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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 335 272
Rank change year-on-year -83 -63 -71
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 317 322 939
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.81% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.87% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 228 233 676
10th Percentile £46,939 £48,800 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £127,500 £137,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.59% +12.31% -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 61,307 36,819 78,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.20% 92.52% 81.80%
Number of salaries quoted 43,146 20,189 56,768
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £29,497
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -48 142 £92,500 -15.91% 80
North of England +5 70 £75,000 +15.38% 25
North West +23 46 £75,000 +9.48% 15
South East -49 41 £61,250 -2.00% 22
South West -45 28 £60,000 - 15
Yorkshire -28 18 £80,000 +63.27% 8
Midlands -22 16 £53,029 -26.86% 5
East of England -10 9 £112,750 +11.36% 15
East Midlands - 9 £55,000 -
West Midlands -23 7 £28,500 -60.69% 5
North East -49 6 £67,952 +11.50% 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 12 (3.79%) Apache
2 11 (3.47%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.89%) Appian
4 5 (1.58%) WordPress
5 4 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.26%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.95%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.63%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.63%) Camunda
7 2 (0.63%) Confluence
8 1 (0.32%) CMS
8 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.32%) InDesign
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.32%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.32%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.26%) Line 50
2 2 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 118 (37.22%) AWS
2 96 (30.28%) Azure
3 48 (15.14%) GCP
4 32 (10.09%) GitHub
5 29 (9.15%) Serverless
6 26 (8.20%) Anthropic Claude
7 16 (5.05%) OpenShift
8 15 (4.73%) SaaS
9 14 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (4.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (4.42%) GitHub Copilot
10 9 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (2.52%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (2.52%) PaaS
12 7 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (2.21%) Power Platform
13 6 (1.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 6 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.89%) Google Gemini
13 6 (1.89%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.26%) Broadband
2 9 (2.84%) VoIP
3 7 (2.21%) Network Security
4 6 (1.89%) AMQP
4 6 (1.89%) Software-Defined Radio
4 6 (1.89%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.26%) HTTP
6 3 (0.95%) LAN
6 3 (0.95%) RTP
6 3 (0.95%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.95%) WAN
6 3 (0.95%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.63%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.63%) DNS
7 2 (0.63%) Firewall
8 1 (0.32%) DHCP
8 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.32%) SMTP
8 1 (0.32%) SSL
8 1 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (11.04%) MySQL
2 35 (11.04%) NoSQL
3 34 (10.73%) MongoDB
4 13 (4.10%) SQL Server
5 11 (3.47%) Pinecone
6 9 (2.84%) Redis
7 8 (2.52%) Big Data
8 6 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.89%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.58%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.58%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.26%) FileMaker
10 4 (1.26%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.26%) GIS
10 4 (1.26%) QGIS
11 3 (0.95%) Metadata
11 3 (0.95%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 32 (10.09%) Jenkins
2 22 (6.94%) TeamCity
3 20 (6.31%) Git
4 16 (5.05%) Claude Code
5 7 (2.21%) JIRA
6 6 (1.89%) MLflow
6 6 (1.89%) Selenium
7 5 (1.58%) GitLab
8 4 (1.26%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.95%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.63%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.63%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.63%) Maven
11 1 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.32%) CMake
11 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.32%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.32%) Valgrind
11 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 60 (18.93%) Finance
2 58 (18.30%) Social Skills
3 36 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 23 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (5.99%) Banking
6 17 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (4.10%) Law
8 12 (3.79%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.52%) Legal
9 8 (2.52%) Retail
9 8 (2.52%) Tech for Good
10 6 (1.89%) Back Office
10 6 (1.89%) Front Office
10 6 (1.89%) Marketing
11 5 (1.58%) Advertising
11 5 (1.58%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.95%) French Language
12 3 (0.95%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.95%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 99 (31.23%) Software Engineer
2 69 (21.77%) Senior
3 53 (16.72%) Lead
4 46 (14.51%) Developer
5 24 (7.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 22 (6.94%) Lead Software Engineer
6 22 (6.94%) Senior Software Engineer
7 19 (5.99%) Principal Engineer
8 14 (4.42%) Data Engineer
9 13 (4.10%) Architect
9 13 (4.10%) Java Engineer
10 12 (3.79%) Scala Engineer
11 11 (3.47%) Senior Developer
12 10 (3.15%) Java Developer
12 10 (3.15%) Java Software Engineer
12 10 (3.15%) Python Developer
12 10 (3.15%) Software Developer
13 9 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (2.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (2.52%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (12.30%) Node.js
2 35 (11.04%) RESTful
3 32 (10.09%) REST
4 26 (8.20%) React
5 25 (7.89%) Kafka
6 22 (6.94%) Akka
7 18 (5.68%) Spring
8 16 (5.05%) Spring Boot
9 15 (4.73%) FastAPI
10 14 (4.42%) Flask
10 14 (4.42%) PyTorch
11 13 (4.10%) .NET
11 13 (4.10%) Django
11 13 (4.10%) LangChain
11 13 (4.10%) NumPy
11 13 (4.10%) TensorFlow
12 12 (3.79%) Pandas
13 11 (3.47%) OAuth
13 11 (3.47%) pytest
13 11 (3.47%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 47 (14.83%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.26%) Video\Live Streaming
3 22 (6.94%) Over-the-Top Content
4 15 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (4.42%) Onboarding
6 13 (4.10%) AI Agents
7 11 (3.47%) Algorithms
7 11 (3.47%) Security Posture
8 10 (3.15%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.15%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.21%) Data Structures
10 7 (2.21%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.89%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.89%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.89%) Robotics
12 5 (1.58%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (1.58%) FPGA
12 5 (1.58%) Mobile Payment
13 4 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.09%) Linux
2 12 (3.79%) Windows
3 10 (3.15%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.84%) Debian
5 7 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.21%) Unix
6 6 (1.89%) CentOS
7 5 (1.58%) Android
8 4 (1.26%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.26%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.63%) Gentoo
10 1 (0.32%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.32%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (50.79%) Software Engineering
2 100 (31.55%) Agile
3 94 (29.65%) AI
4 83 (26.18%) CI/CD
5 72 (22.71%) Microservices
6 71 (22.40%) TDD
7 70 (22.08%) DevOps
7 70 (22.08%) Mentoring
8 59 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
9 53 (16.72%) Analytics
10 48 (15.14%) Machine Learning
11 46 (14.51%) Test Automation
12 44 (13.88%) LLM
13 40 (12.62%) Containerisation
13 40 (12.62%) Scrum
14 39 (12.30%) Coaching
14 39 (12.30%) Roadmaps
15 37 (11.67%) Generative AI
16 35 (11.04%) Kanban
17 31 (9.78%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 110 (34.70%) Python
2 78 (24.61%) Java
3 58 (18.30%) SQL
4 45 (14.20%) JavaScript
5 33 (10.41%) Scala
6 24 (7.57%) C++
7 19 (5.99%) TypeScript
8 15 (4.73%) C
8 15 (4.73%) Go
8 15 (4.73%) PHP
9 10 (3.15%) Bash
10 8 (2.52%) Rust
11 7 (2.21%) C#
11 7 (2.21%) Ruby
12 6 (1.89%) Clojure
12 6 (1.89%) Erlang
13 4 (1.26%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.26%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.32%) Korn
14 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (14.51%) Degree
2 40 (12.62%) Security Cleared
3 25 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.62%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.79%) PhD
6 9 (2.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 8 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.21%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.58%) CISSP
9 5 (1.58%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.26%) CCNA
10 4 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (1.26%) GIAC
10 4 (1.26%) MCSE
11 3 (0.95%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.95%) CEH
11 3 (0.95%) CISMP
11 3 (0.95%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.68%) QA
2 13 (4.10%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.58%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.26%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.26%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.26%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.63%) NIST
6 2 (0.63%) SLA
6 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.32%) MiFID
7 1 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 66 (20.82%) Docker
2 9 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.95%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.63%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.63%) Firmware
5 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.63%) KVM
6 1 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.32%) QEMU
6 1 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.32%) vSphere
6 1 (0.32%) Xen
Systems Management
1 73 (23.03%) Kubernetes
2 39 (12.30%) Terraform
3 13 (4.10%) Ansible
4 8 (2.52%) Istio
5 7 (2.21%) Puppet
6 5 (1.58%) Argo
7 3 (0.95%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (0.95%) Nmap
8 2 (0.63%) Packer
8 2 (0.63%) Podman
8 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.32%) QRadar
Vendors
1 35 (11.04%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.89%) Google
3 22 (6.94%) OpenAI
4 9 (2.84%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.52%) Confluent
6 6 (1.89%) Automation Anywhere
6 6 (1.89%) Oracle
6 6 (1.89%) UiPath
7 5 (1.58%) Adobe
7 5 (1.58%) Cisco
7 5 (1.58%) Databricks
7 5 (1.58%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.26%) Apple
8 4 (1.26%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.26%) PayPal
8 4 (1.26%) Sage
8 4 (1.26%) VMware
9 3 (0.95%) BT
9 3 (0.95%) Mitel
9 3 (0.95%) Salesforce