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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 363 259
Rank change year-on-year -68 -104 -57
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 313 315 952
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.77% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.84% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 234 222 665
10th Percentile £46,939 £48,275 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £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 £103,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,159 £68,500
% change year-on-year +9.35% +6.80% -8.67%

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 63,008 37,645 76,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.63% 91.62% 82.29%
Number of salaries quoted 44,477 20,913 54,962
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,822 £29,490
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £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 £72,500
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% -9.09%

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 30 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 30 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 -60 136 £92,500 -15.91% 99
North of England -22 73 £75,000 +15.38% 23
North West +22 49 £75,000 +9.48% 10
South East -46 41 £60,000 -4.00% 25
South West -43 30 £75,000 +25.00% 11
Yorkshire -20 18 £80,000 +63.27% 8
Midlands -31 15 £55,000 -24.14% 10
East of England -19 8 £135,500 +50.56% 13
East Midlands - 8 £55,000 - 1
West Midlands -26 7 £28,500 -60.69% 9
North East -48 6 £67,952 +11.50% 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 (3.83%) Apache
1 12 (3.83%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.60%) Appian
2 5 (1.60%) WordPress
3 4 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.28%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.96%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.64%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.64%) Camunda
6 1 (0.32%) CMS
6 1 (0.32%) Confluence
6 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 Project
1 1 (0.32%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.32%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.28%) Line 50
2 2 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 122 (38.98%) AWS
2 93 (29.71%) Azure
3 47 (15.02%) GCP
4 34 (10.86%) GitHub
5 30 (9.58%) Serverless
6 25 (7.99%) Anthropic Claude
7 17 (5.43%) OpenShift
8 16 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (4.79%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (4.79%) GitHub Copilot
9 15 (4.79%) SaaS
10 10 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (2.56%) Amazon MSK
12 8 (2.56%) PaaS
13 7 (2.24%) Power Platform
14 6 (1.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 6 (1.92%) Amazon S3
15 5 (1.60%) Google Gemini
15 5 (1.60%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.83%) Broadband
2 9 (2.88%) VoIP
3 7 (2.24%) AMQP
3 7 (2.24%) Network Security
4 6 (1.92%) Software-Defined Radio
4 6 (1.92%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.28%) HTTP
6 3 (0.96%) LAN
6 3 (0.96%) RTP
6 3 (0.96%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.96%) WAN
6 3 (0.96%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.64%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.64%) DNS
7 2 (0.64%) 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 38 (12.14%) MySQL
2 37 (11.82%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (11.18%) NoSQL
4 34 (10.86%) MongoDB
5 14 (4.47%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.51%) Big Data
7 10 (3.19%) Pinecone
8 9 (2.88%) Redis
9 7 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.24%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.92%) Cloudera CDH
10 6 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.60%) Metadata
11 5 (1.60%) Neo4j
12 4 (1.28%) FileMaker
12 4 (1.28%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (1.28%) GIS
12 4 (1.28%) QGIS
13 3 (0.96%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 21 (6.71%) Jenkins
2 20 (6.39%) Git
3 17 (5.43%) Claude Code
4 11 (3.51%) TeamCity
5 6 (1.92%) JIRA
5 6 (1.92%) Selenium
6 5 (1.60%) GitLab
6 5 (1.60%) MLflow
7 3 (0.96%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.64%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.64%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.64%) Maven
8 2 (0.64%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.32%) CMake
9 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.32%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.32%) Valgrind
9 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 56 (17.89%) Finance
1 56 (17.89%) Social Skills
2 36 (11.50%) Public Sector
3 22 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.39%) Banking
5 17 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (4.47%) Manufacturing
7 13 (4.15%) Law
8 9 (2.88%) Legal
9 8 (2.56%) Tech for Good
10 7 (2.24%) Retail
11 6 (1.92%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.92%) Back Office
11 6 (1.92%) Front Office
12 5 (1.60%) Advertising
12 5 (1.60%) Marketing
13 3 (0.96%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.96%) French Language
13 3 (0.96%) Italian Language
13 3 (0.96%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 99 (31.63%) Software Engineer
2 65 (20.77%) Senior
3 55 (17.57%) Lead
4 43 (13.74%) Developer
5 24 (7.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 24 (7.67%) Lead Software Engineer
6 20 (6.39%) Senior Software Engineer
7 18 (5.75%) Principal Engineer
8 15 (4.79%) Architect
9 13 (4.15%) Data Engineer
9 13 (4.15%) Java Engineer
10 10 (3.19%) Java Developer
10 10 (3.19%) Java Software Engineer
10 10 (3.19%) Python Developer
11 9 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (2.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (2.56%) AWS DevOps
12 8 (2.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 8 (2.56%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (2.56%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (12.78%) Node.js
2 34 (10.86%) RESTful
3 32 (10.22%) REST
4 27 (8.63%) React
5 25 (7.99%) Kafka
6 19 (6.07%) Spring
7 17 (5.43%) Spring Boot
8 14 (4.47%) FastAPI
9 13 (4.15%) .NET
9 13 (4.15%) Flask
9 13 (4.15%) LangChain
9 13 (4.15%) PyTorch
10 12 (3.83%) Django
10 12 (3.83%) NumPy
10 12 (3.83%) RabbitMQ
10 12 (3.83%) TensorFlow
11 11 (3.51%) Akka
11 11 (3.51%) OpenAPI
11 11 (3.51%) Pandas
11 11 (3.51%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 51 (16.29%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.11%) Onboarding
3 14 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.83%) AI Agents
4 12 (3.83%) Video\Live Streaming
5 11 (3.51%) Algorithms
5 11 (3.51%) Over-the-Top Content
5 11 (3.51%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.19%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.88%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.24%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.24%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.24%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.24%) Robotics
9 6 (1.92%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.60%) FPGA
10 5 (1.60%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.60%) Mobile Payment
11 4 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 35 (11.18%) Linux
2 12 (3.83%) Windows
3 11 (3.51%) Debian
3 11 (3.51%) Ubuntu
4 8 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.24%) CentOS
5 7 (2.24%) Unix
6 5 (1.60%) Android
7 4 (1.28%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.28%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.96%) Gentoo
9 1 (0.32%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.32%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (51.76%) Software Engineering
2 93 (29.71%) AI
3 91 (29.07%) Agile
4 86 (27.48%) CI/CD
5 76 (24.28%) Microservices
6 74 (23.64%) DevOps
6 74 (23.64%) Mentoring
7 60 (19.17%) TDD
8 59 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (15.02%) Machine Learning
10 46 (14.70%) Test Automation
11 44 (14.06%) Containerisation
12 43 (13.74%) Analytics
13 42 (13.42%) LLM
14 40 (12.78%) Roadmaps
15 38 (12.14%) Coaching
16 35 (11.18%) Generative AI
17 31 (9.90%) Infrastructure as Code
18 29 (9.27%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
18 29 (9.27%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 111 (35.46%) Python
2 80 (25.56%) Java
3 56 (17.89%) SQL
4 46 (14.70%) JavaScript
5 25 (7.99%) C++
6 23 (7.35%) Scala
7 19 (6.07%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.11%) C
9 15 (4.79%) Go
9 15 (4.79%) PHP
10 12 (3.83%) Bash
11 9 (2.88%) Rust
12 8 (2.56%) Ruby
13 7 (2.24%) C#
13 7 (2.24%) Clojure
13 7 (2.24%) Erlang
14 4 (1.28%) MATLAB
14 4 (1.28%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.32%) Korn
15 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (14.70%) Security Cleared
2 45 (14.38%) Degree
3 25 (7.99%) DV Cleared
3 25 (7.99%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.83%) PhD
5 9 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 7 (2.24%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.60%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.28%) CISSP
9 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.96%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.96%) CCNA
10 3 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (0.96%) GIAC
10 3 (0.96%) MCSE
11 2 (0.64%) CEH
11 2 (0.64%) CISMP
11 2 (0.64%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.75%) QA
2 13 (4.15%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.60%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.28%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.28%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.64%) NIST
5 2 (0.64%) SLA
5 2 (0.64%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.32%) MiFID
6 1 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (17.57%) Docker
2 9 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.96%) Kamailio
5 2 (0.64%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.64%) Firmware
5 2 (0.64%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.64%) 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 63 (20.13%) Kubernetes
2 42 (13.42%) Terraform
3 16 (5.11%) Ansible
4 8 (2.56%) Istio
4 8 (2.56%) Puppet
5 5 (1.60%) Argo
6 3 (0.96%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (0.96%) Podman
6 3 (0.96%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.64%) Nmap
7 2 (0.64%) Packer
8 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.32%) Grafana
8 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.32%) QRadar
Vendors
1 33 (10.54%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.31%) Google
3 21 (6.71%) OpenAI
4 10 (3.19%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.56%) Confluent
5 8 (2.56%) Oracle
6 6 (1.92%) SaltStack
7 5 (1.60%) Adobe
7 5 (1.60%) Automation Anywhere
7 5 (1.60%) Databricks
7 5 (1.60%) UiPath
8 4 (1.28%) Apple
8 4 (1.28%) Cisco
8 4 (1.28%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.28%) PayPal
8 4 (1.28%) Sage
8 4 (1.28%) VMware
9 3 (0.96%) BT
9 3 (0.96%) Mitel
9 3 (0.96%) Salesforce