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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 288 296
Rank change year-on-year -95 +8 -107
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 327 389 779
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 1.03% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.11% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 192 286 627
10th Percentile £41,366 £48,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,313 £59,043 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,151 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +19.23% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £117,250 £138,750 £112,500
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 59,557 34,998 71,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.07% 92.97% 85.63%
Number of salaries quoted 37,626 20,618 53,744
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,450 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,688 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -11.29%

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 April 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 April 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 -54 153 £92,500 -15.91% 63
North of England -42 65 £61,418 +0.35% 14
North West -13 45 £67,860 +4.40% 9
South East -67 30 £60,000 -2.04% 25
East of England -24 25 £30,370 -66.26% 15
South West -44 24 £55,000 -10.20% 9
Midlands -43 17 £51,058 -13.98% 8
Yorkshire -58 16 £52,130 +5.31% 3
East Midlands - 11 £53,029 - 1
West Midlands -28 6 £28,500 -51.98% 7
North East -43 4 £52,130 -24.87% 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 16 (4.89%) Appian
2 15 (4.59%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.75%) Apache
3 9 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.22%) Apache Solr
4 4 (1.22%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.92%) WordPress
6 2 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.61%) Confluence
7 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.31%) Camunda
7 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 34 (10.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.31%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Line 50
2 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.31%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.31%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 101 (30.89%) AWS
2 95 (29.05%) Azure
3 47 (14.37%) GCP
4 26 (7.95%) Anthropic Claude
4 26 (7.95%) Serverless
5 23 (7.03%) GitHub
6 18 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (4.89%) OpenShift
8 14 (4.28%) Power Automate
9 12 (3.67%) Amazon Alexa
9 12 (3.67%) Azure AI
9 12 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (2.45%) Amazon MSK
12 8 (2.45%) GitHub Copilot
12 8 (2.45%) SaaS
13 7 (2.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 7 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.95%) Broadband
2 13 (3.98%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.75%) VoIP
4 8 (2.45%) HTTP
5 7 (2.14%) Network Security
6 5 (1.53%) AMQP
6 5 (1.53%) DNS
6 5 (1.53%) RTP
6 5 (1.53%) SMTP
6 5 (1.53%) Software-Defined Radio
6 5 (1.53%) WAN
7 3 (0.92%) LAN
7 3 (0.92%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.92%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.61%) DHCP
8 2 (0.61%) GPON
8 2 (0.61%) IPv4
8 2 (0.61%) PPP
8 2 (0.61%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.95%) MongoDB
2 23 (7.03%) MySQL
3 21 (6.42%) NoSQL
4 20 (6.12%) Pinecone
4 20 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (4.89%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.14%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.83%) Big Data
8 6 (1.83%) Neo4j
9 5 (1.53%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.53%) Redis
10 4 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.22%) DocumentDB
10 4 (1.22%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.22%) FileMaker
10 4 (1.22%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.22%) QGIS
10 4 (1.22%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 31 (9.48%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.03%) TeamCity
3 15 (4.59%) Git
4 13 (3.98%) MLflow
5 9 (2.75%) Claude Code
6 7 (2.14%) JIRA
7 6 (1.83%) GitLab
7 6 (1.83%) Selenium
8 5 (1.53%) Burp Suite
8 5 (1.53%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.31%) Maven
General
1 58 (17.74%) Social Skills
2 56 (17.13%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (15.90%) Finance
4 27 (8.26%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.42%) German Language
6 15 (4.59%) Banking
7 14 (4.28%) Law
8 13 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (3.06%) Italian Language
9 10 (3.06%) Retail
10 8 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.45%) Tech for Good
11 6 (1.83%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.83%) Legal
12 5 (1.53%) Back Office
12 5 (1.53%) Marketing
13 4 (1.22%) French Language
14 3 (0.92%) Advertising
14 3 (0.92%) Portuguese Language
14 3 (0.92%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 97 (29.66%) Senior
2 79 (24.16%) Software Engineer
3 39 (11.93%) Developer
4 27 (8.26%) Senior Software Engineer
5 26 (7.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 23 (7.03%) Architect
7 21 (6.42%) Lead
8 18 (5.50%) Principal Engineer
9 17 (5.20%) Data Engineer
10 16 (4.89%) Java Engineer
11 15 (4.59%) Java Software Engineer
12 12 (3.67%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (3.67%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (3.67%) Scala Engineer
13 11 (3.36%) Development Engineer
13 11 (3.36%) Senior Developer
14 10 (3.06%) Java Developer
14 10 (3.06%) Software Architect
14 10 (3.06%) Software Developer
14 10 (3.06%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (11.31%) REST
2 29 (8.87%) RESTful
3 28 (8.56%) Node.js
4 26 (7.95%) React
5 24 (7.34%) PyTorch
6 23 (7.03%) Akka
6 23 (7.03%) Django
6 23 (7.03%) TensorFlow
7 20 (6.12%) FastAPI
7 20 (6.12%) Kafka
8 18 (5.50%) NumPy
8 18 (5.50%) scikit-learn
9 17 (5.20%) OAuth
9 17 (5.20%) OpenAPI
9 17 (5.20%) Pandas
9 17 (5.20%) Swagger
10 15 (4.59%) Flask
10 15 (4.59%) Hugging Face
10 15 (4.59%) pytest
10 15 (4.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 47 (14.37%) Cloud Native
2 38 (11.62%) Onboarding
3 24 (7.34%) Video\Live Streaming
4 23 (7.03%) Over-the-Top Content
5 16 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (4.28%) Low-Code
8 11 (3.36%) AI Agents
8 11 (3.36%) Security Posture
9 9 (2.75%) Blog
9 9 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.45%) Product Ownership
11 7 (2.14%) Algorithms
11 7 (2.14%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.53%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.53%) GNSS
12 5 (1.53%) Insider Threat
12 5 (1.53%) Mobile Payment
13 4 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 37 (11.31%) Linux
2 15 (4.59%) Windows
3 10 (3.06%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.75%) Unix
5 7 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.83%) CentOS
7 5 (1.53%) Android
7 5 (1.53%) Debian
8 4 (1.22%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.22%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.61%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.31%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.31%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.31%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (37.31%) AI
2 119 (36.39%) Software Engineering
3 91 (27.83%) Problem-Solving
4 86 (26.30%) Agile
5 81 (24.77%) CI/CD
6 80 (24.46%) DevOps
7 76 (23.24%) LLM
8 73 (22.32%) Generative AI
9 69 (21.10%) Machine Learning
10 62 (18.96%) Mentoring
10 62 (18.96%) Microservices
11 59 (18.04%) Analytics
12 54 (16.51%) TDD
13 53 (16.21%) Containerisation
14 51 (15.60%) Test Automation
15 41 (12.54%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (11.31%) Analytical Thinking
16 37 (11.31%) Scrum
17 34 (10.40%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
17 34 (10.40%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 113 (34.56%) Python
2 70 (21.41%) Java
3 50 (15.29%) SQL
4 31 (9.48%) Scala
5 30 (9.17%) JavaScript
6 20 (6.12%) Go
7 19 (5.81%) C++
8 18 (5.50%) TypeScript
9 14 (4.28%) C
10 9 (2.75%) PHP
11 6 (1.83%) C#
12 5 (1.53%) Bash
12 5 (1.53%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.22%) Rust
14 3 (0.92%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.92%) Ruby
15 2 (0.61%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.31%) F#
16 1 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 88 (26.91%) Degree
2 35 (10.70%) Security Cleared
3 27 (8.26%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (4.28%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.36%) PhD
7 9 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.45%) Chartered Engineer
8 8 (2.45%) Master's Degree
8 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 7 (2.14%) GIAC
9 7 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.83%) CISSP
10 6 (1.83%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (1.83%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.83%) OSCP
11 5 (1.53%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.53%) CREST Certified
11 5 (1.53%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.95%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.59%) QA
3 8 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 5 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.53%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.53%) SLA
5 4 (1.22%) ISO 14001
5 4 (1.22%) ISO 9001
5 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.92%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.61%) NIST
7 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.31%) GDPR
8 1 (0.31%) IFRS
8 1 (0.31%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.31%) Solvency II
System Software
1 77 (23.55%) Docker
2 11 (3.36%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.92%) Kamailio
3 3 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.61%) KVM
4 2 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.31%) Firmware
5 1 (0.31%) QEMU
5 1 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.31%) Xen
Systems Management
1 88 (26.91%) Kubernetes
2 37 (11.31%) Terraform
3 17 (5.20%) Ansible
4 8 (2.45%) Istio
5 7 (2.14%) Puppet
6 5 (1.53%) Argo
6 5 (1.53%) Nmap
7 4 (1.22%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.92%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.61%) Grafana
10 1 (0.31%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.31%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 61 (18.65%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.48%) OpenAI
3 19 (5.81%) Google
4 12 (3.67%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (3.67%) Databricks
4 12 (3.67%) UiPath
5 11 (3.36%) Oracle
6 10 (3.06%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.45%) Confluent
8 7 (2.14%) Cisco
9 5 (1.53%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.22%) Adobe
10 4 (1.22%) Apple
10 4 (1.22%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.22%) IBM
10 4 (1.22%) Palantir
10 4 (1.22%) PayPal
10 4 (1.22%) Sage
11 3 (0.92%) BT
11 3 (0.92%) VMware