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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 409 263
Rank change year-on-year +13 -146 -35
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 378 247 737
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.57% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.64% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 287 142 449
10th Percentile £51,400 £47,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £73,000 £69,308
Median % change year-on-year +13.01% +5.33% -0.99%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £127,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £69,308
% change year-on-year +10.34% +4.61% -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 71,345 38,684 57,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.38% 88.66% 81.23%
Number of salaries quoted 50,773 22,445 35,770
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,125 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £76,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,075
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.92% -6.54%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -19 153 £92,500 +4.23% 858
North of England -4 83 £80,000 +52.38% 57
South West -24 57 £100,000 +60.00% 47
South East -47 42 £63,750 -7.27% 67
North West +3 38 £80,000 +25.49% 34
North East -32 29 £74,830 +42.53% 7
Midlands -30 22 £74,654 +2.97% 26
East of England -16 16 £100,000 +11.11% 87
Yorkshire -40 16 £81,887 +67.12% 17
West Midlands -22 15 £74,742 +3.09% 21
East Midlands -22 7 £39,194 -54.27% 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 17 (4.50%) Apache
2 10 (2.65%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.59%) JBoss
4 5 (1.32%) nginx
4 5 (1.32%) WordPress
5 4 (1.06%) Camunda
6 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.53%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.53%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Confluence
7 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (0.26%) InDesign
2 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.26%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Line 50
2 1 (0.26%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 162 (42.86%) AWS
2 95 (25.13%) Azure
3 57 (15.08%) GCP
4 38 (10.05%) GitHub
5 24 (6.35%) Serverless
6 23 (6.08%) Anthropic Claude
7 19 (5.03%) GitHub Copilot
8 18 (4.76%) OpenShift
9 16 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.91%) Amazon S3
11 11 (2.91%) dbt
12 10 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (2.65%) SaaS
13 8 (2.12%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (2.12%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.85%) Amazon EMR
15 6 (1.59%) Amazon Bedrock
15 6 (1.59%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.38%) Firewall
2 8 (2.12%) AMQP
3 6 (1.59%) Intrusion Detection
3 6 (1.59%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.59%) VoIP
4 5 (1.32%) Internet
4 5 (1.32%) Network Security
4 5 (1.32%) SSL
5 4 (1.06%) DHCP
5 4 (1.06%) DNS
5 4 (1.06%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.53%) Asterisk PBX
6 2 (0.53%) LAN
6 2 (0.53%) MQTT
6 2 (0.53%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.53%) WAN
7 1 (0.26%) CTI
7 1 (0.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (7.67%) NoSQL
3 27 (7.14%) MySQL
4 23 (6.08%) MongoDB
5 22 (5.82%) Big Data
6 10 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.65%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.38%) Metadata
8 7 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.85%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.85%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.59%) Redis
10 5 (1.32%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.32%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.06%) FileMaker
11 4 (1.06%) Neo4j
11 4 (1.06%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 24 (6.35%) Git
2 21 (5.56%) Claude Code
3 15 (3.97%) GitLab
4 11 (2.91%) Jenkins
5 10 (2.65%) JIRA
6 8 (2.12%) Subversion
7 7 (1.85%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.32%) Selenium
9 4 (1.06%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.79%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.79%) Maven
10 3 (0.79%) Snyk
11 2 (0.53%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.53%) Eclipse RCP
12 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.26%) CMake
12 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.26%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.26%) Valgrind
12 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 83 (21.96%) Social Skills
2 64 (16.93%) Finance
3 61 (16.14%) Public Sector
4 56 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (6.35%) Law
7 19 (5.03%) Banking
8 16 (4.23%) Legal
8 16 (4.23%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.65%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.12%) Marketing
11 7 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.59%) Advertising
13 5 (1.32%) Front Office
14 4 (1.06%) Back Office
14 4 (1.06%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.06%) Police
15 3 (0.79%) Retail
16 2 (0.53%) Games
16 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 105 (27.78%) Software Engineer
2 91 (24.07%) Lead
3 74 (19.58%) Senior
4 51 (13.49%) Architect
5 40 (10.58%) Lead Software Engineer
6 38 (10.05%) Developer
7 30 (7.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 28 (7.41%) Principal Engineer
9 26 (6.88%) Cloud Architect
10 24 (6.35%) Senior Software Engineer
11 16 (4.23%) Data Engineer
11 16 (4.23%) Principal Software Engineer
12 14 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (3.44%) Consultant
14 12 (3.17%) Java Engineer
14 12 (3.17%) Linux Engineer
15 11 (2.91%) Senior Consultant
15 11 (2.91%) Senior Developer
16 9 (2.38%) AWS Engineer
17 8 (2.12%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (13.23%) Terraform
2 45 (11.90%) Node.js
3 31 (8.20%) Kafka
4 30 (7.94%) React
5 21 (5.56%) HTML
5 21 (5.56%) REST
6 20 (5.29%) CSS
7 18 (4.76%) LangChain
8 17 (4.50%) Spring
9 16 (4.23%) RESTful
10 15 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
11 13 (3.44%) LlamaIndex
12 12 (3.17%) PyTorch
12 12 (3.17%) Spring Boot
13 11 (2.91%) .NET
13 11 (2.91%) TensorFlow
14 9 (2.38%) Model Context Protocol
15 8 (2.12%) FastAPI
15 8 (2.12%) NumPy
15 8 (2.12%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 59 (15.61%) Cloud Native
2 34 (8.99%) Onboarding
2 34 (8.99%) Public Cloud
3 20 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (3.70%) AI Agents
4 14 (3.70%) Blog
5 11 (2.91%) Distributed Computing
5 11 (2.91%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.65%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.65%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.38%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.12%) Social Media
9 7 (1.85%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.85%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.85%) Robotics
9 7 (1.85%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.32%) Autonomous Agent
11 5 (1.32%) Hackathon
11 5 (1.32%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 43 (11.38%) Linux
2 16 (4.23%) Windows
3 11 (2.91%) Debian
4 7 (1.85%) CentOS
4 7 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.85%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.59%) Embedded Linux
5 6 (1.59%) Unix
6 4 (1.06%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.79%) Android
7 3 (0.79%) Gentoo
8 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (44.97%) Software Engineering
2 127 (33.60%) Agile
3 125 (33.07%) AI
4 94 (24.87%) CI/CD
5 86 (22.75%) DevOps
6 81 (21.43%) Mentoring
7 75 (19.84%) Microservices
8 62 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (15.87%) Containerisation
10 58 (15.34%) LLM
11 57 (15.08%) Machine Learning
12 54 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
13 43 (11.38%) TDD
14 42 (11.11%) Roadmaps
15 38 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
15 38 (10.05%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
16 37 (9.79%) Analytics
16 37 (9.79%) Technical Leadership
17 35 (9.26%) Computer Science
17 35 (9.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 121 (32.01%) Python
2 71 (18.78%) Java
3 60 (15.87%) JavaScript
4 35 (9.26%) SQL
5 30 (7.94%) TypeScript
6 27 (7.14%) C++
7 21 (5.56%) Bash
8 17 (4.50%) C
8 17 (4.50%) Go
9 14 (3.70%) C#
9 14 (3.70%) Scala
10 13 (3.44%) PHP
11 12 (3.17%) Rust
12 7 (1.85%) Clojure
12 7 (1.85%) Erlang
12 7 (1.85%) Ruby
13 6 (1.59%) PowerShell
14 4 (1.06%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.79%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.53%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 103 (27.25%) Security Cleared
2 62 (16.40%) Degree
3 56 (14.81%) SC Cleared
4 51 (13.49%) DV Cleared
5 18 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (3.97%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.97%) PhD
7 12 (3.17%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 7 (1.85%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.06%) CCNA
11 4 (1.06%) CISSP
11 4 (1.06%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.06%) MCSE
11 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.79%) CISM
12 3 (0.79%) GSEC
13 2 (0.53%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.29%) QA
2 18 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.44%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.12%) WCAG
5 7 (1.85%) NCSC
6 4 (1.06%) ISO 14001
6 4 (1.06%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.06%) SLA
7 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.53%) NIST
8 2 (0.53%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.26%) MiFID
9 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 45 (11.90%) Docker
2 13 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.32%) Firmware
4 5 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.06%) vSphere
6 3 (0.79%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.53%) KVM
8 1 (0.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.26%) IAG
8 1 (0.26%) QEMU
8 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 58 (15.34%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.50%) Ansible
3 10 (2.65%) Istio
4 8 (2.12%) Puppet
5 6 (1.59%) Grafana
5 6 (1.59%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (1.32%) Nagios
6 5 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.06%) Argo
7 4 (1.06%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.06%) Podman
8 3 (0.79%) Packer
9 2 (0.53%) linkerd
9 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.26%) Cilium
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 28 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.35%) Google
3 19 (5.03%) OpenAI
4 15 (3.97%) Red Hat
5 13 (3.44%) Oracle
6 9 (2.38%) Splunk
7 8 (2.12%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.12%) Confluent
8 7 (1.85%) VMware
9 6 (1.59%) Adobe
10 5 (1.32%) Cisco
10 5 (1.32%) Databricks
10 5 (1.32%) New Relic
10 5 (1.32%) SaltStack
11 4 (1.06%) Apple
11 4 (1.06%) FIS
11 4 (1.06%) Sage
12 3 (0.79%) Intel
12 3 (0.79%) OutSystems
12 3 (0.79%) YouTube