Open Source Jobs in the Thames Valley

Open Source
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Open Source skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Open Source over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 201 202
Rank change year-on-year +58 +1 -54
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 104 65 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.54% 1.06% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.12% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 93 26 57
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,620 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £55,109 £74,375 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £103,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £70,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year -35.71% +14.75% +1.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Open Source is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,732 5,801 6,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.12% 94.68% 92.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,012 3,152 3,917
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

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 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 2 May 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
Buckinghamshire +21 49 £45,000 -40.00% 1
Berkshire +35 33 £64,250 +16.82% 8
Oxfordshire +15 22 £40,000 -15.79% 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 11 (10.58%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.85%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.96%) Apache
3 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.96%) Confluence
3 1 (0.96%) Kinematics
3 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 47 (45.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 31 (29.81%) Azure
2 25 (24.04%) AWS
3 6 (5.77%) GitHub
3 6 (5.77%) IaaS
3 6 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (4.81%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.88%) Serverless
7 2 (1.92%) SaaS
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (0.96%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.73%) LAN
1 7 (6.73%) WAN
2 6 (5.77%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.85%) BGP
3 4 (3.85%) DNS
3 4 (3.85%) SSL
4 2 (1.92%) Internet
5 1 (0.96%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.96%) HTTP
5 1 (0.96%) VoIP
5 1 (0.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.62%) Relational Database
2 7 (6.73%) Oracle Database
2 7 (6.73%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.73%) RDBMS
3 6 (5.77%) MySQL
4 5 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.81%) InfluxDB
4 5 (4.81%) MariaDB
5 2 (1.92%) Big Data
6 1 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.96%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.96%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.96%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (8.65%) Git
2 8 (7.69%) GitLab
2 8 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.88%) JDeveloper
4 2 (1.92%) Selenium
5 1 (0.96%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.96%) DbUnit
5 1 (0.96%) JIRA
5 1 (0.96%) jMock
5 1 (0.96%) JUnit
5 1 (0.96%) Maven
5 1 (0.96%) Mockito
5 1 (0.96%) Postman
5 1 (0.96%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.96%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.96%) TestNG
General
1 60 (57.69%) Social Skills
2 4 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (3.85%) Public Sector
3 1 (0.96%) Aerospace
3 1 (0.96%) Automotive
3 1 (0.96%) Finance
3 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (20.19%) Software Engineer
2 12 (11.54%) Lead
2 12 (11.54%) Senior
3 9 (8.65%) Architect
4 8 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
4 8 (7.69%) Research Engineer
4 8 (7.69%) Research Software Engineer
5 6 (5.77%) Development Engineer
5 6 (5.77%) Senior Software Engineer
5 6 (5.77%) Software Development Engineer
5 6 (5.77%) Systems Engineer
5 6 (5.77%) Technical Leader
5 6 (5.77%) Test Development Engineer
6 5 (4.81%) Developer
6 5 (4.81%) Lead Architect
6 5 (4.81%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 4 (3.85%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.88%) Chief Technology Officer
8 3 (2.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.69%) React
2 7 (6.73%) Node.js
3 4 (3.85%) EDI
3 4 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (3.85%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.88%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.88%) Express.js
5 2 (1.92%) Kafka
5 2 (1.92%) REST
5 2 (1.92%) SOAP
6 1 (0.96%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (0.96%) Celery
6 1 (0.96%) FreeSWITCH
6 1 (0.96%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.96%) PowerMock
6 1 (0.96%) RESTful
6 1 (0.96%) Spring
6 1 (0.96%) Web Services
6 1 (0.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (49.04%) Management Information System
2 48 (46.15%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (9.62%) Life Science
3 10 (9.62%) Private Cloud
4 7 (6.73%) Algorithms
5 6 (5.77%) Public Cloud
6 5 (4.81%) PKI
7 4 (3.85%) Device Driver
7 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.92%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.92%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.96%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.96%) EMC VNX
9 1 (0.96%) FPGA
9 1 (0.96%) IoT
9 1 (0.96%) Mixed Reality
9 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.96%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 32 (30.77%) Linux
2 13 (12.50%) Windows
3 10 (9.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (6.73%) CentOS
4 7 (6.73%) Unix
5 6 (5.77%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (5.77%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (4.81%) Windows 10
6 5 (4.81%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (3.85%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.96%) Debian
8 1 (0.96%) Rocky
8 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (66.35%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (55.77%) Actionable Insight
3 56 (53.85%) Mentoring
4 53 (50.96%) Coaching
5 52 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
6 51 (49.04%) Project Management
7 47 (45.19%) Business Development
7 47 (45.19%) Customer Requirements
7 47 (45.19%) Decision-Making
7 47 (45.19%) OSINT
7 47 (45.19%) Process Management
8 28 (26.92%) Agile
9 26 (25.00%) Software Engineering
10 19 (18.27%) Full Stack Development
10 19 (18.27%) Software Testing
11 18 (17.31%) DevOps
12 17 (16.35%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (11.54%) Containerisation
13 12 (11.54%) SDLC
14 11 (10.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 32 (30.77%) Python
2 22 (21.15%) Java
3 21 (20.19%) Bash
4 15 (14.42%) JavaScript
5 11 (10.58%) C++
6 9 (8.65%) Ruby
7 8 (7.69%) C
7 8 (7.69%) Perl
7 8 (7.69%) TypeScript
8 7 (6.73%) Fortran
9 4 (3.85%) Go
10 1 (0.96%) C#
10 1 (0.96%) Haskell
10 1 (0.96%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.96%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.96%) Rust
10 1 (0.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (31.73%) Security Cleared
2 16 (15.38%) Degree
3 15 (14.42%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.73%) Master's Degree
4 7 (6.73%) PhD
5 4 (3.85%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.88%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.96%) ISEB
7 1 (0.96%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (45.19%) PMO
2 4 (3.85%) QA
3 1 (0.96%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.96%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (6.73%) Active Directory
1 7 (6.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (5.77%) Docker
3 5 (4.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 5 (4.81%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.92%) KVM
4 2 (1.92%) QEMU
4 2 (1.92%) Xen
5 1 (0.96%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (7.69%) Ansible
2 5 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.81%) Puppet
2 5 (4.81%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 5 (4.81%) Terraform
3 1 (0.96%) Consul
3 1 (0.96%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (0.96%) Kustomize
3 1 (0.96%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.69%) Oracle
2 8 (7.69%) VMware
3 5 (4.81%) Cisco
3 5 (4.81%) Fortinet
3 5 (4.81%) Juniper
4 4 (3.85%) Sparx
5 3 (2.88%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.96%) Apple
6 1 (0.96%) EMC
6 1 (0.96%) Veeam