Open Source Jobs in the UK excluding London

Open Source
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 246 261
Rank change year-on-year -106 +15 -40
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 213 820 790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 1.17% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.38% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 141 496 363
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,375 £41,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,206 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -9.32% +18.89%
75th Percentile £74,258 £80,001 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £73,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +12.31% -13.33% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,997 59,372 58,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.31% 84.44% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 17,723 41,125 30,120
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East +63 94 £62,500 +38.89% 111
North of England -74 51 £61,206 - 82
North West -82 29 £65,000 +7.26% 61
South West +20 21 £60,000 -5.88% 48
Yorkshire +33 17 £49,500 -19.13% 14
East of England +20 13 £90,000 +12.50% 56
Midlands +15 11 £57,500 -6.05% 22
West Midlands +12 11 £57,500 -6.05% 14
Scotland +2 11 £45,000 -40.00% 26
Wales +33 10 £63,250 -15.67% 10
North East +35 5 £69,384 +13.36% 7
Northern Ireland +11 2 - - 5
Open Source
UK

Open Source
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 5 (2.35%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.88%) Apache
3 3 (1.41%) Confluence
3 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.94%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.47%) IIS
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (1.41%) Ripple
1 3 (1.41%) Ripple XRP
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 59 (27.70%) Azure
2 56 (26.29%) AWS
3 18 (8.45%) GCP
4 15 (7.04%) Serverless
5 14 (6.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (5.16%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (4.69%) Amazon ECR
8 9 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.23%) dbt
9 8 (3.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 8 (3.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (3.76%) AWS CodeBuild
9 8 (3.76%) GitHub
9 8 (3.76%) Pulumi
10 7 (3.29%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (3.29%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.16%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.76%) Internet
3 6 (2.82%) Firewall
4 5 (2.35%) DNS
4 5 (2.35%) VPN
5 4 (1.88%) Network Security
6 3 (1.41%) Multicast
6 3 (1.41%) SSL
7 2 (0.94%) IPv6
7 2 (0.94%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.47%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.47%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.47%) FTP
8 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.92%) Amazon RDS
1 19 (8.92%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (7.04%) Relational Database
3 14 (6.57%) NoSQL
4 13 (6.10%) RDBMS
5 11 (5.16%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (4.69%) Redis
7 6 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (2.82%) MySQL
8 5 (2.35%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.88%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.88%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.41%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.41%) Power BI
11 2 (0.94%) Big Data
11 2 (0.94%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.94%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.47%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 33 (15.49%) Git
2 12 (5.63%) GitLab
3 8 (3.76%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.82%) Cypress.io
4 6 (2.82%) JUnit
5 5 (2.35%) DbUnit
5 5 (2.35%) jMock
5 5 (2.35%) Maven
5 5 (2.35%) Mockito
5 5 (2.35%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.35%) Vite
5 5 (2.35%) webpack
6 4 (1.88%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.94%) Apache Archiva
7 2 (0.94%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.94%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.94%) JIRA
7 2 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.94%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
General
1 66 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.90%) Law
3 25 (11.74%) Public Sector
4 18 (8.45%) Finance
5 12 (5.63%) Games
6 11 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.23%) Banking
7 9 (4.23%) Electronics
8 8 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.82%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.35%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.88%) Public Speaking
11 4 (1.88%) Retail
12 3 (1.41%) Digital Economy
12 3 (1.41%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.94%) Automotive
13 2 (0.94%) Legal
13 2 (0.94%) Retail Finance
14 1 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (25.82%) Senior
2 41 (19.25%) Software Engineer
3 38 (17.84%) Lead
4 31 (14.55%) Developer
5 25 (11.74%) Architect
6 15 (7.04%) Analyst
7 14 (6.57%) Senior Software Engineer
7 14 (6.57%) Software Architect
8 10 (4.69%) Software Developer
9 9 (4.23%) Gen AI Engineer
9 9 (4.23%) Python Engineer
9 9 (4.23%) Site Engineer
9 9 (4.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 8 (3.76%) Data Architect
10 8 (3.76%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (3.76%) Senior Developer
11 7 (3.29%) Domain Architect
11 7 (3.29%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (3.29%) Senior Architect
11 7 (3.29%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.62%) React
2 17 (7.98%) Django
2 17 (7.98%) Vue
3 16 (7.51%) .NET
4 15 (7.04%) HTML
4 15 (7.04%) Middleware
5 14 (6.57%) CSS
6 13 (6.10%) jQuery
6 13 (6.10%) Node.js
7 12 (5.63%) AngularJS
8 11 (5.16%) RESTful
9 9 (4.23%) REST
10 8 (3.76%) Spring
11 7 (3.29%) Next.js
12 6 (2.82%) Hibernate
12 6 (2.82%) Jest
12 6 (2.82%) SOAP
13 5 (2.35%) ActiveMQ
13 5 (2.35%) ASP.NET
13 5 (2.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.02%) Algorithms
2 21 (9.86%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (8.45%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.63%) Public Cloud
5 10 (4.69%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (4.69%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.82%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.82%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.35%) Molecular Biology
7 5 (2.35%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.88%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.88%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.41%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.41%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.41%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.94%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.94%) Online Banking
10 2 (0.94%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 60 (28.17%) Linux
2 22 (10.33%) Windows
3 20 (9.39%) Unix
4 9 (4.23%) Android
5 5 (2.35%) Debian
6 3 (1.41%) CentOS
6 3 (1.41%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.94%) VMS
7 2 (0.94%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (30.52%) Agile
2 63 (29.58%) Software Engineering
3 60 (28.17%) Computer Science
4 57 (26.76%) DevOps
5 50 (23.47%) CI/CD
6 37 (17.37%) Microservices
7 36 (16.90%) Mentoring
8 34 (15.96%) Analytics
9 31 (14.55%) Data Modelling
10 30 (14.08%) Full-Stack Development
10 30 (14.08%) Platform Engineering
10 30 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (13.15%) Continuous Integration
11 28 (13.15%) Digital Strategy
12 27 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (11.74%) Artificial Intelligence
13 25 (11.74%) Machine Learning
13 25 (11.74%) SDLC
14 23 (10.80%) Design Patterns
14 23 (10.80%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 86 (40.38%) Python
2 48 (22.54%) JavaScript
3 32 (15.02%) SQL
4 28 (13.15%) Java
4 28 (13.15%) TypeScript
5 26 (12.21%) C++
6 21 (9.86%) Go
7 20 (9.39%) C
8 15 (7.04%) PHP
9 11 (5.16%) Bash
10 8 (3.76%) Fortran
11 7 (3.29%) C#
12 6 (2.82%) PowerShell
12 6 (2.82%) R
13 5 (2.35%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (1.41%) Embedded C
14 3 (1.41%) Embedded C++
14 3 (1.41%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.41%) Rust
14 3 (1.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 76 (35.68%) Degree
2 46 (21.60%) Security Cleared
3 41 (19.25%) SC Cleared
4 24 (11.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (7.98%) Master's Degree
6 16 (7.51%) DV Cleared
7 14 (6.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (6.57%) Chartered Engineer
7 14 (6.57%) PhD
8 3 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.94%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.57%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 12 (5.63%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.82%) QA
4 2 (0.94%) GDPR
5 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.47%) JTAG
System Software
1 27 (12.68%) Docker
2 4 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.41%) Firmware
3 3 (1.41%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.94%) Postfix
5 1 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (13.62%) Kubernetes
2 23 (10.80%) Terraform
3 8 (3.76%) AWS Copilot
4 4 (1.88%) Puppet
5 3 (1.41%) Ansible
5 3 (1.41%) Graylog
5 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.94%) Argo
6 2 (0.94%) Kustomize
6 2 (0.94%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.47%) Nessus
7 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (6.57%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.63%) Google
3 7 (3.29%) Databricks
4 6 (2.82%) Apple
5 5 (2.35%) VMware
6 4 (1.88%) ArcSight
6 4 (1.88%) Oracle
7 3 (1.41%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.41%) Citrix
7 3 (1.41%) Palantir
8 2 (0.94%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.47%) Arista
9 1 (0.47%) Cisco
9 1 (0.47%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.47%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.47%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.47%) Salesforce