Open Source Jobs in England

Open Source
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Open Source skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Open Source over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 254 232 151
Rank change year-on-year -22 -81 -22
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 861 1,109 4,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.10% 1.56% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.64% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 567 641 1,307
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,899
25th Percentile £49,625 £56,513 £52,926
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +6.87%
75th Percentile £84,964 £89,852 £90,000
90th Percentile £98,500 £102,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,465 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.70% +3.57% +3.70%

All Process and 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 64,248 67,718 141,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.99% 95.27% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 43,335 45,004 76,070
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,185 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Open Source in England.

Salary trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 July 2024. 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
North of England +84 262 £61,206 -9.32% 15
London -95 223 £83,000 +3.37% 26
South East +62 178 £47,500 -20.83% 12
North West +57 177 £61,206 -6.09% 11
South West -40 82 £60,000 -14.29% 13
Midlands -22 72 £73,750 +5.36% 8
Yorkshire +76 61 £61,206 -18.99% 1
West Midlands -13 37 £70,000 - 3
East Midlands -19 34 £75,000 -4.76% 3
East of England -9 26 £70,000 +21.74% 5
North East 0 24 £65,465 +0.71% 3
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 56 (6.50%) Apache Spark
2 55 (6.39%) Apache
3 28 (3.25%) WebLogic
4 15 (1.74%) OpenStack
5 12 (1.39%) Confluence
6 11 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.28%) Tuxedo
7 8 (0.93%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.70%) CMS
9 4 (0.46%) Apache Pulsar
9 4 (0.46%) Drupal
9 4 (0.46%) nginx
10 3 (0.35%) OpenZeppelin
11 2 (0.23%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.23%) SAS
11 2 (0.23%) WordPress
12 1 (0.12%) Kinematics
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 48 (5.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.12%) Notion
3 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (3.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.12%) Ripple
2 1 (0.12%) Ripple XRP
2 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 390 (45.30%) AWS
2 297 (34.49%) Azure
3 99 (11.50%) GCP
4 68 (7.90%) Serverless
5 63 (7.32%) Amazon Kinesis
6 60 (6.97%) AWS Lambda
7 57 (6.62%) Amazon EKS
8 55 (6.39%) GitHub
9 49 (5.69%) Amazon SQS
10 47 (5.46%) OpenShift
11 45 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 37 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
13 32 (3.72%) SaaS
14 30 (3.48%) Amazon S3
15 29 (3.37%) IaaS
15 29 (3.37%) PaaS
16 24 (2.79%) Amazon EC2
17 22 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
18 21 (2.44%) dbt
19 19 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 70 (8.13%) DNS
2 47 (5.46%) BGP
3 43 (4.99%) Firewall
4 40 (4.65%) TCP/IP
5 37 (4.30%) SSL
6 29 (3.37%) AMQP
7 28 (3.25%) WAN
8 26 (3.02%) LAN
9 24 (2.79%) HTTP
10 23 (2.67%) VPN
11 18 (2.09%) MPLS
12 15 (1.74%) Internet
13 11 (1.28%) Network Security
13 11 (1.28%) SNMP
13 11 (1.28%) Unified Communications
14 10 (1.16%) Cisco ISE
14 10 (1.16%) Cisco Nexus
14 10 (1.16%) VLAN
14 10 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (1.05%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (14.05%) NoSQL
2 115 (13.36%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (7.43%) DynamoDB
4 59 (6.85%) Amazon RDS
5 57 (6.62%) Amazon Aurora
6 54 (6.27%) Relational Database
7 50 (5.81%) Redis
8 48 (5.57%) Big Data
9 41 (4.76%) Hadoop
10 38 (4.41%) MySQL
11 33 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
12 30 (3.48%) RDBMS
13 29 (3.37%) Cloudera CDH
14 28 (3.25%) Oracle Database
15 25 (2.90%) SQL Server
16 17 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
17 16 (1.86%) MongoDB
18 14 (1.63%) SQLite
19 12 (1.39%) Data Lake
20 10 (1.16%) Flink
Development Applications
1 85 (9.87%) Git
2 69 (8.01%) GitLab
3 58 (6.74%) Jenkins
4 43 (4.99%) Gatling
5 21 (2.44%) JIRA
6 17 (1.97%) CircleCI
7 10 (1.16%) Artifactory
8 9 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
8 9 (1.05%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.93%) Selenium
9 8 (0.93%) TeamCity
10 7 (0.81%) Android Studio
10 7 (0.81%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.58%) JUnit
13 4 (0.46%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.46%) Charles Proxy
13 4 (0.46%) Metasploit
13 4 (0.46%) MLflow
13 4 (0.46%) sqlmap
General
1 251 (29.15%) Social Skills
2 99 (11.50%) Finance
3 74 (8.59%) Public Sector
4 54 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 47 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.72%) Aerospace
7 31 (3.60%) Billing
7 31 (3.60%) Electronics
8 29 (3.37%) Law
9 22 (2.56%) Legal
10 21 (2.44%) Front Office
11 19 (2.21%) Banking
11 19 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.39%) Games
13 11 (1.28%) Marketing
14 9 (1.05%) Publishing
15 8 (0.93%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.81%) Automotive
16 7 (0.81%) Retail
17 6 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 243 (28.22%) Senior
2 206 (23.93%) Software Engineer
3 153 (17.77%) Lead
4 141 (16.38%) Architect
5 140 (16.26%) Developer
6 72 (8.36%) Technical Leader
7 67 (7.78%) Senior Software Engineer
8 65 (7.55%) Solutions Architect
9 40 (4.65%) Senior Architect
10 37 (4.30%) Lead Software Engineer
11 35 (4.07%) Technical Architect
12 33 (3.83%) DevOps Engineer
12 33 (3.83%) Lead Architect
13 32 (3.72%) Full Stack Developer
13 32 (3.72%) Senior Solutions Architect
14 29 (3.37%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 28 (3.25%) Lead Solutions Architect
16 26 (3.02%) Cloud Engineer
16 26 (3.02%) Senior Developer
17 22 (2.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (15.10%) React
2 119 (13.82%) REST
3 73 (8.48%) Web Services
4 72 (8.36%) GraphQL
4 72 (8.36%) Node.js
5 71 (8.25%) Spring Boot
6 61 (7.08%) RabbitMQ
7 57 (6.62%) http4s
7 57 (6.62%) Scalaz
8 52 (6.04%) HTML
9 47 (5.46%) Spring
10 41 (4.76%) Django
11 39 (4.53%) AngularJS
12 38 (4.41%) .NET
13 36 (4.18%) Swagger
14 33 (3.83%) Kafka
15 30 (3.48%) CSS
16 29 (3.37%) gRPC
16 29 (3.37%) Material-UI
16 29 (3.37%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 85 (9.87%) Self-Motivation
2 84 (9.76%) Public Cloud
3 82 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
4 80 (9.29%) Private Cloud
5 77 (8.94%) Blog
6 76 (8.83%) Cloud Native
7 70 (8.13%) Management Information System
8 64 (7.43%) Algorithms
9 63 (7.32%) Media Streaming
10 39 (4.53%) Data Centre
11 36 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (2.32%) Blockchain
12 20 (2.32%) Data Structures
13 18 (2.09%) Tandem
14 16 (1.86%) Mobile App
14 16 (1.86%) Product Ownership
15 13 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
16 12 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
16 12 (1.39%) Hedge funds
16 12 (1.39%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 238 (27.64%) Linux
2 92 (10.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 61 (7.08%) Windows
4 53 (6.16%) Unix
5 48 (5.57%) CentOS
6 41 (4.76%) Ubuntu
7 33 (3.83%) Debian
8 17 (1.97%) Android
9 12 (1.39%) Windows Server
10 10 (1.16%) Embedded Linux
11 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.58%) Windows 10
13 3 (0.35%) VMS
14 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.12%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (47.97%) Agile
2 347 (40.30%) Software Engineering
3 263 (30.55%) DevOps
4 237 (27.53%) Mentoring
5 195 (22.65%) Coaching
6 166 (19.28%) Continuous Integration
7 151 (17.54%) CI/CD
8 144 (16.72%) Scrum
9 140 (16.26%) Microservices
10 133 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
11 125 (14.52%) Computer Science
12 113 (13.12%) Containerisation
13 112 (13.01%) Collaborative Working
14 105 (12.20%) Actionable Insight
14 105 (12.20%) Kanban
15 102 (11.85%) Decision-Making
16 98 (11.38%) Full Stack Development
17 97 (11.27%) Infrastructure as Code
17 97 (11.27%) Project Management
18 90 (10.45%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 341 (39.61%) Python
2 247 (28.69%) Java
3 153 (17.77%) JavaScript
4 105 (12.20%) SQL
5 99 (11.50%) C
6 91 (10.57%) TypeScript
7 90 (10.45%) C++
8 76 (8.83%) Scala
9 57 (6.62%) Bash
10 51 (5.92%) C#
11 46 (5.34%) PowerShell
12 44 (5.11%) Go
13 40 (4.65%) COBOL
13 40 (4.65%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 33 (3.83%) PHP
15 32 (3.72%) Fortran
16 23 (2.67%) Kotlin
16 23 (2.67%) Rust
17 16 (1.86%) Ruby
18 13 (1.51%) R
Qualifications
1 221 (25.67%) Security Cleared
2 164 (19.05%) Degree
3 153 (17.77%) SC Cleared
4 56 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (5.81%) Master's Degree
6 48 (5.57%) Azure Certification
7 45 (5.23%) PhD
8 44 (5.11%) DV Cleared
9 34 (3.95%) AWS Certification
10 30 (3.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.28%) Numerate Degree
12 10 (1.16%) CCNA
12 10 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.46%) CTC Cleared
15 3 (0.35%) CISSP
15 3 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
16 2 (0.23%) CREST Certified
16 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
17 1 (0.12%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.46%) PMO
2 35 (4.07%) QA
3 8 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (0.93%) NCSC
4 6 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.70%) NIST
5 2 (0.23%) GDPR
5 2 (0.23%) MiFID
5 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 113 (13.12%) Docker
2 21 (2.44%) Virtual Servers
3 17 (1.97%) Firmware
4 13 (1.51%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.39%) Hyper-V
6 11 (1.28%) Embedded Firmware
6 11 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.70%) Ceph
8 5 (0.58%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (0.58%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.35%) HDFS
9 3 (0.35%) KVM
9 3 (0.35%) QEMU
9 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.35%) Xen
10 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.23%) vSphere
11 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 154 (17.89%) Kubernetes
2 135 (15.68%) Terraform
3 95 (11.03%) Ansible
4 60 (6.97%) Puppet
5 22 (2.56%) Grafana
6 20 (2.32%) Progress Chef
7 17 (1.97%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.93%) Kibana
9 6 (0.70%) Knative
9 6 (0.70%) Nessus
10 5 (0.58%) Nagios
10 5 (0.58%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 4 (0.46%) Cacti
11 4 (0.46%) Salt
12 2 (0.23%) CASB
12 2 (0.23%) Kiali
12 2 (0.23%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.23%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.23%) SQL Sentry
13 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 87 (10.10%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.55%) Google
3 40 (4.65%) Micro Focus
4 35 (4.07%) Oracle
4 35 (4.07%) Red Hat
5 29 (3.37%) SaltStack
6 28 (3.25%) Cisco
6 28 (3.25%) Sparx
7 18 (2.09%) VMware
8 15 (1.74%) Juniper
9 14 (1.63%) Splunk
10 12 (1.39%) Fortinet
10 12 (1.39%) OpenAI
11 10 (1.16%) Databricks
11 10 (1.16%) Palo Alto
12 9 (1.05%) CheckPoint
13 8 (0.93%) Apple
13 8 (0.93%) ESRI
14 7 (0.81%) Arista
14 7 (0.81%) Bloomberg