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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 82 146
Rank change year-on-year -29 +64 -29
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 5 3 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.23% 0.32% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.36% 0.099%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile - £46,500 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -29.03%
75th Percentile £63,438 £75,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,125 £80,500 -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +33.33% -33.33%

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 1,644 827 2,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 75.59% 89.41% 89.60%
Number of salaries quoted 964 510 1,336
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £37,875 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £66,879 £72,188 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,125 £80,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -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
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 16 April 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 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) HTTP
1 3 (60.00%) RTP
1 3 (60.00%) Unified Communications
1 3 (60.00%) VoIP
1 3 (60.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science Director
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Django
1 3 (60.00%) Flask
1 3 (60.00%) FreeSWITCH
1 3 (60.00%) Jinja
1 3 (60.00%) OAuth
1 3 (60.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (60.00%) pytest
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) RFC 2833
1 3 (60.00%) SQLAlchemy
1 3 (60.00%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) OO
2 3 (60.00%) OOP
2 3 (60.00%) Sentiment Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Speech Recognition
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Economics
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Market Research
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (20.00%) Operations Research
3 1 (20.00%) OWASP
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Regression Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) C
2 3 (60.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) Go
3 1 (20.00%) R
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (60.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 3 (60.00%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Argo
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) BT
1 3 (60.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) Mitel