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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 381 256
Rank change year-on-year -43 -125 -30
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 320 293 896
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.67% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.75% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 252 195 625
10th Percentile £46,939 £48,100 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,625 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +15.38% -10.34%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £124,875 £137,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £76,998 £73,080 £65,465
% change year-on-year +5.36% +11.63% -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 65,358 39,172 69,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.80% 90.11% 82.24%
Number of salaries quoted 46,314 22,479 48,683
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 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.79%

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 20 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 20 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 -43 133 £92,500 -11.90% 200
North of England +10 76 £74,830 +15.12% 20
North West +13 46 £75,000 +10.90% 11
South East -35 43 £62,500 -13.79% 28
South West -32 38 £90,000 +50.00% 18
Yorkshire -15 18 £80,000 +63.27% 5
Midlands -25 14 £74,742 +3.09% 5
West Midlands -16 13 £74,830 +3.21% 3
North East -40 12 £74,742 +42.37% 4
East of England -19 8 £135,500 +33.83% 14
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 (3.44%) Apache
1 11 (3.44%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.56%) 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 (43.75%) AWS
2 88 (27.50%) Azure
3 40 (12.50%) GCP
4 37 (11.56%) GitHub
5 27 (8.44%) Serverless
6 24 (7.50%) Anthropic Claude
7 18 (5.63%) GitHub Copilot
8 15 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (4.69%) Cloud Computing
8 15 (4.69%) OpenShift
9 14 (4.38%) dbt
9 14 (4.38%) SaaS
10 13 (4.06%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (3.44%) Amazon S3
12 9 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (2.50%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (2.50%) PaaS
14 7 (2.19%) Amazon EMR
14 7 (2.19%) Power Platform
15 6 (1.88%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.50%) VoIP
2 7 (2.19%) AMQP
2 7 (2.19%) Network Security
3 5 (1.56%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (1.56%) 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%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.31%) Internet
7 1 (0.31%) SMTP
7 1 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (13.44%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (12.50%) MySQL
3 36 (11.25%) NoSQL
4 33 (10.31%) MongoDB
5 15 (4.69%) Big Data
6 12 (3.75%) SQL Server
7 11 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (3.44%) Redis
8 8 (2.50%) Metadata
9 7 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.19%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.19%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.88%) Pinecone
11 5 (1.56%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.56%) Neo4j
12 4 (1.25%) FileMaker
12 4 (1.25%) GIS
Development Applications
1 20 (6.25%) Claude Code
2 17 (5.31%) Git
3 11 (3.44%) 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%) CMake
7 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.31%) DBeaver
7 1 (0.31%) Eclipse RCP
7 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.31%) Valgrind
7 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 72 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 52 (16.25%) Finance
3 39 (12.19%) Public Sector
4 33 (10.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (6.25%) Banking
7 15 (4.69%) Manufacturing
8 14 (4.38%) Law
9 9 (2.81%) Legal
10 8 (2.50%) Tech for Good
11 6 (1.88%) Advertising
11 6 (1.88%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.88%) Back Office
12 5 (1.56%) Front Office
12 5 (1.56%) Marketing
13 3 (0.94%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.63%) Electronics
14 2 (0.63%) French Language
14 2 (0.63%) Italian Language
14 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 95 (29.69%) Software Engineer
2 64 (20.00%) Senior
3 60 (18.75%) Lead
4 44 (13.75%) Architect
5 36 (11.25%) Developer
6 30 (9.38%) Lead Software Engineer
7 22 (6.88%) Principal Engineer
8 20 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 20 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
9 19 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (4.38%) Java Engineer
10 14 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (3.44%) Consultant
11 11 (3.44%) Data Engineer
11 11 (3.44%) Principal Software Engineer
12 10 (3.13%) Java Software Engineer
13 9 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (2.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 9 (2.81%) Python Developer
14 8 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (11.88%) Node.js
2 31 (9.69%) RESTful
3 30 (9.38%) Kafka
4 25 (7.81%) REST
5 24 (7.50%) React
6 16 (5.00%) Spring
7 14 (4.38%) Spring Boot
8 12 (3.75%) .NET
8 12 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (3.44%) FastAPI
10 10 (3.13%) Flask
10 10 (3.13%) HTML
11 9 (2.81%) CSS
11 9 (2.81%) Django
11 9 (2.81%) LangChain
11 9 (2.81%) TensorFlow
12 8 (2.50%) Model Context Protocol
12 8 (2.50%) NumPy
12 8 (2.50%) Pandas
12 8 (2.50%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 53 (16.56%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.88%) Onboarding
3 20 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 15 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.44%) Distributed Computing
6 10 (3.13%) AI Agents
6 10 (3.13%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.50%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.50%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.19%) Robotics
9 6 (1.88%) Blog
9 6 (1.88%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.88%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.56%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.56%) Mobile Payment
11 4 (1.25%) Autonomous Agent
11 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.25%) FPGA
11 4 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 33 (10.31%) Linux
2 12 (3.75%) Windows
3 10 (3.13%) Debian
4 8 (2.50%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.19%) Unix
6 5 (1.56%) Android
6 5 (1.56%) CentOS
7 4 (1.25%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.25%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.94%) Gentoo
9 1 (0.31%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.31%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (50.63%) Software Engineering
2 99 (30.94%) Agile
3 92 (28.75%) AI
4 85 (26.56%) CI/CD
4 85 (26.56%) Microservices
5 78 (24.38%) DevOps
6 77 (24.06%) Mentoring
7 52 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (15.94%) TDD
9 47 (14.69%) Roadmaps
9 47 (14.69%) Test Automation
10 45 (14.06%) Containerisation
11 39 (12.19%) Machine Learning
12 38 (11.88%) LLM
13 35 (10.94%) Coaching
14 33 (10.31%) Infrastructure as Code
15 32 (10.00%) Analytics
16 31 (9.69%) Cybersecurity
16 31 (9.69%) Migration
17 29 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 105 (32.81%) Python
2 83 (25.94%) Java
3 49 (15.31%) SQL
4 45 (14.06%) JavaScript
5 25 (7.81%) C++
6 20 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 16 (5.00%) C
7 16 (5.00%) Go
8 15 (4.69%) PHP
9 12 (3.75%) Bash
9 12 (3.75%) Scala
10 10 (3.13%) Rust
11 8 (2.50%) Ruby
12 7 (2.19%) C#
12 7 (2.19%) Clojure
12 7 (2.19%) Erlang
13 4 (1.25%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.25%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.94%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.31%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 80 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 48 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 47 (14.69%) Degree
4 34 (10.63%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.75%) PhD
6 11 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 7 (2.19%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.88%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.25%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.63%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.63%) CISSP
12 1 (0.31%) CISM
12 1 (0.31%) GIAC
12 1 (0.31%) GSEC
12 1 (0.31%) HNC
12 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.31%) RHCE
12 1 (0.31%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.63%) QA
2 16 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.56%) 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 40 (12.50%) Docker
2 10 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.56%) 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
6 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.31%) QEMU
6 1 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.31%) vSphere
6 1 (0.31%) Xen
Systems Management
1 46 (14.38%) Kubernetes
2 42 (13.13%) Terraform
3 15 (4.69%) Ansible
4 8 (2.50%) 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 26 (8.13%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.19%) Google
3 18 (5.63%) OpenAI
4 9 (2.81%) Oracle
5 8 (2.50%) Confluent
6 6 (1.88%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.56%) Adobe
7 5 (1.56%) 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%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.63%) Automation Anywhere
10 2 (0.63%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.63%) Splunk
10 2 (0.63%) UiPath