Open Source Jobs in the South East

Open Source
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Open Source skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Open Source over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 247 256
Rank change year-on-year -11 +9 -68
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 138 180 249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.83% 1.19% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.26% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 118 68 116
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,392 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £68,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% +14.58% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £82,188 £83,125
90th Percentile £91,250 £107,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Open Source is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,122 14,301 18,594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.88% 94.48% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 9,946 8,298 12,047
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,265 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +9.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 +49 104 £45,000 -18.18% 9
Buckinghamshire +20 49 £45,000 -40.00% 1
Berkshire +24 33 £64,250 +16.82% 5
Oxfordshire +10 22 £40,000 -15.79% 3
Hampshire -36 20 £57,500 -4.17% 9
West Sussex +32 3 £40,000 - 1
Surrey -38 2 £55,000 -29.03% 5
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 11 (7.97%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.90%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.45%) Apache
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.72%) Confluence
4 1 (0.72%) Kinematics
4 1 (0.72%) nginx
4 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.72%) WordPress
Applications
1 47 (34.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (42.03%) Azure
2 55 (39.86%) AWS
3 10 (7.25%) SaaS
4 9 (6.52%) GCP
5 7 (5.07%) GitHub
6 6 (4.35%) IaaS
6 6 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.62%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.17%) Serverless
10 1 (0.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.72%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.72%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.72%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.72%) Discord
10 1 (0.72%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 24 (17.39%) DNS
2 18 (13.04%) Firewall
3 7 (5.07%) LAN
3 7 (5.07%) WAN
4 6 (4.35%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.90%) BGP
5 4 (2.90%) HTTP
5 4 (2.90%) SSL
6 3 (2.17%) Internet
7 2 (1.45%) DHCP
7 2 (1.45%) VSAT
8 1 (0.72%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.72%) VoIP
8 1 (0.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.70%) MySQL
2 10 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.25%) Relational Database
3 7 (5.07%) Oracle Database
3 7 (5.07%) RDBMS
4 5 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.62%) InfluxDB
4 5 (3.62%) MariaDB
5 2 (1.45%) Big Data
6 1 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.72%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.72%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.72%) Redis
6 1 (0.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (9.42%) Git
2 12 (8.70%) GitLab
3 9 (6.52%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.17%) JDeveloper
5 2 (1.45%) Selenium
6 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.72%) DbUnit
6 1 (0.72%) JIRA
6 1 (0.72%) jMock
6 1 (0.72%) JUnit
6 1 (0.72%) Maven
6 1 (0.72%) Mockito
6 1 (0.72%) Postman
6 1 (0.72%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.72%) TestNG
General
1 70 (50.72%) Social Skills
2 9 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.45%) Finance
6 1 (0.72%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.72%) Automotive
6 1 (0.72%) Legal
6 1 (0.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (20.29%) Architect
2 26 (18.84%) Software Engineer
3 13 (9.42%) Senior
4 12 (8.70%) Lead
5 10 (7.25%) Technical Architect
6 9 (6.52%) Developer
7 8 (5.80%) Linux Engineer
7 8 (5.80%) Research Engineer
7 8 (5.80%) Research Software Engineer
8 6 (4.35%) Development Engineer
8 6 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (4.35%) Software Development Engineer
8 6 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (4.35%) Technical Leader
8 6 (4.35%) Test Development Engineer
9 5 (3.62%) Lead Architect
9 5 (3.62%) Linux Systems Engineer
9 5 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.90%) IT Support
10 4 (2.90%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (16.67%) REST
2 18 (13.04%) OAuth
2 18 (13.04%) OpenID
2 18 (13.04%) SAML
3 11 (7.97%) React
4 10 (7.25%) Node.js
5 4 (2.90%) EDI
5 4 (2.90%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (2.90%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.17%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.17%) Express.js
7 2 (1.45%) Kafka
7 2 (1.45%) SOAP
8 1 (0.72%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (0.72%) HTML5
8 1 (0.72%) LAMP
8 1 (0.72%) RESTful
8 1 (0.72%) Spring
8 1 (0.72%) Web Services
8 1 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (38.41%) Management Information System
2 48 (34.78%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (7.25%) Life Science
3 10 (7.25%) Private Cloud
4 7 (5.07%) Algorithms
5 6 (4.35%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.62%) PKI
7 4 (2.90%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.90%) Device Driver
7 4 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.17%) Clustering
8 3 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.45%) CCTV
9 2 (1.45%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.45%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.72%) Mixed Reality
10 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (39.86%) Linux
2 16 (11.59%) Windows
3 10 (7.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (7.25%) Unix
4 7 (5.07%) CentOS
5 6 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.62%) Windows 10
6 5 (3.62%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (2.90%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.90%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.72%) Debian
8 1 (0.72%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (55.07%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (42.03%) Actionable Insight
3 56 (40.58%) Decision-Making
3 56 (40.58%) Mentoring
4 53 (38.41%) Coaching
5 52 (37.68%) Collaborative Working
6 51 (36.96%) Project Management
7 48 (34.78%) Business Development
7 48 (34.78%) OSINT
8 47 (34.06%) Customer Requirements
8 47 (34.06%) Process Management
9 46 (33.33%) Agile
10 31 (22.46%) Software Engineering
11 28 (20.29%) Microservices
11 28 (20.29%) Scrum
12 25 (18.12%) Kanban
13 21 (15.22%) Continuous Integration
13 21 (15.22%) DevOps
13 21 (15.22%) Software Testing
14 20 (14.49%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 48 (34.78%) Java
2 37 (26.81%) Python
3 26 (18.84%) Bash
4 16 (11.59%) JavaScript
5 13 (9.42%) C
5 13 (9.42%) C++
6 9 (6.52%) Go
6 9 (6.52%) Ruby
7 8 (5.80%) Perl
7 8 (5.80%) TypeScript
8 7 (5.07%) Fortran
9 6 (4.35%) PHP
10 3 (2.17%) SQL
11 1 (0.72%) C#
11 1 (0.72%) Haskell
11 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.72%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.72%) Rust
11 1 (0.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 52 (37.68%) Security Cleared
2 34 (24.64%) SC Cleared
3 24 (17.39%) Degree
4 14 (10.14%) Azure Certification
5 9 (6.52%) Master's Degree
6 7 (5.07%) PhD
7 6 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.90%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.17%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.72%) ISEB
10 1 (0.72%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (34.06%) PMO
2 4 (2.90%) QA
3 1 (0.72%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.72%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (13.04%) Virtual Servers
2 15 (10.87%) Docker
3 7 (5.07%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 5 (3.62%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.17%) VirtualBox
6 2 (1.45%) KVM
6 2 (1.45%) QEMU
6 2 (1.45%) Xen
7 1 (0.72%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (10.14%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.52%) Ansible
3 8 (5.80%) Puppet
4 5 (3.62%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 5 (3.62%) Terraform
5 1 (0.72%) Consul
5 1 (0.72%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.72%) Grafana
5 1 (0.72%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.72%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.72%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.80%) Oracle
2 8 (5.80%) VMware
3 6 (4.35%) Google
4 5 (3.62%) Cisco
4 5 (3.62%) Fortinet
4 5 (3.62%) Juniper
5 4 (2.90%) Sparx
6 3 (2.17%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.72%) Apple
7 1 (0.72%) EMC
7 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.72%) Veeam