Open Source Job Trends in the Midlands

Open Source
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Open Source skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 211 198
Rank change year-on-year +18 -13 +23
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 15 63 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.25% 0.70% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.85% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 12 29 23
10th Percentile £48,165 £44,000 £46,212
25th Percentile £50,479 £52,500 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £65,465 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.02% +4.74% -10.71%
75th Percentile £78,431 £74,144 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,009 £79,600 £91,047
England median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% -0.99% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,895 7,411 4,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.13% 82.85% 93.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,274 3,351 3,623
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,610
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,398 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.35% +4.80% -2.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,967 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Open Source job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Open Source
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Open Source.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Open Source

Open Source
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the Midlands over the 6 months to 22 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Open Source in the Midlands

Open Source
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 November 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
West Midlands +20 8 £72,500 +4.61% 8
East Midlands +18 7 £51,058 -7.17% 5
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) AWS
2 7 (46.67%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (13.33%) AWS KMS
4 2 (13.33%) Route 53
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.67%) dbt
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) Pulumi
5 1 (6.67%) Sentry
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (6.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Burp Suite
1 3 (20.00%) Git
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
1 3 (20.00%) JUnit
1 3 (20.00%) Metasploit
2 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (13.33%) DbUnit
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) jMock
2 2 (13.33%) Maven
2 2 (13.33%) Mockito
2 2 (13.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) Postman
3 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Software Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Security Specialist
3 3 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Lead Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Middleware
2 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (20.00%) RESTful
2 3 (20.00%) Web Services
3 2 (13.33%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (13.33%) Bootstrap
3 2 (13.33%) Django
3 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
3 2 (13.33%) JPA
3 2 (13.33%) PowerMock
3 2 (13.33%) React
3 2 (13.33%) SOAP
3 2 (13.33%) Spring
3 2 (13.33%) Spring Batch
3 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
3 2 (13.33%) Spring Integration
4 1 (6.67%) .NET
4 1 (6.67%) Java EE
4 1 (6.67%) Node.js
4 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Insider Threat
1 3 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (40.00%) DevOps
4 5 (33.33%) Microservices
4 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
5 4 (26.67%) Configuration Management
5 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 4 (26.67%) Design Patterns
5 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
5 4 (26.67%) SDLC
5 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
5 4 (26.67%) UML
5 4 (26.67%) Waterfall
6 3 (20.00%) BDD
6 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
6 3 (20.00%) Information Security
6 3 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (46.67%) Degree
4 4 (26.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (26.67%) Chartered Engineer
4 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (20.00%) CCNA
5 3 (20.00%) CEH
5 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (20.00%) CISMP
5 3 (20.00%) CISSP
5 3 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (20.00%) CREST Certified
5 3 (20.00%) GIAC
5 3 (20.00%) GPEN
5 3 (20.00%) MCP
5 3 (20.00%) MCSE
5 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (20.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 3 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (13.33%) QA
4 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Nmap
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Cisco
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle