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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 418 262
Rank change year-on-year +7 -156 -35
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 367 246 764
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.56% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.63% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 273 146 507
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,813 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +13.64% -5.71%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £122,500 £127,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,000 £69,308
% change year-on-year +9.59% +5.33% -0.99%

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 69,923 39,061 58,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.56% 89.26% 81.17%
Number of salaries quoted 49,411 22,522 38,211
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £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 £76,250 £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% - -8.71%

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 19 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 19 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 -7 153 £91,250 - 216
North of England -3 73 £80,000 +44.80% 29
South West -13 58 £98,000 +45.19% 22
South East -37 44 £63,750 -12.07% 25
North West +4 38 £80,000 +18.30% 11
North East -40 21 £74,830 +42.53% 10
Midlands -30 20 £74,654 +2.97% 18
Yorkshire -21 14 £83,774 +70.97% 8
East of England -23 14 £100,000 +11.11% 32
West Midlands -25 13 £74,830 +3.21% 16
East Midlands -13 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 (4.63%) Apache
2 10 (2.72%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.63%) JBoss
4 5 (1.36%) nginx
4 5 (1.36%) WordPress
5 4 (1.09%) Camunda
6 3 (0.82%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.82%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.54%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.27%) CMS
8 1 (0.27%) Confluence
8 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (0.27%) InDesign
2 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.27%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.09%) Line 50
2 1 (0.27%) Magento
2 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 155 (42.23%) AWS
2 91 (24.80%) Azure
3 50 (13.62%) GCP
4 36 (9.81%) GitHub
5 27 (7.36%) Serverless
6 23 (6.27%) Anthropic Claude
7 19 (5.18%) GitHub Copilot
8 18 (4.90%) OpenShift
9 15 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (3.00%) Amazon S3
11 11 (3.00%) dbt
11 11 (3.00%) SaaS
12 10 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (2.18%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (2.18%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.91%) Amazon EMR
15 6 (1.63%) Amazon Bedrock
15 6 (1.63%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.18%) AMQP
1 8 (2.18%) Firewall
2 6 (1.63%) Intrusion Detection
2 6 (1.63%) Network Security
2 6 (1.63%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.63%) VoIP
3 5 (1.36%) SSL
4 4 (1.09%) Internet
4 4 (1.09%) Software-Defined Radio
5 3 (0.82%) DHCP
5 3 (0.82%) DNS
5 3 (0.82%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.54%) Asterisk PBX
6 2 (0.54%) LAN
6 2 (0.54%) MQTT
6 2 (0.54%) WAN
7 1 (0.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.17%) NoSQL
1 30 (8.17%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (7.63%) MySQL
3 23 (6.27%) MongoDB
4 22 (5.99%) Big Data
5 10 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (2.72%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.45%) Metadata
7 7 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.91%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.91%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.91%) Redis
8 5 (1.36%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (1.36%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.36%) Neo4j
9 4 (1.09%) FileMaker
9 4 (1.09%) Pinecone
10 3 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.82%) GIS
Development Applications
1 24 (6.54%) Git
2 21 (5.72%) Claude Code
3 13 (3.54%) GitLab
3 13 (3.54%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.18%) JIRA
4 8 (2.18%) Subversion
5 7 (1.91%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.91%) Selenium
6 4 (1.09%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.82%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.82%) Maven
8 2 (0.54%) Eclipse RCP
8 2 (0.54%) Snyk
9 1 (0.27%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.27%) Codeship
9 1 (0.27%) DBeaver
9 1 (0.27%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.27%) IDA Disassembler
9 1 (0.27%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 82 (22.34%) Social Skills
2 63 (17.17%) Finance
3 51 (13.90%) Public Sector
4 49 (13.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (6.27%) Law
7 19 (5.18%) Banking
8 16 (4.36%) Legal
8 16 (4.36%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.72%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.18%) Marketing
11 7 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.63%) Advertising
13 5 (1.36%) Back Office
13 5 (1.36%) Front Office
13 5 (1.36%) Tech for Good
14 4 (1.09%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.82%) Police
15 3 (0.82%) Retail
16 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 105 (28.61%) Software Engineer
2 83 (22.62%) Lead
3 72 (19.62%) Senior
4 49 (13.35%) Architect
5 37 (10.08%) Lead Software Engineer
6 33 (8.99%) Developer
7 28 (7.63%) Principal Engineer
8 26 (7.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 26 (7.08%) Cloud Architect
9 25 (6.81%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (4.36%) Data Engineer
10 16 (4.36%) Principal Software Engineer
11 14 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.54%) Consultant
13 11 (3.00%) Senior Consultant
14 10 (2.72%) Java Engineer
14 10 (2.72%) Linux Engineer
15 9 (2.45%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (2.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 8 (2.18%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (11.72%) Node.js
2 32 (8.72%) Kafka
3 31 (8.45%) React
4 23 (6.27%) REST
5 17 (4.63%) RESTful
5 17 (4.63%) Spring
6 16 (4.36%) HTML
6 16 (4.36%) RabbitMQ
7 15 (4.09%) CSS
8 14 (3.81%) .NET
8 14 (3.81%) LangChain
9 12 (3.27%) PyTorch
9 12 (3.27%) Spring Boot
10 11 (3.00%) TensorFlow
11 9 (2.45%) LlamaIndex
11 9 (2.45%) Model Context Protocol
12 8 (2.18%) FastAPI
12 8 (2.18%) NumPy
12 8 (2.18%) Pandas
12 8 (2.18%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.80%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.45%) Public Cloud
3 30 (8.17%) Onboarding
4 20 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (3.81%) AI Agents
6 13 (3.54%) Blog
7 12 (3.27%) Management Information System
8 11 (3.00%) Distributed Computing
9 10 (2.72%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.45%) Algorithms
10 9 (2.45%) Data Centre
10 9 (2.45%) Private Cloud
11 8 (2.18%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.91%) Robotics
12 7 (1.91%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.91%) Social Media
13 5 (1.36%) Autonomous Agent
13 5 (1.36%) Hackathon
13 5 (1.36%) Mobile Payment
13 5 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (11.17%) Linux
2 15 (4.09%) Windows
3 11 (3.00%) Debian
4 7 (1.91%) CentOS
4 7 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.91%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.63%) Unix
6 4 (1.09%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (1.09%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.82%) Android
7 3 (0.82%) Gentoo
8 2 (0.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (46.32%) Software Engineering
2 119 (32.43%) Agile
3 117 (31.88%) AI
4 89 (24.25%) CI/CD
5 84 (22.89%) DevOps
6 78 (21.25%) Microservices
7 73 (19.89%) Mentoring
8 59 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (15.53%) Containerisation
10 52 (14.17%) LLM
10 52 (14.17%) Machine Learning
11 47 (12.81%) Infrastructure as Code
12 41 (11.17%) Roadmaps
13 39 (10.63%) TDD
14 37 (10.08%) Analytics
15 36 (9.81%) Computer Science
15 36 (9.81%) Test Automation
16 33 (8.99%) Cybersecurity
17 32 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
17 32 (8.72%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 121 (32.97%) Python
2 72 (19.62%) Java
3 56 (15.26%) JavaScript
4 35 (9.54%) SQL
5 29 (7.90%) C++
6 26 (7.08%) TypeScript
7 21 (5.72%) Bash
8 19 (5.18%) C
9 17 (4.63%) Go
10 14 (3.81%) C#
10 14 (3.81%) PHP
11 13 (3.54%) Scala
12 12 (3.27%) Rust
13 7 (1.91%) Clojure
13 7 (1.91%) Erlang
13 7 (1.91%) Ruby
14 5 (1.36%) PowerShell
15 4 (1.09%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.82%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 103 (28.07%) Security Cleared
2 62 (16.89%) Degree
3 55 (14.99%) SC Cleared
4 51 (13.90%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (4.09%) PhD
6 14 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (3.00%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 8 (2.18%) AWS Certification
9 8 (2.18%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.09%) CISSP
10 4 (1.09%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.82%) CCNA
11 3 (0.82%) CISM
11 3 (0.82%) GSEC
11 3 (0.82%) MCSE
11 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.54%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.72%) QA
2 13 (3.54%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.27%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.36%) NCSC
5 4 (1.09%) ISO 14001
5 4 (1.09%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.82%) SLA
6 3 (0.82%) WCAG
7 2 (0.54%) NIST
7 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.27%) MiFID
8 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 44 (11.99%) Docker
2 12 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.36%) Firmware
4 5 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.82%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 3 (0.82%) vSphere
6 2 (0.54%) KVM
7 1 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.27%) IAG
7 1 (0.27%) QEMU
7 1 (0.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 55 (14.99%) Kubernetes
2 49 (13.35%) Terraform
3 17 (4.63%) Ansible
4 10 (2.72%) Istio
5 8 (2.18%) Puppet
6 6 (1.63%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (1.36%) Grafana
7 5 (1.36%) Nagios
7 5 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.09%) Argo
8 4 (1.09%) Podman
9 3 (0.82%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.82%) Packer
10 2 (0.54%) linkerd
10 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.27%) Cilium
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 26 (7.08%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.54%) Google
3 19 (5.18%) OpenAI
4 14 (3.81%) Red Hat
5 12 (3.27%) Oracle
6 8 (2.18%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.18%) Confluent
6 8 (2.18%) Splunk
7 6 (1.63%) Adobe
7 6 (1.63%) VMware
8 5 (1.36%) Databricks
8 5 (1.36%) New Relic
8 5 (1.36%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.09%) Apple
9 4 (1.09%) Cisco
9 4 (1.09%) Sage
10 3 (0.82%) Intel
11 2 (0.54%) FIS
11 2 (0.54%) IBM
11 2 (0.54%) TIBCO