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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 411 270
Rank change year-on-year -7 -141 -36
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 389 239 694
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.55% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.62% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 289 136 395
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £73,159 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +12.77% +11.75% -6.48%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £127,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +9.59% +10.61% -5.71%

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 73,131 38,549 56,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.32% 88.64% 81.20%
Number of salaries quoted 52,091 22,224 32,866
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
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 10 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 10 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 -30 147 £92,500 +2.78% 345
North of England +3 90 £80,000 +44.80% 31
South West -30 59 £100,000 +60.00% 25
South East -29 44 £62,500 -13.79% 42
North West +10 43 £80,000 +25.49% 14
North East -34 30 £74,830 +42.53% 6
Midlands -34 23 £74,654 +2.97% 7
East of England -16 21 £100,000 +21.21% 30
Yorkshire -36 17 £83,774 +69.24% 11
West Midlands -25 15 £74,742 +3.09% 6
East Midlands -17 8 £39,194 -54.27% 1
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 (4.37%) Apache
2 12 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.54%) JBoss
4 5 (1.29%) nginx
4 5 (1.29%) WordPress
5 4 (1.03%) Camunda
6 2 (0.51%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.51%) 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 5 (1.29%) 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 (1.03%) Line 50
2 2 (0.51%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 161 (41.39%) AWS
2 94 (24.16%) Azure
3 57 (14.65%) GCP
4 37 (9.51%) GitHub
5 25 (6.43%) Serverless
6 22 (5.66%) Anthropic Claude
7 18 (4.63%) GitHub Copilot
8 17 (4.37%) OpenShift
9 15 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.83%) Amazon S3
11 11 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (2.83%) dbt
12 10 (2.57%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (2.57%) SaaS
13 8 (2.06%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.80%) Amazon EMR
15 6 (1.54%) Amazon Bedrock
15 6 (1.54%) Datadog
15 6 (1.54%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.57%) Firewall
2 9 (2.31%) AMQP
3 6 (1.54%) Internet
3 6 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
3 6 (1.54%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.54%) VoIP
4 5 (1.29%) DHCP
4 5 (1.29%) DNS
4 5 (1.29%) Network Security
4 5 (1.29%) NX-OS
4 5 (1.29%) SSL
5 2 (0.51%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (0.51%) CTI
5 2 (0.51%) LAN
5 2 (0.51%) MQTT
5 2 (0.51%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (0.51%) WAN
6 1 (0.26%) 5G
6 1 (0.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.71%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (7.46%) NoSQL
3 27 (6.94%) MySQL
4 24 (6.17%) Big Data
5 23 (5.91%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.57%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (2.31%) Metadata
8 7 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.80%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.80%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.54%) Cloudera CDH
9 6 (1.54%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.54%) Redis
10 4 (1.03%) FileMaker
10 4 (1.03%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.03%) Pinecone
11 3 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 24 (6.17%) Git
2 20 (5.14%) Claude Code
3 16 (4.11%) GitLab
4 11 (2.83%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.83%) JIRA
5 8 (2.06%) Subversion
6 7 (1.80%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.03%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.77%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.77%) Maven
8 3 (0.77%) Selenium
8 3 (0.77%) Snyk
9 2 (0.51%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.51%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.51%) MLflow
10 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.26%) CMake
10 1 (0.26%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 94 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 63 (16.20%) Finance
3 61 (15.68%) Public Sector
4 56 (14.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.43%) Law
7 17 (4.37%) Banking
7 17 (4.37%) Legal
8 16 (4.11%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.34%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.06%) Marketing
10 8 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.54%) Advertising
12 5 (1.29%) Front Office
12 5 (1.29%) Games
12 5 (1.29%) Police
13 4 (1.03%) Back Office
13 4 (1.03%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.77%) Automotive
14 3 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 108 (27.76%) Software Engineer
2 93 (23.91%) Lead
3 72 (18.51%) Senior
4 51 (13.11%) Architect
5 41 (10.54%) Developer
5 41 (10.54%) Lead Software Engineer
6 29 (7.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 27 (6.94%) Principal Engineer
8 26 (6.68%) Cloud Architect
9 24 (6.17%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (4.11%) Principal Software Engineer
11 15 (3.86%) Data Engineer
12 14 (3.60%) Linux Engineer
12 14 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (3.34%) Consultant
14 12 (3.08%) Java Engineer
15 11 (2.83%) Senior Consultant
15 11 (2.83%) Senior Developer
16 10 (2.57%) Embedded Engineer
17 9 (2.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (12.60%) Terraform
2 46 (11.83%) Node.js
3 31 (7.97%) React
4 28 (7.20%) Kafka
5 22 (5.66%) REST
6 21 (5.40%) HTML
7 20 (5.14%) CSS
8 18 (4.63%) LangChain
8 18 (4.63%) Spring
9 16 (4.11%) RabbitMQ
9 16 (4.11%) RESTful
10 14 (3.60%) PyTorch
11 13 (3.34%) LlamaIndex
11 13 (3.34%) Spring Boot
11 13 (3.34%) TensorFlow
12 11 (2.83%) .NET
13 10 (2.57%) FastAPI
13 10 (2.57%) Model Context Protocol
13 10 (2.57%) scikit-learn
14 9 (2.31%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 59 (15.17%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.25%) Onboarding
3 35 (9.00%) Public Cloud
4 19 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.86%) AI Agents
6 14 (3.60%) Blog
7 13 (3.34%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.83%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.57%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.57%) Distributed Computing
10 9 (2.31%) Algorithms
10 9 (2.31%) Private Cloud
10 9 (2.31%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.31%) Social Media
11 8 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.80%) Robotics
12 7 (1.80%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.54%) Autonomous Agent
13 6 (1.54%) PKI
14 5 (1.29%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.60%) Linux
2 17 (4.37%) Windows
3 12 (3.08%) Debian
4 11 (2.83%) Embedded Linux
5 8 (2.06%) CentOS
5 8 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.06%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.54%) Android
6 6 (1.54%) Unix
7 5 (1.29%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.03%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.77%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (45.24%) Software Engineering
2 133 (34.19%) AI
3 131 (33.68%) Agile
4 94 (24.16%) CI/CD
5 85 (21.85%) DevOps
6 84 (21.59%) Mentoring
7 75 (19.28%) Microservices
8 66 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
9 62 (15.94%) LLM
10 61 (15.68%) Containerisation
11 59 (15.17%) Machine Learning
12 56 (14.40%) Infrastructure as Code
13 44 (11.31%) Roadmaps
14 43 (11.05%) TDD
15 41 (10.54%) Computer Science
16 40 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
17 39 (10.03%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
18 38 (9.77%) Analytics
19 37 (9.51%) Coaching
19 37 (9.51%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 123 (31.62%) Python
2 74 (19.02%) Java
3 62 (15.94%) JavaScript
4 36 (9.25%) SQL
5 32 (8.23%) TypeScript
6 31 (7.97%) C++
7 21 (5.40%) Bash
8 17 (4.37%) C
9 15 (3.86%) Go
10 14 (3.60%) C#
10 14 (3.60%) Scala
11 13 (3.34%) PHP
12 12 (3.08%) Rust
13 7 (1.80%) Clojure
13 7 (1.80%) Erlang
13 7 (1.80%) PowerShell
13 7 (1.80%) Ruby
14 4 (1.03%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.77%) Embedded C++
15 3 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 107 (27.51%) Security Cleared
2 68 (17.48%) Degree
3 60 (15.42%) SC Cleared
4 53 (13.62%) DV Cleared
5 18 (4.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (4.11%) PhD
7 15 (3.86%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.83%) AWS Certification
9 10 (2.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 9 (2.31%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.29%) CCNA
12 5 (1.29%) DBS Check
12 5 (1.29%) MCSE
12 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.03%) CISSP
14 3 (0.77%) CISM
14 3 (0.77%) GSEC
15 2 (0.51%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.14%) QA
2 19 (4.88%) Accessibility
3 15 (3.86%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.06%) WCAG
5 7 (1.80%) NCSC
6 5 (1.29%) SLA
7 4 (1.03%) ISO 14001
7 4 (1.03%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.51%) NIST
9 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.26%) MiFID
10 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (10.54%) Docker
2 12 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.29%) Firmware
4 5 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.29%) vSphere
5 3 (0.77%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.77%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.51%) 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 55 (14.14%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.63%) Ansible
3 9 (2.31%) Puppet
4 8 (2.06%) Istio
5 6 (1.54%) Grafana
5 6 (1.54%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.29%) FortiGate
6 5 (1.29%) Nagios
6 5 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.03%) Argo
7 4 (1.03%) Podman
8 3 (0.77%) Packer
9 2 (0.51%) linkerd
9 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.26%) Cilium
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 29 (7.46%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.68%) Google
3 19 (4.88%) OpenAI
4 16 (4.11%) Red Hat
5 13 (3.34%) Oracle
6 9 (2.31%) Splunk
7 8 (2.06%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.06%) VMware
8 7 (1.80%) Apple
9 6 (1.54%) Adobe
9 6 (1.54%) Cisco
9 6 (1.54%) Confluent
9 6 (1.54%) FIS
9 6 (1.54%) SaltStack
9 6 (1.54%) YouTube
10 5 (1.29%) New Relic
11 4 (1.03%) Databricks
11 4 (1.03%) Sage
12 3 (0.77%) Intel
12 3 (0.77%) OutSystems