Open Source Jobs

Open Source
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 253 193 110
Rank change year-on-year -60 -83 +37
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 1,183 1,790 5,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.13% 1.89% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.98% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 736 838 1,458
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £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 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,625 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,206 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.32% +17.39% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the UK

Open Source
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Open Source in the UK

Open Source
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Open Source in the UK

Open Source
Top 17 Job Locations

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 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
England -74 944 £65,000 -13.33% 300
UK excluding London +42 863 £61,206 -9.32% 174
Work from Home -39 561 £70,000 -6.67% 163
North of England +67 265 £61,206 -5.84% 43
London -138 257 £83,000 +3.37% 148
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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 138 (11.67%) Apache Spark
2 57 (4.82%) Apache
3 46 (3.89%) WebLogic
4 20 (1.69%) Confluence
5 14 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (1.18%) nginx
6 11 (0.93%) IIS
6 11 (0.93%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.76%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.59%) CMS
8 7 (0.59%) Drupal
9 6 (0.51%) Apache Pig
10 4 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.34%) OpenZeppelin
11 3 (0.25%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.17%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.17%) SAS
12 2 (0.17%) WordPress
13 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.085%) SharePoint
Applications
1 48 (4.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.085%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.085%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 46 (3.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (0.68%) Shopify
3 6 (0.51%) Magento
4 1 (0.085%) Ripple
4 1 (0.085%) Ripple XRP
4 1 (0.085%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 519 (43.87%) AWS
2 368 (31.11%) Azure
3 116 (9.81%) GCP
4 99 (8.37%) Serverless
5 83 (7.02%) Amazon SQS
6 76 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
7 75 (6.34%) Amazon EKS
8 71 (6.00%) OpenShift
9 67 (5.66%) GitHub
10 66 (5.58%) AWS CloudFormation
11 57 (4.82%) SaaS
12 47 (3.97%) Amazon S3
13 37 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (2.87%) Amazon ECS
15 31 (2.62%) Amazon Kinesis
16 28 (2.37%) dbt
16 28 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
17 27 (2.28%) IaaS
18 26 (2.20%) PaaS
19 25 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 91 (7.69%) DNS
2 81 (6.85%) TCP/IP
3 63 (5.33%) BGP
4 58 (4.90%) Firewall
5 55 (4.65%) SSL
6 29 (2.45%) AMQP
7 26 (2.20%) WAN
8 25 (2.11%) HTTP
9 24 (2.03%) LAN
10 20 (1.69%) Internet
10 20 (1.69%) VPN
11 16 (1.35%) MPLS
12 10 (0.85%) Network Security
12 10 (0.85%) Wireshark
13 9 (0.76%) Unified Communications
14 8 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
14 8 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (0.68%) Multicast
14 8 (0.68%) OSPF
14 8 (0.68%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (15.22%) NoSQL
2 98 (8.28%) Hadoop
3 95 (8.03%) PostgreSQL
4 90 (7.61%) Apache Hive
4 90 (7.61%) Big Data
5 89 (7.52%) Relational Database
6 84 (7.10%) Amazon RDS
6 84 (7.10%) HBase
7 54 (4.56%) RDBMS
8 49 (4.14%) MySQL
9 47 (3.97%) Oracle Database
10 38 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 38 (3.21%) SQL Server
11 30 (2.54%) DynamoDB
12 29 (2.45%) Amazon Aurora
12 29 (2.45%) Cloudera CDH
13 27 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
13 27 (2.28%) Redis
14 26 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
15 16 (1.35%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 200 (16.91%) Git
2 190 (16.06%) Jenkins
3 96 (8.11%) GitLab
4 84 (7.10%) Bitbucket Server
5 27 (2.28%) Artifactory
6 26 (2.20%) JIRA
7 20 (1.69%) Gatling
8 15 (1.27%) CircleCI
8 15 (1.27%) Cypress.io
9 13 (1.10%) SonarQube
10 12 (1.01%) Selenium
10 12 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
10 12 (1.01%) Subversion
11 10 (0.85%) GNU Toolchain
11 10 (0.85%) JUnit
12 9 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
12 9 (0.76%) TeamCity
13 8 (0.68%) Jaeger
14 6 (0.51%) Checkstyle
14 6 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 357 (30.18%) Social Skills
2 225 (19.02%) Finance
3 165 (13.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 121 (10.23%) Law
5 94 (7.95%) Legal
6 55 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 54 (4.56%) Analytical Skills
8 45 (3.80%) Marketing
9 37 (3.13%) Front Office
10 31 (2.62%) Aerospace
11 29 (2.45%) Banking
11 29 (2.45%) Retail
12 28 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
13 27 (2.28%) Electronics
14 23 (1.94%) Automotive
14 23 (1.94%) Games
15 20 (1.69%) Billing
16 14 (1.18%) Military
17 11 (0.93%) Financial Institution
18 9 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 292 (24.68%) Software Engineer
2 276 (23.33%) Developer
3 262 (22.15%) Senior
4 199 (16.82%) Lead
5 187 (15.81%) Architect
6 102 (8.62%) AWS Engineer
7 93 (7.86%) Technical Leader
8 90 (7.61%) Solutions Architect
9 68 (5.75%) AWS Software Engineer
10 65 (5.49%) Database Developer
11 60 (5.07%) DevOps Engineer
12 59 (4.99%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 55 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
14 54 (4.56%) Database Engineer
14 54 (4.56%) Lead Architect
15 53 (4.48%) Technical Architect
16 49 (4.14%) Data Engineer
17 47 (3.97%) Senior Developer
18 46 (3.89%) Full Stack Developer
18 46 (3.89%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (13.86%) React
2 147 (12.43%) Node.js
3 109 (9.21%) Spring Boot
4 108 (9.13%) REST
5 79 (6.68%) RabbitMQ
6 68 (5.75%) AngularJS
7 60 (5.07%) HTML
8 56 (4.73%) Spring
9 49 (4.14%) CSS
10 48 (4.06%) Kafka
10 48 (4.06%) Web Services
11 43 (3.63%) GraphQL
12 41 (3.47%) .NET
12 41 (3.47%) Swagger
13 40 (3.38%) Django
14 35 (2.96%) PyTorch
15 33 (2.79%) J2EE
15 33 (2.79%) TensorFlow
16 32 (2.70%) Express.js
17 29 (2.45%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 144 (12.17%) Algorithms
2 105 (8.88%) Public Cloud
3 99 (8.37%) Private Cloud
4 93 (7.86%) Management Information System
5 84 (7.10%) Self-Motivation
6 75 (6.34%) Cloud Native
7 70 (5.92%) Distributed Systems
8 55 (4.65%) Blog
8 55 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (3.04%) Data Centre
10 35 (2.96%) Embedded Systems
11 34 (2.87%) Blockchain
11 34 (2.87%) Data Structures
11 34 (2.87%) Tandem
12 32 (2.70%) IoT
13 29 (2.45%) Media Streaming
14 27 (2.28%) Product Ownership
15 19 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
15 19 (1.61%) Mobile App
15 19 (1.61%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 332 (28.06%) Linux
2 152 (12.85%) Unix
3 92 (7.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 59 (4.99%) Windows
5 51 (4.31%) Ubuntu
6 45 (3.80%) Debian
7 44 (3.72%) CentOS
8 19 (1.61%) Embedded Linux
9 17 (1.44%) Android
10 14 (1.18%) Mac OS X
11 9 (0.76%) Windows Server
12 7 (0.59%) Apple iOS
13 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
14 5 (0.42%) Windows 10
14 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.25%) VMS
16 1 (0.085%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.085%) Rocky
16 1 (0.085%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 662 (55.96%) Agile
2 508 (42.94%) Software Engineering
3 342 (28.91%) DevOps
4 305 (25.78%) CI/CD
5 257 (21.72%) Mentoring
6 221 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
7 212 (17.92%) Microservices
8 207 (17.50%) Coaching
9 192 (16.23%) Continuous Integration
10 183 (15.47%) Artificial Intelligence
11 182 (15.38%) SDLC
12 180 (15.22%) Scrum
13 170 (14.37%) Actionable Insight
14 167 (14.12%) Test Automation
15 163 (13.78%) Computer Science
16 159 (13.44%) Machine Learning
17 158 (13.36%) TDD
18 147 (12.43%) Collaborative Working
19 143 (12.09%) Kanban
20 138 (11.67%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 492 (41.59%) Python
2 386 (32.63%) Java
3 209 (17.67%) SQL
4 186 (15.72%) JavaScript
5 144 (12.17%) C
6 121 (10.23%) TypeScript
7 87 (7.35%) C++
8 85 (7.19%) Go
9 84 (7.10%) PL/SQL
10 83 (7.02%) Bash
11 49 (4.14%) C#
12 47 (3.97%) Rust
13 43 (3.63%) PowerShell
14 38 (3.21%) Scala
15 35 (2.96%) PHP
16 29 (2.45%) COBOL
16 29 (2.45%) Micro Focus COBOL
17 24 (2.03%) Ruby
18 23 (1.94%) Embedded C
19 22 (1.86%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 280 (23.67%) Security Cleared
2 246 (20.79%) Degree
3 213 (18.01%) SC Cleared
4 69 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (5.41%) Azure Certification
6 59 (4.99%) Master's Degree
7 51 (4.31%) AWS Certification
8 48 (4.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 44 (3.72%) PhD
10 38 (3.21%) DV Cleared
11 17 (1.44%) CISSP
12 15 (1.27%) GCIA
12 15 (1.27%) GCIH
12 15 (1.27%) GREM
13 14 (1.18%) CISM
14 11 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.85%) CCNA
16 3 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
16 3 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
17 2 (0.17%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (3.97%) PMO
2 42 (3.55%) QA
3 18 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.44%) GDPR
5 7 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.51%) JTAG
6 6 (0.51%) NCSC
7 5 (0.42%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.42%) NIST
8 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.17%) SEPA
9 1 (0.085%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 170 (14.37%) Docker
2 90 (7.61%) HDFS
3 25 (2.11%) Virtual Servers
4 23 (1.94%) Firmware
5 13 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (1.01%) Active Directory
7 11 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (0.85%) Embedded Firmware
9 7 (0.59%) Hyper-V
10 6 (0.51%) Ceph
11 5 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.34%) KVM
13 3 (0.25%) QEMU
13 3 (0.25%) VirtualBox
13 3 (0.25%) Xen
14 2 (0.17%) Kamailio
14 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.17%) vSphere
15 1 (0.085%) LXC
Systems Management
1 237 (20.03%) Terraform
2 213 (18.01%) Kubernetes
3 129 (10.90%) Ansible
4 62 (5.24%) Puppet
5 35 (2.96%) Progress Chef
6 12 (1.01%) Grafana
7 9 (0.76%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.68%) Kiali
8 8 (0.68%) Kibana
9 6 (0.51%) Knative
9 6 (0.51%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 4 (0.34%) Nessus
10 4 (0.34%) Salt
11 3 (0.25%) Podman
12 2 (0.17%) CASB
12 2 (0.17%) Consul
12 2 (0.17%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.17%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.17%) Mesos
12 2 (0.17%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 86 (7.27%) Databricks
2 84 (7.10%) Informatica
3 83 (7.02%) Microsoft
4 79 (6.68%) Google
5 54 (4.56%) Cloudera
5 54 (4.56%) Oracle
6 46 (3.89%) Sparx
7 35 (2.96%) Red Hat
8 29 (2.45%) Micro Focus
8 29 (2.45%) SaltStack
9 25 (2.11%) Cisco
10 17 (1.44%) Splunk
11 15 (1.27%) Juniper
12 14 (1.18%) Dell
12 14 (1.18%) VMware
13 12 (1.01%) Fortinet
13 12 (1.01%) OpenAI
14 10 (0.85%) Palo Alto
15 9 (0.76%) AppDynamics
15 9 (0.76%) ESRI