Open Source Development Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Open Source Software Development
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Open Source Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Open Source Development 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.042% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.059% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £94,900 - -
25th Percentile £110,875 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £145,000 - -
75th Percentile £152,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £145,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Open Source Development 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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,045 3,555 3,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.34% 89.98% 81.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,591 1,482 2,141
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £41,220
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Open Source Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Open Source Development job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Open Source Development
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Open Source Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Open Source Development

Open Source Development
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source Development in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Open Source Development in the Thames Valley

Open Source Development
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source Development within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 September 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
Berkshire - 2 £145,000 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £88,500 - 1
Open Source Development
South East

Open Source Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Chief Technology Officer
2 1 (33.33%) Scientific Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LLVM
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Commercial Awareness
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Haskell
1 1 (33.33%) Julia
1 1 (33.33%) OCaml
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PhD