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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 247 272
Rank change year-on-year -125 +25 -80
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 257 614 506
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 1.19% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.33% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 139 350 397
10th Percentile £30,370 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,906 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% +6.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £85,850 £93,438 £88,750
90th Percentile £120,500 £116,250 £115,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £67,634
% change year-on-year +6.48% +2.48% -3.38%

All Process and 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 42,973 46,002 40,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.43% 89.38% 93.53%
Number of salaries quoted 25,566 23,576 31,202
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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 -10 126 £85,000 -10.53% 64
East of England +42 35 £30,370 -58.11% 44
North of England -73 34 £71,000 +16.00% 54
South East -63 29 £62,000 +6.90% 82
North West -25 22 £71,000 +9.23% 25
Midlands -6 14 £60,000 -8.02% 47
South West -32 13 £77,500 -3.13% 36
East Midlands +3 8 £51,058 -7.17% 22
Yorkshire -40 8 £49,000 -1.01% 24
West Midlands -5 6 £65,000 -0.71% 21
North East -5 4 £63,151 -3.53% 5
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 (6.23%) Apache Spark
2 13 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.50%) Appian
4 7 (2.72%) Anypoint
5 4 (1.56%) Apache
6 3 (1.17%) Kinematics
6 3 (1.17%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.78%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.78%) Confluence
8 1 (0.39%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.39%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 51 (19.84%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Maya
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.50%) SAP FS
2 6 (2.33%) Shopify
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 79 (30.74%) AWS
2 62 (24.12%) Azure
3 38 (14.79%) GCP
4 21 (8.17%) Serverless
5 16 (6.23%) Amazon Alexa
5 16 (6.23%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (6.23%) GitHub
5 16 (6.23%) PaaS
6 12 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (4.28%) Power Automate
8 10 (3.89%) IaaS
8 10 (3.89%) Prefect
9 9 (3.50%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (3.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 9 (3.50%) Figma
10 8 (3.11%) Amazon S3
10 8 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.72%) Boomi
11 7 (2.72%) iPaaS
11 7 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.45%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.11%) Broadband
3 7 (2.72%) HTTP
4 6 (2.33%) DNS
5 5 (1.95%) DHCP
6 4 (1.56%) SMTP
7 3 (1.17%) DOCSIS
7 3 (1.17%) DSL
7 3 (1.17%) GPON
7 3 (1.17%) IPv4
7 3 (1.17%) IPv6
7 3 (1.17%) PPP
7 3 (1.17%) RTP
7 3 (1.17%) VoIP
7 3 (1.17%) WAN
7 3 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.78%) AMQP
8 2 (0.78%) Firewall
8 2 (0.78%) Internet
8 2 (0.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.84%) NoSQL
2 12 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (4.67%) MySQL
3 11 (4.28%) MongoDB
3 11 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (3.89%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (3.89%) Pinecone
5 8 (3.11%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.11%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.72%) Redis
7 6 (2.33%) Weaviate
8 5 (1.95%) Big Data
8 5 (1.95%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.95%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.17%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.78%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.78%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (8.17%) Git
2 14 (5.45%) JIRA
3 10 (3.89%) Cypress.io
3 10 (3.89%) MLflow
4 8 (3.11%) GitLab
4 8 (3.11%) Selenium
5 7 (2.72%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.95%) Vite
7 4 (1.56%) Burp Suite
7 4 (1.56%) Metasploit
8 3 (1.17%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.17%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.17%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.17%) Mocha
8 3 (1.17%) webpack
9 2 (0.78%) Gatling
9 2 (0.78%) Ranorex
9 2 (0.78%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.78%) Tricentis qTest
9 2 (0.78%) WebDriver
General
1 73 (28.40%) Analytical Skills
2 51 (19.84%) Social Skills
3 32 (12.45%) German Language
4 23 (8.95%) Law
5 19 (7.39%) Finance
6 15 (5.84%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (4.28%) French Language
8 11 (4.28%) Games
9 10 (3.89%) Dutch Language
9 10 (3.89%) Legal
9 10 (3.89%) Retail
10 9 (3.50%) Italian Language
11 8 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (2.72%) Banking
13 5 (1.95%) Marketing
14 3 (1.17%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.17%) Back Office
14 3 (1.17%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.17%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 89 (34.63%) Senior
2 37 (14.40%) Architect
3 35 (13.62%) Software Engineer
4 33 (12.84%) Lead
5 25 (9.73%) Cloud Engineer
6 21 (8.17%) Software Architect
7 17 (6.61%) Developer
7 17 (6.61%) Senior Software Engineer
8 14 (5.45%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 14 (5.45%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 14 (5.45%) Data Engineer
9 13 (5.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 11 (4.28%) Development Engineer
11 10 (3.89%) IT Architect
11 10 (3.89%) Lead Architect
12 9 (3.50%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.50%) Python Engineer
13 8 (3.11%) Java Engineer
13 8 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
14 7 (2.72%) Senior Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.34%) React
2 20 (7.78%) Middleware
2 20 (7.78%) PyTorch
2 20 (7.78%) REST
3 19 (7.39%) Django
3 19 (7.39%) TensorFlow
4 18 (7.00%) Node.js
5 16 (6.23%) scikit-learn
6 15 (5.84%) Spring
6 15 (5.84%) Spring Boot
7 14 (5.45%) Web Services
8 12 (4.67%) Hugging Face
8 12 (4.67%) RESTful
9 9 (3.50%) FastAPI
9 9 (3.50%) GraphQL
9 9 (3.50%) Kafka
9 9 (3.50%) NumPy
9 9 (3.50%) Pandas
10 8 (3.11%) Faiss
11 7 (2.72%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 44 (17.12%) Cloud Native
2 41 (15.95%) Onboarding
3 32 (12.45%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (5.45%) Legacy Code
5 13 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (4.28%) Low-Code
7 10 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (3.50%) Security Posture
9 8 (3.11%) Algorithms
9 8 (3.11%) Blog
10 7 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.72%) Private Cloud
11 6 (2.33%) Data Structures
11 6 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.95%) Hackathon
12 5 (1.95%) Robotics
12 5 (1.95%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.56%) GNSS
13 4 (1.56%) Insider Threat
13 4 (1.56%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 50 (19.46%) Linux
2 19 (7.39%) Unix
3 10 (3.89%) Windows
4 4 (1.56%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.17%) OpenWrt
5 3 (1.17%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.78%) CentOS
6 2 (0.78%) Debian
6 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.39%) Android
7 1 (0.39%) Solaris
7 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (38.13%) AI
2 89 (34.63%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (30.35%) DevOps
4 75 (29.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 74 (28.79%) LLM
6 71 (27.63%) Agile
7 67 (26.07%) CI/CD
8 64 (24.90%) Generative AI
9 57 (22.18%) Software Engineering
10 55 (21.40%) Analytical Thinking
11 50 (19.46%) Machine Learning
12 46 (17.90%) Computer Science
13 42 (16.34%) Containerisation
14 40 (15.56%) Mentoring
14 40 (15.56%) SDLC
15 33 (12.84%) Design Patterns
16 31 (12.06%) Clean Code
16 31 (12.06%) Microservices
17 30 (11.67%) Test Automation
18 28 (10.89%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 78 (30.35%) Python
2 65 (25.29%) Java
3 33 (12.84%) SQL
4 28 (10.89%) C++
5 26 (10.12%) C
5 26 (10.12%) JavaScript
6 20 (7.78%) Go
7 16 (6.23%) Rust
7 16 (6.23%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.50%) Bash
9 8 (3.11%) Kotlin
9 8 (3.11%) Scala
10 6 (2.33%) R
11 5 (1.95%) C#
11 5 (1.95%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.56%) Fortran
13 3 (1.17%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.17%) Swift
14 2 (0.78%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.39%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 123 (47.86%) Degree
2 40 (15.56%) Security Cleared
3 32 (12.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 30 (11.67%) SC Cleared
5 22 (8.56%) Master's Degree
6 19 (7.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (7.00%) Chartered Engineer
8 14 (5.45%) DV Cleared
9 9 (3.50%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.72%) GIAC
10 7 (2.72%) PhD
11 6 (2.33%) CISSP
12 5 (1.95%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.95%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.95%) OSCP
13 4 (1.56%) CREST Certified
13 4 (1.56%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.95%) Data Quality
2 18 (7.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 14 (5.45%) Accessibility
3 14 (5.45%) QA
4 9 (3.50%) GDPR
4 9 (3.50%) IFRS
4 9 (3.50%) IFRS 17
4 9 (3.50%) Solvency II
5 7 (2.72%) SLA
6 5 (1.95%) NIST
7 4 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.17%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.17%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.78%) NCSC
10 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 56 (21.79%) Docker
2 16 (6.23%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (5.45%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (1.17%) KVM
4 3 (1.17%) QEMU
5 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 71 (27.63%) Kubernetes
2 29 (11.28%) Terraform
3 16 (6.23%) Ansible
4 6 (2.33%) AWS Copilot
5 5 (1.95%) Nmap
6 4 (1.56%) Grafana
6 4 (1.56%) Kubeflow
6 4 (1.56%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.17%) Functional Safety
8 2 (0.78%) Puppet
9 1 (0.39%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (0.39%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.39%) Nagios
9 1 (0.39%) WMI
9 1 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 59 (22.96%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.39%) SAP
3 15 (5.84%) OpenAI
4 14 (5.45%) Oracle
5 13 (5.06%) Google
6 9 (3.50%) Duck Creek
6 9 (3.50%) Guidewire
6 9 (3.50%) IBM
6 9 (3.50%) Informatica
6 9 (3.50%) Talend
7 8 (3.11%) Databricks
8 7 (2.72%) Dell
8 7 (2.72%) Epicor
8 7 (2.72%) IFS
8 7 (2.72%) Infor
8 7 (2.72%) Jitterbit
8 7 (2.72%) MuleSoft
8 7 (2.72%) SnapLogic
8 7 (2.72%) Software AG
8 7 (2.72%) Workday