Open Source Job Trends in Surrey

Open Source
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Open Source skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 91 147
Rank change year-on-year -8 +56 -33
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 10 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.50% 0.10% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.11% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile £56,250 - £50,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £71,250 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +19.23% -25.71%
75th Percentile £66,250 £83,750 £71,875
90th Percentile £70,000 - £73,750
South East median annual salary £61,250 £62,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% +38.89% -32.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,434 917 2,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 71.74% 91.98% 87.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,044 548 1,455
10th Percentile £31,328 £30,000 £24,500
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £97,125 £77,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -9.09%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Open Source job vacancy trend in Surrey

Open Source
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Open Source.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Open Source

Open Source
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Surrey over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Open Source in Surrey

Open Source
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 15 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
Guildford - 3 £60,000 -
Staines -3 2 £70,000 -9.68%
Redhill - 2 £56,250 - 1
Open Source
South East

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) GitHub
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) VoIP
2 3 (30.00%) HTTP
2 3 (30.00%) RTP
2 3 (30.00%) Unified Communications
2 3 (30.00%) Wireshark
3 2 (20.00%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) MySQL
2 5 (50.00%) MongoDB
3 4 (40.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (20.00%) Pinecone
4 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Python Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Backend Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Data Science Director
4 1 (10.00%) Data Science Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Flask
1 5 (50.00%) pytest
1 5 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (30.00%) Django
2 3 (30.00%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (30.00%) Jinja
2 3 (30.00%) Node.js
2 3 (30.00%) OAuth
2 3 (30.00%) OAuth2
2 3 (30.00%) RFC 2833
2 3 (30.00%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (30.00%) WebRTC
3 2 (20.00%) Jest
3 2 (20.00%) Kafka
3 2 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (20.00%) React
3 2 (20.00%) scikit-learn
3 2 (20.00%) Spring
3 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (20.00%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) AI
3 4 (40.00%) Microservices
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) Data Science
4 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (30.00%) OO
4 3 (30.00%) OOP
4 3 (30.00%) Sentiment Analysis
4 3 (30.00%) Speech Recognition
5 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (20.00%) LLM
5 2 (20.00%) OWASP
5 2 (20.00%) Secure Coding
5 2 (20.00%) SOA
5 2 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) C++
3 3 (30.00%) C
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) Bash
4 2 (20.00%) Go
4 2 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) PHP
5 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) HNC
2 1 (10.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (30.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (20.00%) QA
3 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Docker
2 3 (30.00%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) BT
2 3 (30.00%) Fortinet
2 3 (30.00%) Mitel
3 2 (20.00%) Google
3 2 (20.00%) OpenAI