3.17%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.17%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.22%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.22%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.90%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.90%) Robotics
11 5 (1.59%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.59%) FPGA
11 5 (1.59%) Mobile Payment
12 4 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.16%) Linux
2 11 (3.49%) Windows
3 10 (3.17%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.86%) Debian
5 7 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.22%) Unix
6 6 (1.90%) CentOS
7 5 (1.59%) Android
8 4 (1.27%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.27%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.63%) Gentoo
10 1 (0.32%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.32%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (50.48%) Software Engineering
2 98 (31.11%) Agile
3 95 (30.16%) AI
4 81 (25.71%) CI/CD
5 71 (22.54%) TDD
6 70 (22.22%) Microservices
7 69 (21.90%) DevOps
7 69 (21.90%) Mentoring
8 58 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
9 53 (16.83%) Analytics
10 49 (15.56%) Machine Learning
11 45 (14.29%) LLM
11 45 (14.29%) Test Automation
12 40 (12.70%) Containerisation
12 40 (12.70%) Scrum
13 39 (12.38%) Coaching
13 39 (12.38%) Roadmaps
14 38 (12.06%) Generative AI
15 35 (11.11%) Kanban
16 31 (9.84%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 110 (34.92%) Python
2 78 (24.76%) Java
3 57 (18.10%) SQL
4 43 (13.65%) JavaScript
5 33 (10.48%) Scala
6 24 (7.62%) C++
7 17 (5.40%) TypeScript
8 15 (4.76%) C
8 15 (4.76%) Go
8 15 (4.76%) PHP
9 10 (3.17%) Bash
10 8 (2.54%) Rust
11 7 (2.22%) Ruby
12 6 (1.90%) Clojure
12 6 (1.90%) Erlang
13 5 (1.59%) C#
14 4 (1.27%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.95%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.32%) F#
16 1 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 45 (14.29%) Degree
2 40 (12.70%) Security Cleared
3 25 (7.94%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.81%) PhD
6 9 (2.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 8 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.22%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.59%) CISSP
9 5 (1.59%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (1.27%) GIAC
10 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.95%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.95%) CCNA
11 3 (0.95%) CEH
11 3 (0.95%) CISMP
11 3 (0.95%) CREST Certified
11 3 (0.95%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.71%) QA
2 14 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.59%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.27%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.27%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.27%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.63%) NIST
6 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.32%) MiFID
7 1 (0.32%) SLA
7 1 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 67 (21.27%) Docker
2 8 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.95%) Kamailio
3 3 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.63%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.63%) Firmware
4 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.63%) KVM
5 1 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.32%) QEMU
5 1 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.32%) Xen
Systems Management
1 74 (23.49%) Kubernetes
2 36 (11.43%) Terraform
3 13 (4.13%) Ansible
4 8 (2.54%) Istio
5 7 (2.22%) Puppet
6 5 (1.59%) Argo
7 3 (0.95%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (0.95%) Nmap
8 2 (0.63%) Packer
8 2 (0.63%) Podman
8 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.32%) QRadar
Vendors
1 34 (10.79%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.94%) Google
3 23 (7.30%) OpenAI
4 9 (2.86%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.54%) Confluent
6 7 (2.22%) Automation Anywhere
6 7 (2.22%) UiPath
7 6 (1.90%) Oracle
8 5 (1.59%) Adobe
8 5 (1.59%) Databricks
8 5 (1.59%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.27%) Apple
9 4 (1.27%) Cisco
9 4 (1.27%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.27%) PayPal
9 4 (1.27%) Sage
10 3 (0.95%) BT
10 3 (0.95%) Mitel
10 3 (0.95%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.95%) VMware