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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 67 81
Rank change year-on-year -50 +14 +2
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 19 3 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.58% 0.35% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.41% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 17 2 7
10th Percentile £47,100 £69,066 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £69,447 £64,471
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,316 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.11% +11.22%
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,670 £79,413
90th Percentile £78,259 £78,742 £79,600
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,000 £69,308
% change year-on-year +9.59% +5.33% -0.99%

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 2,108 725 909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.07% 83.91% 69.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,475 534 536
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £49,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% +8.89% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,106 £73,722
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Wales over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

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 15 October 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 -41 10 £64,827 -12.77% 2
West Wales - 9 £72,500 - 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon EventBridge
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon SQS
2 6 (31.58%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (31.58%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (31.58%) Serverless
3 4 (21.05%) dbt
4 3 (15.79%) Azure
4 3 (15.79%) GitHub
4 3 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
5 2 (10.53%) GCP
5 2 (10.53%) IaaS
5 2 (10.53%) PaaS
5 2 (10.53%) SaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Cypress.io
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 14 (73.68%) Social Skills
2 13 (68.42%) Public Sector
3 7 (36.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Finance
5 1 (5.26%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Lead
2 4 (21.05%) Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Threat and Vulnerability Manager
3 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (10.53%) ERP Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Software Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (47.37%) Node.js
1 9 (47.37%) Terraform
2 8 (42.11%) React
3 7 (36.84%) Spring
3 7 (36.84%) Spring Boot
4 6 (31.58%) AWS CDK
4 6 (31.58%) AWS SAM
4 6 (31.58%) Kafka
4 6 (31.58%) Ruby on Rails
4 6 (31.58%) Serverless Framework
5 2 (10.53%) CSS
5 2 (10.53%) Jest
5 2 (10.53%) Next.js
5 2 (10.53%) Playwright
5 2 (10.53%) RESTful
5 2 (10.53%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Cloud Native
1 6 (31.58%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Mainframe
2 3 (15.79%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.79%) Security Posture
3 2 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (10.53%) Replication
4 1 (5.26%) Blog
4 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.26%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Agile
1 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
2 9 (47.37%) Observability
2 9 (47.37%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 8 (42.11%) DevSecOps
3 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (42.11%) Scrum
4 7 (36.84%) Community of Practice
4 7 (36.84%) Kanban
4 7 (36.84%) Roadmaps
4 7 (36.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (36.84%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (31.58%) Event-Driven
5 6 (31.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 6 (31.58%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (31.58%) Incident Response
5 6 (31.58%) Inclusive Design
5 6 (31.58%) Integration Patterns
5 6 (31.58%) Runbook
5 6 (31.58%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Java
2 6 (31.58%) Ruby
3 3 (15.79%) SQL
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) Python
4 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
1 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (47.37%) Accessibility
2 8 (42.11%) WCAG
3 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Grafana
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) OneLogin
2 2 (10.53%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk