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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 407 254
Rank change year-on-year -21 -153 -14
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 349 264 787
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.61% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.68% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 271 166 534
10th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,685 £61,563 £48,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% +15.38% -8.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £104,375 £84,964
90th Percentile £123,750 £137,500 £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 68,438 39,016 59,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.74% 89.57% 81.29%
Number of salaries quoted 48,346 22,579 39,414
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £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 6 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 6 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 -36 143 £92,500 -2.63% 341
North of England -2 76 £80,000 +28.00% 35
South West -17 52 £94,000 +50.40% 30
South East -47 44 £63,750 -12.07% 34
North West +14 40 £80,000 +15.30% 17
Yorkshire -17 18 £81,887 +67.12% 13
North East -41 18 £74,830 +42.53% 5
Midlands -33 15 £74,742 +3.09% 15
West Midlands -26 13 £74,830 +3.21% 12
East of England -24 12 £117,750 +30.83% 43
East Midlands - 2 £39,194 - 3
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 (4.87%) Apache
2 10 (2.87%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.72%) JBoss
4 5 (1.43%) nginx
4 5 (1.43%) WordPress
5 4 (1.15%) Camunda
6 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.86%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.86%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.57%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.29%) CMS
8 1 (0.29%) Confluence
8 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (0.29%) InDesign
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.29%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.29%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.15%) Line 50
2 1 (0.29%) Magento
2 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 157 (44.99%) AWS
2 99 (28.37%) Azure
3 46 (13.18%) GCP
4 34 (9.74%) GitHub
5 26 (7.45%) Serverless
6 23 (6.59%) Anthropic Claude
7 19 (5.44%) GitHub Copilot
8 17 (4.87%) OpenShift
9 15 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.01%) dbt
11 13 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (3.72%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (3.15%) Amazon S3
12 11 (3.15%) SaaS
13 9 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.29%) Amazon MSK
14 8 (2.29%) Power Platform
15 7 (2.01%) Amazon EMR
15 7 (2.01%) PaaS
16 6 (1.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.01%) AMQP
2 6 (1.72%) Network Security
2 6 (1.72%) SSL
2 6 (1.72%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.72%) VoIP
3 4 (1.15%) Firewall
3 4 (1.15%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (0.57%) Asterisk PBX
4 2 (0.57%) DNS
4 2 (0.57%) HTTP
4 2 (0.57%) LAN
4 2 (0.57%) MQTT
4 2 (0.57%) WAN
5 1 (0.29%) DHCP
5 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.29%) Internet
5 1 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.29%) SMTP
5 1 (0.29%) VLAN
5 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (12.32%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (11.46%) NoSQL
3 38 (10.89%) MySQL
4 32 (9.17%) MongoDB
5 18 (5.16%) Big Data
6 10 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.87%) Redis
6 10 (2.87%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.58%) Metadata
8 7 (2.01%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.01%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.01%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.43%) Neo4j
11 4 (1.15%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (1.15%) FileMaker
11 4 (1.15%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.15%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 22 (6.30%) Git
2 21 (6.02%) Claude Code
3 12 (3.44%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.29%) GitLab
5 7 (2.01%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.01%) Selenium
6 6 (1.72%) JIRA
7 5 (1.43%) Subversion
8 4 (1.15%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.86%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.86%) Maven
10 2 (0.57%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.57%) Snyk
11 1 (0.29%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.29%) Codeship
11 1 (0.29%) DBeaver
11 1 (0.29%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.29%) IDA Disassembler
11 1 (0.29%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 76 (21.78%) Social Skills
2 54 (15.47%) Finance
3 47 (13.47%) Public Sector
4 42 (12.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (5.73%) Banking
7 16 (4.58%) Manufacturing
8 15 (4.30%) Law
9 9 (2.58%) Legal
10 8 (2.29%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.29%) Tech for Good
11 6 (1.72%) Advertising
12 5 (1.43%) Back Office
12 5 (1.43%) Front Office
12 5 (1.43%) Marketing
13 3 (0.86%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.57%) Games
14 2 (0.57%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 103 (29.51%) Software Engineer
2 70 (20.06%) Lead
3 67 (19.20%) Senior
4 48 (13.75%) Architect
5 37 (10.60%) Developer
6 34 (9.74%) Lead Software Engineer
7 27 (7.74%) Principal Engineer
8 23 (6.59%) Cloud Architect
9 22 (6.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 21 (6.02%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (5.16%) Java Engineer
12 16 (4.58%) Data Engineer
13 14 (4.01%) Principal Software Engineer
13 14 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (3.72%) Consultant
15 10 (2.87%) Java Software Engineer
15 10 (2.87%) Senior Consultant
16 9 (2.58%) AWS Engineer
16 9 (2.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 8 (2.29%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (11.46%) Node.js
2 31 (8.88%) Kafka
3 28 (8.02%) React
4 27 (7.74%) RESTful
5 22 (6.30%) REST
6 17 (4.87%) Spring
7 14 (4.01%) HTML
7 14 (4.01%) RabbitMQ
8 13 (3.72%) CSS
8 13 (3.72%) Spring Boot
9 12 (3.44%) .NET
9 12 (3.44%) LangChain
10 9 (2.58%) Model Context Protocol
10 9 (2.58%) PyTorch
11 8 (2.29%) FastAPI
11 8 (2.29%) TensorFlow
12 7 (2.01%) LlamaIndex
12 7 (2.01%) OAuth
13 6 (1.72%) CSS3
13 6 (1.72%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 57 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.16%) Onboarding
2 25 (7.16%) Public Cloud
3 20 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.44%) AI Agents
4 12 (3.44%) Distributed Computing
5 10 (2.87%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.58%) Algorithms
6 9 (2.58%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.29%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.01%) Blog
8 7 (2.01%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.01%) Robotics
8 7 (2.01%) Social Media
9 6 (1.72%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.43%) Hackathon
10 5 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.43%) Mobile Payment
10 5 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 38 (10.89%) Linux
2 13 (3.72%) Windows
3 10 (2.87%) Debian
4 9 (2.58%) Unix
5 6 (1.72%) CentOS
5 6 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.72%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.15%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.86%) Android
7 3 (0.86%) Gentoo
8 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.29%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.29%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (48.71%) Software Engineering
2 116 (33.24%) Agile
3 105 (30.09%) AI
4 88 (25.21%) Microservices
5 86 (24.64%) CI/CD
6 82 (23.50%) DevOps
7 79 (22.64%) Mentoring
8 55 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
9 49 (14.04%) Containerisation
9 49 (14.04%) TDD
10 47 (13.47%) Test Automation
11 46 (13.18%) Roadmaps
12 45 (12.89%) LLM
13 44 (12.61%) Machine Learning
14 41 (11.75%) Infrastructure as Code
15 35 (10.03%) Cybersecurity
16 34 (9.74%) Analytics
16 34 (9.74%) Coaching
17 32 (9.17%) Migration
18 31 (8.88%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 114 (32.66%) Python
2 84 (24.07%) Java
3 50 (14.33%) JavaScript
4 43 (12.32%) SQL
5 28 (8.02%) C++
6 20 (5.73%) TypeScript
7 16 (4.58%) Bash
7 16 (4.58%) C
7 16 (4.58%) Go
8 14 (4.01%) PHP
9 12 (3.44%) Rust
10 11 (3.15%) C#
10 11 (3.15%) Scala
11 8 (2.29%) Ruby
12 7 (2.01%) Clojure
12 7 (2.01%) Erlang
13 4 (1.15%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.86%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.86%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 90 (25.79%) Security Cleared
2 52 (14.90%) SC Cleared
3 51 (14.61%) Degree
4 41 (11.75%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.44%) PhD
7 9 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 8 (2.29%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.29%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.43%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.15%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.57%) CISSP
11 2 (0.57%) GIAC
12 1 (0.29%) CISM
12 1 (0.29%) GSEC
12 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.29%) RHCE
12 1 (0.29%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.73%) QA
2 14 (4.01%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.29%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.15%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.15%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.86%) NCSC
6 2 (0.57%) NIST
6 2 (0.57%) SLA
6 2 (0.57%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.29%) MiFID
7 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (12.61%) Docker
2 10 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.15%) Firmware
5 3 (0.86%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.86%) KVM
5 3 (0.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.57%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.29%) IAG
7 1 (0.29%) QEMU
7 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.29%) vSphere
7 1 (0.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 48 (13.75%) Kubernetes
2 45 (12.89%) Terraform
3 17 (4.87%) Ansible
4 8 (2.29%) Istio
5 7 (2.01%) Puppet
6 5 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.43%) Nagios
6 5 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.15%) Podman
8 3 (0.86%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (0.86%) Packer
8 3 (0.86%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.57%) Argo
9 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.29%) Grafana
10 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.29%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 24 (6.88%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.59%) Google
3 19 (5.44%) OpenAI
4 12 (3.44%) Red Hat
5 11 (3.15%) Oracle
6 8 (2.29%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.29%) Confluent
7 7 (2.01%) Splunk
8 6 (1.72%) Adobe
9 5 (1.43%) New Relic
9 5 (1.43%) VMware
10 4 (1.15%) Apple
10 4 (1.15%) Databricks
10 4 (1.15%) Sage
10 4 (1.15%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.57%) Cisco
11 2 (0.57%) IBM
11 2 (0.57%) TIBCO
12 1 (0.29%) Juniper
12 1 (0.29%) Salesforce