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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 429 262
Rank change year-on-year +21 -167 -29
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 366 244 765
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.56% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.63% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 274 143 503
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £58,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +14.57% -6.48%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £121,875 £127,500 £97,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +9.59% +8.15% -3.57%

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 70,019 38,976 58,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.51% 89.20% 81.10%
Number of salaries quoted 49,558 22,475 37,906
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -0.90% -11.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -19 154 £92,500 - 54
North of England -9 73 £80,000 +44.80% 17
South West -19 58 £98,000 +45.19% 17
South East -42 42 £63,750 -12.07% 21
North West -5 38 £80,000 +18.30% 5
North East -38 21 £74,830 +42.53% 7
Midlands -31 20 £74,654 +2.97% 8
East of England -14 14 £100,000 +11.11% 11
Yorkshire -36 14 £83,774 +70.97% 5
West Midlands -32 13 £74,830 +3.21% 6
East Midlands -14 7 £39,194 -54.27% 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 17 (4.64%) Apache
2 10 (2.73%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.64%) JBoss
4 5 (1.37%) nginx
4 5 (1.37%) WordPress
5 4 (1.09%) Camunda
6 3 (0.82%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.82%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.55%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.27%) CMS
8 1 (0.27%) Confluence
8 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) 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 (1.09%) Line 50
2 1 (0.27%) Magento
2 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 156 (42.62%) AWS
2 91 (24.86%) Azure
3 51 (13.93%) GCP
4 36 (9.84%) GitHub
5 27 (7.38%) Serverless
6 23 (6.28%) Anthropic Claude
7 19 (5.19%) GitHub Copilot
8 18 (4.92%) OpenShift
9 15 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (3.01%) Amazon S3
11 11 (3.01%) dbt
11 11 (3.01%) SaaS
12 10 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (2.19%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (2.19%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.91%) Amazon EMR
15 6 (1.64%) Amazon Bedrock
15 6 (1.64%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.19%) AMQP
1 8 (2.19%) Firewall
2 6 (1.64%) Intrusion Detection
2 6 (1.64%) Network Security
2 6 (1.64%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.64%) VoIP
3 5 (1.37%) SSL
4 4 (1.09%) Internet
5 3 (0.82%) DHCP
5 3 (0.82%) DNS
5 3 (0.82%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.55%) Asterisk PBX
6 2 (0.55%) LAN
6 2 (0.55%) MQTT
6 2 (0.55%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.55%) WAN
7 1 (0.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.20%) NoSQL
1 30 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (7.65%) MySQL
3 23 (6.28%) MongoDB
4 22 (6.01%) Big Data
5 10 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (2.73%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.46%) Metadata
7 7 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.91%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.91%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.91%) Redis
8 5 (1.37%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (1.37%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.37%) Neo4j
9 4 (1.09%) FileMaker
9 4 (1.09%) Pinecone
10 3 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.82%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 24 (6.56%) Git
2 21 (5.74%) Claude Code
3 13 (3.55%) GitLab
3 13 (3.55%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.19%) JIRA
4 8 (2.19%) Subversion
5 7 (1.91%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.91%) Selenium
6 4 (1.09%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.82%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.82%) Maven
8 2 (0.55%) Eclipse RCP
8 2 (0.55%) Snyk
9 1 (0.27%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.27%) CMake
9 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.27%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.27%) Valgrind
9 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 82 (22.40%) Social Skills
2 64 (17.49%) Finance
3 51 (13.93%) Public Sector
4 49 (13.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (6.28%) Law
7 19 (5.19%) Banking
8 17 (4.64%) Legal
9 16 (4.37%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.73%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.19%) Marketing
12 7 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.64%) Advertising
14 5 (1.37%) Back Office
14 5 (1.37%) Front Office
14 5 (1.37%) Tech for Good
15 4 (1.09%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.82%) Police
16 3 (0.82%) Retail
17 2 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 104 (28.42%) Software Engineer
2 83 (22.68%) Lead
3 73 (19.95%) Senior
4 49 (13.39%) Architect
5 37 (10.11%) Lead Software Engineer
6 33 (9.02%) Developer
7 28 (7.65%) Principal Engineer
8 26 (7.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 26 (7.10%) Cloud Architect
9 25 (6.83%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (4.37%) Data Engineer
10 16 (4.37%) Principal Software Engineer
11 14 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.55%) Consultant
13 11 (3.01%) Senior Consultant
14 10 (2.73%) Java Engineer
14 10 (2.73%) Linux Engineer
15 9 (2.46%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (2.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 8 (2.19%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (13.66%) Terraform
2 43 (11.75%) Node.js
3 32 (8.74%) Kafka
4 31 (8.47%) React
5 23 (6.28%) REST
6 17 (4.64%) RESTful
6 17 (4.64%) Spring
7 16 (4.37%) HTML
7 16 (4.37%) RabbitMQ
8 15 (4.10%) CSS
9 14 (3.83%) .NET
9 14 (3.83%) LangChain
10 12 (3.28%) PyTorch
10 12 (3.28%) Spring Boot
11 11 (3.01%) TensorFlow
12 9 (2.46%) LlamaIndex
12 9 (2.46%) Model Context Protocol
13 8 (2.19%) FastAPI
13 8 (2.19%) Pandas
13 8 (2.19%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.85%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.47%) Public Cloud
3 30 (8.20%) Onboarding
4 20 (5.46%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (3.83%) AI Agents
6 13 (3.55%) Blog
7 12 (3.28%) Management Information System
8 11 (3.01%) Distributed Computing
9 10 (2.73%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.46%) Data Centre
10 9 (2.46%) Private Cloud
11 8 (2.19%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.91%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.91%) Robotics
12 7 (1.91%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.91%) Social Media
13 5 (1.37%) Autonomous Agent
13 5 (1.37%) Hackathon
13 5 (1.37%) Mobile Payment
13 5 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (11.20%) Linux
2 15 (4.10%) Windows
3 11 (3.01%) Debian
4 7 (1.91%) CentOS
4 7 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.91%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.64%) Unix
6 4 (1.09%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (1.09%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.82%) Android
7 3 (0.82%) Gentoo
8 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (46.17%) Software Engineering
2 119 (32.51%) Agile
3 118 (32.24%) AI
4 90 (24.59%) CI/CD
5 84 (22.95%) DevOps
6 78 (21.31%) Microservices
7 73 (19.95%) Mentoring
8 59 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
9 58 (15.85%) Containerisation
10 53 (14.48%) Machine Learning
11 52 (14.21%) LLM
12 48 (13.11%) Infrastructure as Code
13 41 (11.20%) Roadmaps
14 39 (10.66%) TDD
15 37 (10.11%) Analytics
16 36 (9.84%) Test Automation
17 35 (9.56%) Computer Science
18 33 (9.02%) Cybersecurity
19 32 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
19 32 (8.74%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 120 (32.79%) Python
2 72 (19.67%) Java
3 56 (15.30%) JavaScript
4 35 (9.56%) SQL
5 27 (7.38%) C++
6 26 (7.10%) TypeScript
7 21 (5.74%) Bash
8 17 (4.64%) C
8 17 (4.64%) Go
9 14 (3.83%) C#
9 14 (3.83%) PHP
10 13 (3.55%) Scala
11 12 (3.28%) Rust
12 7 (1.91%) Clojure
12 7 (1.91%) Erlang
12 7 (1.91%) Ruby
13 5 (1.37%) PowerShell
14 4 (1.09%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.82%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.55%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 102 (27.87%) Security Cleared
2 61 (16.67%) Degree
3 55 (15.03%) SC Cleared
4 50 (13.66%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (4.10%) PhD
6 14 (3.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (3.01%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 8 (2.19%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.91%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.09%) CISSP
11 4 (1.09%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.82%) CCNA
12 3 (0.82%) CISM
12 3 (0.82%) GSEC
12 3 (0.82%) MCSE
12 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.55%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.74%) QA
2 13 (3.55%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.28%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.37%) NCSC
5 4 (1.09%) ISO 14001
5 4 (1.09%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.82%) SLA
6 3 (0.82%) WCAG
7 2 (0.55%) NIST
7 2 (0.55%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.27%) MiFID
8 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 44 (12.02%) Docker
2 12 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.37%) Firmware
4 5 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.82%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 3 (0.82%) vSphere
6 2 (0.55%) KVM
7 1 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.27%) IAG
7 1 (0.27%) QEMU
7 1 (0.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 56 (15.30%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.64%) Ansible
3 10 (2.73%) Istio
4 8 (2.19%) Puppet
5 6 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.37%) Grafana
6 5 (1.37%) Nagios
6 5 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.09%) Argo
7 4 (1.09%) Podman
8 3 (0.82%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.82%) Packer
9 2 (0.55%) linkerd
9 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.27%) Cilium
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 26 (7.10%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.56%) Google
3 19 (5.19%) OpenAI
4 14 (3.83%) Red Hat
5 12 (3.28%) Oracle
6 8 (2.19%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.19%) Confluent
6 8 (2.19%) Splunk
7 6 (1.64%) Adobe
7 6 (1.64%) VMware
8 5 (1.37%) Databricks
8 5 (1.37%) New Relic
8 5 (1.37%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.09%) Apple
9 4 (1.09%) Cisco
9 4 (1.09%) Sage
10 3 (0.82%) Intel
11 2 (0.55%) FIS
11 2 (0.55%) IBM
11 2 (0.55%) TIBCO