Open Source Jobs in the West Midlands

Open Source
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Open Source skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Open Source over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 204 181
Rank change year-on-year +10 -23 -61
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 48 72 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.68% 1.05% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.08% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 44 67 95
10th Percentile - £33,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% +27.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £93,750 £76,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Open Source is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,883 6,670 6,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.15% 96.93% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,509 3,312 4,807
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024. 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 -20 32 £70,000 - 2
Worcestershire -11 10 £50,000 -
Solihull - 2 £70,000 - 2
Wolverhampton - 2 £46,250 -
Warwickshire - 2 - - 1
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 10 (20.83%) nginx
Business Applications
1 7 (14.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (39.58%) AWS
2 14 (29.17%) Azure
3 10 (20.83%) Serverless
4 7 (14.58%) Contentful
4 7 (14.58%) Google Analytics
4 7 (14.58%) Google Tag Manager
4 7 (14.58%) Vercel
5 4 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (8.33%) GitHub
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (4.17%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.17%) GCP
7 2 (4.17%) IaaS
7 2 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (4.17%) DNS
2 2 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.83%) MySQL
1 10 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (10.42%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (43.75%) Git
2 11 (22.92%) GitLab
3 10 (20.83%) GNU Toolchain
3 10 (20.83%) Subversion
4 2 (4.17%) Burp Suite
4 2 (4.17%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.17%) Metasploit
4 2 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (4.17%) sqlmap
4 2 (4.17%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.08%) ESLint
5 1 (2.08%) JUnit
5 1 (2.08%) Snyk
5 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (14.58%) Marketing
2 5 (10.42%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (39.58%) Developer
2 11 (22.92%) Architect
2 11 (22.92%) Lead
3 10 (20.83%) Linux Developer
4 7 (14.58%) Full Stack Developer
5 6 (12.50%) Senior
6 5 (10.42%) Senior Architect
7 4 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 4 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (8.33%) Technical Leader
8 3 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (6.25%) Technical Architect
9 2 (4.17%) Applications Architect
9 2 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Security Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Software Engineer
10 1 (2.08%) .NET Developer
10 1 (2.08%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (43.75%) Node.js
2 18 (37.50%) React
3 10 (20.83%) POSIX
4 8 (16.67%) GraphQL
4 8 (16.67%) Next.js
5 7 (14.58%) REST
6 3 (6.25%) Django
7 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.17%) AWS CDK
7 2 (4.17%) Express.js
7 2 (4.17%) Jest
7 2 (4.17%) JSON
7 2 (4.17%) Playwright
7 2 (4.17%) Spring
7 2 (4.17%) YAML
8 1 (2.08%) MEAN Stack
8 1 (2.08%) React Native
8 1 (2.08%) Redux
8 1 (2.08%) Spring Boot
8 1 (2.08%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) Embedded Systems
1 10 (20.83%) Linux Command Line
1 10 (20.83%) Private Cloud
2 5 (10.42%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.08%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.83%) Linux
1 10 (20.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (68.75%) Agile
2 25 (52.08%) CI/CD
3 20 (41.67%) DevOps
4 18 (37.50%) Full Stack Development
5 15 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (29.17%) Software Engineering
7 13 (27.08%) Containerisation
7 13 (27.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (27.08%) Roadmaps
8 11 (22.92%) Coaching
8 11 (22.92%) Kanban
8 11 (22.92%) Mentoring
9 10 (20.83%) Progressive Web App
9 10 (20.83%) Scrum
10 9 (18.75%) Continuous Deployment
11 8 (16.67%) Clean Code
11 8 (16.67%) Data Science
12 7 (14.58%) Analytics
12 7 (14.58%) E-Commerce
12 7 (14.58%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.17%) C
1 14 (29.17%) C++
1 14 (29.17%) TypeScript
2 12 (25.00%) Bash
3 11 (22.92%) Python
4 9 (18.75%) Java
5 4 (8.33%) COBOL
5 4 (8.33%) Micro Focus COBOL
5 4 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.08%) C#
6 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (29.17%) SC Cleared
1 14 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Terraform
2 3 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.17%) Ansible
3 2 (4.17%) Progress Chef
3 2 (4.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (14.58%) Google
2 4 (8.33%) Micro Focus
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft