Open Source Jobs in the UK excluding London

Open Source
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 237 279 221
Rank change year-on-year +42 -58 -16
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 863 700 1,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.14% 1.24% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.30% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 509 326 578
10th Percentile £42,300 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% +17.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,001 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £85,000
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,202 53,975 69,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.87% 95.46% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,597 28,532 41,279
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the UK excluding London 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
North West +46 180 £60,603 -6.76% 30
South East +10 159 £45,000 -32.08% 37
Scotland +7 148 £75,000 +8.00% 12
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
Northern Ireland +31 24 £75,400 - 6
Wales -2 22 £75,000 -36.33% 8
North East -20 20 £68,103 +42.86% 4
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 121 (14.02%) Apache Spark
2 43 (4.98%) Apache
3 40 (4.63%) WebLogic
4 16 (1.85%) Confluence
5 11 (1.27%) nginx
5 11 (1.27%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.58%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.46%) IIS
9 2 (0.23%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Kinematics
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 48 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 40 (4.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (0.93%) Shopify
3 6 (0.70%) Magento
4 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 380 (44.03%) AWS
2 267 (30.94%) Azure
3 69 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
4 66 (7.65%) GCP
5 45 (5.21%) Serverless
6 42 (4.87%) OpenShift
7 40 (4.63%) Amazon SQS
8 36 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 35 (4.06%) SaaS
10 33 (3.82%) GitHub
11 31 (3.59%) Amazon Kinesis
12 21 (2.43%) dbt
13 12 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (1.39%) Google Analytics
13 12 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (1.16%) IaaS
15 8 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
16 7 (0.81%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 72 (8.34%) DNS
2 63 (7.30%) TCP/IP
3 41 (4.75%) SSL
4 40 (4.63%) BGP
5 38 (4.40%) Firewall
6 29 (3.36%) AMQP
7 18 (2.09%) HTTP
8 16 (1.85%) Internet
9 8 (0.93%) LAN
9 8 (0.93%) SMTP
9 8 (0.93%) WAN
10 6 (0.70%) Wireshark
11 5 (0.58%) VPN
12 3 (0.35%) Ethernet
13 2 (0.23%) Asterisk PBX
13 2 (0.23%) Network Security
13 2 (0.23%) NGN
13 2 (0.23%) PBX
13 2 (0.23%) RTP
13 2 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (18.89%) NoSQL
2 87 (10.08%) Hadoop
3 84 (9.73%) Apache Hive
3 84 (9.73%) HBase
4 79 (9.15%) Big Data
5 74 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
6 69 (8.00%) Relational Database
7 51 (5.91%) Amazon RDS
8 46 (5.33%) RDBMS
9 41 (4.75%) Oracle Database
10 35 (4.06%) MySQL
11 30 (3.48%) DynamoDB
12 29 (3.36%) Amazon Aurora
12 29 (3.36%) Cloudera CDH
13 24 (2.78%) Redis
14 21 (2.43%) SQL Server
15 13 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
16 11 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (1.27%) MongoDB
16 11 (1.27%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 161 (18.66%) Git
2 135 (15.64%) Jenkins
3 89 (10.31%) GitLab
4 84 (9.73%) Bitbucket Server
5 20 (2.32%) Gatling
5 20 (2.32%) JIRA
6 15 (1.74%) Cypress.io
7 10 (1.16%) GNU Toolchain
7 10 (1.16%) Selenium
7 10 (1.16%) Subversion
8 9 (1.04%) CircleCI
9 7 (0.81%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.81%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.70%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.70%) MSTest
10 6 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (0.70%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.58%) Appium
11 5 (0.58%) Clang
12 4 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 291 (33.72%) Social Skills
2 144 (16.69%) Finance
3 129 (14.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 98 (11.36%) Law
5 74 (8.57%) Legal
6 52 (6.03%) Public Sector
7 34 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (3.94%) Marketing
8 31 (3.59%) Aerospace
9 27 (3.13%) Retail
10 25 (2.90%) Banking
10 25 (2.90%) Electronics
11 23 (2.67%) Automotive
12 20 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (2.20%) Billing
14 18 (2.09%) Games
15 14 (1.62%) Military
16 7 (0.81%) Multimedia
16 7 (0.81%) Publishing
17 6 (0.70%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 251 (29.08%) Software Engineer
2 224 (25.96%) Developer
3 162 (18.77%) Lead
4 159 (18.42%) Senior
5 149 (17.27%) Architect
6 83 (9.62%) Solutions Architect
7 81 (9.39%) Technical Leader
8 71 (8.23%) AWS Engineer
9 67 (7.76%) AWS Software Engineer
10 59 (6.84%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 58 (6.72%) Database Developer
12 54 (6.26%) Database Engineer
13 47 (5.45%) Lead Architect
14 45 (5.21%) Full Stack Developer
15 41 (4.75%) Senior Software Engineer
16 40 (4.63%) Lead Solutions Architect
17 39 (4.52%) Senior Developer
18 38 (4.40%) AWS Developer
18 38 (4.40%) Senior Architect
19 37 (4.29%) AWS Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (15.18%) React
2 123 (14.25%) Node.js
3 97 (11.24%) REST
4 88 (10.20%) Spring Boot
5 69 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
6 62 (7.18%) AngularJS
7 49 (5.68%) Spring
8 42 (4.87%) GraphQL
9 41 (4.75%) Web Services
10 39 (4.52%) Swagger
11 36 (4.17%) HTML
12 32 (3.71%) CSS
13 29 (3.36%) gRPC
13 29 (3.36%) http4s
13 29 (3.36%) Material-UI
13 29 (3.36%) OpenAPI
13 29 (3.36%) Scalaz
14 28 (3.24%) Express.js
15 26 (3.01%) Django
16 20 (2.32%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 121 (14.02%) Algorithms
2 90 (10.43%) Public Cloud
3 86 (9.97%) Private Cloud
4 74 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
5 68 (7.88%) Management Information System
6 46 (5.33%) Enterprise Software
7 45 (5.21%) Cloud Native
8 42 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
9 35 (4.06%) Blog
10 32 (3.71%) Embedded Systems
11 29 (3.36%) Media Streaming
12 26 (3.01%) IoT
13 17 (1.97%) Mobile App
14 16 (1.85%) Blockchain
14 16 (1.85%) Product Ownership
15 15 (1.74%) Data Centre
16 14 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
16 14 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
16 14 (1.62%) NHS
17 13 (1.51%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 262 (30.36%) Linux
2 141 (16.34%) Unix
3 86 (9.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 47 (5.45%) Windows
5 42 (4.87%) CentOS
6 38 (4.40%) Ubuntu
7 33 (3.82%) Debian
8 17 (1.97%) Embedded Linux
9 14 (1.62%) Mac OS X
10 11 (1.27%) Android
11 7 (0.81%) Windows Server
12 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.58%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.12%) Rocky
15 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (60.83%) Agile
2 382 (44.26%) Software Engineering
3 232 (26.88%) DevOps
4 208 (24.10%) CI/CD
5 195 (22.60%) Mentoring
6 177 (20.51%) Microservices
7 171 (19.81%) Continuous Integration
8 166 (19.24%) Coaching
8 166 (19.24%) Problem-Solving
9 158 (18.31%) SDLC
10 157 (18.19%) Actionable Insight
11 148 (17.15%) Test Automation
12 146 (16.92%) Scrum
13 133 (15.41%) Artificial Intelligence
13 133 (15.41%) Kanban
14 126 (14.60%) Collaborative Working
14 126 (14.60%) TDD
15 114 (13.21%) Full Stack Development
16 110 (12.75%) Machine Learning
17 109 (12.63%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 317 (36.73%) Python
2 278 (32.21%) Java
3 141 (16.34%) JavaScript
4 138 (15.99%) SQL
5 123 (14.25%) C
6 91 (10.54%) TypeScript
7 84 (9.73%) PL/SQL
8 76 (8.81%) C++
9 60 (6.95%) Bash
10 30 (3.48%) Scala
11 29 (3.36%) COBOL
11 29 (3.36%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 28 (3.24%) Rust
13 27 (3.13%) C#
14 22 (2.55%) Fortran
15 20 (2.32%) Embedded C
16 18 (2.09%) PHP
17 15 (1.74%) Go
18 14 (1.62%) PowerShell
19 12 (1.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 259 (30.01%) Security Cleared
2 194 (22.48%) SC Cleared
3 178 (20.63%) Degree
4 56 (6.49%) Azure Certification
5 54 (6.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (4.98%) AWS Certification
7 40 (4.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 37 (4.29%) DV Cleared
9 35 (4.06%) Master's Degree
10 27 (3.13%) PhD
11 15 (1.74%) GCIA
11 15 (1.74%) GCIH
11 15 (1.74%) GREM
12 14 (1.62%) CISM
12 14 (1.62%) CISSP
13 3 (0.35%) CCNA
13 3 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.23%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.45%) PMO
2 16 (1.85%) QA
3 11 (1.27%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.70%) GDPR
5 6 (0.70%) JTAG
6 5 (0.58%) NIST
7 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.23%) SEPA
8 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 95 (11.01%) Docker
2 84 (9.73%) HDFS
3 23 (2.67%) Firmware
4 22 (2.55%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (1.16%) Active Directory
6 10 (1.16%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.81%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.58%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 3 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.35%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.23%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.23%) KVM
10 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.23%) QEMU
10 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.23%) vSphere
10 2 (0.23%) Xen
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 160 (18.54%) Terraform
2 115 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 77 (8.92%) Ansible
4 47 (5.45%) Puppet
5 24 (2.78%) Progress Chef
6 11 (1.27%) Grafana
7 9 (1.04%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.81%) Kibana
9 5 (0.58%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 2 (0.23%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.23%) Podman
10 2 (0.23%) SQL Sentry
11 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.12%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 86 (9.97%) Databricks
2 84 (9.73%) Informatica
3 61 (7.07%) Google
4 54 (6.26%) Cloudera
4 54 (6.26%) Microsoft
5 46 (5.33%) Oracle
6 40 (4.63%) Sparx
7 33 (3.82%) Red Hat
8 29 (3.36%) Micro Focus
8 29 (3.36%) SaltStack
9 14 (1.62%) Dell
10 12 (1.39%) VMware
11 10 (1.16%) Cisco
12 8 (0.93%) Juniper
12 8 (0.93%) Splunk
13 7 (0.81%) Apple
14 6 (0.70%) ESRI
14 6 (0.70%) F5
15 5 (0.58%) Dialogic
15 5 (0.58%) Ribbon