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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 255 278
Rank change year-on-year -89 +23 -99
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 309 549 669
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 1.20% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.31% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 162 340 523
10th Percentile £33,000 £48,175 £43,150
25th Percentile £52,145 £56,809 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £85,700 £115,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £116,250 £137,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £71,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.43% - -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 45,818 42,048 58,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.92% 92.01% 88.24%
Number of salaries quoted 27,795 20,551 46,192
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,967 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +12.67% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -20 150 £85,000 -22.73% 68
North of England -45 48 £61,418 -5.51% 34
North West +12 40 £65,000 - 17
South East -73 32 £57,500 +7.48% 34
East of England +40 31 £30,370 -60.81% 10
Midlands -6 21 £55,000 -4.35% 10
East Midlands -1 16 £53,029 -3.58% 7
South West -32 16 £75,000 -3.89% 15
West Midlands 0 5 £66,901 +9.30% 3
Yorkshire -43 5 £42,410 -17.25% 13
North East -10 3 £73,801 +6.48% 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 16 (5.18%) Apache Spark
1 16 (5.18%) Appian
2 10 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.91%) Apache
4 7 (2.27%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.97%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.65%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.65%) Confluence
7 1 (0.32%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.32%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.32%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 44 (14.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.59%) SAP FS
2 6 (1.94%) Shopify
3 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.32%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 84 (27.18%) AWS
2 78 (25.24%) Azure
3 44 (14.24%) GCP
4 24 (7.77%) Serverless
5 18 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (5.83%) GitHub
5 18 (5.83%) Power Automate
6 15 (4.85%) Anthropic Claude
6 15 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (4.85%) PaaS
7 14 (4.53%) Amazon Alexa
8 13 (4.21%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (3.88%) Azure AI
10 10 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (2.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 9 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (2.91%) IaaS
11 9 (2.91%) SaaS
12 8 (2.59%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 30 (9.71%) Broadband
2 15 (4.85%) TCP/IP
3 10 (3.24%) HTTP
4 6 (1.94%) DNS
4 6 (1.94%) RTP
4 6 (1.94%) VoIP
5 5 (1.62%) AMQP
5 5 (1.62%) DHCP
6 4 (1.29%) SMTP
6 4 (1.29%) WAN
6 4 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.29%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.97%) DOCSIS
7 3 (0.97%) DSL
7 3 (0.97%) GPON
7 3 (0.97%) IPv4
7 3 (0.97%) IPv6
7 3 (0.97%) PPP
7 3 (0.97%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.65%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.83%) Pinecone
2 17 (5.50%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.53%) MySQL
4 13 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (3.56%) MongoDB
6 11 (3.56%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (2.59%) Big Data
8 8 (2.59%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.27%) Hadoop
9 7 (2.27%) Redis
10 6 (1.94%) Weaviate
11 5 (1.62%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.62%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.97%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.97%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.97%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 25 (8.09%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.44%) TeamCity
3 22 (7.12%) Git
4 14 (4.53%) JIRA
5 13 (4.21%) MLflow
6 8 (2.59%) Cypress.io
7 7 (2.27%) Burp Suite
7 7 (2.27%) GitLab
7 7 (2.27%) Metasploit
7 7 (2.27%) Selenium
8 6 (1.94%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.62%) Vite
10 2 (0.65%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.65%) Mocha
10 2 (0.65%) webpack
11 1 (0.32%) Appium
11 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.32%) Ranorex
11 1 (0.32%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.32%) WebDriver
General
1 67 (21.68%) Analytical Skills
2 64 (20.71%) Social Skills
3 32 (10.36%) Finance
4 29 (9.39%) German Language
5 20 (6.47%) Law
6 16 (5.18%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.18%) Retail
7 14 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (3.88%) Legal
10 11 (3.56%) French Language
10 11 (3.56%) Italian Language
11 9 (2.91%) Games
12 8 (2.59%) Dutch Language
13 7 (2.27%) Banking
13 7 (2.27%) Marketing
14 5 (1.62%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.29%) Back Office
16 3 (0.97%) Electronics
16 3 (0.97%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 105 (33.98%) Senior
2 59 (19.09%) Software Engineer
3 35 (11.33%) Lead
4 33 (10.68%) Architect
5 32 (10.36%) Developer
6 24 (7.77%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (7.44%) Senior Software Engineer
8 20 (6.47%) Data Engineer
9 19 (6.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 16 (5.18%) Software Architect
11 14 (4.53%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 14 (4.53%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 12 (3.88%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (3.88%) Java Developer
12 12 (3.88%) Scala Engineer
12 12 (3.88%) Senior Developer
13 11 (3.56%) Development Engineer
14 10 (3.24%) Software Developer
15 9 (2.91%) Lead Architect
15 9 (2.91%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (11.65%) REST
2 28 (9.06%) Django
2 28 (9.06%) React
3 26 (8.41%) PyTorch
4 24 (7.77%) TensorFlow
5 23 (7.44%) Akka
6 22 (7.12%) Web Services
7 21 (6.80%) RESTful
8 19 (6.15%) scikit-learn
9 18 (5.83%) FastAPI
9 18 (5.83%) Node.js
9 18 (5.83%) NumPy
9 18 (5.83%) Spring
9 18 (5.83%) Spring Boot
10 17 (5.50%) OAuth
10 17 (5.50%) OpenAPI
10 17 (5.50%) Pandas
10 17 (5.50%) Swagger
11 16 (5.18%) Faiss
12 15 (4.85%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 51 (16.50%) Cloud Native
2 37 (11.97%) Onboarding
3 30 (9.71%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (7.77%) Video\Live Streaming
5 23 (7.44%) Over-the-Top Content
6 18 (5.83%) Low-Code
7 15 (4.85%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (4.53%) Legacy Code
9 12 (3.88%) Security Posture
10 11 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (2.91%) AI Agents
12 9 (2.91%) Algorithms
13 8 (2.59%) Blog
14 7 (2.27%) Insider Threat
14 7 (2.27%) Product Ownership
15 6 (1.94%) Data Centre
15 6 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (1.94%) Private Cloud
16 5 (1.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (18.12%) Linux
2 18 (5.83%) Unix
3 11 (3.56%) Windows
4 9 (2.91%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.62%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.62%) CentOS
6 5 (1.62%) Debian
7 4 (1.29%) Android
8 3 (0.97%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.32%) Solaris
10 1 (0.32%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (34.63%) AI
2 94 (30.42%) Agile
3 93 (30.10%) Problem-Solving
4 86 (27.83%) CI/CD
5 84 (27.18%) Software Engineering
6 79 (25.57%) LLM
7 73 (23.62%) DevOps
8 71 (22.98%) Generative AI
9 66 (21.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 65 (21.04%) Machine Learning
11 53 (17.15%) Analytics
12 49 (15.86%) Containerisation
13 48 (15.53%) Analytical Thinking
14 40 (12.94%) Mentoring
15 38 (12.30%) Computer Science
16 37 (11.97%) Scrum
17 36 (11.65%) Clean Code
18 35 (11.33%) Microservices
18 35 (11.33%) TDD
19 34 (11.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 101 (32.69%) Python
2 73 (23.62%) Java
3 46 (14.89%) SQL
4 33 (10.68%) C++
5 32 (10.36%) Scala
6 30 (9.71%) C
6 30 (9.71%) JavaScript
7 21 (6.80%) Go
8 18 (5.83%) TypeScript
9 16 (5.18%) Rust
10 8 (2.59%) Bash
11 7 (2.27%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.94%) R
12 6 (1.94%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.62%) C#
14 4 (1.29%) Fortran
15 2 (0.65%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.32%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.32%) PHP
16 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 110 (35.60%) Degree
2 47 (15.21%) Security Cleared
3 38 (12.30%) SC Cleared
4 24 (7.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (5.83%) Master's Degree
6 14 (4.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (4.53%) DV Cleared
7 13 (4.21%) Chartered Engineer
8 10 (3.24%) AWS Certification
8 10 (3.24%) GIAC
9 9 (2.91%) CISSP
9 9 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (2.59%) CompTIA Security+
10 8 (2.59%) OSCP
11 7 (2.27%) CCNA
11 7 (2.27%) CREST Certified
11 7 (2.27%) GPEN
11 7 (2.27%) MCSE
11 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.03%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 12 (3.88%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.56%) QA
5 8 (2.59%) GDPR
5 8 (2.59%) IFRS
5 8 (2.59%) IFRS 17
5 8 (2.59%) Solvency II
6 7 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.27%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.27%) SLA
7 5 (1.62%) NIST
8 3 (0.97%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.65%) NCSC
10 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
System Software
1 87 (28.16%) Docker
2 16 (5.18%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (4.53%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.97%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.97%) KVM
4 3 (0.97%) QEMU
5 2 (0.65%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 104 (33.66%) Kubernetes
2 34 (11.00%) Terraform
3 19 (6.15%) Ansible
4 8 (2.59%) Nmap
5 6 (1.94%) AWS Copilot
6 5 (1.62%) Puppet
7 3 (0.97%) Argo
7 3 (0.97%) Grafana
7 3 (0.97%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.32%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.32%) Nagios
8 1 (0.32%) WMI
8 1 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 67 (21.68%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.74%) OpenAI
3 18 (5.83%) SAP
4 17 (5.50%) Google
5 16 (5.18%) Oracle
6 12 (3.88%) Automation Anywhere
6 12 (3.88%) UiPath
7 10 (3.24%) Databricks
7 10 (3.24%) IBM
8 9 (2.91%) Cisco
9 8 (2.59%) Duck Creek
9 8 (2.59%) Guidewire
9 8 (2.59%) Informatica
9 8 (2.59%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.59%) SaltStack
9 8 (2.59%) Talend
10 7 (2.27%) IFS
10 7 (2.27%) MuleSoft
10 7 (2.27%) SnapLogic
10 7 (2.27%) Workday