Open Source Development Jobs in the UK excluding London

Open Source Software Development
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Open Source Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Open Source Development over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 742 743 769
Rank change year-on-year +1 +26 -87
Permanent jobs citing Open Source Development 22 12 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.020% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% 0.021% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 18 5 18
10th Percentile £47,125 £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £80,001 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Open Source Development 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,475 57,466 67,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.95% 95.60% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 41,116 29,651 41,279
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Open Source Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Open Source Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source Development in the UK excluding London

Open Source Development
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Open Source Development in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Open Source Development in the UK excluding London

Open Source Development
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source Development in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Open Source Development in the UK excluding London

Open Source Development
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source Development within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
East of England +23 11 £80,001 +60.00% 3
South West -12 7 £57,500 - 1
South East +13 4 £48,750 -18.75% 1
Open Source Development
UK

Open Source Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) AWS
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
1 7 (31.82%) GCP
2 5 (22.73%) SaaS
3 4 (18.18%) Miro
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) MySQL
2 1 (4.55%) MariaDB
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) Phabricator
2 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (31.82%) Games
2 1 (4.55%) Finance
2 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Machine Learning Researcher
2 5 (22.73%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Digital Product Manager
3 4 (18.18%) Product Manager
3 4 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Java Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Software Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) Open Source Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Java Software Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Junior
6 1 (4.55%) Junior Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Performance Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) PyTorch
1 7 (31.82%) TensorFlow
2 2 (9.09%) ARM Templates
2 2 (9.09%) Flask
2 2 (9.09%) React
3 1 (4.55%) CSS
3 1 (4.55%) Django
3 1 (4.55%) FastAPI
3 1 (4.55%) FFmpeg
3 1 (4.55%) GStreamer
3 1 (4.55%) HTML
3 1 (4.55%) HTML5
3 1 (4.55%) LLVM
3 1 (4.55%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 1 (4.55%) Wayland
3 1 (4.55%) Web Services
3 1 (4.55%) WebKit
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Algorithms
1 7 (31.82%) Blockchain
1 7 (31.82%) Distributed Computing
1 7 (31.82%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.09%) PropTech
4 1 (4.55%) Device Driver
4 1 (4.55%) FPGA
4 1 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Open Source
2 12 (54.55%) Software Engineering
3 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
4 8 (36.36%) Data Visualisation
4 8 (36.36%) Visualisation
5 7 (31.82%) Agile
5 7 (31.82%) API Development
5 7 (31.82%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (31.82%) Cryptography
5 7 (31.82%) Deep Learning
5 7 (31.82%) Differential Privacy
5 7 (31.82%) Event-Driven
5 7 (31.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 7 (31.82%) Game Theory
5 7 (31.82%) Machine Learning
5 7 (31.82%) Multi-Agent System
5 7 (31.82%) Probability Theory
5 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (31.82%) Software Delivery
5 7 (31.82%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) Java
3 4 (18.18%) C
3 4 (18.18%) Go
3 4 (18.18%) PHP
4 2 (9.09%) Bicep
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Degree
2 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Firmware
3 1 (4.55%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.64%) Terraform
3 1 (4.55%) Ansible
3 1 (4.55%) Grafana
3 1 (4.55%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Google
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft