Open Source Jobs in the Midlands

Open Source
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 248 221
Rank change year-on-year +3 -27 +47
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 11 87 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.16% 0.63% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.80% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11 52 58
10th Percentile £40,000 - £42,125
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,964 £85,000
England median annual salary £73,000 £65,465 £75,000
% change year-on-year +11.51% -12.71% +7.14%

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 6,176 10,937 7,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.74% 79.47% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,815 7,333 4,437
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.64% -12.00% +4.17%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the Midlands

Open Source
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Open Source in the Midlands

Open Source
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 July 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 6 July 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 +29 11 £72,500 +3.57% 25
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (45.45%) Confluence
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (54.55%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (54.55%) Amazon S3
2 6 (54.55%) Amazon SQS
2 6 (54.55%) AWS KMS
2 6 (54.55%) Route 53
3 5 (45.45%) Azure
4 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (9.09%) dbt
5 1 (9.09%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) Pulumi
5 1 (9.09%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (63.64%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (54.55%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (54.55%) DynamoDB
3 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Git
1 7 (63.64%) JUnit
2 6 (54.55%) Bitbucket Server
2 6 (54.55%) DbUnit
2 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 6 (54.55%) jMock
2 6 (54.55%) Maven
2 6 (54.55%) Mockito
2 6 (54.55%) SonarQube
3 5 (45.45%) JIRA
4 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 1 (9.09%) Postman
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
1 6 (54.55%) Java Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Lead
2 4 (36.36%) Lead Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Lead Java Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Field Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Field Service Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) IT Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Developer
4 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) ActiveMQ
1 6 (54.55%) AngularJS
1 6 (54.55%) Bootstrap
1 6 (54.55%) Hibernate
1 6 (54.55%) JPA
1 6 (54.55%) PowerMock
1 6 (54.55%) RESTful
1 6 (54.55%) SOAP
1 6 (54.55%) Spring
1 6 (54.55%) Spring Batch
1 6 (54.55%) Spring Boot
1 6 (54.55%) Spring Integration
1 6 (54.55%) Web Services
2 2 (18.18%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Django
3 1 (9.09%) Java EE
3 1 (9.09%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (27.27%) Driving Licence
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Windows
3 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
1 7 (63.64%) Containerisation
1 7 (63.64%) Continuous Integration
1 7 (63.64%) Microservices
2 6 (54.55%) BDD
2 6 (54.55%) Kanban
2 6 (54.55%) Scrum
2 6 (54.55%) TDD
3 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
4 4 (36.36%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (9.09%) Integration Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Performance Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Service-Level Objective
6 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) Test Management
6 1 (9.09%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
2 3 (27.27%) Hyper-V
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (18.18%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (18.18%) Grafana
2 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Atlassian
2 3 (27.27%) Apple
2 3 (27.27%) Citrix
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle