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

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 244 267
Rank change year-on-year -132 +23 -49
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 225 842 737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.56% 1.18% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.41% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 162 496 334
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,375 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,063 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,563 £61,206 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% -9.32% +18.89%
75th Percentile £73,000 £80,001 £80,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £92,500
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 37,041 59,787 56,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.90% 83.60% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,101 41,279 29,105
10th Percentile £26,875 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 18 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 18 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 +55 115 £73,000 +62.22% 205
North of England -122 46 £65,000 +6.20% 148
North West -127 26 £67,563 +11.48% 86
Yorkshire +17 15 £49,500 -19.13% 50
South West +15 15 £61,250 -3.92% 81
Wales +26 14 £70,279 -6.30% 12
Scotland -12 13 £45,000 -40.00% 41
West Midlands +9 11 £61,206 - 49
East of England -1 11 £90,000 +12.50% 111
Midlands -3 11 £61,206 - 81
North East +21 5 £69,384 +13.36% 13
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 3 (1.33%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.33%) Confluence
1 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.89%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.44%) Apache
3 1 (0.44%) IIS
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 55 (24.44%) Azure
2 54 (24.00%) AWS
3 16 (7.11%) GCP
4 14 (6.22%) Serverless
5 12 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (4.89%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (4.89%) Amazon S3
7 10 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.00%) dbt
9 8 (3.56%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (3.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 8 (3.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (3.56%) AWS CodeBuild
9 8 (3.56%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (3.56%) Pulumi
10 7 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.44%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.56%) Internet
3 4 (1.78%) Network Security
4 3 (1.33%) DNS
4 3 (1.33%) SSL
5 2 (0.89%) Firewall
5 2 (0.89%) VPN
6 1 (0.44%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.44%) FTP
6 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.33%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (8.44%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.33%) NoSQL
3 12 (5.33%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.89%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (4.44%) RDBMS
5 10 (4.44%) Redis
6 9 (4.00%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.67%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (2.22%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.22%) MySQL
9 3 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.33%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.33%) Power BI
9 3 (1.33%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.89%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.44%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.44%) Oracle ODI
11 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 30 (13.33%) Git
2 10 (4.44%) GitLab
3 9 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.11%) DbUnit
4 7 (3.11%) jMock
4 7 (3.11%) JUnit
4 7 (3.11%) Maven
4 7 (3.11%) Mockito
4 7 (3.11%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.22%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (2.22%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.78%) JIRA
6 4 (1.78%) Vite
6 4 (1.78%) webpack
7 2 (0.89%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.44%) GDB
8 1 (0.44%) KGDB
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.44%) Selenium
8 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (26.22%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.22%) Law
3 25 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.22%) Finance
5 11 (4.89%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.89%) Games
5 11 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.00%) Banking
6 9 (4.00%) Electronics
7 6 (2.67%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.22%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.78%) Public Speaking
9 4 (1.78%) Retail
10 2 (0.89%) Legal
10 2 (0.89%) Retail Finance
11 1 (0.44%) Automotive
11 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Marketing
11 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (22.67%) Architect
1 51 (22.67%) Senior
2 42 (18.67%) Software Architect
3 40 (17.78%) Lead
4 37 (16.44%) Software Engineer
5 31 (13.78%) Developer
6 15 (6.67%) Analyst
7 12 (5.33%) Senior Software Engineer
8 10 (4.44%) Software Developer
9 9 (4.00%) Python Engineer
9 9 (4.00%) Senior Developer
9 9 (4.00%) Site Engineer
9 9 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 8 (3.56%) Gen AI Engineer
11 7 (3.11%) Data Architect
11 7 (3.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 7 (3.11%) Java Developer
12 6 (2.67%) Senior Architect
12 6 (2.67%) Senior Data Architect
12 6 (2.67%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (19.11%) Middleware
2 27 (12.00%) React
3 17 (7.56%) AngularJS
4 16 (7.11%) Django
4 16 (7.11%) Vue
5 14 (6.22%) HTML
6 13 (5.78%) CSS
7 12 (5.33%) .NET
7 12 (5.33%) jQuery
7 12 (5.33%) RESTful
8 11 (4.89%) Node.js
9 10 (4.44%) Spring
10 8 (3.56%) Hibernate
10 8 (3.56%) REST
10 8 (3.56%) Spring Boot
11 7 (3.11%) ActiveMQ
11 7 (3.11%) JPA
11 7 (3.11%) PowerMock
11 7 (3.11%) SOAP
11 7 (3.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.00%) Algorithms
2 21 (9.33%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.89%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (4.44%) Private Cloud
5 10 (4.44%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.22%) Molecular Biology
8 4 (1.78%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.78%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.78%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.33%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.33%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.33%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.33%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.89%) Hackathon
10 2 (0.89%) Online Banking
10 2 (0.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 60 (26.67%) Linux
2 21 (9.33%) Windows
3 20 (8.89%) Unix
4 6 (2.67%) Android
5 5 (2.22%) Debian
6 3 (1.33%) CentOS
6 3 (1.33%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.89%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (39.56%) Agile
2 84 (37.33%) Computer Science
3 83 (36.89%) DevOps
4 59 (26.22%) Mentoring
4 59 (26.22%) Software Engineering
5 52 (23.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 52 (23.11%) SDLC
6 50 (22.22%) Design Patterns
7 46 (20.44%) CI/CD
8 44 (19.56%) Waterfall
9 42 (18.67%) Configuration Management
9 42 (18.67%) UML
10 38 (16.89%) Microservices
11 32 (14.22%) Analytics
12 31 (13.78%) Data Modelling
13 29 (12.89%) Continuous Integration
13 29 (12.89%) Platform Engineering
14 28 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (12.00%) Digital Strategy
15 27 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 77 (34.22%) Python
2 43 (19.11%) JavaScript
3 27 (12.00%) Java
3 27 (12.00%) SQL
4 26 (11.56%) TypeScript
5 19 (8.44%) C
5 19 (8.44%) Go
6 18 (8.00%) C++
7 15 (6.67%) PHP
8 9 (4.00%) Bash
9 8 (3.56%) Fortran
10 7 (3.11%) C#
11 6 (2.67%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (1.78%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.78%) R
13 3 (1.33%) Embedded C
13 3 (1.33%) Embedded C++
13 3 (1.33%) Scala
14 2 (0.89%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.89%) Rust
Qualifications
1 100 (44.44%) Degree
2 50 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 44 (19.56%) Security Cleared
4 42 (18.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 42 (18.67%) Chartered Engineer
5 39 (17.33%) SC Cleared
6 17 (7.56%) Master's Degree
7 15 (6.67%) DV Cleared
8 14 (6.22%) PhD
9 3 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.89%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.44%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (18.67%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 11 (4.89%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.33%) QA
4 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.44%) JTAG
System Software
1 27 (12.00%) Docker
2 4 (1.78%) Postfix
2 4 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.33%) Firmware
3 3 (1.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (10.22%) Kubernetes
2 19 (8.44%) Terraform
3 8 (3.56%) AWS Copilot
4 4 (1.78%) Puppet
5 3 (1.33%) Graylog
5 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.89%) Grafana
6 2 (0.89%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.44%) Nessus
7 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (5.78%) Google
1 13 (5.78%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.56%) Atlassian
3 7 (3.11%) Databricks
4 6 (2.67%) Apple
5 5 (2.22%) ArcSight
5 5 (2.22%) VMware
6 4 (1.78%) Oracle
7 3 (1.33%) Citrix
7 3 (1.33%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (1.33%) Palantir
8 2 (0.89%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.44%) Red Hat