Open Source Jobs with Work from Home Options

Open Source
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 159 109
Rank change year-on-year -29 -50 +44
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 571 909 2,541
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.68% 2.27% 3.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 2.36% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 387 512 722
10th Percentile £42,750 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £58,594 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £84,964 £89,852 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £97,290
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,879 38,524 69,675
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.94% 96.06% 97.07%
Number of salaries quoted 23,365 26,722 41,465
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Open Source
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Open Source trend for jobs with a WFH option

Open Source
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Open Source.

Open Source salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Open Source
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Open Source over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Open Source salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 46 (8.06%) WebLogic
2 19 (3.33%) Apache
3 11 (1.93%) IIS
4 10 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.40%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.05%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.88%) Confluence
8 2 (0.35%) CMS
8 2 (0.35%) Drupal
9 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 46 (8.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 232 (40.63%) AWS
2 223 (39.05%) Azure
3 46 (8.06%) Amazon EKS
3 46 (8.06%) Amazon SQS
4 35 (6.13%) Serverless
5 33 (5.78%) SaaS
6 31 (5.43%) GCP
7 25 (4.38%) GitHub
8 16 (2.80%) dbt
8 16 (2.80%) OpenShift
9 11 (1.93%) IaaS
10 10 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (1.40%) Power Platform
13 7 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.23%) PaaS
14 6 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 66 (11.56%) DNS
2 56 (9.81%) TCP/IP
3 47 (8.23%) SSL
4 46 (8.06%) BGP
5 20 (3.50%) Firewall
6 9 (1.58%) Internet
7 5 (0.88%) HTTP
8 4 (0.70%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.53%) VoIP
10 2 (0.35%) Asterisk PBX
10 2 (0.35%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.35%) Network Security
10 2 (0.35%) NGN
10 2 (0.35%) PBX
10 2 (0.35%) RTP
10 2 (0.35%) VPN
10 2 (0.35%) VSAN
11 1 (0.18%) LAN
11 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (17.34%) Relational Database
2 78 (13.66%) RDBMS
3 70 (12.26%) Oracle Database
4 56 (9.81%) Amazon RDS
5 48 (8.41%) NoSQL
6 20 (3.50%) SQL Server
7 19 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (2.98%) Big Data
8 17 (2.98%) MySQL
9 13 (2.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.23%) MongoDB
12 7 (1.23%) Power BI
12 7 (1.23%) SQLite
12 7 (1.23%) Tableau
13 6 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.88%) Airbyte
14 5 (0.88%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.88%) Looker
Development Applications
1 76 (13.31%) GitLab
2 48 (8.41%) Git
3 24 (4.20%) JDeveloper
4 21 (3.68%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.40%) JIRA
5 8 (1.40%) Selenium
6 7 (1.23%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.88%) Clang
8 4 (0.70%) Charles Proxy
8 4 (0.70%) Snakemake
9 3 (0.53%) Appium
9 3 (0.53%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.53%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.53%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.53%) JMeter
9 3 (0.53%) Metasploit
9 3 (0.53%) sqlmap
9 3 (0.53%) webpack
10 2 (0.35%) Phabricator
10 2 (0.35%) Vagrant
General
1 176 (30.82%) Social Skills
2 45 (7.88%) Finance
3 37 (6.48%) Public Sector
4 24 (4.20%) Retail
5 23 (4.03%) Banking
5 23 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.80%) Games
7 15 (2.63%) Automotive
7 15 (2.63%) Marketing
8 14 (2.45%) Military
9 10 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.40%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (1.23%) Multimedia
11 7 (1.23%) Publishing
12 4 (0.70%) Legal
12 4 (0.70%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.35%) Advertising
14 2 (0.35%) iGaming
14 2 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 148 (25.92%) Architect
2 141 (24.69%) Lead
3 140 (24.52%) Developer
4 108 (18.91%) Senior
5 92 (16.11%) Solutions Architect
6 91 (15.94%) Software Engineer
7 68 (11.91%) Technical Leader
8 47 (8.23%) Lead Architect
9 46 (8.06%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 40 (7.01%) Full Stack Developer
11 38 (6.65%) Senior Architect
12 36 (6.30%) Senior Developer
13 32 (5.60%) Senior Solutions Architect
14 30 (5.25%) Technical Architect
15 28 (4.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 28 (4.90%) Senior Front-End Developer
16 24 (4.20%) Ruby Engineer
17 22 (3.85%) Analyst
18 16 (2.80%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
19 15 (2.63%) Compiler Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (18.91%) React
2 84 (14.71%) Node.js
3 65 (11.38%) Spring Boot
4 46 (8.06%) RabbitMQ
5 34 (5.95%) AngularJS
6 29 (5.08%) Express.js
7 27 (4.73%) HTML
8 25 (4.38%) Django
9 24 (4.20%) REST
10 23 (4.03%) CSS
11 19 (3.33%) Spring
12 17 (2.98%) SAML
13 16 (2.80%) OAuth
13 16 (2.80%) OpenID
14 15 (2.63%) .NET
14 15 (2.63%) LLVM
15 13 (2.28%) ASP.NET
15 13 (2.28%) JSON
15 13 (2.28%) Kafka
15 13 (2.28%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 89 (15.59%) Public Cloud
2 84 (14.71%) Private Cloud
3 48 (8.41%) Enterprise Software
4 29 (5.08%) Cloud Native
5 18 (3.15%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.80%) Embedded Systems
7 15 (2.63%) IoT
8 14 (2.45%) Data Structures
9 13 (2.28%) NHS
10 11 (1.93%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.93%) Blockchain
10 11 (1.93%) RISC-V
11 10 (1.75%) Client/Server
11 10 (1.75%) Life Science
12 9 (1.58%) Blog
12 9 (1.58%) Data Centre
12 9 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.40%) Device Driver
13 8 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 160 (28.02%) Linux
2 54 (9.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 25 (4.38%) Unix
3 25 (4.38%) Windows
4 14 (2.45%) Mac OS X
4 14 (2.45%) Ubuntu
5 12 (2.10%) Android
5 12 (2.10%) Debian
6 7 (1.23%) Embedded Linux
7 6 (1.05%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.88%) CentOS
9 2 (0.35%) Solaris
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.18%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (61.12%) Agile
2 202 (35.38%) Software Engineering
3 196 (34.33%) DevOps
4 135 (23.64%) Continuous Integration
5 124 (21.72%) Mentoring
6 114 (19.96%) Actionable Insight
7 113 (19.79%) Scrum
8 106 (18.56%) Kanban
9 103 (18.04%) Full Stack Development
9 103 (18.04%) Microservices
10 102 (17.86%) Coaching
11 98 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
12 86 (15.06%) Containerisation
13 75 (13.13%) Re-Platforming
14 69 (12.08%) Code Quality
14 69 (12.08%) Project Management
15 68 (11.91%) CI/CD
16 66 (11.56%) Design Patterns
17 61 (10.68%) Collaborative Working
18 60 (10.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 180 (31.52%) Java
2 159 (27.85%) Python
3 126 (22.07%) JavaScript
4 84 (14.71%) TypeScript
5 83 (14.54%) C
6 50 (8.76%) Go
7 49 (8.58%) Bash
8 45 (7.88%) SQL
9 38 (6.65%) C++
10 33 (5.78%) Ruby
11 29 (5.08%) COBOL
11 29 (5.08%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 24 (4.20%) Perl
13 22 (3.85%) PHP
14 18 (3.15%) Rust
15 17 (2.98%) C#
16 16 (2.80%) Embedded C
16 16 (2.80%) PowerShell
17 12 (2.10%) T-SQL
18 9 (1.58%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 202 (35.38%) Security Cleared
2 159 (27.85%) SC Cleared
3 116 (20.32%) Degree
4 62 (10.86%) Azure Certification
5 51 (8.93%) AWS Certification
6 48 (8.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 22 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (3.33%) Master's Degree
9 14 (2.45%) CISM
9 14 (2.45%) CISSP
9 14 (2.45%) GCIA
9 14 (2.45%) GCIH
9 14 (2.45%) GREM
10 9 (1.58%) PhD
11 6 (1.05%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.35%) CCNA
12 2 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.35%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.25%) QA
2 6 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.88%) NIST
4 3 (0.53%) SEPA
5 2 (0.35%) GDPR
5 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 64 (11.21%) Docker
2 17 (2.98%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.53%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.35%) vSphere
6 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.18%) Firmware
6 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.18%) Postfix
6 1 (0.18%) Shibboleth
6 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 65 (11.38%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.36%) Ansible
3 33 (5.78%) Terraform
4 17 (2.98%) Progress Chef
5 7 (1.23%) Kibana
6 6 (1.05%) Grafana
6 6 (1.05%) Puppet
7 4 (0.70%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.53%) Podman
9 2 (0.35%) Marathon
9 2 (0.35%) Mesos
10 1 (0.18%) Consul
10 1 (0.18%) Packer
10 1 (0.18%) Salt
10 1 (0.18%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 71 (12.43%) Oracle
2 46 (8.06%) Sparx
3 29 (5.08%) Micro Focus
3 29 (5.08%) Microsoft
4 16 (2.80%) Google
5 14 (2.45%) Dell
6 5 (0.88%) Teradata
6 5 (0.88%) VMware
7 4 (0.70%) Cisco
7 4 (0.70%) Dialogic
7 4 (0.70%) Ribbon
7 4 (0.70%) Splunk
8 3 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.35%) Databricks
9 2 (0.35%) Juniper
9 2 (0.35%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.35%) Remedy
10 1 (0.18%) ESRI
10 1 (0.18%) Palo Alto