Open Source Job Trends in London

Open Source
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Open Source skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 200 281
Rank change year-on-year -48 +81 -157
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 164 223 226
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.87% 1.73% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.80% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 82 166 175
10th Percentile £57,500 £61,875 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £70,313 £65,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £110,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +33.33% +2.75%
75th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £114,375
90th Percentile £145,000 £138,750 £138,750
England median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +15.38% -13.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,806 12,388 20,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 83.89% 96.14% 91.43%
Number of salaries quoted 10,333 7,542 16,048
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,469
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Open Source relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Open Source job vacancy trend in London

Open Source
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Open Source.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Open Source

Open Source
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in London over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Open Source in London

Open Source
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the London region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
Central London -11 15 £85,000 +30.77% 36
South London +14 6 - - 1
West London -17 6 £88,750 -
East London -21 2 - - 5
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (9.76%) Appian
2 10 (6.10%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.27%) Apache Spark
4 6 (3.66%) Apache
5 4 (2.44%) Anypoint
6 2 (1.22%) Confluence
6 2 (1.22%) WordPress
7 1 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.61%) Camunda
Applications
1 15 (9.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.44%) Shopify
2 2 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.61%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.61%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 50 (30.49%) Azure
2 49 (29.88%) AWS
3 31 (18.90%) GCP
4 24 (14.63%) Anthropic Claude
5 17 (10.37%) Power Automate
6 13 (7.93%) GitHub
7 12 (7.32%) Azure AI
7 12 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (5.49%) OpenShift
10 8 (4.88%) Amazon MSK
11 7 (4.27%) Amazon Alexa
11 7 (4.27%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (3.66%) SaaS
13 5 (3.05%) Google Gemini
13 5 (3.05%) Prefect
14 4 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (2.44%) Stripe
14 4 (2.44%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.20%) Broadband
2 6 (3.66%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.83%) Network Security
3 3 (1.83%) WAN
4 2 (1.22%) DHCP
4 2 (1.22%) DOCSIS
4 2 (1.22%) DSL
4 2 (1.22%) GPON
4 2 (1.22%) IPv4
4 2 (1.22%) IPv6
4 2 (1.22%) PPP
4 2 (1.22%) RTP
4 2 (1.22%) VoIP
4 2 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.61%) Firewall
5 1 (0.61%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.61%) LAN
5 1 (0.61%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.59%) Pinecone
2 16 (9.76%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.05%) MySQL
4 5 (3.05%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.44%) Redis
5 4 (2.44%) Weaviate
6 3 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.83%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.83%) Sybase ASE
7 2 (1.22%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.22%) Metadata
7 2 (1.22%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.22%) Sybase IQ
8 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.61%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 18 (10.98%) Jenkins
2 17 (10.37%) TeamCity
3 13 (7.93%) MLflow
4 8 (4.88%) Claude Code
5 6 (3.66%) Selenium
6 4 (2.44%) JIRA
7 1 (0.61%) Git
7 1 (0.61%) GitLab
General
1 54 (32.93%) Finance
2 35 (21.34%) Social Skills
3 20 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.98%) Law
5 17 (10.37%) Banking
6 9 (5.49%) Legal
7 8 (4.88%) Italian Language
8 7 (4.27%) Back Office
8 7 (4.27%) German Language
9 6 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.66%) Public Sector
10 5 (3.05%) Marketing
11 3 (1.83%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.83%) Front Office
11 3 (1.83%) Retail
12 2 (1.22%) Advertising
12 2 (1.22%) Billing
13 1 (0.61%) Dutch Language
13 1 (0.61%) Electronics
13 1 (0.61%) French Language
Job Titles
1 57 (34.76%) Senior
2 27 (16.46%) Software Engineer
3 21 (12.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 21 (12.80%) Lead
4 18 (10.98%) Senior Software Engineer
5 15 (9.15%) Developer
5 15 (9.15%) Development Engineer
6 12 (7.32%) Architect
6 12 (7.32%) Automation Engineer
6 12 (7.32%) Data Engineer
6 12 (7.32%) Principal Engineer
7 11 (6.71%) Senior Development Engineer
7 11 (6.71%) Senior Software Development Engineer
7 11 (6.71%) Software Development Engineer
8 9 (5.49%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (5.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 9 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (5.49%) Scala Engineer
9 8 (4.88%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (16.46%) REST
2 23 (14.02%) PyTorch
2 23 (14.02%) TensorFlow
3 20 (12.20%) Kafka
4 19 (11.59%) NumPy
4 19 (11.59%) Pandas
5 18 (10.98%) Django
5 18 (10.98%) FastAPI
5 18 (10.98%) RESTful
5 18 (10.98%) scikit-learn
5 18 (10.98%) Web Services
6 17 (10.37%) Akka
7 14 (8.54%) Faiss
7 14 (8.54%) Hugging Face
7 14 (8.54%) OAuth
8 13 (7.93%) React
9 12 (7.32%) Flask
9 12 (7.32%) OpenAPI
9 12 (7.32%) pytest
9 12 (7.32%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.63%) Onboarding
2 18 (10.98%) Video\Live Streaming
3 17 (10.37%) Low-Code
3 17 (10.37%) Over-the-Top Content
4 16 (9.76%) Cloud Native
5 14 (8.54%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (7.93%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (5.49%) AI Agents
8 7 (4.27%) Blog
9 6 (3.66%) Legacy Code
10 5 (3.05%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (3.05%) Mobile Payment
11 4 (2.44%) Data Centre
11 4 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (2.44%) Hackathon
11 4 (2.44%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.83%) Replication
12 3 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (1.22%) Management Information System
13 2 (1.22%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.37%) Linux
2 7 (4.27%) Unix
3 3 (1.83%) Windows
4 2 (1.22%) OpenWrt
4 2 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.22%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.61%) Android
5 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.61%) Solaris
5 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (45.12%) AI
2 49 (29.88%) Machine Learning
3 47 (28.66%) CI/CD
4 46 (28.05%) Software Engineering
5 45 (27.44%) Generative AI
5 45 (27.44%) LLM
6 42 (25.61%) Agile
7 40 (24.39%) Analytics
8 37 (22.56%) DevOps
8 37 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (21.34%) Containerisation
10 28 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (17.07%) Mentoring
10 28 (17.07%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 28 (17.07%) TDD
11 27 (16.46%) MLOps
12 26 (15.85%) Stakeholder Management
12 26 (15.85%) Workflow
13 24 (14.63%) Microservices
14 23 (14.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 55 (33.54%) Python
2 34 (20.73%) Java
3 27 (16.46%) SQL
4 20 (12.20%) Go
4 20 (12.20%) Scala
5 18 (10.98%) JavaScript
6 12 (7.32%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.49%) C
7 9 (5.49%) C++
8 8 (4.88%) Rust
9 6 (3.66%) Kotlin
10 5 (3.05%) C#
10 5 (3.05%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.44%) PHP
12 2 (1.22%) Bash
13 1 (0.61%) F#
13 1 (0.61%) Korn
13 1 (0.61%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (21.95%) Degree
2 9 (5.49%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.88%) PhD
3 8 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.66%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.22%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.22%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.22%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.61%) GIAC
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.61%) SANS
6 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.76%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.27%) SLA
3 5 (3.05%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.44%) GDPR
4 4 (2.44%) NIST
4 4 (2.44%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.83%) QA
6 2 (1.22%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.61%) IFRS
7 1 (0.61%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.61%) Solvency II
System Software
1 58 (35.37%) Docker
2 14 (8.54%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (3.66%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 71 (43.29%) Kubernetes
2 21 (12.80%) Terraform
3 8 (4.88%) Istio
4 5 (3.05%) Ansible
5 3 (1.83%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.22%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.61%) Argo
7 1 (0.61%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (0.61%) Grafana
Vendors
1 29 (17.68%) OpenAI
2 27 (16.46%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.32%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (7.32%) UiPath
4 9 (5.49%) Oracle
5 8 (4.88%) Confluent
5 8 (4.88%) Google
6 7 (4.27%) Databricks
6 7 (4.27%) SAP
7 5 (3.05%) IBM
8 4 (2.44%) Dell
8 4 (2.44%) Epicor
8 4 (2.44%) IFS
8 4 (2.44%) Infor
8 4 (2.44%) Informatica
8 4 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.44%) Software AG
8 4 (2.44%) Talend
8 4 (2.44%) TIBCO
8 4 (2.44%) Workday