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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 418 263
Rank change year-on-year +10 -155 -25
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 391 234 711
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.54% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.61% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 292 141 385
10th Percentile £46,094 £48,000 £40,500
25th Percentile £63,626 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,000 £73,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +12.33% +11.51% -6.48%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £109,900 £122,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.34% +7.41% -3.57%

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 76,043 38,474 55,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.46% 88.78% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 53,667 22,007 30,452
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,664
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.82% -4.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £78,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 27 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 27 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 -31 139 £85,000 - 713
North of England +6 92 £80,000 +35.59% 87
South West -31 61 £100,000 +37.93% 49
South East -43 50 £62,500 -3.85% 74
North West -4 43 £80,000 +17.65% 48
North East -32 36 £74,830 +42.53% 12
Midlands -42 23 £74,654 +2.97% 27
East of England -22 20 £100,000 +128.57% 92
West Midlands -37 15 £74,742 +3.09% 20
Yorkshire -27 13 £83,774 +69.24% 27
East Midlands -31 8 £39,194 -54.27% 7
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 19 (4.86%) Apache
2 13 (3.32%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.53%) JBoss
4 5 (1.28%) Camunda
4 5 (1.28%) nginx
5 4 (1.02%) WordPress
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
Applications
1 6 (1.53%) 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 (1.02%) Line 50
2 2 (0.51%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 158 (40.41%) AWS
2 89 (22.76%) Azure
3 55 (14.07%) GCP
4 35 (8.95%) GitHub
5 27 (6.91%) Serverless
6 20 (5.12%) Anthropic Claude
7 16 (4.09%) GitHub Copilot
8 15 (3.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.32%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (3.07%) SaaS
12 11 (2.81%) dbt
12 11 (2.81%) OpenShift
13 10 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (1.79%) Amazon EMR
14 7 (1.79%) Datadog
14 7 (1.79%) Power Platform
15 6 (1.53%) Google Gemini
16 5 (1.28%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.07%) Firewall
2 10 (2.56%) AMQP
3 7 (1.79%) Internet
3 7 (1.79%) TCP/IP
3 7 (1.79%) VoIP
4 6 (1.53%) DHCP
4 6 (1.53%) DNS
4 6 (1.53%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (1.53%) Network Security
4 6 (1.53%) NX-OS
5 5 (1.28%) SSL
6 3 (0.77%) CTI
7 2 (0.51%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.51%) MQTT
7 2 (0.51%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.26%) BGP
8 1 (0.26%) HTTP
8 1 (0.26%) VPN
8 1 (0.26%) WAN
8 1 (0.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (7.16%) NoSQL
3 25 (6.39%) Big Data
3 25 (6.39%) MySQL
4 22 (5.63%) MongoDB
5 11 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.56%) Metadata
6 10 (2.56%) SQL Server
7 7 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.79%) Cloudera CDH
7 7 (1.79%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.79%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.79%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.53%) Redis
9 4 (1.02%) FileMaker
9 4 (1.02%) Neo4j
9 4 (1.02%) Pinecone
9 4 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (6.39%) Git
2 20 (5.12%) GitLab
3 17 (4.35%) Claude Code
4 12 (3.07%) JIRA
5 10 (2.56%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.05%) Subversion
7 7 (1.79%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.02%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.02%) Snyk
9 3 (0.77%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.77%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.77%) Maven
10 2 (0.51%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.51%) JUnit
10 2 (0.51%) MLflow
10 2 (0.51%) Mockito
10 2 (0.51%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.26%) CMake
11 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.26%) Valgrind
General
1 101 (25.83%) Social Skills
2 65 (16.62%) Public Sector
3 63 (16.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 58 (14.83%) Finance
5 30 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (5.88%) Law
7 18 (4.60%) Legal
8 16 (4.09%) Manufacturing
9 14 (3.58%) Aerospace
10 10 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.30%) Banking
12 8 (2.05%) Marketing
13 6 (1.53%) Police
14 5 (1.28%) Advertising
14 5 (1.28%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.28%) Games
14 5 (1.28%) Retail
15 4 (1.02%) Automotive
16 3 (0.77%) Front Office
16 3 (0.77%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 108 (27.62%) Software Engineer
2 99 (25.32%) Lead
3 66 (16.88%) Senior
4 55 (14.07%) Architect
5 42 (10.74%) Lead Software Engineer
6 38 (9.72%) Developer
7 31 (7.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 28 (7.16%) Cloud Architect
9 23 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
10 20 (5.12%) Senior Software Engineer
11 17 (4.35%) Data Engineer
12 16 (4.09%) Principal Software Engineer
13 15 (3.84%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (3.58%) Java Engineer
15 13 (3.32%) Consultant
15 13 (3.32%) Linux Engineer
16 12 (3.07%) Senior Developer
17 11 (2.81%) Senior Consultant
18 10 (2.56%) Embedded Engineer
18 10 (2.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (11.51%) Terraform
2 41 (10.49%) Node.js
3 32 (8.18%) React
4 24 (6.14%) REST
5 23 (5.88%) LangChain
6 21 (5.37%) HTML
7 20 (5.12%) CSS
8 19 (4.86%) Kafka
8 19 (4.86%) Spring
9 18 (4.60%) LlamaIndex
10 16 (4.09%) RabbitMQ
10 16 (4.09%) RESTful
11 15 (3.84%) Spring Boot
12 13 (3.32%) PyTorch
13 12 (3.07%) TensorFlow
14 10 (2.56%) FastAPI
14 10 (2.56%) Model Context Protocol
14 10 (2.56%) OAuth
14 10 (2.56%) scikit-learn
15 9 (2.30%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 64 (16.37%) Cloud Native
2 43 (11.00%) Onboarding
3 36 (9.21%) Public Cloud
4 19 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (4.09%) Blog
5 16 (4.09%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.84%) AI Agents
7 12 (3.07%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
8 10 (2.56%) Private Cloud
8 10 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.30%) Algorithms
9 9 (2.30%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.30%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.30%) Social Media
10 8 (2.05%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.79%) PKI
11 7 (1.79%) Robotics
12 6 (1.53%) Autonomous Agent
13 5 (1.28%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.53%) Linux
2 19 (4.86%) Windows
3 13 (3.32%) Debian
4 11 (2.81%) Embedded Linux
5 9 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.30%) Ubuntu
6 8 (2.05%) CentOS
7 6 (1.53%) Android
7 6 (1.53%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.53%) Unix
8 4 (1.02%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.77%) Gentoo
10 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (43.73%) Software Engineering
2 135 (34.53%) AI
3 134 (34.27%) Agile
4 100 (25.58%) CI/CD
5 81 (20.72%) Mentoring
6 78 (19.95%) DevOps
7 70 (17.90%) LLM
8 69 (17.65%) Microservices
9 66 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
10 65 (16.62%) Infrastructure as Code
11 59 (15.09%) Containerisation
11 59 (15.09%) Machine Learning
12 47 (12.02%) Computer Science
13 46 (11.76%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
14 44 (11.25%) Stakeholder Management
14 44 (11.25%) Technical Leadership
15 40 (10.23%) Roadmaps
16 38 (9.72%) Coaching
16 38 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
16 38 (9.72%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 126 (32.23%) Python
2 80 (20.46%) Java
3 62 (15.86%) JavaScript
4 37 (9.46%) TypeScript
5 36 (9.21%) SQL
6 33 (8.44%) C++
7 21 (5.37%) Bash
8 17 (4.35%) C
9 14 (3.58%) Scala
10 13 (3.32%) C#
11 12 (3.07%) PHP
12 11 (2.81%) Rust
13 9 (2.30%) Go
13 9 (2.30%) PowerShell
14 7 (1.79%) Clojure
14 7 (1.79%) Erlang
14 7 (1.79%) Ruby
15 5 (1.28%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.77%) Embedded C++
16 3 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 113 (28.90%) Security Cleared
2 70 (17.90%) Degree
3 62 (15.86%) SC Cleared
4 54 (13.81%) DV Cleared
5 23 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (5.12%) Azure Certification
7 18 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (4.09%) AWS Certification
9 15 (3.84%) PhD
10 10 (2.56%) Master's Degree
11 9 (2.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 8 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (1.53%) CCNA
13 6 (1.53%) MCSE
13 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (1.28%) CISSP
14 5 (1.28%) DBS Check
15 4 (1.02%) CISM
16 3 (0.77%) GSEC
17 2 (0.51%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.60%) Accessibility
1 18 (4.60%) QA
2 15 (3.84%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.56%) NCSC
4 8 (2.05%) WCAG
5 6 (1.53%) SLA
6 4 (1.02%) ISO 14001
6 4 (1.02%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.77%) NIST
7 3 (0.77%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.26%) MiFID
8 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 38 (9.72%) Docker
2 8 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.53%) vSphere
5 5 (1.28%) Firmware
5 5 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.77%) Active Directory
7 2 (0.51%) KVM
7 2 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.26%) IAG
8 1 (0.26%) QEMU
8 1 (0.26%) Snort
8 1 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 50 (12.79%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.60%) Ansible
3 10 (2.56%) Puppet
4 8 (2.05%) Grafana
5 6 (1.53%) FortiGate
6 5 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.28%) Nagios
6 5 (1.28%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.02%) Argo
7 4 (1.02%) Podman
8 3 (0.77%) Packer
9 2 (0.51%) Cilium
9 2 (0.51%) Istio
9 2 (0.51%) linkerd
9 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 29 (7.42%) Google
1 29 (7.42%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.60%) OpenAI
3 17 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 13 (3.32%) Oracle
5 11 (2.81%) Splunk
6 9 (2.30%) VMware
6 9 (2.30%) YouTube
7 8 (2.05%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.79%) Apple
8 7 (1.79%) FIS
8 7 (1.79%) SaltStack
9 6 (1.53%) Adobe
9 6 (1.53%) Cisco
10 5 (1.28%) New Relic
11 4 (1.02%) OutSystems
11 4 (1.02%) Sage
12 3 (0.77%) Databricks
12 3 (0.77%) Intel
12 3 (0.77%) Thales