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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 96 90
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 +19
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 3 9 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.18% 0.75% 0.090%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.82% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,500 -
25th Percentile £53,125 £50,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +28.89% -37.93%
75th Percentile £63,125 £63,000 -
90th Percentile £65,750 £65,700 -
South East median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £52,293
% change year-on-year +7.48% +2.31% -12.85%

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 1,337 1,101 999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 80.79% 91.98% 89.84%
Number of salaries quoted 764 478 680
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £43,563 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £73,875
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%

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 16 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Open Source in Surrey

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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Tableau
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science Director
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Hugging Face
1 1 (33.33%) LangChain
1 1 (33.33%) NumPy
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Feature Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (33.33%) A/B Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing Mix
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) R
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Samsung