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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 254 275
Rank change year-on-year -81 +21 -100
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 307 559 628
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.18% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.29% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 159 342 488
10th Percentile £36,074 £47,575 £42,925
25th Percentile £52,073 £56,809 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,654 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +7.16% -13.33%
75th Percentile £85,700 £102,500 £85,250
90th Percentile £117,750 £136,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £69,308 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.61% -0.99% -6.67%

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 44,287 43,288 53,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.30% 91.33% 88.70%
Number of salaries quoted 26,703 20,981 41,972
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,481 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -9 151 £90,000 -16.28% 50
North of England -28 46 £61,418 -0.70% 59
North West +14 37 £63,750 -1.92% 25
East of England +29 32 £30,370 -58.11% 47
South East -69 30 £57,500 +4.55% 92
Midlands -1 21 £55,000 -10.14% 41
South West -32 17 £77,500 -7.50% 35
East Midlands -3 16 £53,029 -3.58% 29
Yorkshire -31 6 £48,750 -1.52% 26
West Midlands +1 5 £66,901 +2.92% 10
North East -6 3 £73,801 +6.48% 8
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 16 (5.21%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.89%) Appian
3 9 (2.93%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.61%) Apache
5 7 (2.28%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.98%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.65%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.65%) Confluence
8 1 (0.33%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.33%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.33%) Kinematics
Applications
1 44 (14.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.93%) SAP FS
2 6 (1.95%) Shopify
3 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.33%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 87 (28.34%) AWS
2 79 (25.73%) Azure
3 46 (14.98%) GCP
4 24 (7.82%) Serverless
5 19 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (5.54%) Power Automate
7 15 (4.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (4.89%) GitHub
7 15 (4.89%) PaaS
8 14 (4.56%) Amazon Alexa
8 14 (4.56%) Anthropic Claude
9 12 (3.91%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (3.58%) Azure AI
11 10 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (2.93%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (2.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (2.93%) IaaS
13 8 (2.61%) Amazon S3
13 8 (2.61%) SaaS
14 7 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 30 (9.77%) Broadband
2 15 (4.89%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.61%) HTTP
4 6 (1.95%) DNS
5 5 (1.63%) AMQP
5 5 (1.63%) DHCP
6 4 (1.30%) RTP
6 4 (1.30%) SMTP
6 4 (1.30%) VoIP
6 4 (1.30%) WAN
6 4 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.98%) DOCSIS
7 3 (0.98%) DSL
7 3 (0.98%) GPON
7 3 (0.98%) IPv4
7 3 (0.98%) IPv6
7 3 (0.98%) PPP
8 2 (0.65%) Internet
8 2 (0.65%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (0.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.54%) Pinecone
2 16 (5.21%) SQL Server
3 13 (4.23%) MySQL
3 13 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (3.26%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.26%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.61%) Big Data
7 8 (2.61%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.28%) Hadoop
8 7 (2.28%) Redis
9 6 (1.95%) Weaviate
10 5 (1.63%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.63%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.98%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.98%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.98%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 25 (8.14%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.49%) TeamCity
3 20 (6.51%) Git
4 13 (4.23%) JIRA
5 12 (3.91%) MLflow
6 9 (2.93%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.61%) GitLab
7 8 (2.61%) Selenium
8 7 (2.28%) Burp Suite
8 7 (2.28%) Metasploit
9 6 (1.95%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.63%) Vite
11 2 (0.65%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.65%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.65%) Gatling
11 2 (0.65%) Mocha
11 2 (0.65%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.65%) Tricentis qTest
11 2 (0.65%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 68 (22.15%) Analytical Skills
2 61 (19.87%) Social Skills
3 32 (10.42%) Finance
4 29 (9.45%) German Language
5 22 (7.17%) Law
6 17 (5.54%) Retail
7 15 (4.89%) Public Sector
8 14 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (3.91%) French Language
10 12 (3.91%) Legal
11 11 (3.58%) Italian Language
12 10 (3.26%) Games
13 9 (2.93%) Dutch Language
14 8 (2.61%) Marketing
15 7 (2.28%) Banking
16 5 (1.63%) Aerospace
17 4 (1.30%) Back Office
18 3 (0.98%) Electronics
18 3 (0.98%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 104 (33.88%) Senior
2 58 (18.89%) Software Engineer
3 37 (12.05%) Lead
4 35 (11.40%) Architect
5 28 (9.12%) Developer
6 24 (7.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (7.49%) Senior Software Engineer
8 20 (6.51%) Data Engineer
9 19 (6.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 16 (5.21%) Software Architect
11 14 (4.56%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 14 (4.56%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 12 (3.91%) Scala Engineer
13 11 (3.58%) Automation Engineer
13 11 (3.58%) Development Engineer
13 11 (3.58%) Senior Developer
14 10 (3.26%) Java Developer
14 10 (3.26%) Lead Architect
15 9 (2.93%) IT Architect
15 9 (2.93%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (10.42%) REST
2 28 (9.12%) React
3 25 (8.14%) Django
3 25 (8.14%) PyTorch
4 23 (7.49%) Akka
4 23 (7.49%) TensorFlow
5 21 (6.84%) Web Services
6 19 (6.19%) RESTful
7 18 (5.86%) scikit-learn
8 17 (5.54%) FastAPI
8 17 (5.54%) Node.js
8 17 (5.54%) Spring
8 17 (5.54%) Spring Boot
9 16 (5.21%) NumPy
9 16 (5.21%) OpenAPI
9 16 (5.21%) Swagger
10 15 (4.89%) Faiss
10 15 (4.89%) Middleware
10 15 (4.89%) Pandas
11 14 (4.56%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 52 (16.94%) Cloud Native
2 38 (12.38%) Onboarding
3 30 (9.77%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (7.82%) Video\Live Streaming
5 23 (7.49%) Over-the-Top Content
6 17 (5.54%) Low-Code
7 14 (4.56%) Legacy Code
7 14 (4.56%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (3.91%) Security Posture
9 11 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.93%) AI Agents
10 9 (2.93%) Algorithms
11 8 (2.61%) Blog
12 7 (2.28%) Insider Threat
12 7 (2.28%) Private Cloud
12 7 (2.28%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.95%) Data Centre
13 6 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (1.63%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 54 (17.59%) Linux
2 18 (5.86%) Unix
3 11 (3.58%) Windows
4 7 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.28%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.63%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.63%) CentOS
5 5 (1.63%) Debian
6 4 (1.30%) Android
7 3 (0.98%) OpenWrt
8 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.33%) Solaris
9 1 (0.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (35.18%) AI
2 93 (30.29%) Agile
2 93 (30.29%) Problem-Solving
3 80 (26.06%) CI/CD
3 80 (26.06%) Software Engineering
4 79 (25.73%) LLM
5 73 (23.78%) DevOps
6 70 (22.80%) Generative AI
7 67 (21.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 66 (21.50%) Machine Learning
9 55 (17.92%) Analytics
10 48 (15.64%) Analytical Thinking
11 47 (15.31%) Containerisation
12 40 (13.03%) Mentoring
13 39 (12.70%) Computer Science
14 36 (11.73%) Clean Code
15 35 (11.40%) Scrum
16 34 (11.07%) TDD
16 34 (11.07%) Test Automation
17 33 (10.75%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 97 (31.60%) Python
2 69 (22.48%) Java
3 42 (13.68%) SQL
4 33 (10.75%) Scala
5 31 (10.10%) C++
6 29 (9.45%) JavaScript
7 28 (9.12%) C
8 20 (6.51%) Go
9 19 (6.19%) TypeScript
10 16 (5.21%) Rust
11 8 (2.61%) Bash
12 7 (2.28%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.95%) R
13 6 (1.95%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.63%) C#
15 4 (1.30%) Fortran
16 2 (0.65%) MATLAB
17 1 (0.33%) Korn
17 1 (0.33%) Objective-C
17 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 111 (36.16%) Degree
2 46 (14.98%) Security Cleared
3 36 (11.73%) SC Cleared
4 23 (7.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (5.86%) Master's Degree
6 15 (4.89%) DV Cleared
7 14 (4.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (4.23%) Chartered Engineer
9 10 (3.26%) AWS Certification
9 10 (3.26%) GIAC
10 9 (2.93%) CISSP
10 9 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (2.61%) CompTIA Security+
11 8 (2.61%) OSCP
12 7 (2.28%) CCNA
12 7 (2.28%) CEH
12 7 (2.28%) CISMP
12 7 (2.28%) CREST Certified
12 7 (2.28%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.45%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 12 (3.91%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.58%) QA
5 9 (2.93%) GDPR
5 9 (2.93%) IFRS
5 9 (2.93%) IFRS 17
5 9 (2.93%) Solvency II
6 7 (2.28%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (2.28%) SLA
7 5 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.63%) NIST
7 5 (1.63%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.98%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.65%) NCSC
10 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 82 (26.71%) Docker
2 16 (5.21%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (4.56%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.98%) KVM
4 3 (0.98%) QEMU
5 2 (0.65%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.33%) Firmware
6 1 (0.33%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 99 (32.25%) Kubernetes
2 33 (10.75%) Terraform
3 19 (6.19%) Ansible
4 8 (2.61%) Nmap
5 6 (1.95%) AWS Copilot
6 5 (1.63%) Puppet
7 3 (0.98%) Grafana
7 3 (0.98%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.33%) Argo
8 1 (0.33%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.33%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.33%) Nagios
8 1 (0.33%) WMI
8 1 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 66 (21.50%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.79%) OpenAI
3 19 (6.19%) SAP
4 18 (5.86%) Google
5 17 (5.54%) Oracle
6 11 (3.58%) Automation Anywhere
6 11 (3.58%) Databricks
6 11 (3.58%) UiPath
7 10 (3.26%) IBM
8 9 (2.93%) Cisco
8 9 (2.93%) Duck Creek
8 9 (2.93%) Guidewire
9 8 (2.61%) Informatica
9 8 (2.61%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.61%) SaltStack
9 8 (2.61%) Talend
10 7 (2.28%) Dell
10 7 (2.28%) Epicor
10 7 (2.28%) Infor
10 7 (2.28%) Software AG