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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 332 281
Rank change year-on-year -71 -51 -93
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 300 333 848
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.87% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.93% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 200 247 653
10th Percentile £46,939 £50,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,338 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +23.08% -13.33%
75th Percentile £98,750 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £127,500 £138,750 £112,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +15.38% -13.33%

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 61,053 35,757 72,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.82% 93.39% 84.23%
Number of salaries quoted 40,449 19,146 54,102
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -47 134 £92,500 -15.91% 103
North of England -6 72 £75,000 +11.01% 14
North West +22 46 £75,000 +5.72% 11
South East -65 29 £60,000 -4.00% 31
South West -45 24 £57,500 -4.17% 20
Yorkshire -41 20 £74,653 +52.35% 3
Midlands -31 16 £53,029 -21.58% 5
East of England -9 14 £80,000 -20.99% 12
East Midlands - 9 £55,000 - 4
West Midlands -34 7 £28,500 -57.86% 1
North East -41 6 £67,952 -0.38%
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 12 (4.00%) Appian
2 11 (3.67%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.33%) Apache
4 5 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.33%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.33%) GeoServer
5 4 (1.33%) WordPress
6 2 (0.67%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.67%) Confluence
7 1 (0.33%) Camunda
7 1 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.33%) InDesign
2 1 (0.33%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.33%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.33%) Line 50
2 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.33%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 106 (35.33%) AWS
2 96 (32.00%) Azure
3 44 (14.67%) GCP
4 30 (10.00%) Anthropic Claude
5 28 (9.33%) GitHub
6 24 (8.00%) Serverless
7 16 (5.33%) OpenShift
8 14 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (4.33%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (3.33%) Azure AI
10 10 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (3.33%) Power Automate
11 9 (3.00%) SaaS
12 8 (2.67%) Amazon MSK
13 7 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 7 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (2.33%) PaaS
14 6 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (2.00%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.67%) Broadband
2 9 (3.00%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.67%) Network Security
3 8 (2.67%) VoIP
4 6 (2.00%) HTTP
4 6 (2.00%) Software-Defined Radio
5 5 (1.67%) AMQP
6 3 (1.00%) DNS
6 3 (1.00%) LAN
6 3 (1.00%) RTP
6 3 (1.00%) SMTP
6 3 (1.00%) Unified Communications
6 3 (1.00%) WAN
6 3 (1.00%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.33%) Firewall
7 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.33%) VLAN
7 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.67%) MongoDB
2 32 (10.67%) MySQL
3 31 (10.33%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (9.67%) NoSQL
5 16 (5.33%) Pinecone
6 13 (4.33%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.00%) Big Data
8 6 (2.00%) Hadoop
8 6 (2.00%) Neo4j
8 6 (2.00%) Redis
9 5 (1.67%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.33%) DocumentDB
10 4 (1.33%) FileMaker
10 4 (1.33%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.33%) GIS
10 4 (1.33%) QGIS
11 3 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 30 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 22 (7.33%) TeamCity
3 15 (5.00%) Claude Code
4 14 (4.67%) Git
5 10 (3.33%) MLflow
6 6 (2.00%) Selenium
7 5 (1.67%) Burp Suite
7 5 (1.67%) JIRA
8 4 (1.33%) GitLab
8 4 (1.33%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.67%) Maven
10 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.33%) DBeaver
10 1 (0.33%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.33%) IDA Disassembler
10 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.33%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 56 (18.67%) Social Skills
2 49 (16.33%) Finance
3 36 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 31 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.67%) Banking
5 14 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (4.33%) Law
7 9 (3.00%) Retail
8 8 (2.67%) German Language
8 8 (2.67%) Legal
8 8 (2.67%) Tech for Good
9 6 (2.00%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.00%) Back Office
9 6 (2.00%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.00%) Marketing
10 5 (1.67%) Italian Language
11 4 (1.33%) Advertising
11 4 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.33%) French Language
12 3 (1.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 92 (30.67%) Software Engineer
2 74 (24.67%) Senior
3 43 (14.33%) Lead
4 40 (13.33%) Developer
5 27 (9.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 25 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
7 18 (6.00%) Lead Software Engineer
7 18 (6.00%) Principal Engineer
8 14 (4.67%) Architect
8 14 (4.67%) Java Engineer
9 12 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
9 12 (4.00%) Scala Engineer
10 11 (3.67%) Data Engineer
10 11 (3.67%) Java Developer
10 11 (3.67%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (3.33%) Python Developer
11 10 (3.33%) Software Developer
12 9 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (2.67%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (12.67%) Node.js
2 36 (12.00%) RESTful
3 32 (10.67%) REST
4 23 (7.67%) React
5 22 (7.33%) Akka
6 20 (6.67%) Kafka
7 19 (6.33%) Django
8 18 (6.00%) PyTorch
9 17 (5.67%) TensorFlow
10 16 (5.33%) FastAPI
10 16 (5.33%) NumPy
11 15 (5.00%) OAuth
11 15 (5.00%) OpenAPI
11 15 (5.00%) Pandas
11 15 (5.00%) Spring
11 15 (5.00%) Swagger
12 14 (4.67%) pytest
12 14 (4.67%) scikit-learn
12 14 (4.67%) Spring Boot
13 13 (4.33%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 42 (14.00%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.67%) Video\Live Streaming
3 22 (7.33%) Over-the-Top Content
4 18 (6.00%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (4.33%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (3.67%) Security Posture
7 10 (3.33%) Low-Code
8 9 (3.00%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.67%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.67%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.33%) Management Information System
10 7 (2.33%) Public Cloud
11 6 (2.00%) Blog
12 5 (1.67%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.67%) FPGA
12 5 (1.67%) Mobile Payment
12 5 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.33%) Linux
2 11 (3.67%) Windows
3 10 (3.33%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.33%) Unix
5 6 (2.00%) CentOS
5 6 (2.00%) Debian
6 5 (1.67%) Android
7 4 (1.33%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.33%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.33%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.33%) OpenBSD
8 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (46.67%) Software Engineering
2 93 (31.00%) AI
3 85 (28.33%) Agile
4 71 (23.67%) CI/CD
5 69 (23.00%) DevOps
6 68 (22.67%) Microservices
7 67 (22.33%) Mentoring
8 66 (22.00%) TDD
9 59 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (18.33%) Machine Learning
11 52 (17.33%) LLM
12 50 (16.67%) Analytics
13 48 (16.00%) Generative AI
14 45 (15.00%) Test Automation
15 43 (14.33%) Containerisation
16 39 (13.00%) Coaching
17 36 (12.00%) Roadmaps
18 35 (11.67%) Scrum
19 33 (11.00%) Kanban
19 33 (11.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 106 (35.33%) Python
2 76 (25.33%) Java
3 55 (18.33%) SQL
4 36 (12.00%) JavaScript
5 32 (10.67%) Scala
6 18 (6.00%) C++
7 16 (5.33%) Go
7 16 (5.33%) TypeScript
8 14 (4.67%) C
9 11 (3.67%) PHP
10 6 (2.00%) Rust
11 5 (1.67%) Bash
11 5 (1.67%) C#
12 4 (1.33%) Clojure
12 4 (1.33%) Erlang
12 4 (1.33%) MATLAB
13 3 (1.00%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.00%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.00%) Ruby
14 1 (0.33%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 55 (18.33%) Degree
2 32 (10.67%) Security Cleared
3 23 (7.67%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.00%) PhD
6 9 (3.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 8 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.33%) DBS Check
9 6 (2.00%) CISSP
9 6 (2.00%) GIAC
9 6 (2.00%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.33%) CEH
11 4 (1.33%) CISMP
11 4 (1.33%) CREST Certified
11 4 (1.33%) GPEN
11 4 (1.33%) MCSE
11 4 (1.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.00%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.67%) QA
3 5 (1.67%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.33%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (1.33%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.33%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.00%) SLA
6 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.67%) NIST
6 2 (0.67%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.33%) IFRS
7 1 (0.33%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 66 (22.00%) Docker
2 9 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.00%) Kamailio
3 3 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.67%) Firmware
4 2 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.67%) KVM
5 1 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.33%) QEMU
5 1 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 76 (25.33%) Kubernetes
2 35 (11.67%) Terraform
3 12 (4.00%) Ansible
4 8 (2.67%) Istio
5 7 (2.33%) Puppet
6 5 (1.67%) Argo
7 4 (1.33%) Nmap
8 3 (1.00%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.33%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.33%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 37 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.00%) OpenAI
3 20 (6.67%) Google
4 10 (3.33%) Automation Anywhere
4 10 (3.33%) UiPath
5 9 (3.00%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.67%) Confluent
7 7 (2.33%) Databricks
7 7 (2.33%) Oracle
8 5 (1.67%) Adobe
8 5 (1.67%) Cisco
8 5 (1.67%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.33%) Apple
9 4 (1.33%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.33%) PayPal
9 4 (1.33%) Sage
10 3 (1.00%) BT
10 3 (1.00%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.00%) Splunk
10 3 (1.00%) VMware