Open Source Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Open Source
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Open Source skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 119 153
Rank change year-on-year -55 +34 +47
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 13 77 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.35% 1.77% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 2.10% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 11 35 30
10th Percentile £40,015 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £41,875 £37,371
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +17.65% -26.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £53,750
90th Percentile - £97,000 £64,625
South East median annual salary £67,500 £61,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year +10.66% +27.08% -12.73%

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 3,264 3,666 3,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 89.13% 84.14% 93.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,528 1,753 2,151
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,982 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,509 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +2.74% -
75th Percentile £66,290 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,375 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Open Source job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Open Source
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Open Source
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

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 3 November 2025. 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 -25 12 £57,500 -8.37% 84
Buckinghamshire -3 1 £57,500 +27.78% 44
Open Source
South East

Open Source
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) Confluence
2 2 (15.38%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon S3
2 5 (38.46%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (38.46%) AWS KMS
2 5 (38.46%) Route 53
3 2 (15.38%) Boomi
3 2 (15.38%) iPaaS
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (15.38%) Workato
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (38.46%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (38.46%) DynamoDB
1 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Bitbucket Server
1 5 (38.46%) DbUnit
1 5 (38.46%) Git
1 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
1 5 (38.46%) jMock
1 5 (38.46%) JUnit
1 5 (38.46%) Maven
1 5 (38.46%) Mockito
1 5 (38.46%) SonarQube
2 3 (23.08%) JIRA
3 2 (15.38%) Selenium
General
1 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Law
2 2 (15.38%) Legal
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Senior
2 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Java Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Lead
3 4 (30.77%) Lead Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Lead Java Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Software Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Automation Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Platform Integration Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Automation Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Integration Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) RESTful
1 6 (46.15%) SOAP
1 6 (46.15%) Web Services
2 5 (38.46%) ActiveMQ
2 5 (38.46%) AngularJS
2 5 (38.46%) Bootstrap
2 5 (38.46%) Hibernate
2 5 (38.46%) JPA
2 5 (38.46%) PowerMock
2 5 (38.46%) Spring
2 5 (38.46%) Spring Batch
2 5 (38.46%) Spring Boot
2 5 (38.46%) Spring Integration
3 3 (23.08%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) JSON
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Algorithms
2 3 (23.08%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (7.69%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) BDD
2 7 (53.85%) TDD
3 6 (46.15%) Containerisation
4 5 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (38.46%) Kanban
4 5 (38.46%) Microservices
4 5 (38.46%) Scrum
4 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
5 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
5 4 (30.77%) Mathematics
5 4 (30.77%) Parallel Programming
5 4 (30.77%) Performance Analysis
5 4 (30.77%) Physics
5 4 (30.77%) SDLC
5 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
5 4 (30.77%) Software Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (15.38%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) Bash
3 4 (30.77%) C
3 4 (30.77%) C++
3 4 (30.77%) Fortran
4 3 (23.08%) SQL
5 1 (7.69%) C#
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) Master's Degree
2 4 (30.77%) PhD
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Grafana
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Atlassian
2 2 (15.38%) Dell
2 2 (15.38%) Epicor
2 2 (15.38%) IBM
2 2 (15.38%) IFS
2 2 (15.38%) Infor
2 2 (15.38%) Informatica
2 2 (15.38%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (15.38%) Jitterbit
2 2 (15.38%) MuleSoft
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) SAP
2 2 (15.38%) SnapLogic
2 2 (15.38%) Software AG
2 2 (15.38%) Talend
2 2 (15.38%) TIBCO
2 2 (15.38%) Workday