Open Source Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Open Source
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Open Source skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 43 43
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 +57
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 2 8 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.48% 1.65% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 2.09% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £69,066 - -
25th Percentile £69,447 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,316 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.23% +6.63% -2.99%
75th Percentile £78,670 £76,685 £76,150
90th Percentile £78,742 £78,209 £79,960
UK median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% -0.99% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 359 382 308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 86.09% 78.93% 91.39%
Number of salaries quoted 145 188 231
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,112 £29,994
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £67,438
90th Percentile £86,500 £95,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,285 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.53% - -

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Open Source job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Open Source
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Open Source.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Open Source

Open Source
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 4 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
County Antrim +2 2 £74,316 +7.23% 3
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (50.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Django
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google