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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 420 263
Rank change year-on-year +14 -157 -30
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 378 241 750
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.55% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.62% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 286 138 483
10th Percentile £50,625 £46,925 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,250 £74,080 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.03% +6.59% -0.71%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,188 £85,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £127,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.59% +4.29% -

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 70,812 38,908 59,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.46% 88.91% 81.00%
Number of salaries quoted 50,212 22,532 37,613
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -16 154 £92,500 +2.78% 135
North of England -4 80 £80,000 +52.38% 15
South West -22 60 £99,000 +58.40% 32
South East -42 42 £63,750 -12.07% 15
North West +9 38 £80,000 +16.36% 7
North East -40 26 £74,830 +42.53% 3
Midlands -25 21 £74,654 +2.97% 12
East of England -19 16 £100,000 +11.11% 20
Yorkshire -31 16 £81,887 +67.12% 5
West Midlands -25 14 £74,742 +3.09% 10
East Midlands -14 7 £39,194 -54.27% 2
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 (4.50%) Apache
2 10 (2.65%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.59%) JBoss
4 5 (1.32%) nginx
4 5 (1.32%) WordPress
5 4 (1.06%) Camunda
6 3 (0.79%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.53%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.26%) CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Confluence
8 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (0.26%) InDesign
2 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.26%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Line 50
2 1 (0.26%) Magento
2 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 160 (42.33%) AWS
2 94 (24.87%) Azure
3 54 (14.29%) GCP
4 38 (10.05%) GitHub
5 26 (6.88%) Serverless
6 23 (6.08%) Anthropic Claude
7 19 (5.03%) GitHub Copilot
8 18 (4.76%) OpenShift
9 16 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.91%) Amazon S3
11 11 (2.91%) dbt
11 11 (2.91%) SaaS
12 10 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (2.12%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (2.12%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.85%) Amazon EMR
15 6 (1.59%) Amazon Bedrock
15 6 (1.59%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.12%) AMQP
1 8 (2.12%) Firewall
2 6 (1.59%) Intrusion Detection
2 6 (1.59%) Network Security
2 6 (1.59%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.59%) VoIP
3 5 (1.32%) SSL
4 4 (1.06%) Internet
5 3 (0.79%) DHCP
5 3 (0.79%) DNS
5 3 (0.79%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.53%) Asterisk PBX
6 2 (0.53%) LAN
6 2 (0.53%) MQTT
6 2 (0.53%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.53%) WAN
7 1 (0.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (7.67%) NoSQL
3 28 (7.41%) MySQL
4 23 (6.08%) MongoDB
5 22 (5.82%) Big Data
6 10 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.65%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.38%) Metadata
8 7 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.85%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.85%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.85%) Redis
9 5 (1.32%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.32%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.06%) FileMaker
10 4 (1.06%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.06%) Pinecone
11 3 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.79%) GIS
Development Applications
1 24 (6.35%) Git
2 21 (5.56%) Claude Code
3 14 (3.70%) GitLab
4 13 (3.44%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.38%) JIRA
6 8 (2.12%) Subversion
7 7 (1.85%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.59%) Selenium
9 4 (1.06%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.79%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.79%) Maven
10 3 (0.79%) Snyk
11 2 (0.53%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.53%) Eclipse RCP
12 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.26%) CMake
12 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.26%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 82 (21.69%) Social Skills
2 66 (17.46%) Finance
3 60 (15.87%) Public Sector
4 53 (14.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (6.08%) Law
7 19 (5.03%) Banking
8 17 (4.50%) Legal
9 16 (4.23%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.65%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.12%) Marketing
12 7 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.59%) Advertising
14 5 (1.32%) Back Office
14 5 (1.32%) Front Office
14 5 (1.32%) Tech for Good
15 4 (1.06%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.79%) Police
16 3 (0.79%) Retail
17 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 106 (28.04%) Software Engineer
2 87 (23.02%) Lead
3 77 (20.37%) Senior
4 50 (13.23%) Architect
5 39 (10.32%) Lead Software Engineer
6 38 (10.05%) Developer
7 28 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 28 (7.41%) Principal Engineer
8 26 (6.88%) Cloud Architect
9 24 (6.35%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (4.23%) Data Engineer
10 16 (4.23%) Principal Software Engineer
11 14 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.44%) Consultant
13 12 (3.17%) Linux Engineer
14 11 (2.91%) Senior Consultant
14 11 (2.91%) Senior Developer
15 10 (2.65%) Java Engineer
16 9 (2.38%) AWS Engineer
16 9 (2.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (13.49%) Terraform
2 47 (12.43%) Node.js
3 32 (8.47%) Kafka
4 30 (7.94%) React
5 22 (5.82%) REST
6 21 (5.56%) HTML
7 20 (5.29%) CSS
8 17 (4.50%) RESTful
8 17 (4.50%) Spring
9 16 (4.23%) LangChain
9 16 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
10 15 (3.97%) .NET
11 12 (3.17%) PyTorch
11 12 (3.17%) Spring Boot
12 11 (2.91%) LlamaIndex
12 11 (2.91%) TensorFlow
13 9 (2.38%) Model Context Protocol
14 8 (2.12%) FastAPI
14 8 (2.12%) Pandas
14 8 (2.12%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.34%) Cloud Native
2 33 (8.73%) Public Cloud
3 32 (8.47%) Onboarding
4 20 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (3.70%) AI Agents
5 14 (3.70%) Blog
6 12 (3.17%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.91%) Distributed Computing
8 10 (2.65%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.38%) Data Centre
9 9 (2.38%) Private Cloud
10 8 (2.12%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.85%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.85%) Robotics
11 7 (1.85%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.85%) Social Media
12 5 (1.32%) Autonomous Agent
12 5 (1.32%) Hackathon
12 5 (1.32%) Mobile Payment
12 5 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (11.38%) Linux
2 15 (3.97%) Windows
3 11 (2.91%) Debian
4 7 (1.85%) CentOS
4 7 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.85%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.59%) Embedded Linux
5 6 (1.59%) Unix
6 4 (1.06%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.79%) Android
7 3 (0.79%) Gentoo
8 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (45.24%) Software Engineering
2 127 (33.60%) Agile
3 121 (32.01%) AI
4 93 (24.60%) CI/CD
5 84 (22.22%) DevOps
6 79 (20.90%) Mentoring
7 78 (20.63%) Microservices
8 60 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (15.61%) Containerisation
10 55 (14.55%) LLM
10 55 (14.55%) Machine Learning
11 51 (13.49%) Infrastructure as Code
12 45 (11.90%) TDD
13 42 (11.11%) Roadmaps
14 37 (9.79%) Analytics
14 37 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
15 36 (9.52%) Test Automation
16 35 (9.26%) Computer Science
16 35 (9.26%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 123 (32.54%) Python
2 72 (19.05%) Java
3 62 (16.40%) JavaScript
4 35 (9.26%) SQL
5 30 (7.94%) TypeScript
6 27 (7.14%) C++
7 21 (5.56%) Bash
8 17 (4.50%) C
8 17 (4.50%) Go
9 14 (3.70%) C#
9 14 (3.70%) PHP
9 14 (3.70%) Scala
10 12 (3.17%) Rust
11 7 (1.85%) Clojure
11 7 (1.85%) Erlang
11 7 (1.85%) Ruby
12 5 (1.32%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.06%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.79%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.53%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 102 (26.98%) Security Cleared
2 61 (16.14%) Degree
3 55 (14.55%) SC Cleared
4 50 (13.23%) DV Cleared
5 16 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.97%) PhD
7 13 (3.44%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.65%) AWS Certification
9 9 (2.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 7 (1.85%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.06%) CISSP
11 4 (1.06%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.79%) CCNA
12 3 (0.79%) CISM
12 3 (0.79%) GSEC
12 3 (0.79%) MCSE
12 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.53%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.56%) QA
2 18 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.44%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.12%) WCAG
5 6 (1.59%) NCSC
6 4 (1.06%) ISO 14001
6 4 (1.06%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.79%) SLA
8 2 (0.53%) NIST
8 2 (0.53%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.26%) MiFID
9 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 45 (11.90%) Docker
2 12 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.32%) Firmware
4 5 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.79%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 3 (0.79%) vSphere
6 2 (0.53%) KVM
7 1 (0.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.26%) IAG
7 1 (0.26%) QEMU
7 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 58 (15.34%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.50%) Ansible
3 10 (2.65%) Istio
4 8 (2.12%) Puppet
5 6 (1.59%) Grafana
5 6 (1.59%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.32%) Nagios
6 5 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.06%) Argo
7 4 (1.06%) Podman
8 3 (0.79%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.79%) Packer
9 2 (0.53%) linkerd
9 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.26%) Cilium
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 26 (6.88%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.35%) Google
3 19 (5.03%) OpenAI
4 14 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 12 (3.17%) Oracle
6 9 (2.38%) Splunk
7 8 (2.12%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.12%) Confluent
8 6 (1.59%) Adobe
8 6 (1.59%) VMware
9 5 (1.32%) Databricks
9 5 (1.32%) New Relic
9 5 (1.32%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.06%) Apple
10 4 (1.06%) Cisco
10 4 (1.06%) Sage
11 3 (0.79%) Intel
12 2 (0.53%) FIS
12 2 (0.53%) IBM
12 2 (0.53%) TIBCO