Open Source Jobs in the South East

Open Source
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 256 252 253
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -69
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 146 152 247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.87% 1.06% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.12% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 125 62 106
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,419 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £68,750 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% +7.84% +6.25%
75th Percentile £63,750 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £107,500 -
England median annual salary £63,218 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.71% +7.14% +3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,220 13,554 18,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.27% 94.51% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,861 7,915 11,840
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the South East

Open Source
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the South East.

Salary trend for Open Source in the South East

Open Source
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the South East over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Open Source in the South East

Open Source
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Thames Valley +61 106 £45,000 -18.18% 14
Buckinghamshire +20 49 £45,000 -40.00% 2
Berkshire +32 35 £60,750 +1.25% 10
Hampshire -37 24 £62,500 +4.17% 7
Oxfordshire +8 22 £40,000 -5.88% 2
West Sussex +23 4 £38,000 - 1
Surrey -40 3 £65,000 -23.53% 5
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (7.53%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.74%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.37%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) Kinematics
4 1 (0.68%) nginx
4 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 47 (32.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (41.10%) Azure
2 57 (39.04%) AWS
3 9 (6.16%) SaaS
4 7 (4.79%) GCP
4 7 (4.79%) GitHub
5 6 (4.11%) IaaS
5 6 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (2.74%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (2.05%) Serverless
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.68%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.68%) Discord
8 1 (0.68%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.68%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 23 (15.75%) DNS
2 18 (12.33%) Firewall
3 7 (4.79%) HTTP
3 7 (4.79%) LAN
3 7 (4.79%) WAN
4 6 (4.11%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.74%) BGP
5 4 (2.74%) SSL
6 3 (2.05%) Internet
7 1 (0.68%) DHCP
7 1 (0.68%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.68%) VoIP
7 1 (0.68%) VSAT
7 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.53%) MySQL
2 10 (6.85%) Relational Database
3 9 (6.16%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (4.79%) Oracle Database
5 7 (4.79%) RDBMS
6 5 (3.42%) InfluxDB
6 5 (3.42%) MariaDB
7 3 (2.05%) Big Data
8 2 (1.37%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.68%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.68%) Redis
9 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (8.90%) Git
2 12 (8.22%) GitLab
3 8 (5.48%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.05%) JDeveloper
5 1 (0.68%) Selenium
5 1 (0.68%) Vagrant
General
1 73 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.42%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.74%) Finance
6 2 (1.37%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.68%) Automotive
7 1 (0.68%) Legal
7 1 (0.68%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (19.18%) Software Engineer
2 26 (17.81%) Architect
3 15 (10.27%) Senior
4 13 (8.90%) Lead
5 10 (6.85%) Developer
6 9 (6.16%) Research Engineer
6 9 (6.16%) Research Software Engineer
7 8 (5.48%) Linux Engineer
7 8 (5.48%) Technical Architect
8 7 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (4.11%) Development Engineer
9 6 (4.11%) Software Development Engineer
9 6 (4.11%) Systems Engineer
9 6 (4.11%) Technical Leader
9 6 (4.11%) Test Development Engineer
10 5 (3.42%) Lead Architect
10 5 (3.42%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 5 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.74%) Infrastructure Manager
11 4 (2.74%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.38%) REST
2 18 (12.33%) OAuth
2 18 (12.33%) OpenID
2 18 (12.33%) SAML
3 11 (7.53%) React
4 9 (6.16%) Node.js
5 5 (3.42%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.74%) EDI
6 4 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.05%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.05%) Express.js
8 1 (0.68%) .NET
8 1 (0.68%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.68%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.68%) CSS3
8 1 (0.68%) FreeSWITCH
8 1 (0.68%) HTML
8 1 (0.68%) HTML5
8 1 (0.68%) Kafka
8 1 (0.68%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 54 (36.99%) Management Information System
2 49 (33.56%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (6.85%) Life Science
3 10 (6.85%) Private Cloud
4 9 (6.16%) Data Centre
5 8 (5.48%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.42%) PKI
6 5 (3.42%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.74%) Device Driver
7 4 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.05%) Clustering
8 3 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.05%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.37%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.37%) Mixed Reality
10 1 (0.68%) CCTV
10 1 (0.68%) EMC VNX
10 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 61 (41.78%) Linux
2 16 (10.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 16 (10.96%) Windows
3 10 (6.85%) Unix
4 9 (6.16%) CentOS
5 6 (4.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (4.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.42%) Ubuntu
6 5 (3.42%) Windows 10
6 5 (3.42%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (2.74%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.37%) Debian
9 1 (0.68%) Android
9 1 (0.68%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (52.74%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (39.73%) Actionable Insight
3 56 (38.36%) Mentoring
4 55 (37.67%) Decision-Making
5 53 (36.30%) Coaching
5 53 (36.30%) Collaborative Working
6 51 (34.93%) Project Management
7 48 (32.88%) Agile
7 48 (32.88%) Business Development
7 48 (32.88%) OSINT
8 47 (32.19%) Customer Requirements
8 47 (32.19%) Process Management
9 34 (23.29%) Software Engineering
10 29 (19.86%) Scrum
11 28 (19.18%) DevOps
12 27 (18.49%) Microservices
13 26 (17.81%) Kanban
14 21 (14.38%) Software Testing
15 20 (13.70%) Continuous Integration
15 20 (13.70%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 49 (33.56%) Java
2 39 (26.71%) Python
3 25 (17.12%) Bash
4 17 (11.64%) JavaScript
5 12 (8.22%) C
5 12 (8.22%) C++
6 9 (6.16%) Go
6 9 (6.16%) Ruby
7 8 (5.48%) Perl
7 8 (5.48%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.79%) Fortran
9 5 (3.42%) PHP
10 4 (2.74%) SQL
11 2 (1.37%) C#
11 2 (1.37%) Haskell
11 2 (1.37%) Rust
12 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.68%) R
12 1 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (34.93%) Security Cleared
2 32 (21.92%) SC Cleared
3 25 (17.12%) Degree
4 15 (10.27%) Azure Certification
5 10 (6.85%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.79%) PhD
7 5 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.74%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.05%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.68%) ISEB
10 1 (0.68%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (32.19%) PMO
2 4 (2.74%) QA
System Software
1 18 (12.33%) Virtual Servers
2 14 (9.59%) Docker
3 7 (4.79%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 5 (3.42%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.05%) VirtualBox
6 2 (1.37%) KVM
6 2 (1.37%) QEMU
6 2 (1.37%) Xen
7 1 (0.68%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (13.01%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.22%) Puppet
3 11 (7.53%) Ansible
4 7 (4.79%) Terraform
5 5 (3.42%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 2 (1.37%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.68%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.68%) Grafana
7 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.48%) Oracle
2 8 (5.48%) VMware
3 5 (3.42%) Cisco
3 5 (3.42%) Fortinet
3 5 (3.42%) Google
3 5 (3.42%) Juniper
4 4 (2.74%) Sparx
5 2 (1.37%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.68%) Apple
6 1 (0.68%) EMC
6 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.68%) Veeam