Khronos Group OpenCL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 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 686 880 967
Rank change year-on-year +194 +87 +211
Permanent jobs citing OpenCL 6 16 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.016% 0.021%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.071% 0.076% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 5 14 11
10th Percentile - £45,000 £43,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,697 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -17.24% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £109,375 £76,250
90th Percentile - £120,250 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -24.14% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,460 21,099 31,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.26% 21.42% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,443 15,769 19,367
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

OpenCL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenCL in the UK

OpenCL
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OpenCL.

Salary trend for OpenCL in the UK

OpenCL
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenCL within the UK 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
UK excluding London +201 6 £60,000 +9.09% 13
England +164 6 £60,000 - 20
South West - 3 £70,000 - 4
South East +103 2 £60,000 +20.00% 3
North West - 1 £60,000 -
North of England - 1 £60,000 -

OpenCL
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 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