Open Source Jobs in the Thames Valley

Open Source
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Open Source skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Open Source over the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 143 197
Rank change year-on-year +20 +54 -42
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 71 47 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.75% 1.33% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 1.42% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33 31 24
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,328 £37,755
25th Percentile £43,911 £37,815 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,500 £85,000 £93,375
South East median annual salary £58,000 £50,147 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.66% -8.82% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,568 3,305 6,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.77% 93.60% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,753 2,147 3,508
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,725 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.50% -0.91% +4.76%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the Thames Valley

Open Source
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Open Source in the Thames Valley

Open Source
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Open Source in the Thames Valley

Open Source
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 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 December 2024. 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 +20 34 £72,500 +66.89% 1
Oxfordshire -11 22 £44,982 -5.30% 4
Buckinghamshire -1 15 £47,500 -19.15% 1
Open Source
South East

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.63%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.49%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (14.08%) AWS
3 9 (12.68%) Azure
3 9 (12.68%) Azure Sentinel
3 9 (12.68%) Cloudflare
3 9 (12.68%) Entra ID
4 5 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (7.04%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (7.04%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.68%) DNS
1 9 (12.68%) Internet
1 9 (12.68%) SSL
2 6 (8.45%) Cisco Firepower
2 6 (8.45%) Firewall
2 6 (8.45%) Multicast
3 5 (7.04%) Modbus
3 5 (7.04%) SNMP
4 4 (5.63%) Asterisk PBX
4 4 (5.63%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.90%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.45%) Big Data
3 5 (7.04%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (7.04%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.41%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (11.27%) Git
1 8 (11.27%) GitLab
2 6 (8.45%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.45%) JUnit
3 5 (7.04%) DbUnit
3 5 (7.04%) jMock
3 5 (7.04%) Maven
3 5 (7.04%) Mockito
3 5 (7.04%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.82%) CMake
5 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.41%) Postman
5 1 (1.41%) Selenium
5 1 (1.41%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.41%) TestNG
General
1 9 (12.68%) Electronics
1 9 (12.68%) Manufacturing
2 8 (11.27%) Public Sector
3 7 (9.86%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.82%) Publishing
5 1 (1.41%) Games
5 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (28.17%) Developer
1 20 (28.17%) Software Engineer
2 13 (18.31%) Software Developer
3 9 (12.68%) Senior
4 8 (11.27%) Analyst
4 8 (11.27%) Senior Software Engineer
4 8 (11.27%) SOC Analyst
5 6 (8.45%) Automation Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Network Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Java Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 4 (5.63%) Architect
7 4 (5.63%) Design Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Open Source Architect
7 4 (5.63%) Open Source Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) VoIP Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Python Engineer
9 2 (2.82%) Communications Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.86%) RESTful
2 6 (8.45%) REST
3 5 (7.04%) ActiveMQ
3 5 (7.04%) EDI
3 5 (7.04%) Hibernate
3 5 (7.04%) JPA
3 5 (7.04%) PowerMock
3 5 (7.04%) SOAP
3 5 (7.04%) Spring
3 5 (7.04%) Spring Cloud
3 5 (7.04%) Web Services
4 4 (5.63%) FreeSWITCH
4 4 (5.63%) React
4 4 (5.63%) WebRTC
5 3 (4.23%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.82%) Android Jetpack
6 2 (2.82%) Android SDK
6 2 (2.82%) Jetpack Compose
6 2 (2.82%) OpenMP
6 2 (2.82%) VTK
Miscellaneous
1 24 (33.80%) Algorithms
2 10 (14.08%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (12.68%) Client/Server
3 9 (12.68%) Cyber Threat
3 9 (12.68%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (12.68%) Molecular Biology
4 5 (7.04%) Data Centre
4 5 (7.04%) Raspberry Pi
5 3 (4.23%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.23%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.82%) Life Science
7 1 (1.41%) Acoustics
7 1 (1.41%) Genomics
7 1 (1.41%) Linked Data
7 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 51 (71.83%) Linux
2 17 (23.94%) Unix
3 14 (19.72%) Windows
4 9 (12.68%) Debian
4 9 (12.68%) Mac OS
5 5 (7.04%) CentOS
5 5 (7.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.82%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (29.58%) Computer Science
1 21 (29.58%) Software Engineering
2 20 (28.17%) Mathematics
2 20 (28.17%) Physics
3 19 (26.76%) Continuous Integration
3 19 (26.76%) Performance Analysis
4 17 (23.94%) Software Testing
5 16 (22.54%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (21.13%) Parallel Programming
6 15 (21.13%) SDLC
7 14 (19.72%) Analytics
8 11 (15.49%) TDD
9 10 (14.08%) DevOps
10 9 (12.68%) Bioinformatics
10 9 (12.68%) Commercialisation
10 9 (12.68%) Data Analysis
10 9 (12.68%) Disruptive Innovation
10 9 (12.68%) Security Operations
10 9 (12.68%) SIEM
10 9 (12.68%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (81.69%) Python
2 20 (28.17%) Bash
2 20 (28.17%) C
3 17 (23.94%) Fortran
4 14 (19.72%) PowerShell
5 12 (16.90%) C++
6 11 (15.49%) Java
7 9 (12.68%) C#
7 9 (12.68%) Go
8 7 (9.86%) SQL
9 5 (7.04%) Perl
9 5 (7.04%) PHP
9 5 (7.04%) Shell Script
10 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
10 3 (4.23%) Rust
11 2 (2.82%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.41%) R
12 1 (1.41%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 40 (56.34%) Security Cleared
2 37 (52.11%) Degree
3 25 (35.21%) Master's Degree
3 25 (35.21%) PhD
4 23 (32.39%) SC Cleared
5 9 (12.68%) CompTIA Security+
6 7 (9.86%) DV Cleared
7 5 (7.04%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (14.08%) Docker
2 9 (12.68%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.63%) Kamailio
4 3 (4.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (1.41%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 9 (12.68%) Graylog
2 7 (9.86%) Ansible
3 6 (8.45%) ZABBIX
4 5 (7.04%) Cacti
4 5 (7.04%) Grafana
4 5 (7.04%) Nagios
5 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.41%) Consul
Vendors
1 29 (40.85%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.68%) Apple
3 6 (8.45%) Arista
3 6 (8.45%) Cisco
3 6 (8.45%) Fortinet
3 6 (8.45%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.82%) Google
4 2 (2.82%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.82%) Splunk