Open Source Jobs in the North East

Open Source
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 97 85
Rank change year-on-year +29 -12 +18
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 5 20 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.66% 1.08% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.24% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 5 18 11
10th Percentile £58,604 £44,653 -
25th Percentile £61,297 £56,809 £43,162
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £61,206 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year +13.36% +28.39% -43.92%
75th Percentile £74,258 £84,964 £57,586
90th Percentile - - £71,250
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
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 675 1,614 1,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 89.52% 86.87% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 370 1,312 597
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,885 £30,500
25th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.06% +14.12%
75th Percentile £66,354 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,772 £73,750
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 the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the North East

Open Source
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Open Source in the North East

Open Source
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the North East region over the 6 months to 14 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
Durham +17 3 £69,384 -7.98% 1
Tyne and Wear +25 2 £64,122 +4.76% 10
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECR
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (60.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (60.00%) dbt
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
1 3 (60.00%) Pulumi
1 3 (60.00%) Sentry
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (60.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (60.00%) Redis
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Site Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Domain Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Django
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 3 (60.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (60.00%) Prototyping
2 3 (60.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (40.00%) Coaching
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Vision
4 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Line Management
4 1 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Copilot
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google