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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 388 257
Rank change year-on-year -34 -131 -33
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 319 283 876
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.65% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.73% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 251 185 612
10th Percentile £46,939 £48,350 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £125,000 £137,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £78,319 £73,159 £65,465
% change year-on-year +7.05% +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 65,539 39,008 67,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.79% 90.04% 82.05%
Number of salaries quoted 46,429 22,397 46,860
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £74,280
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.73%

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 22 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 22 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 -40 135 £92,500 -11.90% 238
North of England 0 73 £75,000 +15.38% 26
North West +11 43 £75,000 +10.90% 12
South East -39 43 £62,500 -13.79% 33
South West -36 38 £90,000 +50.00% 20
Yorkshire -30 18 £80,000 +63.27% 10
Midlands -20 14 £74,742 +3.09% 6
West Midlands -13 13 £74,830 +3.21% 4
North East -46 12 £74,742 +42.37% 4
East of England -8 8 £135,500 +33.83% 21
East Midlands - 1 £39,194 - 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 11 (3.45%) Apache
1 11 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.57%) WordPress
3 4 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.25%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.94%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.63%) Appian
5 2 (0.63%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.63%) Camunda
6 1 (0.31%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) Confluence
6 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.31%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (0.31%) InDesign
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.31%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Line 50
2 2 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 140 (43.89%) AWS
2 87 (27.27%) Azure
3 40 (12.54%) GCP
4 37 (11.60%) GitHub
5 27 (8.46%) Serverless
6 24 (7.52%) Anthropic Claude
7 18 (5.64%) GitHub Copilot
8 15 (4.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (4.70%) OpenShift
9 14 (4.39%) Cloud Computing
9 14 (4.39%) dbt
9 14 (4.39%) SaaS
10 13 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (3.45%) Amazon S3
12 9 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (2.51%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (2.51%) PaaS
14 7 (2.19%) Amazon EMR
14 7 (2.19%) Power Platform
15 6 (1.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.51%) VoIP
2 7 (2.19%) AMQP
2 7 (2.19%) Network Security
3 5 (1.57%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (1.57%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.25%) HTTP
5 3 (0.94%) Firewall
6 2 (0.63%) Asterisk PBX
6 2 (0.63%) DNS
6 2 (0.63%) LAN
6 2 (0.63%) MQTT
6 2 (0.63%) RTP
6 2 (0.63%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.63%) WAN
6 2 (0.63%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.31%) DHCP
7 1 (0.31%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.31%) SMTP
7 1 (0.31%) VLAN
7 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (13.48%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (12.54%) MySQL
3 38 (11.91%) NoSQL
4 33 (10.34%) MongoDB
5 15 (4.70%) Big Data
6 12 (3.76%) SQL Server
7 11 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (3.45%) Redis
8 7 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.19%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.19%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.19%) Metadata
9 6 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.88%) Pinecone
10 5 (1.57%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.57%) Neo4j
11 4 (1.25%) FileMaker
11 4 (1.25%) GIS
Development Applications
1 20 (6.27%) Claude Code
2 16 (5.02%) Git
3 11 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.19%) GitLab
5 6 (1.88%) JIRA
5 6 (1.88%) Selenium
6 2 (0.63%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.63%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.63%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.63%) Maven
6 2 (0.63%) MLflow
7 1 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.31%) Codeship
7 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.31%) DBeaver
7 1 (0.31%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.31%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.31%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 72 (22.57%) Social Skills
2 53 (16.61%) Finance
3 39 (12.23%) Public Sector
4 32 (10.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (6.27%) Banking
7 15 (4.70%) Manufacturing
8 14 (4.39%) Law
9 9 (2.82%) Legal
10 8 (2.51%) Tech for Good
11 6 (1.88%) Advertising
11 6 (1.88%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.88%) Back Office
12 5 (1.57%) Front Office
12 5 (1.57%) Marketing
13 3 (0.94%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.63%) Electronics
14 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 96 (30.09%) Software Engineer
2 63 (19.75%) Senior
3 60 (18.81%) Lead
4 44 (13.79%) Architect
5 36 (11.29%) Developer
6 30 (9.40%) Lead Software Engineer
7 22 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
8 20 (6.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 20 (6.27%) Cloud Architect
9 19 (5.96%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (4.39%) Java Engineer
10 14 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (3.45%) Consultant
11 11 (3.45%) Data Engineer
11 11 (3.45%) Principal Software Engineer
12 10 (3.13%) Java Software Engineer
13 9 (2.82%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (2.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 9 (2.82%) Python Developer
14 8 (2.51%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (12.54%) Node.js
2 31 (9.72%) RESTful
3 30 (9.40%) Kafka
4 25 (7.84%) REST
5 24 (7.52%) React
6 16 (5.02%) Spring
7 14 (4.39%) Spring Boot
8 12 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (3.45%) .NET
9 11 (3.45%) FastAPI
10 10 (3.13%) Flask
10 10 (3.13%) PyTorch
11 9 (2.82%) Django
11 9 (2.82%) HTML
11 9 (2.82%) LangChain
11 9 (2.82%) TensorFlow
12 8 (2.51%) CSS
12 8 (2.51%) Model Context Protocol
12 8 (2.51%) NumPy
12 8 (2.51%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 52 (16.30%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.58%) Onboarding
3 20 (6.27%) Public Cloud
4 17 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.76%) Distributed Computing
6 10 (3.13%) AI Agents
6 10 (3.13%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.82%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.51%) Security Posture
9 7 (2.19%) Robotics
10 6 (1.88%) Blog
10 6 (1.88%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.57%) Mobile Payment
11 5 (1.57%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.25%) Autonomous Agent
12 4 (1.25%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.25%) FPGA
12 4 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.94%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 34 (10.66%) Linux
2 12 (3.76%) Windows
3 10 (3.13%) Debian
4 8 (2.51%) Ubuntu
4 8 (2.51%) Unix
5 5 (1.57%) CentOS
6 4 (1.25%) Android
6 4 (1.25%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.94%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.94%) Gentoo
8 1 (0.31%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.31%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (50.47%) Software Engineering
2 98 (30.72%) Agile
3 93 (29.15%) AI
4 85 (26.65%) Microservices
5 83 (26.02%) CI/CD
6 78 (24.45%) DevOps
7 76 (23.82%) Mentoring
8 53 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (15.99%) TDD
10 47 (14.73%) Roadmaps
11 46 (14.42%) Test Automation
12 45 (14.11%) Containerisation
13 39 (12.23%) LLM
13 39 (12.23%) Machine Learning
14 35 (10.97%) Coaching
15 32 (10.03%) Infrastructure as Code
16 31 (9.72%) Migration
17 30 (9.40%) Analytics
17 30 (9.40%) Cybersecurity
18 29 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 106 (33.23%) Python
2 82 (25.71%) Java
3 49 (15.36%) SQL
4 45 (14.11%) JavaScript
5 27 (8.46%) C++
6 21 (6.58%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.33%) C
8 15 (4.70%) Go
8 15 (4.70%) PHP
9 13 (4.08%) Bash
10 12 (3.76%) Scala
11 11 (3.45%) Rust
12 8 (2.51%) Ruby
13 7 (2.19%) C#
13 7 (2.19%) Clojure
13 7 (2.19%) Erlang
14 4 (1.25%) MATLAB
14 4 (1.25%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.94%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.31%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 80 (25.08%) Security Cleared
2 48 (15.05%) SC Cleared
3 47 (14.73%) Degree
4 34 (10.66%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.76%) PhD
6 8 (2.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 7 (2.19%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.57%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.25%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.63%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.63%) CISSP
11 1 (0.31%) CCNA
11 1 (0.31%) HNC
11 1 (0.31%) HND
11 1 (0.31%) MCSE
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.31%) RHCE
11 1 (0.31%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.64%) QA
2 16 (5.02%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.57%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.25%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.25%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.25%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.63%) NIST
5 2 (0.63%) SLA
5 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.31%) MiFID
6 1 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 42 (13.17%) Docker
2 10 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.94%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.94%) Firmware
4 3 (0.94%) KVM
5 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.63%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.31%) QEMU
6 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.31%) vSphere
6 1 (0.31%) Xen
Systems Management
1 48 (15.05%) Kubernetes
2 41 (12.85%) Terraform
3 15 (4.70%) Ansible
4 8 (2.51%) Istio
5 6 (1.88%) Puppet
6 4 (1.25%) Argo
6 4 (1.25%) Podman
7 3 (0.94%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (0.94%) Packer
7 3 (0.94%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.31%) Grafana
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.31%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 25 (7.84%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.21%) Google
3 20 (6.27%) OpenAI
4 9 (2.82%) Oracle
5 8 (2.51%) Confluent
6 6 (1.88%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.57%) Adobe
7 5 (1.57%) VMware
8 4 (1.25%) Apple
8 4 (1.25%) Sage
8 4 (1.25%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.94%) Databricks
9 3 (0.94%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.94%) IBM
9 3 (0.94%) PayPal
10 2 (0.63%) Automation Anywhere
10 2 (0.63%) Cisco
10 2 (0.63%) Mitel
10 2 (0.63%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.63%) UiPath