Open Source Jobs in South Wales

Open Source
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 56 87 88
Rank change year-on-year +31 +1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 11 19 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 1.26% 1.24% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.61% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 10 9 14
10th Percentile £61,625 £63,250 £53,508
25th Percentile £65,973 £67,500 £59,644
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £117,800
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% -36.33% +151.36%
75th Percentile - £82,500 -
90th Percentile - £90,000 -
Wales median annual salary £70,313 £75,000 £117,800
% change year-on-year -6.25% -36.33% +151.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 722 1,178 1,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 82.42% 76.64% 96.23%
Number of salaries quoted 429 772 562
10th Percentile £23,504 £28,290 £26,412
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,700 £36,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,029 £46,699
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% +0.71% -6.60%
75th Percentile £66,000 £60,313 £64,125
90th Percentile £73,000 £72,314 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £47,683 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.96% - -5.59%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in South Wales

Open Source
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Open Source in South Wales

Open Source
Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales 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
Newport - 8 £73,000 - 30
Cardiff +27 3 £63,250 -15.67% 26
Open Source
Wales

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (18.18%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (9.09%) dbt
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Pulumi
3 1 (9.09%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) Redis
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Architect
1 8 (72.73%) Software Architect
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) Middleware
2 2 (18.18%) AWS CDK
3 1 (9.09%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (90.91%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (90.91%) Mentoring
3 8 (72.73%) Agile
3 8 (72.73%) Computer Science
3 8 (72.73%) Configuration Management
3 8 (72.73%) Design Patterns
3 8 (72.73%) SDLC
3 8 (72.73%) UML
3 8 (72.73%) Waterfall
4 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (18.18%) Cost Management
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 1 (9.09%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) BPSS Clearance
1 8 (72.73%) Chartered Engineer
1 8 (72.73%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (72.73%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google