Open Source Jobs in the South East

Open Source
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 246 256
Rank change year-on-year +50 +10 -13
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 117 153 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.24% 0.88% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.06% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 75 127 59
10th Percentile £52,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £42,500 £52,392
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £45,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +62.22% -33.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile - £64,875 £80,000
90th Percentile - £91,250 £107,500
England median annual salary £73,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +12.31% -13.33% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,709 14,487 13,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.03% 83.62% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,196 10,016 7,809
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the South East

Open Source
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the South East.

Salary trend for Open Source in the South East

Open Source
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the South East over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Open Source in the South East

Open Source
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Thames Valley +5 48 £62,500 +38.89% 34
Isle of Wight - 48 £73,000 - 1
Berkshire +35 35 £52,000 -10.34% 18
Hampshire +51 9 £62,500 - 14
Oxfordshire +33 9 £62,500 +56.25% 17
Middlesex - 8 - - 2
Buckinghamshire -11 4 £63,750 +41.67% 5
East Sussex +26 2 £57,500 -11.54% 1
Surrey +50 1 £77,500 +19.23% 3
Kent - 1 £27,500 - 4
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (2.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (7.69%) AWS
2 6 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
2 6 (5.13%) AWS KMS
3 5 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (4.27%) Amazon S3
3 5 (4.27%) Route 53
4 3 (2.56%) Azure
4 3 (2.56%) Serverless
5 2 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (1.71%) SaaS
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.85%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.85%) GitHub
6 1 (0.85%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.98%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (5.13%) DynamoDB
2 6 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.71%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.71%) Redis
3 2 (1.71%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (9.40%) Git
2 6 (5.13%) DbUnit
2 6 (5.13%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.13%) jMock
2 6 (5.13%) JUnit
2 6 (5.13%) Maven
2 6 (5.13%) Mockito
2 6 (5.13%) SonarQube
3 5 (4.27%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (2.56%) JIRA
5 2 (1.71%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.71%) Vite
5 2 (1.71%) webpack
General
1 29 (24.79%) Law
2 22 (18.80%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.84%) Games
4 7 (5.98%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.27%) Electronics
6 4 (3.42%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.56%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.85%) Finance
9 1 (0.85%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 48 (41.03%) Architect
1 48 (41.03%) Software Architect
2 28 (23.93%) Lead
3 19 (16.24%) Software Engineer
4 13 (11.11%) Developer
5 12 (10.26%) Senior
6 9 (7.69%) Python Engineer
7 8 (6.84%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (5.13%) Gen AI Engineer
8 6 (5.13%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (3.42%) Gen AI Software Engineer
9 4 (3.42%) Lead Developer
9 4 (3.42%) Lead Java Developer
9 4 (3.42%) Software Developer
10 3 (2.56%) Full-Stack Developer
11 2 (1.71%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 2 (1.71%) Principal Engineer
11 2 (1.71%) UI Engineer
11 2 (1.71%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (41.03%) Middleware
2 11 (9.40%) HTML
3 10 (8.55%) CSS
4 8 (6.84%) AngularJS
4 8 (6.84%) Django
4 8 (6.84%) jQuery
4 8 (6.84%) React
5 6 (5.13%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (5.13%) Hibernate
5 6 (5.13%) JPA
5 6 (5.13%) PowerMock
5 6 (5.13%) RESTful
5 6 (5.13%) SOAP
5 6 (5.13%) Spring
5 6 (5.13%) Web Services
6 5 (4.27%) Bootstrap
6 5 (4.27%) REST
6 5 (4.27%) Spring Batch
6 5 (4.27%) Spring Boot
6 5 (4.27%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.95%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (17.09%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.42%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (3.42%) Molecular Biology
4 3 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.71%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.85%) Blog
6 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.85%) Podcast
6 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Social Media
6 1 (0.85%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 19 (16.24%) Linux
2 8 (6.84%) Unix
3 4 (3.42%) Debian
4 1 (0.85%) Android
4 1 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (70.94%) Computer Science
2 64 (54.70%) Agile
3 56 (47.86%) SDLC
4 54 (46.15%) DevOps
5 49 (41.88%) Mentoring
6 48 (41.03%) Configuration Management
6 48 (41.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 48 (41.03%) Design Patterns
6 48 (41.03%) UML
6 48 (41.03%) Waterfall
7 28 (23.93%) Microservices
8 24 (20.51%) Software Engineering
9 23 (19.66%) Platform Engineering
10 22 (18.80%) Technical Leadership
11 21 (17.95%) Data Collection
11 21 (17.95%) Data Management
11 21 (17.95%) Data Modelling
11 21 (17.95%) Decision Quality
11 21 (17.95%) Digital Strategy
11 21 (17.95%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (27.35%) Python
2 15 (12.82%) JavaScript
2 15 (12.82%) TypeScript
3 12 (10.26%) C++
4 11 (9.40%) C
5 9 (7.69%) Go
6 8 (6.84%) Bash
6 8 (6.84%) Fortran
6 8 (6.84%) Java
7 5 (4.27%) SQL
8 3 (2.56%) Embedded C
8 3 (2.56%) Embedded C++
9 1 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 87 (74.36%) Degree
2 50 (42.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 48 (41.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 48 (41.03%) Chartered Engineer
4 14 (11.97%) SC Cleared
4 14 (11.97%) Security Cleared
5 12 (10.26%) Master's Degree
5 12 (10.26%) PhD
6 9 (7.69%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (41.03%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 8 (6.84%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.71%) QA
System Software
1 8 (6.84%) Docker
2 2 (1.71%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 9 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.85%) Grafana
2 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (4.27%) Atlassian
2 2 (1.71%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (0.85%) ArcSight
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft