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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 267 156
Rank change year-on-year -8 -111 +48
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 86 33 194
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.37% 0.35% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.40% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 70 26 78
10th Percentile £62,000 £46,500 £43,000
25th Percentile £63,655 £48,313 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £55,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.80% -7.92% -11.11%
75th Percentile £88,148 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £101,250 £85,000 £79,225
England median annual salary £82,500 £73,159 £65,465
% change year-on-year +12.77% +11.75% -6.48%

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 16,443 8,217 11,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.58% 87.57% 77.90%
Number of salaries quoted 12,310 4,129 6,256
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,136 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.26% -3.73% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,985 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,225
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 9 September 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 9 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
North West +5 39 £80,000 +25.49% 29
North East -39 30 £74,830 +42.53% 9
Yorkshire -37 17 £83,774 +69.24% 17
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 3 (3.49%) Apache
2 2 (2.33%) Apache Solr
2 2 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.16%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.16%) JBoss
3 1 (1.16%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 56 (65.12%) AWS
2 35 (40.70%) Azure
3 23 (26.74%) GCP
4 12 (13.95%) Serverless
5 5 (5.81%) dbt
5 5 (5.81%) GitHub
6 4 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (2.33%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (2.33%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.16%) Datadog
8 1 (1.16%) Google Gemini
8 1 (1.16%) IaaS
8 1 (1.16%) PaaS
8 1 (1.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.65%) Internet
2 2 (2.33%) AMQP
3 1 (1.16%) CTI
3 1 (1.16%) DHCP
3 1 (1.16%) DNS
3 1 (1.16%) Firewall
3 1 (1.16%) NX-OS
3 1 (1.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.95%) MongoDB
2 10 (11.63%) NoSQL
3 9 (10.47%) MySQL
4 8 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.33%) Big Data
5 2 (2.33%) Cloudera CDH
5 2 (2.33%) DocumentDB
5 2 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.33%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.33%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.16%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.16%) GIS
6 1 (1.16%) QGIS
6 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.49%) JIRA
2 2 (2.33%) Claude Code
2 2 (2.33%) Git
3 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.16%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (1.16%) GitLab
3 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.16%) Subversion
General
1 37 (43.02%) Public Sector
2 29 (33.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (23.26%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.98%) Finance
5 5 (5.81%) Law
6 4 (4.65%) Police
7 3 (3.49%) Legal
7 3 (3.49%) Retail
8 2 (2.33%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Electronics
9 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (34.88%) Software Engineer
2 22 (25.58%) Lead
3 21 (24.42%) Architect
4 19 (22.09%) Senior
5 15 (17.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 13 (15.12%) Developer
7 12 (13.95%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (11.63%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (8.14%) Lead Software Engineer
9 7 (8.14%) Senior Developer
10 6 (6.98%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (6.98%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 6 (6.98%) Technical Architect
11 4 (4.65%) Lead Architect
11 4 (4.65%) Technical Leader
12 3 (3.49%) ERP Architect
12 3 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
13 2 (2.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 2 (2.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 2 (2.33%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (23.26%) Node.js
2 11 (12.79%) LangChain
3 10 (11.63%) LlamaIndex
4 9 (10.47%) RESTful
5 8 (9.30%) CSS
5 8 (9.30%) HTML
6 7 (8.14%) Terraform
7 6 (6.98%) Web Services
8 5 (5.81%) Model Context Protocol
8 5 (5.81%) React
9 4 (4.65%) A2A Protocol
9 4 (4.65%) REST
9 4 (4.65%) Spring
9 4 (4.65%) Spring Boot
10 2 (2.33%) AngularJS
10 2 (2.33%) Hibernate
10 2 (2.33%) Middleware
10 2 (2.33%) Play Framework
10 2 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (2.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (29.07%) Cloud Native
2 16 (18.60%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.81%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.49%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.49%) Cybercrime
5 2 (2.33%) Blog
5 2 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.33%) Social Media
6 1 (1.16%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.16%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.16%) FPGA
6 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.16%) Handset
6 1 (1.16%) PKI
6 1 (1.16%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.16%) Replication
6 1 (1.16%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.49%) Linux
2 2 (2.33%) CentOS
2 2 (2.33%) Debian
2 2 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (50.00%) Agile
2 34 (39.53%) CI/CD
3 33 (38.37%) Software Engineering
4 30 (34.88%) AI
4 30 (34.88%) DevOps
5 26 (30.23%) Mentoring
6 25 (29.07%) LLM
7 22 (25.58%) Microservices
8 21 (24.42%) Observability
8 21 (24.42%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 20 (23.26%) TDD
9 20 (23.26%) Technical Leadership
10 19 (22.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 17 (19.77%) Containerisation
11 17 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (18.60%) Coaching
12 16 (18.60%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (18.60%) Knowledge Transfer
12 16 (18.60%) MLOps
12 16 (18.60%) Rainbow Teams
Programming Languages
1 21 (24.42%) Python
2 18 (20.93%) JavaScript
3 14 (16.28%) Java
4 10 (11.63%) TypeScript
5 9 (10.47%) SQL
6 2 (2.33%) Scala
7 1 (1.16%) Bash
7 1 (1.16%) C
7 1 (1.16%) C++
7 1 (1.16%) PHP
7 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (27.91%) Security Cleared
2 17 (19.77%) SC Cleared
3 13 (15.12%) DV Cleared
4 12 (13.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (11.63%) AWS Certification
5 10 (11.63%) Azure Certification
6 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (2.33%) Degree
8 1 (1.16%) CCNA
8 1 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.16%) MCSE
8 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.30%) Accessibility
2 6 (6.98%) NCSC
2 6 (6.98%) WCAG
3 3 (3.49%) QA
4 1 (1.16%) SLA
4 1 (1.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (3.49%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.16%) Firmware
2 1 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (8.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.49%) Ansible
2 3 (3.49%) Grafana
3 2 (2.33%) Puppet
4 1 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.16%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.16%) Nagios
4 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (3.49%) Google
1 3 (3.49%) Intel
1 3 (3.49%) Microsoft
1 3 (3.49%) Red Hat
1 3 (3.49%) Splunk
2 2 (2.33%) FIS
2 2 (2.33%) OpenAI
2 2 (2.33%) SaltStack
2 2 (2.33%) YouTube
3 1 (1.16%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.16%) Cisco
3 1 (1.16%) New Relic
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle
3 1 (1.16%) VMware