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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 369 264
Rank change year-on-year -56 -105 -51
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 327 309 945
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.73% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.80% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 247 214 667
10th Percentile £46,939 £48,325 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,125 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +14.57% -12.71%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £127,500 £137,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £78,319 £73,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.29% +8.15% -10.00%

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 64,006 38,666 74,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.97% 90.92% 82.63%
Number of salaries quoted 45,252 21,897 53,464
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,822 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -44 141 £92,500 -15.91% 131
North of England -5 78 £75,000 +15.38% 29
North West +16 52 £75,000 +9.48% 16
South East -46 41 £60,000 -4.00% 37
South West -34 33 £87,500 +45.83% 28
Yorkshire -18 18 £80,000 +63.27% 12
Midlands -19 16 £55,000 -24.14% 9
West Midlands -16 10 £74,742 +3.09% 4
East of England -26 8 £135,500 +50.56% 26
North East -43 8 £74,742 +22.64% 1
East Midlands - 6 £55,000 - 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 12 (3.67%) Apache
1 12 (3.67%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.53%) WordPress
3 4 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.22%) Appian
3 4 (1.22%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.92%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.61%) Camunda
6 1 (0.31%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) Confluence
6 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.31%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.31%) InDesign
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.31%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Line 50
2 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 129 (39.45%) AWS
2 91 (27.83%) Azure
3 46 (14.07%) GCP
4 37 (11.31%) GitHub
5 30 (9.17%) Serverless
6 25 (7.65%) Anthropic Claude
7 17 (5.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (5.20%) OpenShift
8 16 (4.89%) GitHub Copilot
9 15 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (4.59%) SaaS
10 11 (3.36%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (2.75%) Amazon S3
13 8 (2.45%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (2.45%) dbt
13 8 (2.45%) PaaS
14 7 (2.14%) Power Platform
15 6 (1.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 5 (1.53%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.67%) Broadband
2 9 (2.75%) VoIP
3 7 (2.14%) AMQP
3 7 (2.14%) Network Security
4 6 (1.83%) Software-Defined Radio
5 5 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.22%) HTTP
7 3 (0.92%) RTP
7 3 (0.92%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.92%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.61%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.61%) DNS
8 2 (0.61%) Firewall
8 2 (0.61%) LAN
8 2 (0.61%) WAN
9 1 (0.31%) DHCP
9 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.31%) SMTP
9 1 (0.31%) SSL
9 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (12.23%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (11.93%) MySQL
3 35 (10.70%) NoSQL
4 33 (10.09%) MongoDB
5 15 (4.59%) Big Data
6 14 (4.28%) SQL Server
7 11 (3.36%) Redis
8 9 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (2.75%) Pinecone
9 7 (2.14%) Hadoop
9 7 (2.14%) Metadata
10 6 (1.83%) Cloudera CDH
10 6 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.53%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.53%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.53%) Neo4j
12 4 (1.22%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 22 (6.73%) Git
2 21 (6.42%) Jenkins
3 18 (5.50%) Claude Code
4 11 (3.36%) TeamCity
5 6 (1.83%) GitLab
5 6 (1.83%) JIRA
5 6 (1.83%) Selenium
6 4 (1.22%) MLflow
7 2 (0.61%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.61%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.61%) Maven
8 1 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.31%) CMake
8 1 (0.31%) Codeship
8 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.31%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.31%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.31%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.31%) Valgrind
General
1 64 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 56 (17.13%) Finance
3 36 (11.01%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (6.12%) Banking
7 14 (4.28%) Law
7 14 (4.28%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.75%) Legal
9 8 (2.45%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.83%) Advertising
10 6 (1.83%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.83%) Back Office
10 6 (1.83%) Front Office
11 5 (1.53%) Marketing
11 5 (1.53%) Retail
12 3 (0.92%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.92%) French Language
12 3 (0.92%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.92%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 101 (30.89%) Software Engineer
2 69 (21.10%) Senior
3 57 (17.43%) Lead
4 44 (13.46%) Developer
5 27 (8.26%) Architect
6 25 (7.65%) Lead Software Engineer
7 24 (7.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 21 (6.42%) Senior Software Engineer
9 19 (5.81%) Principal Engineer
10 13 (3.98%) Java Engineer
11 12 (3.67%) Cloud Architect
12 11 (3.36%) Data Engineer
13 10 (3.06%) Java Developer
13 10 (3.06%) Java Software Engineer
13 10 (3.06%) Python Developer
14 9 (2.75%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (2.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 8 (2.45%) AWS DevOps
15 8 (2.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 8 (2.45%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (12.23%) Node.js
2 33 (10.09%) RESTful
3 31 (9.48%) REST
4 28 (8.56%) React
5 27 (8.26%) Kafka
6 19 (5.81%) Spring
7 17 (5.20%) Spring Boot
8 14 (4.28%) FastAPI
9 13 (3.98%) .NET
9 13 (3.98%) Flask
10 12 (3.67%) Django
10 12 (3.67%) RabbitMQ
11 11 (3.36%) Akka
11 11 (3.36%) HTML
11 11 (3.36%) LangChain
11 11 (3.36%) NumPy
11 11 (3.36%) PyTorch
12 10 (3.06%) OpenAPI
12 10 (3.06%) Swagger
12 10 (3.06%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 54 (16.51%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.50%) Onboarding
3 14 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.28%) Public Cloud
4 12 (3.67%) Video\Live Streaming
5 11 (3.36%) AI Agents
5 11 (3.36%) Algorithms
5 11 (3.36%) Over-the-Top Content
6 9 (2.75%) Distributed Computing
6 9 (2.75%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.45%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.14%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.14%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.14%) Robotics
9 6 (1.83%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.53%) FPGA
10 5 (1.53%) Mobile Payment
11 4 (1.22%) Blog
11 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 34 (10.40%) Linux
2 11 (3.36%) Debian
2 11 (3.36%) Ubuntu
2 11 (3.36%) Windows
3 7 (2.14%) CentOS
3 7 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.14%) Unix
4 5 (1.53%) Android
5 4 (1.22%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.22%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.92%) Gentoo
7 1 (0.31%) FreeBSD
7 1 (0.31%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (50.76%) Software Engineering
2 100 (30.58%) Agile
3 95 (29.05%) AI
4 87 (26.61%) CI/CD
5 81 (24.77%) Microservices
6 78 (23.85%) Mentoring
7 77 (23.55%) DevOps
8 62 (18.96%) TDD
9 56 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (14.68%) Test Automation
11 47 (14.37%) Containerisation
12 46 (14.07%) Machine Learning
13 43 (13.15%) Analytics
13 43 (13.15%) LLM
14 42 (12.84%) Roadmaps
15 38 (11.62%) Coaching
16 34 (10.40%) Generative AI
17 32 (9.79%) Infrastructure as Code
18 29 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
18 29 (8.87%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 113 (34.56%) Python
2 84 (25.69%) Java
3 54 (16.51%) SQL
4 47 (14.37%) JavaScript
5 26 (7.95%) C++
6 25 (7.65%) Scala
7 21 (6.42%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.89%) C
9 15 (4.59%) Go
9 15 (4.59%) PHP
10 11 (3.36%) Bash
11 9 (2.75%) Rust
12 8 (2.45%) Ruby
13 7 (2.14%) C#
13 7 (2.14%) Clojure
13 7 (2.14%) Erlang
14 4 (1.22%) MATLAB
14 4 (1.22%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.92%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.31%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 61 (18.65%) Security Cleared
2 43 (13.15%) Degree
3 34 (10.40%) SC Cleared
4 29 (8.87%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.67%) PhD
6 10 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.14%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (1.53%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.92%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.61%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.61%) CISSP
11 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.31%) CISM
12 1 (0.31%) HNC
12 1 (0.31%) HND
12 1 (0.31%) MCSE
12 1 (0.31%) RHCE
12 1 (0.31%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.50%) QA
2 15 (4.59%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.53%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.22%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.22%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.61%) NIST
5 2 (0.61%) SLA
5 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.31%) MiFID
6 1 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 54 (16.51%) Docker
2 9 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.92%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.61%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.61%) Firmware
5 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.61%) KVM
6 1 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.31%) QEMU
6 1 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.31%) vSphere
6 1 (0.31%) Xen
Systems Management
1 62 (18.96%) Kubernetes
2 43 (13.15%) Terraform
3 16 (4.89%) Ansible
4 8 (2.45%) Istio
4 8 (2.45%) Puppet
5 5 (1.53%) Argo
6 3 (0.92%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (0.92%) Podman
6 3 (0.92%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.61%) Packer
8 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.31%) Grafana
8 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.31%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 32 (9.79%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.95%) Google
3 21 (6.42%) OpenAI
4 9 (2.75%) Oracle
4 9 (2.75%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.45%) Confluent
6 6 (1.83%) SaltStack
7 5 (1.53%) Adobe
8 4 (1.22%) Apple
8 4 (1.22%) Automation Anywhere
8 4 (1.22%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.22%) PayPal
8 4 (1.22%) Sage
8 4 (1.22%) UiPath
8 4 (1.22%) VMware
9 3 (0.92%) BT
9 3 (0.92%) Databricks
9 3 (0.92%) Mitel
9 3 (0.92%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.61%) Cisco