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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 116 165
Rank change year-on-year -60 +49 +66
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 12 20 46
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.26% 0.87% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.91% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12 14 42
10th Percentile £30,116 £47,000 £39,898
25th Percentile £45,853 £48,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £51,250 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% -16.27% +2.01%
75th Percentile £60,725 £65,140 £84,964
90th Percentile £83,998 £67,806 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -13.33%

All Process & 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 3,440 2,206 4,321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 74.98% 95.87% 85.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,096 1,134 3,444
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,438 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 13 March 2026.

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 13 March 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
West Yorkshire -35 8 £49,000 -1.01% 11
South Yorkshire -23 4 £60,718 +11.71% 3
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 4 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) AWS
2 9 (75.00%) Azure
3 4 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) MongoDB
1 9 (75.00%) MySQL
2 5 (41.67%) NoSQL
2 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 9 (75.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Junior
3 2 (16.67%) Junior Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Applications Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Operations Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) A2A Protocol
2 1 (8.33%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (58.33%) Software Engineering
3 6 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 6 (50.00%) Microservices
3 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (41.67%) Agile
4 5 (41.67%) BDD
4 5 (41.67%) Coaching
4 5 (41.67%) Continuous Deployment
4 5 (41.67%) TDD
5 4 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (33.33%) Data Science
5 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 4 (33.33%) Operational Stability
6 2 (16.67%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 2 (16.67%) Data Security
6 2 (16.67%) DevOps
6 2 (16.67%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (33.33%) Python
3 4 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Databricks
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
1 4 (33.33%) Palantir