Open Source Job Trends in the North of England

Open Source
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Open Source skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 197 204
Rank change year-on-year -31 +7 +19
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 31 90 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.29% 0.99% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 1.09% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 24 49 63
10th Percentile £46,825 - £41,232
25th Percentile £51,813 £48,250 £43,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.28% +2.01% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £72,777 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,875 £78,920 £91,934
England median annual salary £70,000 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.00% +6.63% -13.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,582 8,228 7,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.13% 90.69% 88.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,592 3,663 5,959
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,102
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -1.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,650 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Open Source job vacancy trend in the North of England

Open Source
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Open Source.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Open Source

Open Source
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Open Source in the North of England

Open Source
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
North West -1 22 £71,000 +9.23% 20
Yorkshire -30 6 £48,750 -1.52% 18
North East -3 3 £73,801 +6.48% 5
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 8 (25.81%) Apache Spark
2 3 (9.68%) Apache
2 3 (9.68%) OpenStack
3 2 (6.45%) Apache Solr
4 1 (3.23%) Anypoint
4 1 (3.23%) Kinematics
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 23 (74.19%) AWS
2 22 (70.97%) Azure
3 17 (54.84%) GCP
4 7 (22.58%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (16.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 5 (16.13%) Serverless
6 4 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (9.68%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (9.68%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (9.68%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (9.68%) dbt
7 3 (9.68%) OpenShift
7 3 (9.68%) PaaS
7 3 (9.68%) Pulumi
7 3 (9.68%) Sentry
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.23%) GitHub
8 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) AMQP
1 3 (9.68%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.45%) DHCP
2 2 (6.45%) DNS
2 2 (6.45%) HTTP
2 2 (6.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) MongoDB
2 6 (19.35%) MySQL
3 5 (16.13%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (12.90%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (9.68%) Big Data
5 3 (9.68%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (9.68%) Hadoop
5 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
5 3 (9.68%) Redis
6 2 (6.45%) DocumentDB
6 2 (6.45%) Neo4j
7 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
7 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) GitLab
2 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 7 (22.58%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.90%) Aerospace
3 3 (9.68%) Banking
3 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.23%) Advertising
5 1 (3.23%) Law
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Retail
5 1 (3.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Senior
2 6 (19.35%) Data Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Java Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Software Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Junior
6 2 (6.45%) Junior Data Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Lead
7 1 (3.23%) Data Scientist
7 1 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Principal Data Scientist
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) Spring
1 9 (29.03%) Spring Boot
2 7 (22.58%) React
3 6 (19.35%) Hibernate
4 5 (16.13%) Node.js
5 4 (12.90%) AngularJS
5 4 (12.90%) Django
5 4 (12.90%) REST
6 3 (9.68%) DPDK
6 3 (9.68%) eBPF
6 3 (9.68%) gRPC
6 3 (9.68%) Material-UI
6 3 (9.68%) OpenAPI
6 3 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (9.68%) Swagger
7 1 (3.23%) EDI
7 1 (3.23%) NETCONF
7 1 (3.23%) RESTful
7 1 (3.23%) Web Services
7 1 (3.23%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Cloud Native
2 6 (19.35%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (9.68%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (6.45%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (3.23%) Clustering
5 1 (3.23%) NVMe
5 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.23%) Robotics
5 1 (3.23%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) CentOS
2 3 (9.68%) Debian
2 3 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Ubuntu
2 3 (9.68%) Unix
3 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (54.84%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (48.39%) CI/CD
3 14 (45.16%) Agile
4 13 (41.94%) DevOps
5 11 (35.48%) Clean Code
5 11 (35.48%) Containerisation
5 11 (35.48%) Microservices
6 10 (32.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (32.26%) Software Engineering
7 9 (29.03%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (22.58%) Decision-Making
8 7 (22.58%) Machine Learning
8 7 (22.58%) Roadmaps
9 6 (19.35%) Data Engineering
9 6 (19.35%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (19.35%) Data Science
9 6 (19.35%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (19.35%) Product Roadmap
10 5 (16.13%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) Python
2 11 (35.48%) Java
3 7 (22.58%) SQL
4 5 (16.13%) Scala
5 4 (12.90%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.23%) C
7 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 8 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.23%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (32.26%) Docker
2 3 (9.68%) KVM
2 3 (9.68%) QEMU
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (45.16%) Kubernetes
2 10 (32.26%) Terraform
3 6 (19.35%) Ansible
4 3 (9.68%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (9.68%) Puppet
5 1 (3.23%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Google
1 6 (19.35%) Oracle
1 6 (19.35%) SaltStack
2 5 (16.13%) Databricks
2 5 (16.13%) Palantir
3 3 (9.68%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.45%) Informatica
4 2 (6.45%) Talend
5 1 (3.23%) Dell
5 1 (3.23%) Epicor
5 1 (3.23%) IBM
5 1 (3.23%) Infor
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.23%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.23%) RedGate
5 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.23%) SAP
5 1 (3.23%) SnapLogic
5 1 (3.23%) Software AG
5 1 (3.23%) TIBCO