Open Source Jobs in Reading

Open Source
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 88 109
Rank change year-on-year +28 +21 -1
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 6 35 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 1.17% 2.01% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 2.29% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2 22 12
10th Percentile - £46,625 -
25th Percentile £71,250 £55,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% +1.25% +71.43%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,625 £71,563
90th Percentile - £91,125 £74,750
Berkshire median annual salary £52,000 £60,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.40% +1.25% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 446 1,531 1,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 86.60% 88.14% 97.24%
Number of salaries quoted 236 911 782
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,275
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.09% -12.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £95,000
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% -11.67% -

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Reading

Open Source
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Open Source in Reading

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS KMS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 4 (66.67%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (66.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) DbUnit
1 6 (100.00%) Git
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (100.00%) jMock
1 6 (100.00%) JUnit
1 6 (100.00%) Maven
1 6 (100.00%) Mockito
1 6 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 4 (66.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 3 (50.00%) Lead Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 6 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 6 (100.00%) JPA
1 6 (100.00%) PowerMock
1 6 (100.00%) RESTful
1 6 (100.00%) SOAP
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
1 6 (100.00%) Web Services
2 4 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 4 (66.67%) Bootstrap
2 4 (66.67%) REST
2 4 (66.67%) Spring Batch
2 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 4 (66.67%) Spring Integration
3 3 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (16.67%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) BDD
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (100.00%) Kanban
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
1 6 (100.00%) TDD
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Biometrics
3 2 (33.33%) BPMN
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 3 (50.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Atlassian
2 2 (33.33%) Jaspersoft