Open Source Jobs in England

Open Source
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 195 129
Rank change year-on-year -74 -66 +13
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 944 1,583 4,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.04% 1.88% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.97% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 659 746 1,341
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £84,964 £89,852 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,500 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,066 80,344 135,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.60% 95.49% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 55,107 48,707 73,448
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,294
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Open Source in England.

Salary trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Open Source in England

Open Source
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
North of England +67 265 £61,206 -5.84% 43
London -138 257 £83,000 +3.37% 147
North West +46 180 £60,603 -6.76% 30
South East +10 159 £45,000 -32.08% 37
South West -36 111 £65,000 -7.14% 33
Midlands -14 81 £70,000 - 23
Yorkshire +67 65 £61,206 +28.85% 9
East of England +7 53 £80,001 +39.13% 13
West Midlands -17 52 £61,206 -12.56% 16
East Midlands -15 29 £75,000 -6.25% 7
North East -20 20 £68,103 +42.86% 4
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 57 (6.04%) Apache
2 52 (5.51%) Apache Spark
3 28 (2.97%) WebLogic
4 14 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.48%) Confluence
4 14 (1.48%) nginx
5 11 (1.17%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.85%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.74%) Drupal
8 6 (0.64%) Apache Pig
9 5 (0.53%) CMS
10 4 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.42%) IIS
10 4 (0.42%) OpenZeppelin
11 3 (0.32%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.21%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.21%) SAS
12 2 (0.21%) WordPress
13 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 48 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 28 (2.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (0.85%) Shopify
3 6 (0.64%) Magento
4 1 (0.11%) Ripple
4 1 (0.11%) Ripple XRP
4 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 379 (40.15%) AWS
2 312 (33.05%) Azure
3 100 (10.59%) GCP
4 95 (10.06%) Serverless
5 74 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
6 66 (6.99%) OpenShift
7 65 (6.89%) Amazon SQS
7 65 (6.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 57 (6.04%) Amazon EKS
9 46 (4.87%) Amazon S3
10 44 (4.66%) GitHub
11 38 (4.03%) SaaS
12 36 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (3.07%) Amazon Kinesis
15 25 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
15 25 (2.65%) IaaS
16 24 (2.54%) PaaS
17 20 (2.12%) dbt
18 19 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 73 (7.73%) DNS
2 55 (5.83%) Firewall
3 49 (5.19%) TCP/IP
4 45 (4.77%) BGP
5 37 (3.92%) SSL
6 29 (3.07%) AMQP
7 26 (2.75%) WAN
8 25 (2.65%) HTTP
9 24 (2.54%) LAN
10 20 (2.12%) VPN
11 16 (1.69%) MPLS
12 15 (1.59%) Internet
13 10 (1.06%) Network Security
14 9 (0.95%) Unified Communications
15 8 (0.85%) Cisco ISE
15 8 (0.85%) Cisco Nexus
15 8 (0.85%) DMZ
15 8 (0.85%) Multicast
15 8 (0.85%) OSPF
15 8 (0.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (10.06%) NoSQL
2 90 (9.53%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (6.89%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (6.04%) Relational Database
5 52 (5.51%) Big Data
6 44 (4.66%) Hadoop
7 41 (4.34%) MySQL
8 38 (4.03%) Amazon Redshift
9 36 (3.81%) RDBMS
10 30 (3.18%) DynamoDB
11 29 (3.07%) Amazon Aurora
11 29 (3.07%) Cloudera CDH
12 28 (2.97%) Oracle Database
12 28 (2.97%) SQL Server
13 27 (2.86%) Redis
14 24 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
15 19 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
16 14 (1.48%) MongoDB
16 14 (1.48%) SQLite
17 12 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 105 (11.12%) Git
2 94 (9.96%) Jenkins
3 90 (9.53%) GitLab
4 26 (2.75%) Artifactory
5 19 (2.01%) Gatling
6 18 (1.91%) JIRA
7 15 (1.59%) CircleCI
8 13 (1.38%) SonarQube
9 12 (1.27%) Subversion
10 10 (1.06%) GNU Toolchain
10 10 (1.06%) JUnit
10 10 (1.06%) Selenium
11 9 (0.95%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
11 9 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
11 9 (0.95%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.64%) Checkstyle
13 5 (0.53%) Clang
13 5 (0.53%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.53%) JMeter
General
1 276 (29.24%) Social Skills
2 123 (13.03%) Finance
3 55 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 55 (5.83%) Public Sector
4 43 (4.56%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (3.92%) Front Office
6 33 (3.50%) Law
7 31 (3.28%) Aerospace
8 27 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
9 23 (2.44%) Automotive
10 22 (2.33%) Banking
10 22 (2.33%) Retail
11 21 (2.22%) Electronics
11 21 (2.22%) Marketing
12 20 (2.12%) Billing
12 20 (2.12%) Games
13 10 (1.06%) Legal
14 9 (0.95%) Health Technology
14 9 (0.95%) Publishing
15 8 (0.85%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 228 (24.15%) Senior
2 189 (20.02%) Software Engineer
3 182 (19.28%) Developer
4 170 (18.01%) Lead
5 150 (15.89%) Architect
6 85 (9.00%) Technical Leader
7 69 (7.31%) Solutions Architect
8 47 (4.98%) DevOps Engineer
8 47 (4.98%) Senior Software Engineer
9 46 (4.87%) Full Stack Developer
10 43 (4.56%) Senior Architect
11 40 (4.24%) Technical Architect
12 35 (3.71%) AWS Engineer
12 35 (3.71%) Senior Developer
13 33 (3.50%) AWS DevOps
13 33 (3.50%) Lead Architect
14 32 (3.39%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 32 (3.39%) Senior Solutions Architect
15 31 (3.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 31 (3.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (14.83%) React
2 102 (10.81%) REST
3 101 (10.70%) Node.js
4 85 (9.00%) Spring Boot
5 61 (6.46%) RabbitMQ
6 53 (5.61%) AngularJS
6 53 (5.61%) Spring
7 49 (5.19%) HTML
8 43 (4.56%) GraphQL
9 41 (4.34%) Kafka
10 40 (4.24%) Web Services
11 36 (3.81%) Swagger
12 35 (3.71%) PyTorch
13 34 (3.60%) .NET
14 33 (3.50%) J2EE
14 33 (3.50%) TensorFlow
15 31 (3.28%) CSS
16 29 (3.07%) gRPC
16 29 (3.07%) Material-UI
16 29 (3.07%) Scalaz
Miscellaneous
1 92 (9.75%) Private Cloud
2 87 (9.22%) Public Cloud
3 84 (8.90%) Self-Motivation
4 74 (7.84%) Management Information System
5 68 (7.20%) Cloud Native
6 63 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
7 55 (5.83%) Blog
8 52 (5.51%) Algorithms
9 37 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
10 36 (3.81%) Data Centre
11 34 (3.60%) Embedded Systems
11 34 (3.60%) Tandem
12 32 (3.39%) Blockchain
13 29 (3.07%) Media Streaming
14 27 (2.86%) Product Ownership
15 25 (2.65%) Data Structures
15 25 (2.65%) IoT
16 18 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
17 17 (1.80%) Client/Server
18 16 (1.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 268 (28.39%) Linux
2 74 (7.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 50 (5.30%) Unix
4 47 (4.98%) Ubuntu
5 44 (4.66%) CentOS
6 41 (4.34%) Debian
7 39 (4.13%) Windows
8 11 (1.17%) Android
9 9 (0.95%) Windows Server
10 8 (0.85%) Embedded Linux
11 6 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.53%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.42%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.32%) VMS
15 1 (0.11%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.11%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (51.69%) Agile
2 391 (41.42%) Software Engineering
3 275 (29.13%) DevOps
4 234 (24.79%) Mentoring
5 198 (20.97%) Coaching
6 191 (20.23%) Problem-Solving
7 188 (19.92%) CI/CD
8 171 (18.11%) Continuous Integration
9 156 (16.53%) Scrum
10 146 (15.47%) Microservices
11 138 (14.62%) Computer Science
12 134 (14.19%) Containerisation
13 129 (13.67%) Full Stack Development
14 124 (13.14%) Actionable Insight
15 123 (13.03%) Kanban
16 122 (12.92%) Collaborative Working
17 118 (12.50%) Decision-Making
18 101 (10.70%) Infrastructure as Code
19 100 (10.59%) Project Management
20 97 (10.28%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 364 (38.56%) Python
2 313 (33.16%) Java
3 157 (16.63%) JavaScript
4 134 (14.19%) C
5 109 (11.55%) TypeScript
6 105 (11.12%) SQL
7 84 (8.90%) C++
8 72 (7.63%) Go
9 67 (7.10%) Bash
10 49 (5.19%) C#
11 47 (4.98%) Rust
12 38 (4.03%) Scala
13 36 (3.81%) PowerShell
14 29 (3.07%) COBOL
14 29 (3.07%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 29 (3.07%) PHP
15 22 (2.33%) Embedded C
15 22 (2.33%) Fortran
16 17 (1.80%) Kotlin
17 13 (1.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 234 (24.79%) Security Cleared
2 189 (20.02%) Degree
3 173 (18.33%) SC Cleared
4 67 (7.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (4.87%) Azure Certification
6 45 (4.77%) Master's Degree
7 38 (4.03%) DV Cleared
7 38 (4.03%) PhD
8 33 (3.50%) AWS Certification
9 30 (3.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.06%) CCNA
12 3 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.32%) CISSP
12 3 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.21%) CREST Certified
13 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.11%) CCSP
14 1 (0.11%) ISEB
14 1 (0.11%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (4.98%) PMO
2 30 (3.18%) QA
3 16 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.64%) NCSC
6 5 (0.53%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.53%) NIST
7 2 (0.21%) GDPR
7 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 154 (16.31%) Docker
2 25 (2.65%) Virtual Servers
3 12 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.27%) Firmware
3 12 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.06%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.74%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.64%) Ceph
7 6 (0.64%) HDFS
8 5 (0.53%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 4 (0.42%) KVM
10 3 (0.32%) QEMU
10 3 (0.32%) VirtualBox
10 3 (0.32%) Xen
11 2 (0.21%) Kamailio
11 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.21%) vSphere
12 1 (0.11%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 183 (19.39%) Kubernetes
2 132 (13.98%) Terraform
3 108 (11.44%) Ansible
4 62 (6.57%) Puppet
5 35 (3.71%) Progress Chef
6 12 (1.27%) Grafana
7 9 (0.95%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.85%) Kibana
9 6 (0.64%) Knative
9 6 (0.64%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 5 (0.53%) Kiali
11 4 (0.42%) Nessus
11 4 (0.42%) Salt
12 3 (0.32%) Podman
13 2 (0.21%) CASB
13 2 (0.21%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.21%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.21%) Marathon
13 2 (0.21%) Mesos
13 2 (0.21%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 75 (7.94%) Google
2 70 (7.42%) Microsoft
3 35 (3.71%) Oracle
3 35 (3.71%) Red Hat
4 29 (3.07%) Micro Focus
4 29 (3.07%) SaltStack
5 28 (2.97%) Sparx
6 25 (2.65%) Cisco
7 15 (1.59%) Juniper
8 14 (1.48%) Splunk
9 13 (1.38%) VMware
10 12 (1.27%) Fortinet
10 12 (1.27%) OpenAI
11 10 (1.06%) Palo Alto
12 9 (0.95%) Bloomberg
13 8 (0.85%) CheckPoint
13 8 (0.85%) ESRI
14 7 (0.74%) Apple
14 7 (0.74%) Arista
14 7 (0.74%) Tufin