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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 410 260
Rank change year-on-year -5 -150 -17
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 397 240 686
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.56% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.63% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 291 141 370
10th Percentile £46,939 £48,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £63,626 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,000 £73,000 £68,404
Median % change year-on-year +12.33% +6.72% -2.28%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £86,000
90th Percentile £109,000 £121,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,000 £69,308
% change year-on-year +9.59% +5.33% -0.99%

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 76,626 38,274 53,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.70% 88.94% 82.71%
Number of salaries quoted 53,560 21,879 28,580
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,246 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -32 144 £81,250 -1.52% 787
North of England -10 89 £80,000 +28.00% 91
South West -15 65 £100,000 +33.33% 41
South East -42 50 £62,500 -3.85% 77
North East -34 39 £74,830 +42.53% 17
North West -4 38 £80,000 +12.68% 45
Midlands -44 21 £74,654 +2.97% 37
East of England -33 20 £100,000 +229.27% 77
West Midlands -49 13 £74,830 +3.21% 28
Yorkshire -37 12 £83,774 +29.38% 29
East Midlands -24 8 £39,194 -54.27% 9
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 20 (5.04%) Apache
2 13 (3.27%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.51%) JBoss
4 5 (1.26%) Camunda
4 5 (1.26%) nginx
5 3 (0.76%) WordPress
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.25%) CMS
6 1 (0.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) InDesign
2 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.25%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Exchequer
1 2 (0.50%) Line 50
2 1 (0.25%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 160 (40.30%) AWS
2 91 (22.92%) Azure
3 58 (14.61%) GCP
4 35 (8.82%) GitHub
5 25 (6.30%) Serverless
6 18 (4.53%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (4.28%) SaaS
8 15 (3.78%) Amazon S3
8 15 (3.78%) Anthropic Claude
8 15 (3.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.27%) GitHub Copilot
10 11 (2.77%) dbt
11 10 (2.52%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (2.52%) OpenShift
12 7 (1.76%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (1.76%) Datadog
12 7 (1.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (1.76%) Power Platform
13 6 (1.51%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.28%) Firewall
2 12 (3.02%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.52%) AMQP
4 9 (2.27%) Network Security
5 6 (1.51%) BGP
5 6 (1.51%) DHCP
5 6 (1.51%) DNS
5 6 (1.51%) Internet
5 6 (1.51%) Intrusion Detection
5 6 (1.51%) NX-OS
5 6 (1.51%) VPN
6 5 (1.26%) SSL
6 5 (1.26%) VoIP
7 3 (0.76%) CTI
8 2 (0.50%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.50%) MQTT
8 2 (0.50%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (0.50%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.25%) 5G
9 1 (0.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (10.08%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (7.30%) MySQL
2 29 (7.30%) NoSQL
3 28 (7.05%) Big Data
4 20 (5.04%) MongoDB
5 12 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (2.77%) Metadata
7 10 (2.52%) Redis
7 10 (2.52%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.76%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.76%) Cloudera CDH
8 7 (1.76%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.76%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.76%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.01%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.76%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 27 (6.80%) Git
2 22 (5.54%) GitLab
3 13 (3.27%) Claude Code
4 12 (3.02%) JIRA
5 9 (2.27%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.02%) Subversion
7 7 (1.76%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.76%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.01%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.01%) Snyk
9 3 (0.76%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.76%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.76%) Maven
10 2 (0.50%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.50%) JUnit
10 2 (0.50%) MLflow
10 2 (0.50%) Mockito
11 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.25%) CMake
11 1 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 107 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 75 (18.89%) Public Sector
3 68 (17.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 59 (14.86%) Finance
5 29 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (4.79%) Law
7 18 (4.53%) Legal
8 15 (3.78%) Aerospace
8 15 (3.78%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.52%) Financial Institution
9 10 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.02%) Back Office
10 8 (2.02%) Marketing
11 7 (1.76%) Banking
12 6 (1.51%) Police
13 5 (1.26%) Games
13 5 (1.26%) Retail
14 4 (1.01%) Advertising
14 4 (1.01%) Automotive
14 4 (1.01%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 108 (27.20%) Software Engineer
2 101 (25.44%) Lead
3 71 (17.88%) Senior
4 57 (14.36%) Architect
5 45 (11.34%) Lead Software Engineer
6 38 (9.57%) Developer
7 29 (7.30%) Cloud Architect
8 26 (6.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 21 (5.29%) Data Engineer
9 21 (5.29%) Principal Engineer
10 17 (4.28%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (4.03%) Java Engineer
11 16 (4.03%) Principal Software Engineer
12 13 (3.27%) Consultant
12 13 (3.27%) Linux Engineer
13 12 (3.02%) Security Engineer
13 12 (3.02%) Senior Developer
14 11 (2.77%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (13.35%) Terraform
2 36 (9.07%) Node.js
3 27 (6.80%) React
4 22 (5.54%) REST
5 21 (5.29%) Kafka
5 21 (5.29%) LangChain
6 20 (5.04%) Spring
7 19 (4.79%) HTML
7 19 (4.79%) RESTful
8 18 (4.53%) CSS
9 16 (4.03%) LlamaIndex
9 16 (4.03%) RabbitMQ
9 16 (4.03%) Spring Boot
10 12 (3.02%) PyTorch
11 11 (2.77%) OAuth
11 11 (2.77%) TensorFlow
12 10 (2.52%) OpenAPI
12 10 (2.52%) OpenID
13 9 (2.27%) .NET
13 9 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 68 (17.13%) Cloud Native
2 43 (10.83%) Onboarding
3 38 (9.57%) Public Cloud
4 25 (6.30%) Blog
4 25 (6.30%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (5.54%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.78%) AI Agents
7 12 (3.02%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.77%) Private Cloud
9 10 (2.52%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.52%) Distributed Computing
9 10 (2.52%) Security Posture
9 10 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.27%) Algorithms
10 9 (2.27%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.27%) Social Media
11 7 (1.76%) PKI
11 7 (1.76%) Robotics
12 6 (1.51%) Autonomous Agent
12 6 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 51 (12.85%) Linux
2 19 (4.79%) Windows
3 13 (3.27%) Debian
4 11 (2.77%) Embedded Linux
5 9 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.02%) CentOS
6 8 (2.02%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.51%) Android
7 6 (1.51%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.01%) Unix
9 3 (0.76%) Gentoo
10 2 (0.50%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.50%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (40.81%) Software Engineering
2 144 (36.27%) Agile
3 130 (32.75%) AI
4 106 (26.70%) CI/CD
5 76 (19.14%) Mentoring
6 74 (18.64%) DevOps
6 74 (18.64%) Microservices
7 72 (18.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 68 (17.13%) LLM
9 66 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
10 62 (15.62%) Containerisation
11 55 (13.85%) Machine Learning
12 46 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
13 45 (11.34%) Computer Science
13 45 (11.34%) Technical Leadership
14 44 (11.08%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
15 40 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 40 (10.08%) Cybersecurity
15 40 (10.08%) TDD
16 39 (9.82%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 126 (31.74%) Python
2 87 (21.91%) Java
3 59 (14.86%) JavaScript
4 45 (11.34%) SQL
5 34 (8.56%) C++
6 33 (8.31%) TypeScript
7 21 (5.29%) Bash
8 18 (4.53%) C
9 16 (4.03%) Scala
10 14 (3.53%) Go
11 11 (2.77%) Rust
12 10 (2.52%) C#
12 10 (2.52%) PowerShell
13 9 (2.27%) PHP
14 7 (1.76%) Clojure
14 7 (1.76%) Erlang
14 7 (1.76%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.76%) Ruby
15 4 (1.01%) Embedded C++
16 3 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 119 (29.97%) Security Cleared
2 70 (17.63%) Degree
3 65 (16.37%) SC Cleared
4 55 (13.85%) DV Cleared
5 23 (5.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (5.04%) Azure Certification
7 17 (4.28%) AWS Certification
8 16 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (3.78%) PhD
10 13 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (2.52%) CISSP
11 10 (2.52%) Master's Degree
12 9 (2.27%) CISM
13 7 (1.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (1.51%) CCNA
14 6 (1.51%) CCSP
14 6 (1.51%) MCSE
14 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (1.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.04%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.78%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.27%) QA
4 11 (2.77%) NCSC
5 9 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.27%) WCAG
6 7 (1.76%) NIST
6 7 (1.76%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.51%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.51%) SLA
8 2 (0.50%) ISO 14001
8 2 (0.50%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.25%) MiFID
9 1 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 39 (9.82%) Docker
2 7 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.51%) vSphere
4 5 (1.26%) Firmware
4 5 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.01%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.50%) Snort
6 2 (0.50%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.25%) IAG
7 1 (0.25%) KVM
Systems Management
1 58 (14.61%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.79%) Ansible
3 16 (4.03%) Grafana
4 9 (2.27%) Puppet
5 7 (1.76%) Cilium
6 6 (1.51%) FortiGate
6 6 (1.51%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (1.26%) Nagios
7 5 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.01%) Packer
8 4 (1.01%) Podman
9 3 (0.76%) Argo
10 2 (0.50%) Istio
10 2 (0.50%) linkerd
10 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 32 (8.06%) Google
2 28 (7.05%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.03%) OpenAI
3 16 (4.03%) Red Hat
4 13 (3.27%) Oracle
4 13 (3.27%) Splunk
5 11 (2.77%) Atlassian
6 9 (2.27%) VMware
6 9 (2.27%) YouTube
7 7 (1.76%) FIS
7 7 (1.76%) SaltStack
8 6 (1.51%) Cisco
9 5 (1.26%) Apple
9 5 (1.26%) New Relic
10 4 (1.01%) Adobe
10 4 (1.01%) OutSystems
11 3 (0.76%) Databricks
11 3 (0.76%) Intel
11 3 (0.76%) Thales
12 2 (0.50%) Carbon Black