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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 256 273
Rank change year-on-year -114 +17 -80
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 259 591 495
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 1.17% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.30% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 140 346 387
10th Percentile £30,370 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% +6.63% -10.34%
75th Percentile £85,775 £94,688 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,250 £118,125 £116,250
UK median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £67,568
% change year-on-year +6.48% +2.57% -6.48%

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 43,046 45,375 40,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.74% 89.99% 92.72%
Number of salaries quoted 25,692 22,952 31,219
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 24 December 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 24 December 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
London -23 126 £85,000 -15.00% 120
East of England +39 35 £30,370 -58.11% 44
North of England -65 35 £71,000 +16.00% 49
South East -62 29 £59,000 +1.72% 86
North West -15 23 £71,000 +9.23% 29
Midlands -10 15 £58,750 -10.26% 43
South West -25 13 £77,500 -3.13% 34
East Midlands -4 9 £51,058 -7.17% 20
Yorkshire -32 8 £49,000 -1.01% 18
West Midlands +7 6 £65,000 -0.71% 20
North East -4 4 £63,151 -4.68% 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 16 (6.18%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.86%) Appian
4 7 (2.70%) Anypoint
5 6 (2.32%) Apache
6 3 (1.16%) Confluence
6 3 (1.16%) Kinematics
6 3 (1.16%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.77%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.39%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.39%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 50 (19.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Maya
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.47%) SAP FS
2 6 (2.32%) Shopify
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 82 (31.66%) AWS
2 66 (25.48%) Azure
3 40 (15.44%) GCP
4 22 (8.49%) Serverless
5 17 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (6.18%) Amazon Alexa
6 16 (6.18%) PaaS
7 15 (5.79%) GitHub
8 13 (5.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (4.63%) Power Automate
10 10 (3.86%) IaaS
11 9 (3.47%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (3.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 9 (3.47%) Prefect
12 8 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (3.09%) Amazon S3
12 8 (3.09%) Anthropic Claude
12 8 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (3.09%) Figma
13 7 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.41%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.09%) Broadband
3 7 (2.70%) HTTP
4 6 (2.32%) DNS
5 5 (1.93%) DHCP
6 4 (1.54%) SMTP
7 3 (1.16%) AMQP
7 3 (1.16%) DOCSIS
7 3 (1.16%) DSL
7 3 (1.16%) GPON
7 3 (1.16%) IPv4
7 3 (1.16%) IPv6
7 3 (1.16%) PPP
7 3 (1.16%) RTP
7 3 (1.16%) VoIP
7 3 (1.16%) WAN
7 3 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.77%) Firewall
8 2 (0.77%) Internet
8 2 (0.77%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.41%) NoSQL
2 12 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (4.63%) MySQL
2 12 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.25%) MongoDB
3 11 (4.25%) Pinecone
4 10 (3.86%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (3.47%) SQL Server
6 8 (3.09%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.70%) Redis
8 6 (2.32%) Big Data
8 6 (2.32%) Weaviate
9 5 (1.93%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.54%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.54%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.16%) Cloudera CDH
12 2 (0.77%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (7.34%) Git
2 15 (5.79%) JIRA
3 10 (3.86%) Cypress.io
3 10 (3.86%) MLflow
4 8 (3.09%) GitLab
4 8 (3.09%) Selenium
5 7 (2.70%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.93%) Burp Suite
6 5 (1.93%) Metasploit
6 5 (1.93%) Vite
7 3 (1.16%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.16%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.16%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.16%) Mocha
7 3 (1.16%) webpack
8 2 (0.77%) Appium
8 2 (0.77%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.77%) Ranorex
8 2 (0.77%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.77%) WebDriver
General
1 72 (27.80%) Analytical Skills
2 52 (20.08%) Social Skills
3 33 (12.74%) German Language
4 23 (8.88%) Law
5 21 (8.11%) Finance
6 15 (5.79%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.02%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (4.25%) French Language
8 11 (4.25%) Games
8 11 (4.25%) Retail
9 10 (3.86%) Dutch Language
9 10 (3.86%) Legal
10 8 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (3.09%) Italian Language
11 7 (2.70%) Banking
12 6 (2.32%) Marketing
13 4 (1.54%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.16%) Back Office
14 3 (1.16%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.16%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 87 (33.59%) Senior
2 37 (14.29%) Architect
3 36 (13.90%) Software Engineer
4 35 (13.51%) Lead
5 25 (9.65%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (7.72%) Software Architect
7 17 (6.56%) Developer
7 17 (6.56%) Senior Software Engineer
8 14 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 14 (5.41%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 14 (5.41%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 14 (5.41%) Data Engineer
9 11 (4.25%) Development Engineer
10 10 (3.86%) IT Architect
10 10 (3.86%) Lead Architect
11 9 (3.47%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 9 (3.47%) Python Engineer
12 8 (3.09%) Java Engineer
12 8 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (2.70%) Senior Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.65%) React
2 22 (8.49%) REST
3 20 (7.72%) Django
3 20 (7.72%) PyTorch
4 19 (7.34%) Middleware
4 19 (7.34%) Node.js
4 19 (7.34%) TensorFlow
5 16 (6.18%) scikit-learn
5 16 (6.18%) Spring
5 16 (6.18%) Spring Boot
6 15 (5.79%) Web Services
7 13 (5.02%) RESTful
8 12 (4.63%) Hugging Face
9 10 (3.86%) FastAPI
9 10 (3.86%) NumPy
9 10 (3.86%) Pandas
10 9 (3.47%) Faiss
10 9 (3.47%) OpenAPI
10 9 (3.47%) Swagger
11 8 (3.09%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.37%) Cloud Native
2 39 (15.06%) Onboarding
3 30 (11.58%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (5.41%) Legacy Code
5 13 (5.02%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (4.63%) Low-Code
7 10 (3.86%) Security Posture
7 10 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (3.09%) Blog
8 8 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.70%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.70%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.32%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.93%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.93%) Hackathon
11 5 (1.93%) Insider Threat
11 5 (1.93%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.54%) Blockchain
12 4 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.54%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 51 (19.69%) Linux
2 19 (7.34%) Unix
3 10 (3.86%) Windows
4 4 (1.54%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.16%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.16%) CentOS
5 3 (1.16%) Debian
5 3 (1.16%) OpenWrt
5 3 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Android
6 1 (0.39%) Solaris
6 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (37.45%) AI
2 88 (33.98%) Problem-Solving
3 77 (29.73%) DevOps
4 75 (28.96%) Continuous Improvement
5 74 (28.57%) LLM
6 71 (27.41%) Agile
7 66 (25.48%) CI/CD
8 65 (25.10%) Generative AI
9 56 (21.62%) Software Engineering
10 54 (20.85%) Analytical Thinking
11 51 (19.69%) Machine Learning
12 44 (16.99%) Computer Science
13 43 (16.60%) Containerisation
14 39 (15.06%) SDLC
15 38 (14.67%) Mentoring
16 32 (12.36%) Clean Code
16 32 (12.36%) Microservices
17 31 (11.97%) Design Patterns
18 30 (11.58%) Decision-Making
19 29 (11.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 81 (31.27%) Python
2 66 (25.48%) Java
3 34 (13.13%) SQL
4 28 (10.81%) JavaScript
5 27 (10.42%) C++
6 26 (10.04%) C
7 20 (7.72%) Go
8 16 (6.18%) Rust
8 16 (6.18%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.47%) Bash
10 8 (3.09%) Kotlin
10 8 (3.09%) Scala
11 7 (2.70%) R
12 5 (1.93%) C#
12 5 (1.93%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.54%) Fortran
14 2 (0.77%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.77%) Swift
14 2 (0.77%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 120 (46.33%) Degree
2 43 (16.60%) Security Cleared
3 33 (12.74%) SC Cleared
4 30 (11.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (7.72%) Master's Degree
6 18 (6.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (6.56%) Chartered Engineer
8 15 (5.79%) DV Cleared
9 9 (3.47%) AWS Certification
10 8 (3.09%) GIAC
11 7 (2.70%) CISSP
12 6 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (2.32%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (2.32%) OSCP
12 6 (2.32%) PhD
13 5 (1.93%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (1.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.93%) CREST Certified
13 5 (1.93%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.65%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 14 (5.41%) QA
4 13 (5.02%) Accessibility
5 9 (3.47%) GDPR
5 9 (3.47%) IFRS
5 9 (3.47%) IFRS 17
5 9 (3.47%) Solvency II
6 7 (2.70%) SLA
7 5 (1.93%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.93%) NIST
8 4 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (1.16%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.16%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.77%) NCSC
11 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 56 (21.62%) Docker
2 16 (6.18%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (5.41%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (1.16%) KVM
4 3 (1.16%) QEMU
5 2 (0.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 72 (27.80%) Kubernetes
2 30 (11.58%) Terraform
3 17 (6.56%) Ansible
4 6 (2.32%) AWS Copilot
4 6 (2.32%) Nmap
5 4 (1.54%) Grafana
5 4 (1.54%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.16%) Functional Safety
6 3 (1.16%) Kubeflow
6 3 (1.16%) Puppet
7 1 (0.39%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (0.39%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.39%) Nagios
7 1 (0.39%) WMI
7 1 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 59 (22.78%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.34%) SAP
3 17 (6.56%) OpenAI
4 15 (5.79%) Oracle
5 14 (5.41%) Google
6 9 (3.47%) Duck Creek
6 9 (3.47%) Guidewire
6 9 (3.47%) IBM
6 9 (3.47%) Informatica
6 9 (3.47%) Talend
7 8 (3.09%) Databricks
8 7 (2.70%) Cisco
8 7 (2.70%) Dell
8 7 (2.70%) Epicor
8 7 (2.70%) IFS
8 7 (2.70%) Infor
8 7 (2.70%) Jitterbit
8 7 (2.70%) MuleSoft
8 7 (2.70%) SnapLogic
8 7 (2.70%) Workday