Open Source Jobs in England

Open Source
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Open Source skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Open Source over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 253 226
Rank change year-on-year -75 -27 -81
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 435 969 1,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.83% 1.12% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.35% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 282 638 672
10th Percentile £52,275 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £50,000 £56,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.31% -13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £96,250 £84,964 £89,852
90th Percentile £127,500 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £73,000 £65,465 £74,600
% change year-on-year +11.51% -12.25% +6.57%

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 47,296 71,705 71,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 90.09% 82.55% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 25,120 49,843 46,399
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £39,500 £40,000 £45,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £81,251
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £101,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Open Source in England.

Salary trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in England over the 6 months to 18 July 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 18 July 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
South East +54 187 £73,000 +53.68% 50
London +36 155 £105,000 +27.27% 361
North of England -163 45 £67,500 +10.28% 49
North West -142 27 £68,505 +11.92% 28
South West +6 13 £61,250 +2.08% 20
Midlands -5 13 £72,500 +3.57% 15
East of England -8 12 £87,850 +11.56% 43
West Midlands +22 11 £72,500 +3.57% 10
Yorkshire -19 11 £49,250 -19.07% 16
North East +19 7 £52,500 -19.80% 5
East Midlands +1 2 £85,700 +14.27% 3
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 42 (9.66%) Apache Spark
2 36 (8.28%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (6.67%) Apache
4 10 (2.30%) Confluence
5 4 (0.92%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.46%) Kinematics
8 1 (0.23%) CMS
8 1 (0.23%) Drupal
8 1 (0.23%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.23%) IIS
8 1 (0.23%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.69%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 125 (28.74%) AWS
2 63 (14.48%) Azure
3 48 (11.03%) Serverless
4 45 (10.34%) GCP
5 41 (9.43%) Amazon ECS
5 41 (9.43%) dbt
6 38 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
7 36 (8.28%) OpenShift
8 24 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (5.06%) Amazon S3
10 20 (4.60%) GitHub
11 16 (3.68%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (2.76%) AWS KMS
14 11 (2.53%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 11 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (2.53%) Route 53
15 10 (2.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 10 (2.30%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.30%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.38%) Bluetooth
2 6 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (1.38%) Wireless
3 4 (0.92%) Internet
4 3 (0.69%) Broadband
5 2 (0.46%) SSH
6 1 (0.23%) Firewall
6 1 (0.23%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.23%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (7.13%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (6.90%) Amazon Athena
4 27 (6.21%) Apache Arrow
4 27 (6.21%) Apache Iceberg
4 27 (6.21%) Apache Ignite
4 27 (6.21%) Dremio
5 18 (4.14%) DynamoDB
5 18 (4.14%) MongoDB
6 16 (3.68%) Redis
7 15 (3.45%) MySQL
8 14 (3.22%) NoSQL
9 13 (2.99%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.61%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.38%) SQL Server
12 5 (1.15%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.92%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.92%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (10.34%) Git
2 27 (6.21%) Artifactory
3 15 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.45%) JUnit
4 14 (3.22%) JIRA
4 14 (3.22%) Mockito
5 13 (2.99%) Maven
6 12 (2.76%) DbUnit
6 12 (2.76%) jMock
6 12 (2.76%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.53%) Bitbucket Server
8 8 (1.84%) IntelliJ
9 7 (1.61%) GitLab
10 6 (1.38%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.38%) KGDB
11 5 (1.15%) MLflow
12 4 (0.92%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.92%) rollup.js
12 4 (0.92%) Vite
13 3 (0.69%) GDB
General
1 97 (22.30%) Finance
2 72 (16.55%) Social Skills
3 58 (13.33%) Law
4 48 (11.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (6.44%) Banking
6 27 (6.21%) Front Office
7 22 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (5.06%) Public Sector
8 18 (4.14%) Marketing
9 13 (2.99%) Legal
10 7 (1.61%) Games
10 7 (1.61%) Retail
11 4 (0.92%) Electronics
11 4 (0.92%) French Language
11 4 (0.92%) German Language
11 4 (0.92%) Music Industry
11 4 (0.92%) Public Speaking
11 4 (0.92%) Publishing
12 3 (0.69%) Advertising
12 3 (0.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 159 (36.55%) Architect
2 152 (34.94%) Software Architect
3 79 (18.16%) Senior
4 68 (15.63%) Lead
5 53 (12.18%) Software Engineer
6 43 (9.89%) Developer
7 40 (9.20%) Data Engineer
8 38 (8.74%) AWS Engineer
9 36 (8.28%) DevOps Engineer
10 33 (7.59%) AWS DevOps
10 33 (7.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 33 (7.59%) Python Engineer
11 29 (6.67%) Java Engineer
12 19 (4.37%) Java Software Engineer
13 16 (3.68%) Java Developer
14 13 (2.99%) Lead Software Engineer
15 11 (2.53%) Kubernetes Engineer
15 11 (2.53%) Senior Software Engineer
16 10 (2.30%) Platform Engineer
16 10 (2.30%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (35.17%) Middleware
2 49 (11.26%) Kafka
3 34 (7.82%) React
4 28 (6.44%) AngularJS
5 27 (6.21%) J2EE
5 27 (6.21%) PySpark
6 22 (5.06%) RESTful
6 22 (5.06%) Spring
7 21 (4.83%) Spring Boot
8 20 (4.60%) REST
9 18 (4.14%) HTML
10 17 (3.91%) CSS
11 16 (3.68%) Hibernate
12 15 (3.45%) Node.js
13 13 (2.99%) Django
14 12 (2.76%) ActiveMQ
14 12 (2.76%) JPA
14 12 (2.76%) PowerMock
14 12 (2.76%) SOAP
14 12 (2.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.36%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (7.13%) Cloud Native
3 24 (5.52%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.22%) Algorithms
5 11 (2.53%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.30%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.07%) Distributed Architecture
7 9 (2.07%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.84%) Mobile Banking
9 7 (1.61%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.38%) Embedded Systems
10 6 (1.38%) Robotics
11 5 (1.15%) EPoS
11 5 (1.15%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.92%) Clustering
12 4 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.92%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.92%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 49 (11.26%) Linux
2 13 (2.99%) Unix
3 9 (2.07%) Windows
4 5 (1.15%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.69%) Android
5 3 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.46%) CentOS
6 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Debian
7 1 (0.23%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.23%) SUSE
7 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (55.40%) DevOps
2 238 (54.71%) Agile
3 192 (44.14%) Computer Science
4 181 (41.61%) Mentoring
5 172 (39.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 171 (39.31%) SDLC
7 167 (38.39%) Design Patterns
8 152 (34.94%) Configuration Management
9 151 (34.71%) UML
9 151 (34.71%) Waterfall
10 120 (27.59%) Software Engineering
11 90 (20.69%) CI/CD
12 71 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
13 65 (14.94%) Microservices
14 48 (11.03%) Data Engineering
15 47 (10.80%) Containerisation
16 45 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 44 (10.11%) Artificial Intelligence
18 41 (9.43%) TDD
19 38 (8.74%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 107 (24.60%) Java
2 105 (24.14%) Python
3 48 (11.03%) Go
4 44 (10.11%) SQL
5 38 (8.74%) JavaScript
6 27 (6.21%) TypeScript
7 24 (5.52%) Kotlin
8 14 (3.22%) C++
9 7 (1.61%) C
9 7 (1.61%) C#
9 7 (1.61%) PHP
10 5 (1.15%) Objective-C
10 5 (1.15%) Scala
10 5 (1.15%) Swift
11 4 (0.92%) R
11 4 (0.92%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.92%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.46%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.46%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 219 (50.34%) Degree
2 160 (36.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 151 (34.71%) BPSS Clearance
3 151 (34.71%) Chartered Engineer
4 32 (7.36%) Security Cleared
5 28 (6.44%) SC Cleared
6 20 (4.60%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.99%) PhD
8 6 (1.38%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.92%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (34.71%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 14 (3.22%) QA
3 13 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.61%) GDPR
5 6 (1.38%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.92%) WCAG
7 3 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.69%) JTAG
8 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.23%) MiFID
9 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 93 (21.38%) Docker
2 6 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.92%) Postfix
4 3 (0.69%) Firmware
4 3 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 77 (17.70%) Kubernetes
2 62 (14.25%) Terraform
3 10 (2.30%) AWS Copilot
4 7 (1.61%) Grafana
4 7 (1.61%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.38%) Istio
6 5 (1.15%) Kubeflow
6 5 (1.15%) Puppet
7 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.46%) Functional Safety
8 2 (0.46%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.23%) Ansible
9 1 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 18 (4.14%) Google
2 17 (3.91%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.22%) Atlassian
4 8 (1.84%) Palantir
5 7 (1.61%) Oracle
6 6 (1.38%) Confluent
7 4 (0.92%) Databricks
7 4 (0.92%) Foundry
7 4 (0.92%) Informatica
7 4 (0.92%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (0.92%) RedGate
7 4 (0.92%) Talend
7 4 (0.92%) VMware
8 3 (0.69%) Apple
8 3 (0.69%) ArcSight
8 3 (0.69%) Citrix
9 2 (0.46%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.46%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.46%) SAP
9 2 (0.46%) Splunk