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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 422 260
Rank change year-on-year +6 -162 -34
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 354 256 777
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.59% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.66% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 268 154 525
10th Percentile £48,289 £47,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £59,063 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,250 £75,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +9.67% +14.57% -9.08%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £119,375 £127,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +9.59% +11.51% -6.58%

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 69,225 39,040 59,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.69% 89.39% 81.41%
Number of salaries quoted 48,876 22,555 38,883
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £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% - -8.84%

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 12 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 12 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 -22 149 £90,000 -2.70% 756
North of England -19 71 £80,000 +35.59% 64
South West -15 54 £98,000 +56.80% 38
South East -42 44 £63,750 -12.07% 55
North West -6 36 £80,000 +16.78% 34
North East -42 19 £74,830 +42.53% 15
Midlands -15 17 £74,742 +3.09% 30
Yorkshire -22 16 £83,774 +70.97% 15
West Midlands -19 13 £74,830 +3.21% 26
East of England -29 13 £100,000 +11.11% 83
East Midlands -17 4 £39,194 -54.27% 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 (4.80%) Apache
2 10 (2.82%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.69%) JBoss
4 5 (1.41%) nginx
4 5 (1.41%) WordPress
5 4 (1.13%) Camunda
6 3 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.85%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.85%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.56%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.28%) CMS
8 1 (0.28%) Confluence
8 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.28%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (0.28%) InDesign
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.28%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.28%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.13%) Line 50
2 1 (0.28%) Magento
2 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 156 (44.07%) AWS
2 95 (26.84%) Azure
3 50 (14.12%) GCP
4 35 (9.89%) GitHub
5 26 (7.34%) Serverless
6 23 (6.50%) Anthropic Claude
7 19 (5.37%) GitHub Copilot
8 17 (4.80%) OpenShift
9 15 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (3.95%) dbt
11 13 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (3.67%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (3.11%) Amazon S3
12 11 (3.11%) SaaS
13 9 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.26%) Amazon MSK
14 8 (2.26%) Power Platform
15 7 (1.98%) Amazon EMR
15 7 (1.98%) PaaS
16 6 (1.69%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.26%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.98%) AMQP
3 6 (1.69%) Firewall
3 6 (1.69%) Network Security
3 6 (1.69%) SSL
3 6 (1.69%) VoIP
4 4 (1.13%) Software-Defined Radio
5 3 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.56%) Asterisk PBX
6 2 (0.56%) DNS
6 2 (0.56%) HTTP
6 2 (0.56%) LAN
6 2 (0.56%) MQTT
6 2 (0.56%) WAN
7 1 (0.28%) DHCP
7 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.28%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.28%) SMTP
7 1 (0.28%) VLAN
7 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (10.73%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (9.89%) NoSQL
3 33 (9.32%) MySQL
4 27 (7.63%) MongoDB
5 20 (5.65%) Big Data
6 11 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (2.82%) Redis
7 10 (2.82%) SQL Server
8 9 (2.54%) Metadata
9 7 (1.98%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.98%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.98%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.41%) Neo4j
12 4 (1.13%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (1.13%) FileMaker
12 4 (1.13%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.13%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 24 (6.78%) Git
2 21 (5.93%) Claude Code
3 13 (3.67%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.54%) GitLab
5 7 (1.98%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.98%) Selenium
5 7 (1.98%) Subversion
6 6 (1.69%) JIRA
7 4 (1.13%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.85%) Maven
9 2 (0.56%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.56%) Snyk
10 1 (0.28%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.28%) Codeship
10 1 (0.28%) DBeaver
10 1 (0.28%) IDA Disassembler
10 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 76 (21.47%) Social Skills
2 57 (16.10%) Finance
3 48 (13.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 44 (12.43%) Public Sector
5 29 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (5.65%) Banking
7 17 (4.80%) Law
8 16 (4.52%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.39%) Legal
10 9 (2.54%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.98%) Marketing
13 6 (1.69%) Advertising
13 6 (1.69%) Tech for Good
14 5 (1.41%) Back Office
14 5 (1.41%) Front Office
15 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.56%) Games
16 2 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 105 (29.66%) Software Engineer
2 76 (21.47%) Lead
3 70 (19.77%) Senior
4 48 (13.56%) Architect
5 36 (10.17%) Lead Software Engineer
6 32 (9.04%) Developer
7 29 (8.19%) Principal Engineer
8 24 (6.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 23 (6.50%) Cloud Architect
9 23 (6.50%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (4.80%) Data Engineer
10 17 (4.80%) Principal Software Engineer
11 14 (3.95%) Consultant
11 14 (3.95%) Java Engineer
11 14 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (3.11%) Senior Consultant
13 9 (2.54%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (2.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (2.26%) AWS DevOps
14 8 (2.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (11.30%) Node.js
2 32 (9.04%) Kafka
3 27 (7.63%) React
4 22 (6.21%) REST
4 22 (6.21%) RESTful
5 17 (4.80%) Spring
6 14 (3.95%) .NET
6 14 (3.95%) HTML
6 14 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
7 13 (3.67%) CSS
7 13 (3.67%) LangChain
7 13 (3.67%) Spring Boot
8 11 (3.11%) PyTorch
9 10 (2.82%) TensorFlow
10 9 (2.54%) Model Context Protocol
11 8 (2.26%) FastAPI
11 8 (2.26%) LlamaIndex
11 8 (2.26%) NumPy
11 8 (2.26%) Pandas
12 7 (1.98%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 56 (15.82%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.19%) Public Cloud
3 27 (7.63%) Onboarding
4 20 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.39%) AI Agents
5 12 (3.39%) Distributed Computing
6 10 (2.82%) Blog
6 10 (2.82%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.54%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.54%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.26%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.98%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.98%) Robotics
9 7 (1.98%) Social Media
10 6 (1.69%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.41%) Hackathon
11 5 (1.41%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.41%) Mobile Payment
11 5 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 42 (11.86%) Linux
2 13 (3.67%) Windows
3 10 (2.82%) Debian
4 9 (2.54%) Unix
5 6 (1.69%) CentOS
5 6 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.69%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.13%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.85%) Android
7 3 (0.85%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.85%) Gentoo
8 2 (0.56%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.28%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.28%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (47.74%) Software Engineering
2 119 (33.62%) Agile
3 111 (31.36%) AI
4 86 (24.29%) CI/CD
5 83 (23.45%) DevOps
6 81 (22.88%) Microservices
7 75 (21.19%) Mentoring
8 59 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 52 (14.69%) Containerisation
10 49 (13.84%) LLM
11 48 (13.56%) Machine Learning
12 44 (12.43%) TDD
13 43 (12.15%) Infrastructure as Code
13 43 (12.15%) Roadmaps
14 42 (11.86%) Test Automation
15 36 (10.17%) Analytics
16 34 (9.60%) Cybersecurity
17 32 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
17 32 (9.04%) Migration
18 31 (8.76%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 116 (32.77%) Python
2 77 (21.75%) Java
3 50 (14.12%) JavaScript
4 40 (11.30%) SQL
5 28 (7.91%) C++
6 20 (5.65%) TypeScript
7 19 (5.37%) Bash
8 18 (5.08%) C
9 15 (4.24%) Go
10 14 (3.95%) PHP
11 13 (3.67%) C#
12 12 (3.39%) Rust
12 12 (3.39%) Scala
13 8 (2.26%) Ruby
14 7 (1.98%) Clojure
14 7 (1.98%) Erlang
15 4 (1.13%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.85%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.85%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 94 (26.55%) Security Cleared
2 56 (15.82%) Degree
3 54 (15.25%) SC Cleared
4 42 (11.86%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.95%) PhD
6 13 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.82%) Azure Certification
9 9 (2.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 8 (2.26%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.98%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.13%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.56%) CISSP
13 2 (0.56%) GIAC
14 1 (0.28%) CISM
14 1 (0.28%) GSEC
14 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.28%) RHCE
14 1 (0.28%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.21%) QA
2 14 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.54%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.13%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.13%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.13%) NCSC
5 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.56%) NIST
6 2 (0.56%) SLA
6 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.28%) MiFID
7 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (13.28%) Docker
2 10 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.41%) Firmware
3 5 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.85%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.85%) KVM
4 3 (0.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.28%) IAG
6 1 (0.28%) QEMU
6 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.28%) vSphere
6 1 (0.28%) Xen
Systems Management
1 51 (14.41%) Kubernetes
2 46 (12.99%) Terraform
3 17 (4.80%) Ansible
4 8 (2.26%) Istio
5 7 (1.98%) Puppet
6 5 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.41%) Nagios
6 5 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.13%) Podman
7 4 (1.13%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.85%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (0.85%) Packer
9 2 (0.56%) Argo
9 2 (0.56%) Grafana
9 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.28%) Cilium
10 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.28%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 25 (7.06%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.78%) Google
3 19 (5.37%) OpenAI
4 13 (3.67%) Red Hat
5 12 (3.39%) Oracle
6 8 (2.26%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.26%) Confluent
7 7 (1.98%) Splunk
8 6 (1.69%) Adobe
9 5 (1.41%) Databricks
9 5 (1.41%) New Relic
9 5 (1.41%) VMware
10 4 (1.13%) Apple
10 4 (1.13%) Sage
10 4 (1.13%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.56%) Cisco
11 2 (0.56%) IBM
11 2 (0.56%) OutSystems
11 2 (0.56%) TIBCO
12 1 (0.28%) Fortinet