Open Source Jobs in the West Midlands

Open Source
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 204 204
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 -17
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 10 49 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.67% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.81% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 9 45 61
10th Percentile - £49,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £56,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,206 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% -12.56% +21.74%
75th Percentile £71,622 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £81,000 £84,964 £92,500
England median annual salary £73,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +12.31% -13.33% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,097 6,048 6,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.55% 82.99% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,673 4,546 3,237
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,250 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.10% +6.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the West Midlands

Open Source
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Open Source in the West Midlands

Open Source
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Open Source in the West Midlands

Open Source
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 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
Birmingham +8 4 £50,603 -27.71% 8
Coventry - 3 £57,500 - 3
Shropshire - 1 £80,000 - 4
Staffordshire - 1 £80,000 - 7
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (10.00%) dbt
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Pulumi
3 1 (10.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Redis
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Field Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Field Service Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Lead Data Scientist
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Domain Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Head of Development
3 1 (10.00%) Head of Software Development
3 1 (10.00%) Head of Technology
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) Django
2 1 (10.00%) NumPy
2 1 (10.00%) Pandas
2 1 (10.00%) PySpark
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Analytics
1 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Data Science
2 3 (30.00%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (20.00%) Applied Mathematics
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) ETL
3 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (20.00%) Neural Network
3 2 (20.00%) Predictive Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Statistical Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) R
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Apple
1 3 (30.00%) Citrix
1 3 (30.00%) Databricks
1 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft