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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 136 176
Rank change year-on-year -17 +40 +32
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 8 42 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.24% 0.85% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 1.08% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 7 30 24
10th Percentile £46,900 - £43,484
25th Percentile £47,000 £48,250 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £49,500 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year - -34.48% +25.92%
75th Percentile £85,000 £62,656 £88,750
90th Percentile - £71,991 £90,979
England median annual salary £73,000 £65,465 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.51% -6.48% -

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 2,869 3,896 3,651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.76% 79.09% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,419 1,968 2,589
10th Percentile £26,010 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £66,367 £65,603 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,475 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.33%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source 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 17 September 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 17 September 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
West Yorkshire -3 5 £49,000 -1.01% 6
South Yorkshire +14 3 £80,000 +22.20% 4
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (37.50%) Apache Spark
1 3 (37.50%) Kinematics
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
1 3 (37.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) CircleCI
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Principal Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Robotics Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Android Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Robotics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Android SDK
1 1 (12.50%) Dagger
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Augmented Reality
1 3 (37.50%) Robotics
1 3 (37.50%) Virtual Reality
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Clean Code
2 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (37.50%) Data Science
2 3 (37.50%) Data Security
2 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
2 3 (37.50%) Motion Control
2 3 (37.50%) Motion Planning
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Reinforcement Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (12.50%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) Scala
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Functional Safety
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Databricks
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
1 3 (37.50%) Palantir
2 1 (12.50%) Google
14 Open Source jobs in Yorkshire