Open Source Jobs in the South West

Open Source
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 179 146 133
Rank change year-on-year -33 -13 -7
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 111 120 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.18% 1.80% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.90% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 65 53 119
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,725 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +47.37% -13.64%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £71,838
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,250 £85,000
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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,774 6,314 7,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 82.96% 94.49% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,600 3,501 4,988
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +6.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,750 £66,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the South West

Open Source
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Open Source in the South West

Open Source
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the South West over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Open Source in the South West

Open Source
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Bristol +8 51 £60,000 -11.11% 15
Gloucestershire -36 45 £65,000 -8.45% 1
Devon - 9 - - 4
Dorset -28 3 £67,500 -10.00%
Wiltshire -22 1 - - 3
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 25 (22.52%) Apache
2 16 (14.41%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.60%) Confluence
3 4 (3.60%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 64 (57.66%) AWS
2 60 (54.05%) Azure
3 21 (18.92%) GCP
4 20 (18.02%) Amazon EKS
4 20 (18.02%) OpenShift
4 20 (18.02%) Serverless
5 17 (15.32%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (14.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (3.60%) Miro
8 2 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.90%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (0.90%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.41%) AMQP
2 12 (10.81%) DNS
2 12 (10.81%) TCP/IP
3 10 (9.01%) Internet
4 8 (7.21%) HTTP
4 8 (7.21%) SMTP
5 4 (3.60%) BGP
5 4 (3.60%) SSL
6 2 (1.80%) Asterisk PBX
6 2 (1.80%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.80%) PBX
6 2 (1.80%) RTP
6 2 (1.80%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.92%) Big Data
2 16 (14.41%) Cloudera CDH
2 16 (14.41%) Hadoop
3 10 (9.01%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (6.31%) Oracle Database
4 7 (6.31%) RDBMS
4 7 (6.31%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.70%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.90%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 33 (29.73%) GitLab
2 15 (13.51%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.11%) Git
4 4 (3.60%) Cypress.io
4 4 (3.60%) JIRA
4 4 (3.60%) Selenium
5 3 (2.70%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.70%) JDeveloper
General
1 16 (14.41%) Aerospace
2 15 (13.51%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.91%) Finance
3 11 (9.91%) Presentation Skills
4 10 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.11%) Banking
5 9 (8.11%) Retail
6 7 (6.31%) Publishing
7 4 (3.60%) Automotive
8 3 (2.70%) Marketing
8 3 (2.70%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.80%) Law
10 1 (0.90%) Games
10 1 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (40.54%) Developer
2 30 (27.03%) Software Engineer
3 22 (19.82%) Lead
4 19 (17.12%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 14 (12.61%) Architect
5 14 (12.61%) Full Stack Developer
6 11 (9.91%) Software Developer
6 11 (9.91%) Technical Leader
7 10 (9.01%) Java Developer
8 9 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (7.21%) Embedded Developer
9 8 (7.21%) Firmware Developer
9 8 (7.21%) Senior
10 7 (6.31%) Lead Developer
11 5 (4.50%) Senior Developer
12 4 (3.60%) Compiler Engineer
12 4 (3.60%) Lead Architect
12 4 (3.60%) Lead Full Stack Developer
12 4 (3.60%) Product Manager
12 4 (3.60%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (32.43%) React
2 29 (26.13%) Spring Boot
3 23 (20.72%) Spring
4 21 (18.92%) Node.js
5 20 (18.02%) RabbitMQ
6 18 (16.22%) AngularJS
7 17 (15.32%) Swagger
8 16 (14.41%) gRPC
8 16 (14.41%) Material-UI
8 16 (14.41%) OpenAPI
8 16 (14.41%) REST
9 7 (6.31%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (3.60%) Hibernate
10 4 (3.60%) LLVM
11 3 (2.70%) Kafka
11 3 (2.70%) RESTful
12 2 (1.80%) Android SDK
12 2 (1.80%) Express.js
12 2 (1.80%) HTML5
12 2 (1.80%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 34 (30.63%) Private Cloud
2 19 (17.12%) Cloud Native
3 11 (9.91%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (7.21%) CUDA
4 8 (7.21%) GNSS
4 8 (7.21%) Tandem
5 7 (6.31%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (6.31%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.60%) IoT
6 4 (3.60%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.70%) Blockchain
7 3 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.70%) Robotics
7 3 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.80%) NHS
8 2 (1.80%) PropTech
9 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 37 (33.33%) Linux
2 20 (18.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 20 (18.02%) Ubuntu
3 19 (17.12%) CentOS
4 17 (15.32%) Debian
5 12 (10.81%) Unix
6 10 (9.01%) Windows
7 2 (1.80%) Android
8 1 (0.90%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (74.77%) Agile
2 61 (54.95%) Software Engineering
3 39 (35.14%) Containerisation
4 38 (34.23%) DevOps
5 36 (32.43%) Continuous Integration
6 35 (31.53%) Kanban
6 35 (31.53%) Scrum
7 29 (26.13%) Full Stack Development
8 26 (23.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (22.52%) Actionable Insight
10 24 (21.62%) Collaborative Working
10 24 (21.62%) Microservices
11 23 (20.72%) API Development
12 22 (19.82%) Code Quality
12 22 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (18.92%) Requirements Analysis
14 18 (16.22%) Configuration Management
15 17 (15.32%) CI/CD
16 16 (14.41%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 13 (11.71%) Progressive Web App
Programming Languages
1 75 (67.57%) Java
2 42 (37.84%) JavaScript
3 41 (36.94%) Python
4 27 (24.32%) TypeScript
5 14 (12.61%) C
6 10 (9.01%) C++
6 10 (9.01%) Go
7 5 (4.50%) Bash
7 5 (4.50%) SQL
8 3 (2.70%) Perl
8 3 (2.70%) Ruby
9 2 (1.80%) Bicep
9 2 (1.80%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (60.36%) Security Cleared
2 49 (44.14%) SC Cleared
3 21 (18.92%) DV Cleared
4 16 (14.41%) Degree
5 5 (4.50%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.60%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.90%) CCNA
7 1 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.70%) QA
2 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (18.02%) Docker
2 8 (7.21%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (7.21%) Firmware
3 2 (1.80%) Kamailio
3 2 (1.80%) Shibboleth
4 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 30 (27.03%) Kubernetes
2 28 (25.23%) Ansible
3 20 (18.02%) Terraform
4 16 (14.41%) Puppet
5 7 (6.31%) Kibana
6 6 (5.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (18.92%) Google
2 18 (16.22%) Red Hat
3 16 (14.41%) SaltStack
4 7 (6.31%) Oracle
5 4 (3.60%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.60%) Sparx
6 3 (2.70%) Cisco
6 3 (2.70%) Dialogic
6 3 (2.70%) Ribbon
7 1 (0.90%) ESRI
7 1 (0.90%) Juniper
7 1 (0.90%) Mapbox