Open Source Job Trends in Swansea

Open Source
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring Open Source skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 8 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 1.57% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% - -
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £50,825 - -
25th Percentile £67,813 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - -
75th Percentile £73,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median annual salary £72,500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 394 36 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 77.10% 87.80% 78.23%
Number of salaries quoted 241 19 74
10th Percentile £32,000 £27,800 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £34,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,848 £43,756
Median % change year-on-year +5.02% -2.08% -2.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £54,685 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £59,857 £70,000
West Wales median annual salary £45,000 £43,924 £40,000
% change year-on-year +2.45% +9.81% -11.11%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Open Source job vacancy trend in Swansea

Open Source
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Open Source.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Open Source

Open Source
Salary Histogram in Swansea

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Swansea over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Open Source in Swansea

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon SQS
2 6 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (75.00%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 8 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) React
2 7 (87.50%) Node.js
3 6 (75.00%) AWS CDK
3 6 (75.00%) AWS SAM
3 6 (75.00%) Kafka
3 6 (75.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 6 (75.00%) Serverless Framework
3 6 (75.00%) Spring
3 6 (75.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (75.00%) Terraform
4 2 (25.00%) CSS
4 2 (25.00%) Jest
4 2 (25.00%) Next.js
4 2 (25.00%) Playwright
4 2 (25.00%) RESTful
4 2 (25.00%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 6 (75.00%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 7 (87.50%) Scrum
3 6 (75.00%) Community of Practice
3 6 (75.00%) DevSecOps
3 6 (75.00%) Event-Driven
3 6 (75.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 6 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (75.00%) Inclusive Design
3 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (75.00%) Integration Patterns
3 6 (75.00%) Kanban
3 6 (75.00%) Observability
3 6 (75.00%) OWASP
3 6 (75.00%) Roadmaps
3 6 (75.00%) Runbook
3 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 6 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (75.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
1 6 (75.00%) Ruby
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 8 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) OneLogin