Open Source Jobs in Wales

Open Source
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 108 99
Rank change year-on-year +43 -9 +20
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 17 22 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 1.28% 0.92% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 1.24% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 14 14 15
10th Percentile £51,738 £36,000 £54,260
25th Percentile £65,973 £43,875 £59,763
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £117,800
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% -36.33% +151.36%
75th Percentile - £82,500 -
90th Percentile - £87,750 -
UK median annual salary £73,000 £65,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +11.45% -12.67% +7.14%

All Process and 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 1,045 1,774 1,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 78.75% 73.98% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 625 1,188 797
10th Percentile £23,504 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Wales

Open Source
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Open Source in Wales

Open Source
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Wales over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Open Source in Wales

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 16 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
South Wales +38 15 £73,000 -2.76% 55
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (5.88%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.88%) dbt
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) Pulumi
4 1 (5.88%) Sentry
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) RDBMS
2 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Architect
1 13 (76.47%) Software Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Developer
2 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Site Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (76.47%) Middleware
2 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) Symfony
3 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.88%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Unix
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Agile
1 15 (88.24%) DevOps
2 14 (82.35%) Continuous Improvement
2 14 (82.35%) Mentoring
3 13 (76.47%) Computer Science
3 13 (76.47%) Configuration Management
3 13 (76.47%) Design Patterns
3 13 (76.47%) SDLC
3 13 (76.47%) UML
3 13 (76.47%) Waterfall
4 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (11.76%) Customer Service
5 2 (11.76%) Data Extraction
5 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
5 2 (11.76%) Web Development
6 1 (5.88%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
1 2 (11.76%) PHP
1 2 (11.76%) Python
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (76.47%) BPSS Clearance
1 13 (76.47%) Chartered Engineer
1 13 (76.47%) Computer Science Degree
1 13 (76.47%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (76.47%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Google