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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 259 282
Rank change year-on-year -93 +23 -103
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 317 514 681
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 1.21% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.30% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 174 342 540
10th Percentile £38,625 £48,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £58,823 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% +13.20% -16.67%
75th Percentile £85,500 £115,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £71,000 £70,000 £68,508
% change year-on-year +1.43% +2.18% -8.66%

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 48,733 39,572 59,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.83% 93.09% 88.20%
Number of salaries quoted 29,924 20,111 46,771
10th Percentile £29,250 £33,200 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,351 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
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 28 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 28 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 -44 144 £85,000 -22.73% 63
North of England -19 60 £61,418 -5.51% 26
North West +1 45 £65,000 - 10
East of England +31 32 £30,370 -60.81% 14
South East -87 31 £57,500 +4.55% 26
Midlands -8 20 £55,000 -4.35% 6
South West -32 18 £65,000 -10.34% 15
East Midlands -16 15 £51,058 -7.17% 1
Yorkshire -41 10 £50,565 -4.59% 12
West Midlands -4 5 £66,901 +12.72% 5
North East -12 5 £62,966 -9.15% 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 17 (5.36%) Apache Spark
2 16 (5.05%) Appian
3 11 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.15%) Apache
5 7 (2.21%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.95%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.95%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.63%) Confluence
8 1 (0.32%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.32%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.32%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 44 (13.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Shopify
2 5 (1.58%) SAP FS
3 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.32%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 92 (29.02%) AWS
2 88 (27.76%) Azure
3 44 (13.88%) GCP
4 20 (6.31%) Serverless
5 18 (5.68%) Power Automate
6 17 (5.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (4.73%) Anthropic Claude
7 15 (4.73%) PaaS
8 14 (4.42%) Amazon Alexa
8 14 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (4.10%) GitHub
10 12 (3.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 12 (3.79%) Azure AI
10 12 (3.79%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (2.84%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 9 (2.84%) Pulumi
12 9 (2.84%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.83%) Broadband
2 18 (5.68%) TCP/IP
3 10 (3.15%) HTTP
4 7 (2.21%) DNS
5 6 (1.89%) RTP
5 6 (1.89%) VoIP
6 5 (1.58%) AMQP
6 5 (1.58%) DHCP
6 5 (1.58%) SMTP
7 4 (1.26%) Software-Defined Radio
7 4 (1.26%) WAN
7 4 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.95%) DOCSIS
8 3 (0.95%) DSL
8 3 (0.95%) Firewall
8 3 (0.95%) IPv4
8 3 (0.95%) IPv6
8 3 (0.95%) PPP
8 3 (0.95%) SSL
8 3 (0.95%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (6.94%) MySQL
3 21 (6.62%) MongoDB
4 19 (5.99%) NoSQL
5 18 (5.68%) Pinecone
6 16 (5.05%) SQL Server
7 14 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (3.15%) Redis
10 8 (2.52%) Big Data
11 7 (2.21%) Hadoop
11 7 (2.21%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.89%) Weaviate
13 5 (1.58%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (1.58%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.95%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.95%) Neo4j
14 3 (0.95%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 24 (7.57%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.26%) TeamCity
3 19 (5.99%) Git
4 13 (4.10%) MLflow
5 11 (3.47%) JIRA
6 7 (2.21%) Burp Suite
6 7 (2.21%) Metasploit
6 7 (2.21%) Selenium
7 5 (1.58%) GitLab
8 4 (1.26%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.95%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.95%) Vite
10 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.32%) Hardhat
10 1 (0.32%) Mocha
10 1 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 64 (20.19%) Analytical Skills
2 60 (18.93%) Social Skills
3 33 (10.41%) Finance
4 29 (9.15%) German Language
5 25 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 17 (5.36%) Law
7 16 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (4.73%) Retail
9 13 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (3.79%) Legal
11 11 (3.47%) Italian Language
12 8 (2.52%) Banking
12 8 (2.52%) French Language
13 7 (2.21%) Marketing
14 6 (1.89%) Games
15 5 (1.58%) Aerospace
15 5 (1.58%) Dutch Language
15 5 (1.58%) Tech for Good
16 4 (1.26%) Back Office
17 3 (0.95%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 105 (33.12%) Senior
2 71 (22.40%) Software Engineer
3 34 (10.73%) Developer
4 30 (9.46%) Architect
5 28 (8.83%) Lead
6 24 (7.57%) Senior Software Engineer
7 21 (6.62%) Cloud Engineer
7 21 (6.62%) Data Engineer
8 17 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 17 (5.36%) Java Engineer
8 17 (5.36%) Java Software Engineer
9 14 (4.42%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 14 (4.42%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 14 (4.42%) Software Architect
10 13 (4.10%) Java Developer
11 12 (3.79%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (3.79%) Scala Engineer
11 12 (3.79%) Senior Developer
12 11 (3.47%) Development Engineer
12 11 (3.47%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (11.36%) REST
2 32 (10.09%) Django
3 31 (9.78%) RESTful
4 26 (8.20%) React
5 24 (7.57%) PyTorch
6 23 (7.26%) Akka
6 23 (7.26%) TensorFlow
7 22 (6.94%) Web Services
8 19 (5.99%) NumPy
8 19 (5.99%) scikit-learn
9 18 (5.68%) FastAPI
9 18 (5.68%) Pandas
10 17 (5.36%) Node.js
10 17 (5.36%) OAuth
10 17 (5.36%) OpenAPI
10 17 (5.36%) Spring
10 17 (5.36%) Spring Boot
10 17 (5.36%) Swagger
11 16 (5.05%) Faiss
12 15 (4.73%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 58 (18.30%) Cloud Native
2 39 (12.30%) Onboarding
3 29 (9.15%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (7.57%) Video\Live Streaming
5 23 (7.26%) Over-the-Top Content
6 18 (5.68%) Low-Code
7 15 (4.73%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (4.42%) Legacy Code
9 13 (4.10%) Security Posture
10 10 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (2.84%) Algorithms
11 9 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (2.52%) AI Agents
12 8 (2.52%) Blog
12 8 (2.52%) Data Centre
13 7 (2.21%) Insider Threat
14 6 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.89%) Private Cloud
14 6 (1.89%) Product Ownership
15 5 (1.58%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 56 (17.67%) Linux
2 18 (5.68%) Unix
3 11 (3.47%) Windows
4 9 (2.84%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.58%) CentOS
6 5 (1.58%) Debian
7 4 (1.26%) Android
7 4 (1.26%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.95%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.63%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.32%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.32%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.32%) Solaris
10 1 (0.32%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (32.49%) AI
2 99 (31.23%) Agile
3 96 (30.28%) Software Engineering
4 95 (29.97%) Problem-Solving
5 85 (26.81%) CI/CD
6 78 (24.61%) LLM
7 70 (22.08%) Generative AI
8 67 (21.14%) DevOps
9 62 (19.56%) Machine Learning
10 58 (18.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 53 (16.72%) Analytics
12 49 (15.46%) Analytical Thinking
12 49 (15.46%) Mentoring
13 47 (14.83%) Containerisation
14 46 (14.51%) TDD
15 43 (13.56%) Microservices
16 41 (12.93%) Test Automation
17 35 (11.04%) Clean Code
17 35 (11.04%) Scrum
18 32 (10.09%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 104 (32.81%) Python
2 86 (27.13%) Java
3 56 (17.67%) SQL
4 32 (10.09%) C++
4 32 (10.09%) Scala
5 29 (9.15%) C
6 26 (8.20%) JavaScript
7 21 (6.62%) Go
8 16 (5.05%) Rust
9 15 (4.73%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.21%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.89%) Bash
11 6 (1.89%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.58%) C#
13 4 (1.26%) R
14 3 (0.95%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.63%) Fortran
15 2 (0.63%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.32%) PHP
16 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 99 (31.23%) Degree
2 49 (15.46%) Security Cleared
3 40 (12.62%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (4.42%) DV Cleared
6 13 (4.10%) Master's Degree
7 12 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (3.47%) Chartered Engineer
9 10 (3.15%) GIAC
10 9 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (2.52%) CISSP
11 8 (2.52%) OSCP
12 7 (2.21%) AWS Certification
12 7 (2.21%) CCNA
12 7 (2.21%) CEH
12 7 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (2.21%) CISMP
12 7 (2.21%) GPEN
12 7 (2.21%) MCSE
12 7 (2.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.09%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 10 (3.15%) QA
4 8 (2.52%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.52%) GDPR
4 8 (2.52%) SLA
5 7 (2.21%) Actionable Recommendations
5 7 (2.21%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.58%) IFRS
7 5 (1.58%) IFRS 17
7 5 (1.58%) Solvency II
8 4 (1.26%) NIST
9 3 (0.95%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 84 (26.50%) Docker
2 16 (5.05%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (4.42%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.26%) KVM
5 3 (0.95%) Kamailio
5 3 (0.95%) QEMU
6 2 (0.63%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.32%) Firmware
7 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 100 (31.55%) Kubernetes
2 35 (11.04%) Terraform
3 18 (5.68%) Ansible
4 9 (2.84%) AWS Copilot
5 7 (2.21%) Nmap
6 5 (1.58%) Puppet
7 3 (0.95%) Argo
8 2 (0.63%) Grafana
8 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.32%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.32%) WMI
Vendors
1 68 (21.45%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.20%) OpenAI
3 19 (5.99%) Google
4 16 (5.05%) Oracle
5 15 (4.73%) SAP
6 12 (3.79%) Automation Anywhere
6 12 (3.79%) UiPath
7 10 (3.15%) Databricks
7 10 (3.15%) IBM
8 8 (2.52%) Cisco
8 8 (2.52%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.52%) SaltStack
9 7 (2.21%) Epicor
9 7 (2.21%) Infor
9 7 (2.21%) Informatica
9 7 (2.21%) MuleSoft
9 7 (2.21%) SnapLogic
9 7 (2.21%) Software AG
9 7 (2.21%) Talend
9 7 (2.21%) TIBCO