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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 263 271
Rank change year-on-year -100 +8 -84
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 265 571 494
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 1.15% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 1.27% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 138 351 379
10th Percentile £30,370 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +6.63% -10.34%
75th Percentile £85,700 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £119,125 £120,000 £116,250
UK median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £67,634
% change year-on-year +6.48% +2.48% -6.39%

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 42,784 44,895 41,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.28% 90.18% 91.26%
Number of salaries quoted 25,500 22,481 31,965
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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 -1 134 £85,000 -15.00% 157
East of England +38 34 £30,370 -58.11% 162
North of England -55 33 £70,500 +15.18% 219
South East -69 28 £59,000 +1.72% 265
North West -7 21 £71,000 +9.23% 113
Midlands -4 16 £57,500 -11.85% 175
South West -24 13 £77,500 -3.13% 110
East Midlands -4 10 £51,058 -7.17% 77
Yorkshire -31 8 £49,000 -4.39% 93
West Midlands -3 6 £65,000 -0.71% 88
North East 0 4 £63,151 -4.68% 13
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 (6.04%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.53%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (4.15%) Appian
4 7 (2.64%) Anypoint
5 6 (2.26%) Apache
6 3 (1.13%) Confluence
6 3 (1.13%) Kinematics
6 3 (1.13%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.75%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.38%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.38%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 48 (18.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Maya
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.40%) SAP FS
2 6 (2.26%) Shopify
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 81 (30.57%) AWS
2 67 (25.28%) Azure
3 38 (14.34%) GCP
4 22 (8.30%) Serverless
5 17 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (6.04%) PaaS
7 15 (5.66%) Amazon Alexa
7 15 (5.66%) GitHub
8 13 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (4.91%) Power Automate
9 10 (3.77%) IaaS
10 9 (3.40%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (3.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 9 (3.40%) Anthropic Claude
10 9 (3.40%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (3.40%) Prefect
11 8 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (3.02%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.02%) Figma
12 7 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.17%) Broadband
2 14 (5.28%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.64%) HTTP
4 6 (2.26%) DNS
5 5 (1.89%) DHCP
6 4 (1.51%) SMTP
7 3 (1.13%) AMQP
7 3 (1.13%) DOCSIS
7 3 (1.13%) DSL
7 3 (1.13%) GPON
7 3 (1.13%) IPv4
7 3 (1.13%) IPv6
7 3 (1.13%) PPP
7 3 (1.13%) RTP
7 3 (1.13%) VoIP
7 3 (1.13%) WAN
7 3 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.75%) Firewall
8 2 (0.75%) Internet
8 2 (0.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.28%) NoSQL
2 12 (4.53%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (4.53%) MySQL
2 12 (4.53%) Pinecone
2 12 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.77%) MongoDB
3 10 (3.77%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (3.02%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.64%) Redis
7 6 (2.26%) Big Data
7 6 (2.26%) Weaviate
8 5 (1.89%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.51%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.51%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.13%) Cloudera CDH
11 2 (0.75%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (7.17%) Git
2 15 (5.66%) JIRA
3 14 (5.28%) Jenkins
4 12 (4.53%) TeamCity
5 11 (4.15%) MLflow
6 10 (3.77%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.02%) GitLab
7 8 (3.02%) Selenium
8 7 (2.64%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.26%) Burp Suite
9 6 (2.26%) Metasploit
10 5 (1.89%) Vite
11 3 (1.13%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.13%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.13%) Mocha
11 3 (1.13%) webpack
12 2 (0.75%) Appium
12 2 (0.75%) NeoLoad
12 2 (0.75%) Ranorex
12 2 (0.75%) SpecFlow
General
1 70 (26.42%) Analytical Skills
2 53 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 32 (12.08%) German Language
4 23 (8.68%) Law
5 22 (8.30%) Finance
6 15 (5.66%) Public Sector
7 13 (4.91%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (4.15%) Games
8 11 (4.15%) Retail
9 10 (3.77%) Dutch Language
9 10 (3.77%) French Language
9 10 (3.77%) Legal
10 8 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (3.02%) Italian Language
11 7 (2.64%) Banking
12 5 (1.89%) Marketing
13 4 (1.51%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.13%) Back Office
14 3 (1.13%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 92 (34.72%) Senior
2 40 (15.09%) Software Engineer
3 37 (13.96%) Architect
4 34 (12.83%) Lead
5 25 (9.43%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (7.55%) Developer
7 19 (7.17%) Senior Software Engineer
7 19 (7.17%) Software Architect
8 15 (5.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 15 (5.66%) Data Engineer
9 14 (5.28%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 14 (5.28%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 11 (4.15%) Development Engineer
11 10 (3.77%) IT Architect
11 10 (3.77%) Lead Architect
12 9 (3.40%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.40%) Python Engineer
13 8 (3.02%) Automation Engineer
13 8 (3.02%) Java Engineer
13 8 (3.02%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.43%) React
2 23 (8.68%) REST
3 21 (7.92%) Django
3 21 (7.92%) PyTorch
4 20 (7.55%) TensorFlow
5 18 (6.79%) Middleware
6 17 (6.42%) Node.js
6 17 (6.42%) scikit-learn
7 16 (6.04%) Web Services
8 15 (5.66%) Spring
8 15 (5.66%) Spring Boot
9 14 (5.28%) RESTful
10 13 (4.91%) Hugging Face
11 12 (4.53%) Akka
12 11 (4.15%) FastAPI
12 11 (4.15%) NumPy
12 11 (4.15%) Pandas
13 10 (3.77%) Faiss
13 10 (3.77%) OpenAPI
13 10 (3.77%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.60%) Cloud Native
2 37 (13.96%) Onboarding
3 30 (11.32%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (5.28%) Legacy Code
5 13 (4.91%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (4.91%) Low-Code
6 12 (4.53%) Over-the-Top Content
6 12 (4.53%) Video\Live Streaming
7 11 (4.15%) Security Posture
8 10 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (3.02%) Blog
11 7 (2.64%) Algorithms
11 7 (2.64%) Private Cloud
12 6 (2.26%) Insider Threat
12 6 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (1.89%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.89%) Hackathon
13 5 (1.89%) Virtual Team
14 4 (1.51%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 51 (19.25%) Linux
2 19 (7.17%) Unix
3 10 (3.77%) Windows
4 4 (1.51%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.13%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.13%) CentOS
5 3 (1.13%) Debian
5 3 (1.13%) OpenWrt
5 3 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Android
6 1 (0.38%) Solaris
6 1 (0.38%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (35.47%) AI
2 85 (32.08%) Problem-Solving
3 80 (30.19%) Agile
4 74 (27.92%) DevOps
5 73 (27.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 72 (27.17%) LLM
7 65 (24.53%) CI/CD
8 63 (23.77%) Generative AI
9 59 (22.26%) Software Engineering
10 52 (19.62%) Analytical Thinking
11 51 (19.25%) Machine Learning
12 43 (16.23%) Containerisation
13 42 (15.85%) Computer Science
14 38 (14.34%) SDLC
15 36 (13.58%) Mentoring
16 32 (12.08%) Analytics
16 32 (12.08%) Clean Code
17 30 (11.32%) Decision-Making
17 30 (11.32%) Design Patterns
17 30 (11.32%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 79 (29.81%) Python
2 64 (24.15%) Java
3 34 (12.83%) SQL
4 27 (10.19%) C++
4 27 (10.19%) JavaScript
5 26 (9.81%) C
6 19 (7.17%) Go
6 19 (7.17%) Scala
7 16 (6.04%) Rust
7 16 (6.04%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.40%) Bash
9 7 (2.64%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.64%) R
10 5 (1.89%) C#
10 5 (1.89%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.51%) Fortran
12 2 (0.75%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.75%) Swift
12 2 (0.75%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 117 (44.15%) Degree
2 44 (16.60%) Security Cleared
3 34 (12.83%) SC Cleared
4 28 (10.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (7.55%) Master's Degree
6 17 (6.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (6.04%) Chartered Engineer
8 15 (5.66%) DV Cleared
9 9 (3.40%) AWS Certification
9 9 (3.40%) GIAC
10 8 (3.02%) CISSP
11 7 (2.64%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (2.64%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (2.64%) OSCP
12 6 (2.26%) CCNA
12 6 (2.26%) CREST Certified
12 6 (2.26%) GPEN
12 6 (2.26%) MCSE
12 6 (2.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.81%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.04%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 14 (5.28%) QA
4 13 (4.91%) Accessibility
5 9 (3.40%) GDPR
5 9 (3.40%) IFRS
5 9 (3.40%) IFRS 17
5 9 (3.40%) Solvency II
6 7 (2.64%) SLA
7 6 (2.26%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (1.89%) NIST
9 4 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (1.13%) PCI DSS
10 3 (1.13%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.75%) NCSC
12 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 67 (25.28%) Docker
2 16 (6.04%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (5.28%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (1.13%) KVM
4 3 (1.13%) QEMU
5 2 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 82 (30.94%) Kubernetes
2 29 (10.94%) Terraform
3 17 (6.42%) Ansible
4 7 (2.64%) Nmap
5 6 (2.26%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (1.13%) Functional Safety
6 3 (1.13%) Grafana
6 3 (1.13%) Kubeflow
6 3 (1.13%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.13%) Puppet
7 1 (0.38%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (0.38%) Nagios
7 1 (0.38%) WMI
7 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (21.89%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.17%) SAP
3 18 (6.79%) OpenAI
4 15 (5.66%) Oracle
5 14 (5.28%) Google
6 9 (3.40%) Duck Creek
6 9 (3.40%) Guidewire
6 9 (3.40%) IBM
6 9 (3.40%) Informatica
6 9 (3.40%) Talend
7 8 (3.02%) Cisco
7 8 (3.02%) Databricks
8 7 (2.64%) Dell
8 7 (2.64%) Epicor
8 7 (2.64%) Infor
8 7 (2.64%) Jitterbit
8 7 (2.64%) MuleSoft
8 7 (2.64%) SnapLogic
8 7 (2.64%) Software AG
8 7 (2.64%) TIBCO