OpenCL Jobs in the UK excluding London

Khronos Group OpenCL
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OpenCL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OpenCL over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 567 746 731
Rank change year-on-year +179 -15 +94
Permanent jobs citing OpenCL 6 13 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.018% 0.032%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% 0.091% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 8
10th Percentile - - £43,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £62,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -17.24% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £76,250
90th Percentile - £115,000 £77,375
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -17.24% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

OpenCL falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,103 14,312 16,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.06% 20.16% 27.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,589 10,307 9,086
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £66,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -11.11% +7.89%

OpenCL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenCL in the UK excluding London

OpenCL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for OpenCL in the UK excluding London

OpenCL
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 OpenCL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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 West - 3 £70,000 - 4
South East +95 2 £60,000 +20.00% 7
North West - 1 £60,000 -
North of England - 1 £60,000 -
OpenCL
UK

OpenCL
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 (50.00%) OpenStack
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) CMake
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (33.33%) TestRail
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
1 2 (33.33%) HTML5
1 2 (33.33%) OpenGL
1 2 (33.33%) QML
1 2 (33.33%) Qt
1 2 (33.33%) VTK
1 2 (33.33%) Vulkan
1 2 (33.33%) WinForms
1 2 (33.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) CUDA
2 4 (66.67%) Data Centre
3 3 (50.00%) Device Driver
3 3 (50.00%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Device Driver Development
3 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
4 2 (33.33%) Physics
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Cryptocurrency
5 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Operations
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C
1 5 (83.33%) C++
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Bash
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) C-shell
3 2 (33.33%) Fortran
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Graphcore