Open Source Jobs

Open Source
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 254 197
Rank change year-on-year -91 -57 -82
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 455 1,223 1,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 1.10% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.34% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 317 750 811
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £48,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £65,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.45% -12.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £115,000 £84,964 £89,852
90th Percentile £137,500 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,000 £61,206 £67,500
% change year-on-year +19.27% -9.32% +17.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,870 91,558 87,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.48% 82.18% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 26,051 63,300 53,252
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £39,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,991 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the UK

Open Source
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Open Source.

Salary trend for Open Source in the UK

Open Source
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Open Source in the UK

Open Source
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 June 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
England -90 398 £73,000 +12.31% 3,524
UK excluding London -111 248 £73,000 +19.27% 2,110
London +32 173 £110,000 +32.53% 1,718
Work from Home -108 171 £87,500 +25.00% 2,051
South East +61 143 £73,000 +62.22% 428
North of England -133 39 £65,000 +6.20% 529
North West -123 26 £68,505 +14.17% 310
Scotland -5 19 £45,000 -40.00% 248
Wales +36 16 £73,000 -2.67% 51
West Midlands +31 12 £72,500 +18.45% 159
Midlands +23 12 £72,500 +3.57% 278
South West +14 12 £60,000 -4.00% 204
Yorkshire +6 7 £49,000 -19.48% 188
East of England -8 7 £101,250 +26.56% 324
North East +35 6 £60,942 -18.74% 31

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 64 (14.07%) Apache Spark
2 53 (11.65%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (10.99%) Apache
4 11 (2.42%) Confluence
5 4 (0.88%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.66%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.66%) Drupal
6 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.44%) CMS
8 1 (0.22%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.22%) IIS
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.22%) nginx
8 1 (0.22%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.66%) AutoCAD
1 3 (0.66%) Blender
1 3 (0.66%) ProjectWise
1 3 (0.66%) Revit
2 2 (0.44%) Maya
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 161 (35.38%) AWS
2 72 (15.82%) Azure
2 72 (15.82%) Serverless
3 63 (13.85%) Amazon ECS
3 63 (13.85%) dbt
4 62 (13.63%) AWS Lambda
5 56 (12.31%) OpenShift
6 41 (9.01%) GCP
7 29 (6.37%) Amazon EC2
8 24 (5.27%) GitHub
9 23 (5.05%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
11 15 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (2.64%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 12 (2.64%) AWS KMS
14 11 (2.42%) Amazon ECR
14 11 (2.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 11 (2.42%) AWS CodeBuild
14 11 (2.42%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.30%) TCP/IP
2 8 (1.76%) Internet
3 6 (1.32%) Bluetooth
3 6 (1.32%) HTTP
3 6 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (1.32%) Wireless
4 5 (1.10%) SD-WAN
4 5 (1.10%) WAN
5 4 (0.88%) 5G
5 4 (0.88%) DNS
5 4 (0.88%) SMTP
6 3 (0.66%) Network Security
7 2 (0.44%) Firewall
7 2 (0.44%) SSH
8 1 (0.22%) FTP
8 1 (0.22%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.22%) SSL
8 1 (0.22%) tcpdump
8 1 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (11.43%) Amazon Athena
2 48 (10.55%) Apache Arrow
2 48 (10.55%) Apache Iceberg
2 48 (10.55%) Apache Ignite
2 48 (10.55%) Dremio
3 44 (9.67%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (7.25%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (4.18%) Redis
6 18 (3.96%) DynamoDB
7 17 (3.74%) MongoDB
8 15 (3.30%) MySQL
9 14 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (2.42%) Relational Database
12 10 (2.20%) NoSQL
13 8 (1.76%) Hadoop
13 8 (1.76%) SQL Server
14 6 (1.32%) Big Data
15 5 (1.10%) Apache Hive
15 5 (1.10%) HBase
Development Applications
1 48 (10.55%) Artifactory
1 48 (10.55%) Git
2 18 (3.96%) Jenkins
2 18 (3.96%) Maven
3 16 (3.52%) JUnit
4 14 (3.08%) Mockito
5 13 (2.86%) JIRA
6 12 (2.64%) DbUnit
6 12 (2.64%) IntelliJ
6 12 (2.64%) jMock
6 12 (2.64%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.42%) Bitbucket Server
8 10 (2.20%) GitLab
9 6 (1.32%) KGDB
9 6 (1.32%) Subversion
10 5 (1.10%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.10%) Gradle
11 4 (0.88%) rollup.js
11 4 (0.88%) Vite
12 3 (0.66%) GDB
General
1 121 (26.59%) Finance
2 78 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 64 (14.07%) Law
4 55 (12.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (10.55%) Front Office
6 30 (6.59%) Banking
7 29 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
8 24 (5.27%) Marketing
8 24 (5.27%) Public Sector
9 15 (3.30%) Legal
10 13 (2.86%) Retail
11 6 (1.32%) Games
12 5 (1.10%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.88%) Electronics
13 4 (0.88%) Music Industry
13 4 (0.88%) Public Speaking
14 3 (0.66%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.66%) Publishing
15 2 (0.44%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 105 (23.08%) Architect
2 96 (21.10%) Software Architect
3 87 (19.12%) Senior
4 78 (17.14%) Software Engineer
5 70 (15.38%) Lead
6 62 (13.63%) Data Engineer
7 61 (13.41%) AWS Engineer
8 57 (12.53%) Developer
8 57 (12.53%) DevOps Engineer
9 56 (12.31%) Python Engineer
10 54 (11.87%) AWS DevOps
10 54 (11.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 38 (8.35%) Java Engineer
12 24 (5.27%) Java Software Engineer
13 21 (4.62%) Java Developer
14 18 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
15 17 (3.74%) Analyst
16 14 (3.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 13 (2.86%) Lead Software Engineer
17 13 (2.86%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (21.54%) Middleware
2 66 (14.51%) Kafka
3 51 (11.21%) PySpark
4 48 (10.55%) J2EE
5 42 (9.23%) React
6 34 (7.47%) REST
7 28 (6.15%) AngularJS
7 28 (6.15%) Spring
8 27 (5.93%) HTML
9 26 (5.71%) CSS
10 22 (4.84%) Django
10 22 (4.84%) RESTful
11 19 (4.18%) Spring Boot
12 17 (3.74%) JPA
13 15 (3.30%) Hibernate
14 12 (2.64%) ActiveMQ
14 12 (2.64%) Node.js
14 12 (2.64%) PowerMock
14 12 (2.64%) SOAP
14 12 (2.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.37%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (5.49%) Algorithms
4 23 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.20%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.76%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.76%) Distributed Architecture
7 8 (1.76%) Embedded Systems
7 8 (1.76%) Mobile Banking
7 8 (1.76%) Private Cloud
8 7 (1.54%) Blog
8 7 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (1.54%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.54%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.32%) EPoS
9 6 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.32%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.88%) GNSS
10 4 (0.88%) MicroBlaze
Operating Systems
1 72 (15.82%) Linux
2 29 (6.37%) Unix
3 20 (4.40%) Windows
4 4 (0.88%) Android
4 4 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.44%) CentOS
6 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.22%) Debian
7 1 (0.22%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.22%) SUSE
7 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (48.13%) Agile
2 208 (45.71%) DevOps
3 163 (35.82%) Software Engineering
4 142 (31.21%) Computer Science
5 132 (29.01%) Mentoring
6 123 (27.03%) SDLC
7 116 (25.49%) CI/CD
8 114 (25.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 112 (24.62%) Design Patterns
10 98 (21.54%) Configuration Management
11 96 (21.10%) Waterfall
12 95 (20.88%) UML
13 81 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
14 69 (15.16%) Data Engineering
15 67 (14.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 66 (14.51%) Microservices
17 50 (10.99%) TDD
18 48 (10.55%) Asset Management
19 47 (10.33%) Containerisation
20 44 (9.67%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 153 (33.63%) Python
2 140 (30.77%) Java
3 70 (15.38%) Go
4 52 (11.43%) SQL
5 46 (10.11%) JavaScript
6 34 (7.47%) TypeScript
7 28 (6.15%) C++
8 24 (5.27%) C
9 23 (5.05%) Kotlin
10 12 (2.64%) C#
11 11 (2.42%) PHP
12 9 (1.98%) Bash
13 8 (1.76%) Fortran
13 8 (1.76%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (1.54%) R
15 5 (1.10%) PL/SQL
15 5 (1.10%) Scala
16 4 (0.88%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.66%) Embedded C
17 3 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 175 (38.46%) Degree
2 104 (22.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 99 (21.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 95 (20.88%) Chartered Engineer
5 55 (12.09%) Security Cleared
6 49 (10.77%) SC Cleared
7 27 (5.93%) Master's Degree
8 23 (5.05%) PhD
9 18 (3.96%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.88%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (20.88%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 14 (3.08%) Accessibility
2 14 (3.08%) QA
3 10 (2.20%) GDPR
4 6 (1.32%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.88%) NIST
5 4 (0.88%) WCAG
6 3 (0.66%) JTAG
7 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.44%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.22%) MiFID
8 1 (0.22%) PMO
8 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 118 (25.93%) Docker
2 9 (1.98%) Firmware
3 6 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.10%) HDFS
5 4 (0.88%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.88%) Postfix
6 3 (0.66%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.22%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 97 (21.32%) Kubernetes
2 83 (18.24%) Terraform
3 11 (2.42%) AWS Copilot
4 6 (1.32%) Grafana
4 6 (1.32%) Istio
4 6 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.10%) Puppet
6 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.44%) QRadar
8 1 (0.22%) Ansible
8 1 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.22%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 21 (4.62%) Google
2 20 (4.40%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.08%) Atlassian
4 12 (2.64%) Databricks
5 7 (1.54%) ArcSight
5 7 (1.54%) Palantir
6 6 (1.32%) Confluent
6 6 (1.32%) Oracle
7 5 (1.10%) Cloudera
7 5 (1.10%) VMware
8 4 (0.88%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (0.88%) Mercator
9 3 (0.66%) Apple
9 3 (0.66%) Autodesk
9 3 (0.66%) Citrix
9 3 (0.66%) Foundry
9 3 (0.66%) Informatica
9 3 (0.66%) RedGate
9 3 (0.66%) Talend
10 2 (0.44%) Splunk