Open Source Job Trends in Manchester

Open Source
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Open Source skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 140 68
Rank change year-on-year -19 -72 +47
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 40 15 125
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.54% 0.64% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.71% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 24 10 28
10th Percentile £64,871 £45,000 £43,000
25th Percentile £71,349 £50,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.61% +2.08% -11.11%
75th Percentile £101,250 £75,000 £71,036
90th Percentile - £83,000 £79,225
North West median annual salary £80,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +28.00% +4.17% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,577 2,111 3,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.54% 89.49% 82.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4,287 1,196 1,788
10th Percentile £32,400 £29,500 £30,700
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,750 £41,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,625 £83,575
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Open Source job vacancy trend in Manchester

Open Source
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Open Source.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Open Source

Open Source
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Open Source in Manchester

Open Source
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Oldham - 1 £69,973 -
Open Source
North West

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (10.00%) Apache
2 3 (7.50%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.00%) Apache Solr
4 1 (2.50%) GeoServer
4 1 (2.50%) JBoss
4 1 (2.50%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) AWS
2 13 (32.50%) Serverless
3 8 (20.00%) Azure
4 4 (10.00%) GCP
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (7.50%) OpenShift
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (5.00%) dbt
7 1 (2.50%) Datadog
7 1 (2.50%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) AMQP
1 3 (7.50%) Internet
2 2 (5.00%) CTI
2 2 (5.00%) DHCP
2 2 (5.00%) DNS
2 2 (5.00%) Firewall
2 2 (5.00%) NX-OS
3 1 (2.50%) 5G
3 1 (2.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Big Data
2 3 (7.50%) Cloudera CDH
2 3 (7.50%) Hadoop
3 2 (5.00%) DocumentDB
3 2 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.00%) Neo4j
3 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.50%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (2.50%) GIS
4 1 (2.50%) MySQL
4 1 (2.50%) QGIS
4 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.50%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.50%) Subversion
General
1 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Finance
2 5 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (12.50%) Law
3 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.50%) Aerospace
4 3 (7.50%) Legal
4 3 (7.50%) Police
4 3 (7.50%) Retail
5 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Software Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) Architect
3 10 (25.00%) Senior
4 9 (22.50%) Cloud Architect
4 9 (22.50%) Senior Software Engineer
5 8 (20.00%) Developer
6 6 (15.00%) Lead
7 5 (12.50%) Support Manager
8 3 (7.50%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) Lead Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Technical Architect
10 1 (2.50%) Applications Developer
10 1 (2.50%) DBA
10 1 (2.50%) Geospatial Engineer
10 1 (2.50%) Java Developer
10 1 (2.50%) Service Desk Manager
10 1 (2.50%) Service Desk Support
10 1 (2.50%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) Terraform
2 6 (15.00%) Node.js
2 6 (15.00%) React
3 5 (12.50%) REST
4 4 (10.00%) Middleware
4 4 (10.00%) Spring
4 4 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.50%) AngularJS
5 3 (7.50%) gRPC
5 3 (7.50%) Material-UI
5 3 (7.50%) OpenAPI
5 3 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (7.50%) Swagger
6 2 (5.00%) CSS
6 2 (5.00%) HTML
7 1 (2.50%) .NET
7 1 (2.50%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.50%) OAuth
7 1 (2.50%) OpenID
7 1 (2.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (47.50%) Cloud Native
2 7 (17.50%) Management Information System
3 4 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (7.50%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (7.50%) Cybercrime
4 3 (7.50%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.00%) Driving Licence
5 2 (5.00%) PKI
6 1 (2.50%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.50%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) Replication
6 1 (2.50%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Linux
2 3 (7.50%) CentOS
2 3 (7.50%) Debian
2 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (7.50%) Ubuntu
3 2 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) DevOps
2 17 (42.50%) Agile
3 15 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 13 (32.50%) CI/CD
5 12 (30.00%) Microservices
6 11 (27.50%) Containerisation
7 10 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 9 (22.50%) Collaborative Working
8 9 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (20.00%) AI
9 8 (20.00%) API Development
9 8 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (17.50%) TOGAF
11 6 (15.00%) Decision-Making
11 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (15.00%) Mentoring
11 6 (15.00%) Scrum
12 5 (12.50%) Coaching
12 5 (12.50%) Customer Service
12 5 (12.50%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) Python
2 6 (15.00%) Java
2 6 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.50%) Bash
5 1 (2.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (47.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 12 (30.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.50%) Degree
5 2 (5.00%) CCNA
5 2 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.00%) MCSE
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
1 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (5.00%) vSphere
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.00%) Ansible
3 3 (7.50%) Puppet
4 2 (5.00%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.50%) Grafana
5 1 (2.50%) Nagios
5 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) YouTube
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (7.50%) Google
3 3 (7.50%) Intel
3 3 (7.50%) SaltStack
4 2 (5.00%) Cisco
4 2 (5.00%) FIS
4 2 (5.00%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.00%) VMware
5 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.50%) New Relic
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle
5 1 (2.50%) Splunk