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 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 186 150 133
Rank change year-on-year -36 -17 -11
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 111 121 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.11% 1.84% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.95% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 65 56 122
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,938 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,725 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +47.37% -13.64%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,521 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +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 8,072 6,218 8,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 81.00% 94.50% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5,777 3,484 5,006
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,507 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,908
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £54,222 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +8.44% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,627 £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 1 June 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 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
Bristol -4 47 £62,500 -7.41% 20
Gloucestershire -38 45 £65,000 -9.72% 2
Devon - 9 - - 4
Wiltshire -21 3 £92,500 +23.33% 3
Dorset -22 3 £67,500 -10.00%
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 18 (16.22%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.60%) Confluence
3 4 (3.60%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 68 (61.26%) AWS
1 68 (61.26%) Azure
2 22 (19.82%) Amazon EKS
2 22 (19.82%) GCP
2 22 (19.82%) OpenShift
3 19 (17.12%) AWS Lambda
3 19 (17.12%) Serverless
4 18 (16.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (3.60%) Miro
6 2 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.80%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.90%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.22%) AMQP
2 14 (12.61%) DNS
3 12 (10.81%) TCP/IP
4 8 (7.21%) HTTP
4 8 (7.21%) Internet
4 8 (7.21%) SMTP
5 5 (4.50%) SSL
6 4 (3.60%) BGP
7 3 (2.70%) Firewall
8 2 (1.80%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (1.80%) PBX
8 2 (1.80%) RTP
8 2 (1.80%) VoIP
9 1 (0.90%) LAN
9 1 (0.90%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.90%) VPN
9 1 (0.90%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (19.82%) Big Data
2 18 (16.22%) Cloudera CDH
2 18 (16.22%) Hadoop
3 10 (9.01%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.60%) Oracle Database
4 4 (3.60%) RDBMS
4 4 (3.60%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (30.63%) GitLab
2 15 (13.51%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.41%) Git
4 4 (3.60%) Cypress.io
4 4 (3.60%) JIRA
4 4 (3.60%) Selenium
5 3 (2.70%) Cucumber
General
1 18 (16.22%) Aerospace
2 16 (14.41%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.91%) Presentation Skills
4 10 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.01%) Finance
5 8 (7.21%) Banking
5 8 (7.21%) Retail
6 7 (6.31%) Publishing
7 5 (4.50%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.60%) Automotive
8 4 (3.60%) Marketing
9 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.80%) Law
9 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Games
Job Titles
1 46 (41.44%) Developer
2 28 (25.23%) Software Engineer
3 22 (19.82%) Lead
4 21 (18.92%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 16 (14.41%) Full Stack Developer
6 15 (13.51%) Architect
7 11 (9.91%) Senior
7 11 (9.91%) Software Developer
7 11 (9.91%) Technical Leader
8 9 (8.11%) Java Developer
9 8 (7.21%) Embedded Developer
9 8 (7.21%) Firmware Developer
9 8 (7.21%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (6.31%) Lead Developer
11 6 (5.41%) Senior Developer
11 6 (5.41%) Technical Architect
12 4 (3.60%) Digital Product Manager
12 4 (3.60%) Lead Architect
12 4 (3.60%) Product Manager
12 4 (3.60%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (33.33%) React
2 29 (26.13%) Spring Boot
3 23 (20.72%) Spring
4 22 (19.82%) RabbitMQ
5 20 (18.02%) AngularJS
5 20 (18.02%) Node.js
5 20 (18.02%) REST
6 19 (17.12%) Swagger
7 18 (16.22%) gRPC
7 18 (16.22%) Material-UI
7 18 (16.22%) OpenAPI
8 7 (6.31%) Apache NiFi
9 4 (3.60%) LLVM
10 3 (2.70%) Kafka
10 3 (2.70%) RESTful
11 2 (1.80%) CSS
11 2 (1.80%) HTML
11 2 (1.80%) OAuth
11 2 (1.80%) SAML
11 2 (1.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (31.53%) Private Cloud
2 20 (18.02%) 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
6 6 (5.41%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (3.60%) IoT
7 4 (3.60%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.70%) Blockchain
8 3 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.70%) Robotics
8 3 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.80%) NHS
9 2 (1.80%) PropTech
10 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 40 (36.04%) Linux
2 22 (19.82%) CentOS
2 22 (19.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 22 (19.82%) Ubuntu
3 18 (16.22%) Debian
4 10 (9.01%) Unix
5 8 (7.21%) Windows
6 2 (1.80%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (77.48%) Agile
2 61 (54.95%) Software Engineering
3 39 (35.14%) Containerisation
3 39 (35.14%) Kanban
3 39 (35.14%) Scrum
4 36 (32.43%) Continuous Integration
5 35 (31.53%) DevOps
6 31 (27.93%) Full Stack Development
7 30 (27.03%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (23.42%) Collaborative Working
9 25 (22.52%) API Development
9 25 (22.52%) Microservices
10 22 (19.82%) Actionable Insight
11 20 (18.02%) Code Quality
11 20 (18.02%) Requirements Analysis
12 19 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (16.22%) Configuration Management
13 18 (16.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 17 (15.32%) CI/CD
15 14 (12.61%) Progressive Web App
Programming Languages
1 75 (67.57%) Java
2 41 (36.94%) JavaScript
3 39 (35.14%) Python
4 30 (27.03%) TypeScript
5 14 (12.61%) C
6 10 (9.01%) C++
7 7 (6.31%) Go
8 4 (3.60%) SQL
9 2 (1.80%) Bicep
9 2 (1.80%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 72 (64.86%) Security Cleared
2 56 (50.45%) SC Cleared
3 23 (20.72%) DV Cleared
4 16 (14.41%) Degree
5 9 (8.11%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.60%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.70%) CCNA
7 3 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (17.12%) Docker
2 8 (7.21%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (7.21%) Firmware
3 4 (3.60%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.80%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.80%) Kamailio
4 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.90%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (27.93%) Kubernetes
2 30 (27.03%) Ansible
3 22 (19.82%) Terraform
4 18 (16.22%) Puppet
5 7 (6.31%) Kibana
6 4 (3.60%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.90%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 23 (20.72%) Google
2 20 (18.02%) Red Hat
3 18 (16.22%) SaltStack
4 6 (5.41%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.50%) Cisco
5 5 (4.50%) Dialogic
5 5 (4.50%) Ribbon
6 4 (3.60%) Oracle
6 4 (3.60%) Sparx
7 3 (2.70%) Juniper
8 1 (0.90%) ESRI
8 1 (0.90%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.90%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.90%) VMware