Open Source Jobs in England

Open Source
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Open Source skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Open Source over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 189 144
Rank change year-on-year -70 -45 0
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 888 1,757 3,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.03% 1.95% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 2.04% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 640 811 1,353
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,604
25th Percentile £48,250 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,218 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £84,964 £90,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Open Source is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,404 86,015 127,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.48% 95.62% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 53,973 50,951 72,982
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,410 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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 -148 250 £80,000 -0.37% 113
North of England +51 239 £61,206 +2.01% 40
North West +21 155 £60,603 -3.04% 17
South East +5 144 £45,000 -35.71% 30
South West -23 113 £63,750 -8.93% 31
Midlands -24 79 £61,206 -12.56% 28
Yorkshire +80 64 £61,206 +28.85% 16
East of England +17 50 £80,001 +39.13% 15
West Midlands -11 50 £61,206 -12.56% 20
East Midlands -13 29 £75,000 -6.25% 8
North East -14 20 £61,206 +28.39% 7
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 55 (6.19%) Apache
2 45 (5.07%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.15%) WebLogic
4 15 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (1.58%) Confluence
5 14 (1.58%) nginx
6 11 (1.24%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.90%) Apache Pig
7 8 (0.90%) Drupal
8 7 (0.79%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.45%) CMS
9 4 (0.45%) IIS
9 4 (0.45%) OpenZeppelin
10 3 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.23%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.23%) SAS
11 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.23%) WordPress
12 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 48 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 28 (3.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (0.90%) Shopify
3 6 (0.68%) Magento
4 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 342 (38.51%) AWS
2 288 (32.43%) Azure
3 118 (13.29%) Serverless
4 94 (10.59%) GCP
5 74 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 69 (7.77%) Amazon SQS
6 69 (7.77%) OpenShift
7 68 (7.66%) AWS CloudFormation
8 54 (6.08%) Amazon EKS
9 50 (5.63%) Amazon S3
10 39 (4.39%) GitHub
11 38 (4.28%) Amazon EC2
11 38 (4.28%) Amazon ECS
12 33 (3.72%) SaaS
13 20 (2.25%) IaaS
14 18 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
14 18 (2.03%) PaaS
15 16 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
15 16 (1.80%) dbt
16 13 (1.46%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 70 (7.88%) DNS
2 49 (5.52%) TCP/IP
3 47 (5.29%) Firewall
4 42 (4.73%) BGP
5 36 (4.05%) SSL
6 26 (2.93%) AMQP
7 21 (2.36%) HTTP
7 21 (2.36%) LAN
7 21 (2.36%) WAN
8 15 (1.69%) Internet
8 15 (1.69%) VPN
9 14 (1.58%) MPLS
10 10 (1.13%) DHCP
11 8 (0.90%) Network Security
11 8 (0.90%) SMTP
12 7 (0.79%) DWDM
12 7 (0.79%) EIGRP
12 7 (0.79%) IGRP
12 7 (0.79%) OSPF
12 7 (0.79%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (8.56%) Relational Database
2 68 (7.66%) NoSQL
3 67 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
4 57 (6.42%) RDBMS
5 53 (5.97%) Big Data
6 49 (5.52%) Oracle Database
7 44 (4.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 42 (4.73%) MySQL
9 41 (4.62%) Hadoop
10 26 (2.93%) Cloudera CDH
11 24 (2.70%) SQL Server
12 23 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
13 19 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (1.46%) MongoDB
15 11 (1.24%) SQLite
16 10 (1.13%) BigQuery
16 10 (1.13%) Metadata
17 9 (1.01%) MariaDB
17 9 (1.01%) Redis
Development Applications
1 116 (13.06%) Git
2 98 (11.04%) Jenkins
3 87 (9.80%) GitLab
4 32 (3.60%) Artifactory
5 21 (2.36%) JDeveloper
6 19 (2.14%) JIRA
7 15 (1.69%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.46%) JUnit
9 12 (1.35%) CircleCI
9 12 (1.35%) Subversion
10 10 (1.13%) GNU Toolchain
10 10 (1.13%) Selenium
11 9 (1.01%) Cypress.io
11 9 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
11 9 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (1.01%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.90%) Checkstyle
13 5 (0.56%) Clang
13 5 (0.56%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.56%) JMeter
General
1 242 (27.25%) Social Skills
2 120 (13.51%) Finance
3 51 (5.74%) Public Sector
4 42 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (4.62%) Front Office
6 40 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (3.15%) Aerospace
7 28 (3.15%) Law
8 27 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
9 25 (2.82%) Banking
9 25 (2.82%) Retail
10 22 (2.48%) Automotive
10 22 (2.48%) Games
11 20 (2.25%) Marketing
12 9 (1.01%) Health Technology
13 8 (0.90%) Legal
13 8 (0.90%) Publishing
14 7 (0.79%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 189 (21.28%) Senior
2 174 (19.59%) Developer
3 172 (19.37%) Software Engineer
4 152 (17.12%) Lead
5 148 (16.67%) Architect
6 75 (8.45%) Technical Leader
7 73 (8.22%) Solutions Architect
8 49 (5.52%) DevOps Engineer
9 43 (4.84%) AWS Engineer
9 43 (4.84%) Senior Architect
10 42 (4.73%) Full Stack Developer
11 38 (4.28%) AWS DevOps
12 37 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 37 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
12 37 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 36 (4.05%) Technical Architect
14 34 (3.83%) Kubernetes Engineer
15 32 (3.60%) Senior Solutions Architect
16 30 (3.38%) Senior Developer
17 29 (3.27%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (16.55%) React
2 114 (12.84%) Node.js
3 90 (10.14%) Spring Boot
4 70 (7.88%) REST
5 57 (6.42%) RabbitMQ
6 56 (6.31%) Spring
7 51 (5.74%) AngularJS
8 47 (5.29%) HTML
9 43 (4.84%) Kafka
10 41 (4.62%) J2EE
11 34 (3.83%) .NET
11 34 (3.83%) PyTorch
12 33 (3.72%) Swagger
13 31 (3.49%) TensorFlow
14 29 (3.27%) CSS
15 26 (2.93%) gRPC
15 26 (2.93%) Material-UI
15 26 (2.93%) OpenAPI
16 20 (2.25%) Express.js
16 20 (2.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 89 (10.02%) Private Cloud
2 85 (9.57%) Public Cloud
3 79 (8.90%) Self-Motivation
4 74 (8.33%) Management Information System
5 58 (6.53%) Cloud Native
6 43 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
7 42 (4.73%) Algorithms
8 40 (4.50%) Tandem
9 37 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
10 33 (3.72%) Blockchain
10 33 (3.72%) Embedded Systems
11 30 (3.38%) Data Centre
11 30 (3.38%) Product Ownership
12 28 (3.15%) Blog
13 25 (2.82%) IoT
14 24 (2.70%) Data Structures
15 19 (2.14%) Client/Server
16 17 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
17 15 (1.69%) Life Science
18 14 (1.58%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 242 (27.25%) Linux
2 67 (7.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 43 (4.84%) Ubuntu
3 43 (4.84%) Unix
4 40 (4.50%) CentOS
5 39 (4.39%) Debian
6 37 (4.17%) Windows
7 8 (0.90%) Android
8 7 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
8 7 (0.79%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.56%) Windows 10
10 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.45%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.34%) VMS
13 1 (0.11%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.11%) Rocky
13 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (51.46%) Agile
2 375 (42.23%) Software Engineering
3 253 (28.49%) DevOps
4 211 (23.76%) Problem-Solving
5 209 (23.54%) Mentoring
6 182 (20.50%) Coaching
7 171 (19.26%) CI/CD
8 156 (17.57%) Microservices
9 154 (17.34%) Continuous Integration
10 148 (16.67%) Scrum
11 144 (16.22%) Actionable Insight
12 143 (16.10%) Containerisation
13 128 (14.41%) Full Stack Development
14 120 (13.51%) Decision-Making
15 119 (13.40%) Collaborative Working
16 118 (13.29%) Kanban
17 110 (12.39%) Computer Science
18 100 (11.26%) Project Management
19 92 (10.36%) Roadmaps
20 86 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 364 (40.99%) Python
2 330 (37.16%) Java
3 171 (19.26%) JavaScript
4 120 (13.51%) C
5 101 (11.37%) SQL
5 101 (11.37%) TypeScript
6 94 (10.59%) Go
7 80 (9.01%) Bash
8 77 (8.67%) C++
9 47 (5.29%) C#
10 41 (4.62%) Rust
11 35 (3.94%) Ruby
12 30 (3.38%) PHP
13 29 (3.27%) COBOL
13 29 (3.27%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 27 (3.04%) Perl
15 26 (2.93%) PowerShell
16 22 (2.48%) Embedded C
17 13 (1.46%) Fortran
17 13 (1.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 214 (24.10%) Security Cleared
2 162 (18.24%) SC Cleared
3 160 (18.02%) Degree
4 49 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (4.73%) Azure Certification
6 35 (3.94%) DV Cleared
7 33 (3.72%) AWS Certification
7 33 (3.72%) Master's Degree
8 30 (3.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 29 (3.27%) PhD
10 9 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.90%) CCNA
12 4 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.34%) CISSP
13 3 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.23%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.23%) GCIA
14 2 (0.23%) GCIH
14 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (5.52%) QA
2 47 (5.29%) PMO
3 15 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.68%) NIST
6 5 (0.56%) NCSC
7 4 (0.45%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.34%) GDPR
9 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 154 (17.34%) Docker
2 21 (2.36%) Virtual Servers
3 10 (1.13%) Firmware
3 10 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.01%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.01%) Embedded Firmware
5 8 (0.90%) HDFS
5 8 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.68%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 4 (0.45%) Ceph
9 3 (0.34%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.34%) KVM
9 3 (0.34%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.23%) QEMU
10 2 (0.23%) Shibboleth
10 2 (0.23%) vSphere
10 2 (0.23%) Xen
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 171 (19.26%) Kubernetes
2 112 (12.61%) Terraform
3 92 (10.36%) Ansible
4 54 (6.08%) Puppet
5 36 (4.05%) Progress Chef
6 8 (0.90%) Grafana
6 8 (0.90%) Kibana
7 6 (0.68%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 5 (0.56%) Kiali
8 5 (0.56%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.45%) Knative
9 4 (0.45%) Salt
10 3 (0.34%) Nessus
10 3 (0.34%) Podman
11 2 (0.23%) Consul
11 2 (0.23%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.23%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.23%) Marathon
11 2 (0.23%) Mesos
12 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 71 (8.00%) Google
2 54 (6.08%) Oracle
3 51 (5.74%) Microsoft
4 31 (3.49%) Red Hat
5 29 (3.27%) Micro Focus
6 28 (3.15%) Sparx
7 26 (2.93%) SaltStack
8 22 (2.48%) Cisco
9 13 (1.46%) Juniper
10 12 (1.35%) Fortinet
10 12 (1.35%) OpenAI
11 11 (1.24%) VMware
12 10 (1.13%) Splunk
13 8 (0.90%) Apple
13 8 (0.90%) ESRI
13 8 (0.90%) Palo Alto
14 7 (0.79%) Arista
14 7 (0.79%) Bloomberg
14 7 (0.79%) CheckPoint
14 7 (0.79%) Tufin