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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 420 261
Rank change year-on-year +6 -159 -27
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 361 247 762
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.56% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.63% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 270 147 508
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £58,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £65,732
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +14.10% -6.10%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £84,964
90th Percentile £123,750 £127,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,000 £69,308
% change year-on-year +9.59% +5.33% -0.99%

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 69,952 39,107 58,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.57% 89.26% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 49,460 22,554 38,208
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £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 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £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 18 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 18 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 -5 152 £91,250 -2.67% 461
North of England -4 72 £80,000 +44.80% 51
South West -17 57 £98,000 +56.80% 31
South East -32 44 £63,750 -12.07% 37
North West +14 37 £80,000 +18.30% 25
North East -44 21 £74,830 +42.53% 16
Midlands -27 18 £74,742 +3.09% 24
East of England -26 14 £100,000 +11.11% 60
Yorkshire -27 14 £83,774 +70.97% 10
West Midlands -22 13 £74,830 +3.21% 21
East Midlands -19 5 £39,194 -54.27% 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 18 (4.99%) Apache
2 11 (3.05%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.66%) JBoss
4 5 (1.39%) nginx
4 5 (1.39%) WordPress
5 4 (1.11%) Camunda
6 3 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.83%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.83%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.55%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.28%) CMS
8 1 (0.28%) Confluence
8 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.28%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (0.28%) InDesign
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.28%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.28%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.11%) Line 50
2 1 (0.28%) Magento
2 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 153 (42.38%) AWS
2 89 (24.65%) Azure
3 50 (13.85%) GCP
4 36 (9.97%) GitHub
5 27 (7.48%) Serverless
6 23 (6.37%) Anthropic Claude
7 19 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
8 18 (4.99%) OpenShift
9 15 (4.16%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (3.05%) Amazon S3
11 11 (3.05%) dbt
11 11 (3.05%) SaaS
12 10 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.77%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (2.22%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (2.22%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.94%) Amazon EMR
15 6 (1.66%) Amazon Bedrock
15 6 (1.66%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.22%) AMQP
2 6 (1.66%) Network Security
2 6 (1.66%) VoIP
3 5 (1.39%) Firewall
3 5 (1.39%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (1.39%) SSL
3 5 (1.39%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.11%) Software-Defined Radio
5 3 (0.83%) Internet
6 2 (0.55%) Asterisk PBX
6 2 (0.55%) LAN
6 2 (0.55%) MQTT
6 2 (0.55%) WAN
7 1 (0.28%) DHCP
7 1 (0.28%) DNS
7 1 (0.28%) HTTP
7 1 (0.28%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.31%) NoSQL
1 30 (8.31%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (7.76%) MySQL
3 23 (6.37%) MongoDB
4 22 (6.09%) Big Data
5 11 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.77%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.49%) Metadata
8 7 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.94%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.94%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.94%) Redis
9 5 (1.39%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.39%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.39%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.11%) FileMaker
10 4 (1.11%) Pinecone
11 3 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.83%) GIS
Development Applications
1 24 (6.65%) Git
2 21 (5.82%) Claude Code
3 13 (3.60%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.49%) GitLab
5 8 (2.22%) Subversion
6 7 (1.94%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.94%) Selenium
7 6 (1.66%) JIRA
8 4 (1.11%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.83%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.83%) Maven
10 2 (0.55%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.55%) Snyk
11 1 (0.28%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.28%) Codeship
11 1 (0.28%) DBeaver
11 1 (0.28%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.28%) IDA Disassembler
11 1 (0.28%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 79 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 62 (17.17%) Finance
3 49 (13.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 48 (13.30%) Public Sector
5 30 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (5.54%) Law
7 19 (5.26%) Banking
8 16 (4.43%) Manufacturing
9 15 (4.16%) Legal
10 10 (2.77%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.22%) Marketing
12 7 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.66%) Advertising
14 5 (1.39%) Back Office
14 5 (1.39%) Front Office
14 5 (1.39%) Tech for Good
15 4 (1.11%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.55%) Games
16 2 (0.55%) Retail
16 2 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 104 (28.81%) Software Engineer
2 80 (22.16%) Lead
3 71 (19.67%) Senior
4 49 (13.57%) Architect
5 36 (9.97%) Lead Software Engineer
6 33 (9.14%) Developer
7 27 (7.48%) Principal Engineer
8 26 (7.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 26 (7.20%) Cloud Architect
9 25 (6.93%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (4.71%) Data Engineer
11 15 (4.16%) Principal Software Engineer
12 14 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (3.60%) Consultant
14 11 (3.05%) Senior Consultant
15 9 (2.49%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (2.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 9 (2.49%) Java Engineer
15 9 (2.49%) Linux Engineer
16 8 (2.22%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (11.91%) Node.js
2 33 (9.14%) Kafka
3 29 (8.03%) React
4 23 (6.37%) REST
5 17 (4.71%) RESTful
5 17 (4.71%) Spring
6 16 (4.43%) HTML
6 16 (4.43%) RabbitMQ
7 15 (4.16%) CSS
8 14 (3.88%) .NET
8 14 (3.88%) LangChain
9 12 (3.32%) PyTorch
9 12 (3.32%) Spring Boot
10 11 (3.05%) TensorFlow
11 9 (2.49%) LlamaIndex
11 9 (2.49%) Model Context Protocol
11 9 (2.49%) NumPy
11 9 (2.49%) Pandas
12 8 (2.22%) FastAPI
12 8 (2.22%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 58 (16.07%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.31%) Onboarding
2 30 (8.31%) Public Cloud
3 20 (5.54%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (3.88%) AI Agents
5 13 (3.60%) Blog
6 12 (3.32%) Distributed Computing
7 10 (2.77%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.49%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.49%) Management Information System
9 8 (2.22%) Private Cloud
9 8 (2.22%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.94%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.94%) Robotics
10 7 (1.94%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.94%) Social Media
11 5 (1.39%) Autonomous Agent
11 5 (1.39%) Hackathon
11 5 (1.39%) Mobile Payment
11 5 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (11.08%) Linux
2 13 (3.60%) Windows
3 11 (3.05%) Debian
4 7 (1.94%) CentOS
4 7 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.94%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.66%) Unix
6 4 (1.11%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (1.11%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.83%) Android
7 3 (0.83%) Gentoo
8 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (46.26%) Software Engineering
2 117 (32.41%) AI
3 116 (32.13%) Agile
4 86 (23.82%) CI/CD
5 82 (22.71%) DevOps
6 78 (21.61%) Microservices
7 71 (19.67%) Mentoring
8 59 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (15.51%) Containerisation
10 52 (14.40%) LLM
10 52 (14.40%) Machine Learning
11 45 (12.47%) Infrastructure as Code
12 42 (11.63%) Roadmaps
13 39 (10.80%) TDD
14 38 (10.53%) Analytics
15 36 (9.97%) Test Automation
16 35 (9.70%) Computer Science
17 33 (9.14%) Cybersecurity
18 32 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
18 32 (8.86%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 119 (32.96%) Python
2 70 (19.39%) Java
3 54 (14.96%) JavaScript
4 36 (9.97%) SQL
5 29 (8.03%) C++
6 24 (6.65%) TypeScript
7 20 (5.54%) Bash
8 18 (4.99%) C
9 17 (4.71%) Go
10 14 (3.88%) C#
10 14 (3.88%) PHP
11 13 (3.60%) Scala
12 12 (3.32%) Rust
13 7 (1.94%) Clojure
13 7 (1.94%) Erlang
13 7 (1.94%) Ruby
14 4 (1.11%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.83%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.83%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 99 (27.42%) Security Cleared
2 59 (16.34%) Degree
3 54 (14.96%) SC Cleared
4 50 (13.85%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (4.16%) PhD
6 14 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (3.05%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 8 (2.22%) AWS Certification
9 8 (2.22%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.11%) CISSP
10 4 (1.11%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.83%) CISM
11 3 (0.83%) GSEC
12 2 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.55%) GIAC
12 2 (0.55%) OSCP
13 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.28%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.82%) QA
2 14 (3.88%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.32%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.39%) NCSC
5 4 (1.11%) ISO 14001
5 4 (1.11%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.83%) WCAG
7 2 (0.55%) NIST
7 2 (0.55%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.28%) MiFID
8 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.28%) SLA
8 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 44 (12.19%) Docker
2 10 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.39%) Firmware
3 5 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.83%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.83%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.55%) KVM
7 1 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.28%) IAG
7 1 (0.28%) QEMU
7 1 (0.28%) vSphere
7 1 (0.28%) Xen
Systems Management
1 55 (15.24%) Kubernetes
2 47 (13.02%) Terraform
3 17 (4.71%) Ansible
4 10 (2.77%) Istio
5 8 (2.22%) Puppet
6 6 (1.66%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (1.39%) Grafana
7 5 (1.39%) Nagios
7 5 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.11%) Argo
8 4 (1.11%) Podman
9 3 (0.83%) Packer
10 2 (0.55%) linkerd
10 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.28%) Cilium
11 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 24 (6.65%) Google
1 24 (6.65%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.26%) OpenAI
3 14 (3.88%) Red Hat
4 12 (3.32%) Oracle
5 8 (2.22%) Atlassian
5 8 (2.22%) Confluent
5 8 (2.22%) Splunk
6 6 (1.66%) Adobe
7 5 (1.39%) Databricks
7 5 (1.39%) New Relic
7 5 (1.39%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.11%) Apple
8 4 (1.11%) Sage
8 4 (1.11%) VMware
9 2 (0.55%) Cisco
9 2 (0.55%) IBM
9 2 (0.55%) Intel
9 2 (0.55%) OutSystems
9 2 (0.55%) TIBCO