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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 147 140
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 +43
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 23 43 118
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.39% 1.25% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 1.35% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 23 19 95
10th Percentile £30,300 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +38.89% +7.93%
75th Percentile £92,500 £67,875 £55,109
90th Percentile £107,500 £73,750 £79,500
South East median annual salary £61,250 £62,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% +38.89% -30.77%

All Process & 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 4,269 3,187 5,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.80% 92.35% 82.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,959 1,267 3,987
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,725 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,920 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,200 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.91% +1.00% -9.09%

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 25 June 2026.

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 25 June 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
Oxfordshire +4 11 £55,000 -12.00% 1
Berkshire -12 9 £57,500 +10.58% 3
Buckinghamshire -10 3 £95,000 +49.02%
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) GitHub
3 2 (8.70%) SaaS
4 1 (4.35%) Azure
4 1 (4.35%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) HTTP
1 1 (4.35%) HTTPS
1 1 (4.35%) SMTP
1 1 (4.35%) SSL
1 1 (4.35%) VLAN
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 6 (26.09%) Manufacturing
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Finance
6 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Software Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Head of Engineering
3 3 (13.04%) Graduate
3 3 (13.04%) Head of IT
4 2 (8.70%) Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Application Security Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Chief Technology Officer
4 2 (8.70%) Graduate Software Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Security Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Administrator
5 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (4.35%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.35%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Security Posture
2 2 (8.70%) Clustering
3 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Life Science
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Debian
2 2 (8.70%) Gentoo
3 1 (4.35%) FreeBSD
3 1 (4.35%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Software Engineering
2 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (30.43%) Computer Science
4 6 (26.09%) AI
4 6 (26.09%) DevOps
4 6 (26.09%) Mentoring
5 5 (21.74%) Agile
6 4 (17.39%) Data Science
6 4 (17.39%) Information Governance
6 4 (17.39%) SDLC
6 4 (17.39%) Software Delivery
6 4 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (13.04%) Budget Management
7 3 (13.04%) Escalation Management
7 3 (13.04%) High Availability
7 3 (13.04%) IT Strategy
7 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
7 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (13.04%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) Bash
3 4 (17.39%) Java
4 3 (13.04%) Ruby
5 2 (8.70%) C#
5 2 (8.70%) C++
5 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Degree
2 4 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.35%) KVM
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) Podman
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1 (4.35%) Databricks
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.35%) VMware