Open Source Development Job Trends in the South East

Open Source Software Development
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Open Source Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 - 400
Rank change year-on-year - - -32
Permanent jobs citing Open Source Development 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.013% - 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% - 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £40,250
25th Percentile £137,500 - £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £145,000 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.05%
75th Percentile £152,500 - £63,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £80,001
% change year-on-year +15.38% -18.75% +23.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Open Source Development 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,647 7,112 15,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.54% 90.17% 80.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7,564 3,479 10,496
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,100 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Open Source Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Open Source Development job vacancy trend in the South East

Open Source Development
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Open Source Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Open Source Development

Open Source Development
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source Development within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 June 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
Berkshire - 2 £145,000 -
Thames Valley - 2 £145,000 -
Open Source Development
England

Open Source Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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%) SaaS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Chief Technology Officer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Strategy