Open Source Job Trends in Wales

Open Source
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Open Source skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 69 87
Rank change year-on-year -1 +18 +10
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 4 11 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.37% 1.27% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.49% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 10
10th Percentile - £46,250 £35,400
25th Percentile £68,813 £47,500 £38,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile - £79,600 £70,125
UK median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% -0.99% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 805 736 911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 75.45% 85.19% 89.75%
Number of salaries quoted 537 344 687
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,103
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,104 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% +3.38% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,348
90th Percentile £77,825 £75,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -7.20%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Open Source relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Open Source job vacancy trend in Wales

Open Source
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Open Source.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Open Source

Open Source
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the Wales region over the 6 months to 18 January 2026. 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 Wales -2 3 £73,801 +6.48% 20
Dyfed - 1 - -
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (50.00%) dbt
3 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 2 (50.00%) Pulumi
3 2 (50.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Law
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Copilot
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft