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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 426 267
Rank change year-on-year +27 -159 -31
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 385 236 697
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.55% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.61% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 288 132 392
10th Percentile £46,939 £48,025 £40,125
25th Percentile £67,500 £54,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,250 £73,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% +11.51% -6.48%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,563 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £127,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +9.59% +11.51% -6.48%

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 73,171 38,378 55,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.08% 88.74% 81.34%
Number of salaries quoted 52,052 22,031 32,570
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,485 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.93%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -22 145 £90,000 +5.88% 925
North of England -3 87 £80,000 +52.38% 81
South West -27 58 £100,000 +50.94% 38
South East -43 46 £62,500 -3.85% 75
North West +6 41 £80,000 +28.00% 42
North East -35 31 £74,830 +42.53% 14
Midlands -36 23 £74,654 +2.97% 31
East of England -15 20 £100,000 +21.21% 88
Yorkshire -23 15 £83,774 +69.24% 25
West Midlands -32 15 £74,742 +3.09% 21
East Midlands -24 8 £39,194 -54.27% 9
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 (4.42%) Apache
2 12 (3.12%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.56%) JBoss
4 5 (1.30%) nginx
4 5 (1.30%) WordPress
5 3 (0.78%) Camunda
6 2 (0.52%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Confluence
7 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (1.56%) 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 (1.04%) Line 50
2 2 (0.52%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 157 (40.78%) AWS
2 91 (23.64%) Azure
3 55 (14.29%) GCP
4 36 (9.35%) GitHub
5 26 (6.75%) Serverless
6 22 (5.71%) Anthropic Claude
7 17 (4.42%) GitHub Copilot
7 17 (4.42%) OpenShift
8 14 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (2.86%) Amazon S3
9 11 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (2.86%) dbt
9 11 (2.86%) SaaS
10 10 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (2.08%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.82%) Amazon EMR
13 6 (1.56%) Amazon Bedrock
13 6 (1.56%) Datadog
13 6 (1.56%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.86%) Firewall
2 9 (2.34%) AMQP
3 7 (1.82%) Internet
3 7 (1.82%) VoIP
4 6 (1.56%) DHCP
4 6 (1.56%) DNS
4 6 (1.56%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (1.56%) NX-OS
4 6 (1.56%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.30%) Network Security
5 5 (1.30%) SSL
6 3 (0.78%) CTI
7 2 (0.52%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.52%) LAN
7 2 (0.52%) MQTT
7 2 (0.52%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.52%) WAN
8 1 (0.26%) 5G
8 1 (0.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (7.27%) NoSQL
3 26 (6.75%) MySQL
4 24 (6.23%) Big Data
5 22 (5.71%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.60%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (2.34%) Metadata
8 7 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.82%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.82%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.56%) Cloudera CDH
9 6 (1.56%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.56%) Redis
10 4 (1.04%) FileMaker
10 4 (1.04%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.04%) Pinecone
11 3 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 25 (6.49%) Git
2 19 (4.94%) Claude Code
3 17 (4.42%) GitLab
4 12 (3.12%) JIRA
5 11 (2.86%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.08%) Subversion
7 7 (1.82%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.04%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.78%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.78%) Maven
9 3 (0.78%) Selenium
9 3 (0.78%) Snyk
10 2 (0.52%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.52%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.52%) MLflow
11 1 (0.26%) CMake
11 1 (0.26%) DBeaver
11 1 (0.26%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 93 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 62 (16.10%) Finance
3 58 (15.06%) Public Sector
4 57 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.49%) Law
7 17 (4.42%) Legal
8 16 (4.16%) Banking
8 16 (4.16%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.38%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.08%) Marketing
10 8 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.56%) Advertising
12 5 (1.30%) Games
12 5 (1.30%) Police
13 4 (1.04%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.04%) Front Office
14 3 (0.78%) Automotive
14 3 (0.78%) Multimedia
14 3 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 108 (28.05%) Software Engineer
2 94 (24.42%) Lead
3 68 (17.66%) Senior
4 51 (13.25%) Architect
5 41 (10.65%) Lead Software Engineer
6 38 (9.87%) Developer
7 29 (7.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 26 (6.75%) Cloud Architect
9 25 (6.49%) Principal Engineer
10 23 (5.97%) Senior Software Engineer
11 16 (4.16%) Principal Software Engineer
12 15 (3.90%) Data Engineer
13 14 (3.64%) Linux Engineer
13 14 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (3.38%) Consultant
15 12 (3.12%) Java Engineer
16 11 (2.86%) Senior Consultant
17 10 (2.60%) Embedded Engineer
17 10 (2.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 10 (2.60%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (12.73%) Terraform
2 45 (11.69%) Node.js
3 32 (8.31%) React
4 26 (6.75%) Kafka
5 21 (5.45%) HTML
5 21 (5.45%) REST
6 20 (5.19%) CSS
7 19 (4.94%) LangChain
8 16 (4.16%) Spring
9 15 (3.90%) RabbitMQ
9 15 (3.90%) RESTful
10 14 (3.64%) LlamaIndex
10 14 (3.64%) PyTorch
11 13 (3.38%) TensorFlow
12 12 (3.12%) Spring Boot
13 10 (2.60%) .NET
13 10 (2.60%) FastAPI
13 10 (2.60%) Model Context Protocol
13 10 (2.60%) scikit-learn
14 9 (2.34%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.06%) Cloud Native
2 37 (9.61%) Onboarding
3 35 (9.09%) Public Cloud
4 18 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.90%) AI Agents
5 15 (3.90%) Blog
6 14 (3.64%) Management Information System
7 12 (3.12%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.60%) Data Structures
8 10 (2.60%) Distributed Computing
9 9 (2.34%) Algorithms
9 9 (2.34%) Private Cloud
9 9 (2.34%) Social Media
10 8 (2.08%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.82%) PKI
11 7 (1.82%) Robotics
11 7 (1.82%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.56%) Autonomous Agent
13 5 (1.30%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 48 (12.47%) Linux
2 18 (4.68%) Windows
3 12 (3.12%) Debian
4 11 (2.86%) Embedded Linux
5 8 (2.08%) CentOS
5 8 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.08%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.56%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.56%) Unix
7 5 (1.30%) Android
8 4 (1.04%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.78%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (44.94%) Software Engineering
2 133 (34.55%) AI
3 128 (33.25%) Agile
4 93 (24.16%) CI/CD
5 86 (22.34%) DevOps
6 82 (21.30%) Mentoring
7 71 (18.44%) Microservices
8 65 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
9 64 (16.62%) LLM
10 60 (15.58%) Containerisation
11 59 (15.32%) Machine Learning
12 56 (14.55%) Infrastructure as Code
13 43 (11.17%) Computer Science
14 42 (10.91%) Roadmaps
15 40 (10.39%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
15 40 (10.39%) TDD
16 38 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 38 (9.87%) Technical Leadership
17 37 (9.61%) Cybersecurity
18 36 (9.35%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 126 (32.73%) Python
2 73 (18.96%) Java
3 63 (16.36%) JavaScript
4 35 (9.09%) SQL
4 35 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 32 (8.31%) C++
6 21 (5.45%) Bash
7 17 (4.42%) C
8 14 (3.64%) C#
8 14 (3.64%) Go
8 14 (3.64%) Scala
9 13 (3.38%) PHP
10 12 (3.12%) Rust
11 8 (2.08%) PowerShell
11 8 (2.08%) Ruby
12 7 (1.82%) Clojure
12 7 (1.82%) Erlang
13 4 (1.04%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.78%) Embedded C++
14 3 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 106 (27.53%) Security Cleared
2 70 (18.18%) Degree
3 59 (15.32%) SC Cleared
4 52 (13.51%) DV Cleared
5 19 (4.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (4.42%) PhD
7 16 (4.16%) Azure Certification
8 15 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (3.12%) AWS Certification
10 10 (2.60%) Master's Degree
11 9 (2.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 7 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (1.56%) CCNA
13 6 (1.56%) MCSE
13 6 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (1.30%) DBS Check
15 4 (1.04%) CISSP
16 3 (0.78%) CISM
16 3 (0.78%) GSEC
17 2 (0.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.19%) QA
2 17 (4.42%) Accessibility
3 15 (3.90%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.08%) NCSC
4 8 (2.08%) WCAG
5 6 (1.56%) SLA
6 4 (1.04%) ISO 14001
6 4 (1.04%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.52%) NIST
8 2 (0.52%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.26%) MiFID
9 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 39 (10.13%) Docker
2 13 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.56%) vSphere
5 5 (1.30%) Firmware
5 5 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.78%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.52%) KVM
8 1 (0.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.26%) IAG
8 1 (0.26%) QEMU
8 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 52 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.68%) Ansible
3 9 (2.34%) Puppet
4 8 (2.08%) Istio
5 6 (1.56%) FortiGate
5 6 (1.56%) Grafana
6 5 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.30%) Nagios
6 5 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.04%) Argo
7 4 (1.04%) Podman
8 3 (0.78%) Packer
9 2 (0.52%) linkerd
9 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.26%) Cilium
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 31 (8.05%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.01%) Google
3 19 (4.94%) OpenAI
4 17 (4.42%) Red Hat
5 14 (3.64%) Oracle
6 9 (2.34%) Splunk
6 9 (2.34%) VMware
7 8 (2.08%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.82%) Apple
8 7 (1.82%) Cisco
8 7 (1.82%) FIS
9 6 (1.56%) Adobe
9 6 (1.56%) Confluent
9 6 (1.56%) SaltStack
9 6 (1.56%) YouTube
10 5 (1.30%) New Relic
11 4 (1.04%) Databricks
11 4 (1.04%) OutSystems
11 4 (1.04%) Sage
12 3 (0.78%) Intel