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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 141 196
Rank change year-on-year +22 +55 +13
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 52 104 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.72% 1.54% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.81% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 21 93 26
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £35,620
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £63,750 £55,109 £74,375
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £103,750
South East median annual salary £62,500 £45,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year +38.89% -34.55% +14.58%

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 2,806 5,737 5,815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.88% 85.18% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,229 4,015 3,158
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,833 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +47 34 £52,000 -19.07% 13
Oxfordshire +32 11 £62,500 +56.25% 14
Buckinghamshire +6 7 £58,750 +30.56% 6
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (11.54%) AWS
2 4 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
2 4 (7.69%) AWS KMS
3 2 (3.85%) Azure
3 2 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (3.85%) Cloudflare
3 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
3 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) DNS
1 2 (3.85%) Internet
1 2 (3.85%) SSL
2 1 (1.92%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (1.92%) Firewall
2 1 (1.92%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.92%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) DbUnit
1 4 (7.69%) Git
1 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 4 (7.69%) jMock
1 4 (7.69%) JUnit
1 4 (7.69%) Maven
1 4 (7.69%) Mockito
1 4 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 21 (40.38%) Law
3 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.62%) Electronics
4 5 (9.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (42.31%) Lead
2 12 (23.08%) Software Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) Developer
4 5 (9.62%) Python Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Senior
4 5 (9.62%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Software Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) SOC Analyst
7 1 (1.92%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Data Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Open Source Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (7.69%) CSS
1 4 (7.69%) Django
1 4 (7.69%) Hibernate
1 4 (7.69%) HTML
1 4 (7.69%) JPA
1 4 (7.69%) jQuery
1 4 (7.69%) PowerMock
1 4 (7.69%) React
1 4 (7.69%) REST
1 4 (7.69%) RESTful
1 4 (7.69%) SOAP
1 4 (7.69%) Spring
1 4 (7.69%) Spring Cloud
1 4 (7.69%) Web Services
2 1 (1.92%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 21 (40.38%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (25.00%) Algorithms
3 5 (9.62%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (9.62%) Molecular Biology
4 4 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.85%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.85%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 18 (34.62%) Linux
2 8 (15.38%) Unix
3 5 (9.62%) Debian
4 2 (3.85%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (57.69%) Computer Science
2 26 (50.00%) Microservices
3 23 (44.23%) Analytics
4 22 (42.31%) Technical Leadership
5 21 (40.38%) Data Collection
5 21 (40.38%) Data Management
5 21 (40.38%) Data Modelling
5 21 (40.38%) Decision Quality
5 21 (40.38%) Digital Strategy
5 21 (40.38%) Platform Engineering
5 21 (40.38%) Product Management
6 13 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 10 (19.23%) Mathematics
7 10 (19.23%) Physics
8 9 (17.31%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (17.31%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (15.38%) Parallel Programming
9 8 (15.38%) Performance Analysis
9 8 (15.38%) SDLC
9 8 (15.38%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (50.00%) Python
2 8 (15.38%) Bash
2 8 (15.38%) C
2 8 (15.38%) C++
2 8 (15.38%) Fortran
3 7 (13.46%) Java
3 7 (13.46%) JavaScript
4 6 (11.54%) TypeScript
5 4 (7.69%) SQL
6 3 (5.77%) Go
7 2 (3.85%) C#
7 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.92%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (69.23%) Degree
2 15 (28.85%) SC Cleared
2 15 (28.85%) Security Cleared
3 14 (26.92%) Master's Degree
3 14 (26.92%) PhD
4 8 (15.38%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.92%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.85%) Docker
1 2 (3.85%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) Graylog
2 1 (1.92%) Ansible
2 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.85%) Apple
3 1 (1.92%) Arista
3 1 (1.92%) Cisco
3 1 (1.92%) Fortinet
3 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto