Open Source Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Open Source
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 187 158
Rank change year-on-year -10 -29 -41
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 230 577 955
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.54% 1.71% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.86% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 197 391 542
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £50,000 £57,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.79% -6.67% +8.88%
75th Percentile £115,000 £84,964 £89,852
90th Percentile £138,750 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £73,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +12.31% -13.33% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Open Source
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Open Source trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Open Source
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Open Source.

Open Source salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Open Source
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Open Source over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Open Source salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 73 (31.74%) Apache Spark
2 72 (31.30%) Apache
3 71 (30.87%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.17%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.30%) Drupal
5 3 (1.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.87%) Confluence
7 1 (0.43%) CMS
7 1 (0.43%) nginx
7 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 116 (50.43%) AWS
2 83 (36.09%) Amazon ECS
2 83 (36.09%) dbt
3 80 (34.78%) Serverless
4 77 (33.48%) OpenShift
5 74 (32.17%) AWS Lambda
6 39 (16.96%) Azure
7 23 (10.00%) GCP
8 13 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (4.78%) Amazon ECR
9 11 (4.78%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 11 (4.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 11 (4.78%) AWS CodeBuild
9 11 (4.78%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (4.78%) Pulumi
10 9 (3.91%) Sentry
11 6 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.61%) Amazon MSK
11 6 (2.61%) DigitalOcean
12 5 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.52%) TCP/IP
2 9 (3.91%) Internet
3 6 (2.61%) HTTP
3 6 (2.61%) Network Security
3 6 (2.61%) SD-WAN
3 6 (2.61%) WAN
4 4 (1.74%) 5G
4 4 (1.74%) DNS
4 4 (1.74%) SMTP
5 2 (0.87%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.87%) Firewall
5 2 (0.87%) SSH
5 2 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.87%) Wireless
6 1 (0.43%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (31.30%) Amazon Athena
2 71 (30.87%) Apache Arrow
2 71 (30.87%) Apache Iceberg
2 71 (30.87%) Apache Ignite
2 71 (30.87%) Dremio
3 16 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (6.09%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (6.09%) Redis
4 14 (6.09%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.22%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (5.22%) NoSQL
6 11 (4.78%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.74%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.30%) MySQL
9 2 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.87%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.87%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.87%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.43%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 71 (30.87%) Artifactory
2 24 (10.43%) Git
3 6 (2.61%) Cypress.io
3 6 (2.61%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.61%) Subversion
4 5 (2.17%) Vite
4 5 (2.17%) webpack
5 3 (1.30%) GDB
5 3 (1.30%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.87%) GitLab
6 2 (0.87%) JIRA
6 2 (0.87%) JUnit
6 2 (0.87%) KGDB
7 1 (0.43%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.43%) Selenium
7 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 101 (43.91%) Finance
2 71 (30.87%) Front Office
3 34 (14.78%) Social Skills
4 22 (9.57%) Law
5 20 (8.70%) Banking
5 20 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.22%) Games
8 11 (4.78%) Retail
9 10 (4.35%) Public Sector
10 7 (3.04%) Marketing
11 4 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.74%) Electronics
11 4 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.74%) Public Speaking
12 2 (0.87%) Automotive
12 2 (0.87%) Retail Finance
13 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (35.65%) AWS Engineer
2 80 (34.78%) Python Engineer
3 78 (33.91%) DevOps Engineer
4 77 (33.48%) AWS DevOps
4 77 (33.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 72 (31.30%) Data Engineer
6 58 (25.22%) Senior
7 37 (16.09%) Developer
8 28 (12.17%) Software Engineer
9 15 (6.52%) Lead
10 13 (5.65%) Analyst
11 11 (4.78%) Architect
12 9 (3.91%) Gen AI Engineer
12 9 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (3.91%) Site Engineer
12 9 (3.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 8 (3.48%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 8 (3.48%) Senior Developer
13 8 (3.48%) SOC Analyst
14 7 (3.04%) Domain Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (33.91%) Kafka
2 73 (31.74%) PySpark
3 71 (30.87%) J2EE
4 22 (9.57%) Django
5 18 (7.83%) React
6 16 (6.96%) HTML
7 15 (6.52%) CSS
8 14 (6.09%) .NET
9 13 (5.65%) jQuery
10 10 (4.35%) Vue
11 8 (3.48%) Node.js
12 7 (3.04%) Next.js
13 6 (2.61%) .NET Framework
13 6 (2.61%) REST
14 5 (2.17%) AngularJS
14 5 (2.17%) ASP.NET
14 5 (2.17%) Flutter
14 5 (2.17%) JSON
14 5 (2.17%) OpenAPI
14 5 (2.17%) Parceljs
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.30%) Algorithms
2 16 (6.96%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (6.96%) Virtual Team
3 13 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.65%) Mobile App
4 11 (4.78%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.35%) CSOC
5 10 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.48%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.61%) EPoS
8 4 (1.74%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.74%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.74%) FPGA
8 4 (1.74%) GNSS
8 4 (1.74%) MicroBlaze
8 4 (1.74%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.74%) Self-Driving Car
8 4 (1.74%) Tandem
9 3 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.30%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (18.26%) Linux
2 27 (11.74%) Unix
3 8 (3.48%) Windows
4 5 (2.17%) Android
5 3 (1.30%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.30%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.43%) Debian
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (52.61%) DevOps
2 118 (51.30%) Software Engineering
3 105 (45.65%) CI/CD
4 104 (45.22%) Agile
5 88 (38.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 72 (31.30%) Data Engineering
7 71 (30.87%) Asset Management
8 27 (11.74%) Mentoring
9 25 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence
11 19 (8.26%) Computer Science
11 19 (8.26%) Full-Stack Development
11 19 (8.26%) Machine Learning
12 18 (7.83%) Containerisation
12 18 (7.83%) Roadmaps
12 18 (7.83%) User Experience
13 17 (7.39%) Clean Code
13 17 (7.39%) Continuous Integration
14 16 (6.96%) Performance Management
15 15 (6.52%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 147 (63.91%) Python
2 96 (41.74%) Go
3 84 (36.52%) Java
4 35 (15.22%) JavaScript
5 21 (9.13%) TypeScript
6 20 (8.70%) C++
7 19 (8.26%) C
8 16 (6.96%) SQL
9 9 (3.91%) PHP
10 8 (3.48%) Bash
10 8 (3.48%) C#
10 8 (3.48%) Fortran
11 4 (1.74%) Rust
12 3 (1.30%) Ruby
13 2 (0.87%) Bicep
13 2 (0.87%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.87%) Swift
14 1 (0.43%) Dart
14 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (18.26%) SC Cleared
1 42 (18.26%) Security Cleared
2 27 (11.74%) Degree
3 14 (6.09%) Master's Degree
4 11 (4.78%) PhD
5 8 (3.48%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.30%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.09%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.74%) QA
3 3 (1.30%) JTAG
4 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 96 (41.74%) Docker
2 9 (3.91%) Firmware
3 6 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.74%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 95 (41.30%) Kubernetes
2 93 (40.43%) Terraform
3 11 (4.78%) AWS Copilot
4 10 (4.35%) QRadar
5 6 (2.61%) Istio
6 2 (0.87%) Grafana
6 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.43%) Ansible
7 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (8.70%) Google
2 17 (7.39%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.61%) Confluent
4 4 (1.74%) Mercator
5 3 (1.30%) Oracle
6 2 (0.87%) Cisco
6 2 (0.87%) Meraki
6 2 (0.87%) OneLogin
6 2 (0.87%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.87%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.43%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.43%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.43%) Splunk