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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 406 261
Rank change year-on-year -26 -145 -32
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 330 277 817
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.64% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.71% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 259 179 567
10th Percentile £46,939 £48,200 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £49,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +15.38% -10.34%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £125,500 £137,500 £98,500
UK median annual salary £78,502 £73,159 £65,465
% change year-on-year +7.30% +11.75% -9.70%

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 66,332 39,128 62,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.83% 89.85% 81.70%
Number of salaries quoted 46,839 22,615 43,234
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,251 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -11.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -21 136 £92,500 -6.33% 206
North of England +4 75 £75,000 +15.38% 24
South West -22 46 £90,000 +50.00% 21
North West +11 42 £77,500 +13.13% 11
South East -35 42 £63,750 -12.07% 29
Yorkshire -24 18 £80,000 +63.27% 8
North East -42 15 £74,830 +42.53% 5
Midlands -27 14 £74,742 +3.09% 7
West Midlands -23 13 £74,830 +3.21% 6
East of England -15 9 £135,500 +33.83% 21
East Midlands - 1 £39,194 - 1
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 (5.15%) Apache
2 11 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.52%) JBoss
3 5 (1.52%) WordPress
4 4 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.21%) GeoServer
4 4 (1.21%) nginx
5 3 (0.91%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.91%) Camunda
6 2 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.30%) Appian
7 1 (0.30%) CMS
7 1 (0.30%) Confluence
7 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (0.30%) InDesign
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.30%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.21%) Line 50
2 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 149 (45.15%) AWS
2 95 (28.79%) Azure
3 41 (12.42%) GCP
4 35 (10.61%) GitHub
5 27 (8.18%) Serverless
6 23 (6.97%) Anthropic Claude
7 18 (5.45%) GitHub Copilot
8 17 (5.15%) OpenShift
9 15 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.24%) dbt
11 13 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (3.94%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (3.64%) SaaS
13 11 (3.33%) Amazon S3
14 9 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (2.42%) Amazon MSK
15 8 (2.42%) PaaS
15 8 (2.42%) Power Platform
16 7 (2.12%) Amazon EMR
17 6 (1.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.12%) AMQP
1 7 (2.12%) VoIP
2 6 (1.82%) Network Security
3 5 (1.52%) SSL
3 5 (1.52%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.21%) Software-Defined Radio
5 3 (0.91%) Firewall
5 3 (0.91%) HTTP
6 2 (0.61%) Asterisk PBX
6 2 (0.61%) DNS
6 2 (0.61%) LAN
6 2 (0.61%) MQTT
6 2 (0.61%) WAN
7 1 (0.30%) DHCP
7 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.30%) Internet
7 1 (0.30%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.30%) SMTP
7 1 (0.30%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (13.03%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (11.82%) MySQL
2 39 (11.82%) NoSQL
3 33 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 16 (4.85%) Big Data
5 11 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (3.33%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.03%) Redis
7 7 (2.12%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (2.12%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.12%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.12%) Metadata
8 6 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.52%) Neo4j
9 5 (1.52%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.21%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.21%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.21%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 20 (6.06%) Claude Code
1 20 (6.06%) Git
2 13 (3.94%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.12%) GitLab
3 7 (2.12%) Selenium
4 6 (1.82%) Bitbucket
4 6 (1.82%) JIRA
5 3 (0.91%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.91%) Maven
5 3 (0.91%) Subversion
6 2 (0.61%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.30%) CMake
7 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.30%) Eclipse RCP
7 1 (0.30%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.30%) Valgrind
General
1 73 (22.12%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.76%) Finance
3 43 (13.03%) Public Sector
4 37 (11.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (6.06%) Banking
7 15 (4.55%) Law
7 15 (4.55%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.73%) Legal
9 8 (2.42%) Tech for Good
10 7 (2.12%) Aerospace
10 7 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.82%) Advertising
12 5 (1.52%) Back Office
12 5 (1.52%) Front Office
12 5 (1.52%) Marketing
13 3 (0.91%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.61%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 98 (29.70%) Software Engineer
2 64 (19.39%) Lead
2 64 (19.39%) Senior
3 46 (13.94%) Architect
4 37 (11.21%) Developer
5 32 (9.70%) Lead Software Engineer
6 24 (7.27%) Principal Engineer
7 22 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
8 21 (6.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 20 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
10 15 (4.55%) Java Engineer
11 14 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.94%) Data Engineer
13 12 (3.64%) Consultant
13 12 (3.64%) Principal Software Engineer
14 10 (3.03%) Java Software Engineer
15 9 (2.73%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (2.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 9 (2.73%) Senior Consultant
16 8 (2.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (12.42%) Node.js
2 31 (9.39%) Kafka
3 29 (8.79%) RESTful
4 26 (7.88%) React
5 23 (6.97%) REST
6 17 (5.15%) Spring
7 14 (4.24%) Spring Boot
8 13 (3.94%) RabbitMQ
9 12 (3.64%) HTML
10 11 (3.33%) .NET
10 11 (3.33%) CSS
11 10 (3.03%) LangChain
11 10 (3.03%) PyTorch
12 9 (2.73%) FastAPI
13 8 (2.42%) Flask
13 8 (2.42%) Model Context Protocol
13 8 (2.42%) NumPy
13 8 (2.42%) OAuth
13 8 (2.42%) Pandas
13 8 (2.42%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 55 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 19 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.64%) Distributed Computing
5 11 (3.33%) AI Agents
6 9 (2.73%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.42%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.42%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.42%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.12%) Blog
8 7 (2.12%) Robotics
9 6 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.82%) Social Media
10 5 (1.52%) Mobile Payment
10 5 (1.52%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.52%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.21%) Autonomous Agent
11 4 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.21%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.61%) Linux
2 13 (3.94%) Windows
3 10 (3.03%) Debian
4 8 (2.42%) Unix
5 7 (2.12%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.82%) CentOS
6 6 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.21%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.91%) Android
8 3 (0.91%) Gentoo
9 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.30%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.30%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (49.39%) Software Engineering
2 109 (33.03%) Agile
3 96 (29.09%) AI
4 87 (26.36%) Microservices
5 85 (25.76%) CI/CD
6 82 (24.85%) DevOps
7 77 (23.33%) Mentoring
8 52 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (15.45%) TDD
10 47 (14.24%) Containerisation
10 47 (14.24%) Roadmaps
11 46 (13.94%) Test Automation
12 42 (12.73%) LLM
13 41 (12.42%) Machine Learning
14 37 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
15 34 (10.30%) Coaching
16 32 (9.70%) Analytics
16 32 (9.70%) Cybersecurity
17 31 (9.39%) Migration
18 30 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 109 (33.03%) Python
2 83 (25.15%) Java
3 48 (14.55%) JavaScript
4 47 (14.24%) SQL
5 26 (7.88%) C++
6 19 (5.76%) TypeScript
7 16 (4.85%) Go
8 15 (4.55%) C
9 14 (4.24%) Bash
9 14 (4.24%) PHP
10 11 (3.33%) Rust
10 11 (3.33%) Scala
11 9 (2.73%) C#
12 8 (2.42%) Ruby
13 7 (2.12%) Clojure
13 7 (2.12%) Erlang
14 4 (1.21%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.91%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.91%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 84 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 50 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 47 (14.24%) Degree
4 38 (11.52%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.64%) PhD
6 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 7 (2.12%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.82%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.21%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.91%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.61%) CISSP
12 1 (0.30%) CISM
12 1 (0.30%) HNC
12 1 (0.30%) HND
12 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.30%) RHCE
12 1 (0.30%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.45%) QA
2 16 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.82%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.21%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.21%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.61%) NIST
5 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.61%) SLA
5 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.30%) MiFID
6 1 (0.30%) NCSC
6 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 45 (13.64%) Docker
2 10 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.91%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.91%) Firmware
5 3 (0.91%) KVM
6 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.30%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.30%) QEMU
7 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.30%) vSphere
7 1 (0.30%) Xen
Systems Management
1 50 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 44 (13.33%) Terraform
3 17 (5.15%) Ansible
4 8 (2.42%) Istio
5 7 (2.12%) Puppet
6 4 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.21%) Nagios
6 4 (1.21%) Podman
6 4 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.91%) Argo
7 3 (0.91%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (0.91%) Packer
7 3 (0.91%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.30%) Grafana
9 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 24 (7.27%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.67%) Google
3 20 (6.06%) OpenAI
4 10 (3.03%) Oracle
4 10 (3.03%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.42%) Confluent
6 7 (2.12%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.82%) Splunk
8 5 (1.52%) Adobe
8 5 (1.52%) VMware
9 4 (1.21%) Apple
9 4 (1.21%) Databricks
9 4 (1.21%) New Relic
9 4 (1.21%) Sage
9 4 (1.21%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.61%) Cisco
10 2 (0.61%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.61%) IBM
10 2 (0.61%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.30%) Mitel