Open Source Jobs in London

Open Source
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 287 127
Rank change year-on-year +66 -160 -31
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 190 250 981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.47% 1.06% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.16% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 153 177 472
10th Percentile £61,250 £53,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £80,000 £80,294
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -0.37% +0.37%
75th Percentile £137,500 £112,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £138,750 £111,250
England median annual salary £73,000 £63,218 £75,000
% change year-on-year +15.47% -15.71% +7.14%

All Process and 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 12,437 21,544 32,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.18% 91.15% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,360 15,990 23,508
10th Percentile £42,464 £37,519 £43,411
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,830 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,555 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.30% -5.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in London

Open Source
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Open Source in London

Open Source
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

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 12 May 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
Central London +28 27 £65,000 -7.14% 20
East London - 6 - - 3
South London - 6 - - 1
North London - 4 £55,000 - 1
West London +29 1 - - 8
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 69 (36.32%) Apache Airflow
1 69 (36.32%) Apache Spark
2 68 (35.79%) Apache
3 7 (3.68%) Drupal
4 3 (1.58%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.05%) CMS
5 2 (1.05%) NServiceBus
5 2 (1.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.53%) Confluence
6 1 (0.53%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.53%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.53%) nginx
6 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Maya
Business Applications
1 7 (3.68%) Ripple
1 7 (3.68%) Ripple XRP
2 5 (2.63%) CiviCRM
3 2 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 128 (67.37%) AWS
2 79 (41.58%) Amazon ECS
2 79 (41.58%) OpenShift
3 78 (41.05%) Serverless
4 76 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
5 72 (37.89%) dbt
6 22 (11.58%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (10.53%) Azure
8 17 (8.95%) GCP
9 10 (5.26%) Amazon S3
9 10 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (4.74%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (4.74%) GitHub
11 6 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (3.16%) Amazon MSK
11 6 (3.16%) DigitalOcean
12 5 (2.63%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 5 (2.63%) Google Ads
12 5 (2.63%) Google Analytics
12 5 (2.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.58%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.05%) SSH
3 1 (0.53%) Firewall
3 1 (0.53%) Internet
3 1 (0.53%) Network Security
3 1 (0.53%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.53%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (36.32%) Amazon Athena
2 67 (35.26%) Apache Arrow
2 67 (35.26%) Apache Iceberg
2 67 (35.26%) Apache Ignite
2 67 (35.26%) Dremio
3 23 (12.11%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (6.84%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (3.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.11%) Big Data
6 4 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.58%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.58%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.58%) Redis
7 3 (1.58%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.05%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.05%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.05%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (1.05%) MySQL
8 2 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 73 (38.42%) Artifactory
2 14 (7.37%) IntelliJ
3 9 (4.74%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.68%) Git
5 3 (1.58%) Maven
6 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.05%) DbUnit
6 2 (1.05%) jMock
6 2 (1.05%) JUnit
6 2 (1.05%) Mockito
6 2 (1.05%) NUnit
6 2 (1.05%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (1.05%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.53%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.53%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.53%) JIRA
7 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 102 (53.68%) Finance
2 73 (38.42%) Front Office
3 29 (15.26%) Social Skills
4 18 (9.47%) Law
5 12 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.26%) Banking
7 9 (4.74%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.68%) Digital Economy
8 7 (3.68%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.68%) Marketing
8 7 (3.68%) Retail
9 5 (2.63%) Advertising
9 5 (2.63%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.05%) Dutch Language
10 2 (1.05%) French Language
10 2 (1.05%) Games
10 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.05%) Music Industry
10 2 (1.05%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (43.68%) AWS Engineer
2 80 (42.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 79 (41.58%) AWS DevOps
3 79 (41.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 70 (36.84%) Data Engineer
5 67 (35.26%) Python Engineer
6 34 (17.89%) Senior
7 23 (12.11%) Developer
8 16 (8.42%) Java Engineer
9 15 (7.89%) Senior Java Engineer
10 14 (7.37%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 12 (6.32%) Software Engineer
12 10 (5.26%) Architect
13 9 (4.74%) Analyst
13 9 (4.74%) Lead
13 9 (4.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 7 (3.68%) Principal Engineer
14 7 (3.68%) Security Engineer
14 7 (3.68%) SOC Analyst
15 6 (3.16%) E-Commerce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (38.95%) Kafka
2 73 (38.42%) J2EE
3 68 (35.79%) PySpark
4 18 (9.47%) React
5 17 (8.95%) REST
6 8 (4.21%) .NET
7 7 (3.68%) PyTorch
7 7 (3.68%) TensorFlow
8 6 (3.16%) Pandas
8 6 (3.16%) RESTful
8 6 (3.16%) scikit-learn
9 5 (2.63%) SLSA
10 4 (2.11%) .NET Core
10 4 (2.11%) CSS
10 4 (2.11%) Django
10 4 (2.11%) HTML
10 4 (2.11%) Spring
11 3 (1.58%) NumPy
11 3 (1.58%) React Native
11 3 (1.58%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.95%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (7.37%) Algorithms
3 11 (5.79%) Blog
4 10 (5.26%) Mobile App
4 10 (5.26%) Virtual Team
5 9 (4.74%) Blockchain
5 9 (4.74%) CSOC
5 9 (4.74%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.74%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.74%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.68%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.16%) EPoS
7 6 (3.16%) Tandem
8 5 (2.63%) Social Media
9 3 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.05%) Equities
10 2 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.16%) Linux
2 4 (2.11%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.58%) Unix
4 2 (1.05%) Android
5 1 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Debian
5 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (55.26%) DevOps
2 92 (48.42%) Agile
2 92 (48.42%) Software Engineering
3 86 (45.26%) CI/CD
4 83 (43.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 73 (38.42%) Asset Management
6 70 (36.84%) Data Engineering
7 26 (13.68%) TDD
8 25 (13.16%) Mentoring
8 25 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (12.11%) Decision-Making
10 22 (11.58%) Containerisation
10 22 (11.58%) Cybersecurity
11 21 (11.05%) Application Security
12 15 (7.89%) Software Testing
13 14 (7.37%) Analytics
13 14 (7.37%) Creative Thinking
13 14 (7.37%) Emotional Intelligence
13 14 (7.37%) Performance Management
13 14 (7.37%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 104 (54.74%) Java
2 101 (53.16%) Python
3 82 (43.16%) Go
4 12 (6.32%) SQL
5 11 (5.79%) JavaScript
6 10 (5.26%) C++
7 8 (4.21%) C#
8 6 (3.16%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.58%) Rust
10 2 (1.05%) Objective-C
10 2 (1.05%) Swift
11 1 (0.53%) Dart
11 1 (0.53%) Haskell
11 1 (0.53%) Ruby
11 1 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (13.16%) Degree
2 20 (10.53%) Master's Degree
2 20 (10.53%) PhD
3 16 (8.42%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.42%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.11%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.68%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.63%) NIST
2 5 (2.63%) QA
3 2 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.05%) GDPR
3 2 (1.05%) MiFID
3 2 (1.05%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.53%) PMO
System Software
1 102 (53.68%) Docker
2 6 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.53%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 98 (51.58%) Kubernetes
2 88 (46.32%) Terraform
3 9 (4.74%) QRadar
4 6 (3.16%) Istio
5 3 (1.58%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (1.05%) Grafana
6 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.53%) Ansible
7 1 (0.53%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.32%) Google
3 6 (3.16%) Confluent
4 5 (2.63%) Adobe
5 2 (1.05%) Intel
5 2 (1.05%) Oracle
5 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.05%) Splunk
6 1 (0.53%) Hitachi
6 1 (0.53%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.53%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.53%) SAP