Open Source Job Trends in Yorkshire

Open Source
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Open Source skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 128 165
Rank change year-on-year -28 +37 +82
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 6 38 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.17% 0.89% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 1.11% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 6 26 23
10th Percentile £46,875 - £49,500
25th Percentile £47,313 £48,250 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,750 £49,500 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year +30.81% -34.48% +20.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £68,750 £88,750
90th Percentile - £71,991 £91,297
England median annual salary £73,159 £69,308 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -0.99% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,998 3,427 3,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 87.18% 80.22% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,465 1,463 2,377
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Open Source relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Open Source job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Open Source
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Open Source.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Open Source

Open Source
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Open Source in Yorkshire

Open Source
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 October 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 Yorkshire +11 3 £80,000 +22.20%
West Yorkshire -28 3 £49,000 -1.01% 11
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Kinematics
2 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) CircleCI
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Robotics Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Robotics Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Augmented Reality
1 3 (50.00%) Robotics
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Reality
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) AI
1 3 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (50.00%) Motion Control
1 3 (50.00%) Motion Planning
1 3 (50.00%) Reinforcement Learning
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (33.33%) Data Science
2 2 (33.33%) Data Security
2 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) Scala
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Functional Safety
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) Palantir