Open Source Jobs in England

Open Source
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 194 131
Rank change year-on-year -72 -63 +9
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 953 1,538 4,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.01% 1.86% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.95% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 656 731 1,343
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £49,875 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +4.87%
75th Percentile £84,964 £89,852 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £110,000
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
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,129 78,899 137,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.94% 95.45% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 55,773 48,272 73,854
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,309 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,750 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Open Source in England

Open Source
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Open Source in England

Open Source
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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 +59 270 £61,206 -5.84% 41
London -159 258 £83,000 +3.37% 112
North West +50 188 £60,000 -11.11% 30
South East +12 162 £45,000 -32.08% 32
South West -36 107 £63,750 -8.93% 25
Midlands -28 84 £70,000 - 21
Yorkshire +65 62 £60,500 +7.56% 9
East of England -2 54 £80,001 +39.13% 9
West Midlands -13 52 £61,206 -12.56% 12
East Midlands -26 32 £75,000 -6.25% 9
North East -23 20 £68,103 +42.86% 2
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 58 (6.09%) Apache
2 54 (5.67%) Apache Spark
3 28 (2.94%) WebLogic
4 15 (1.57%) Confluence
5 14 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (1.36%) nginx
7 12 (1.26%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.84%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.73%) Drupal
10 5 (0.52%) Apache Pig
10 5 (0.52%) CMS
11 4 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.42%) IIS
11 4 (0.42%) OpenZeppelin
12 3 (0.31%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.21%) Ethereum
13 2 (0.21%) SAS
13 2 (0.21%) WordPress
14 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
14 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 48 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.10%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 28 (2.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (0.84%) Shopify
3 6 (0.63%) Magento
4 1 (0.10%) Ripple
4 1 (0.10%) Ripple XRP
Cloud Services
1 386 (40.50%) AWS
2 317 (33.26%) Azure
3 96 (10.07%) GCP
4 92 (9.65%) Serverless
5 72 (7.56%) AWS Lambda
6 64 (6.72%) OpenShift
7 63 (6.61%) Amazon SQS
7 63 (6.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 57 (5.98%) Amazon EKS
9 45 (4.72%) GitHub
10 44 (4.62%) Amazon S3
11 38 (3.99%) SaaS
12 36 (3.78%) Amazon Kinesis
13 35 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
15 27 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
15 27 (2.83%) IaaS
16 25 (2.62%) PaaS
17 20 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
17 20 (2.10%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 75 (7.87%) DNS
2 56 (5.88%) Firewall
3 49 (5.14%) TCP/IP
4 46 (4.83%) BGP
5 37 (3.88%) SSL
6 29 (3.04%) AMQP
7 27 (2.83%) WAN
8 26 (2.73%) HTTP
9 25 (2.62%) LAN
10 22 (2.31%) VPN
11 17 (1.78%) MPLS
12 15 (1.57%) Internet
13 10 (1.05%) Network Security
13 10 (1.05%) Unified Communications
14 9 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
14 9 (0.94%) Cisco Nexus
14 9 (0.94%) DHCP
14 9 (0.94%) DMZ
14 9 (0.94%) VLAN
14 9 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (10.28%) NoSQL
2 96 (10.07%) PostgreSQL
3 66 (6.93%) Amazon RDS
4 59 (6.19%) Relational Database
5 49 (5.14%) Big Data
6 43 (4.51%) Hadoop
7 41 (4.30%) MySQL
8 37 (3.88%) DynamoDB
9 36 (3.78%) Amazon Redshift
9 36 (3.78%) RDBMS
10 34 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
11 31 (3.25%) Redis
12 29 (3.04%) Cloudera CDH
13 28 (2.94%) Oracle Database
13 28 (2.94%) SQL Server
14 26 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
15 19 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
16 15 (1.57%) MongoDB
17 14 (1.47%) SQLite
18 11 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 108 (11.33%) Git
2 93 (9.76%) GitLab
2 93 (9.76%) Jenkins
3 24 (2.52%) Artifactory
3 24 (2.52%) Gatling
4 19 (1.99%) JIRA
5 15 (1.57%) CircleCI
6 12 (1.26%) SonarQube
7 11 (1.15%) Selenium
7 11 (1.15%) Subversion
8 9 (0.94%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.94%) GNU Toolchain
8 9 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
8 9 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (0.94%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.84%) JUnit
10 6 (0.63%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.52%) Checkstyle
11 5 (0.52%) JMeter
11 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 283 (29.70%) Social Skills
2 115 (12.07%) Finance
3 55 (5.77%) Public Sector
4 54 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (3.67%) Front Office
7 31 (3.25%) Aerospace
7 31 (3.25%) Law
8 27 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
9 26 (2.73%) Electronics
10 25 (2.62%) Billing
11 23 (2.41%) Automotive
12 20 (2.10%) Games
13 19 (1.99%) Marketing
14 18 (1.89%) Retail
15 16 (1.68%) Banking
16 10 (1.05%) Legal
17 9 (0.94%) Health Technology
17 9 (0.94%) Publishing
18 7 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 235 (24.66%) Senior
2 201 (21.09%) Software Engineer
3 183 (19.20%) Developer
4 173 (18.15%) Lead
5 147 (15.42%) Architect
6 86 (9.02%) Technical Leader
7 65 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
8 50 (5.25%) Senior Software Engineer
9 49 (5.14%) Full Stack Developer
10 45 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
11 43 (4.51%) Senior Architect
12 40 (4.20%) Technical Architect
13 35 (3.67%) Senior Developer
14 33 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
14 33 (3.46%) Lead Architect
15 32 (3.36%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 32 (3.36%) Senior Solutions Architect
16 31 (3.25%) AWS DevOps
17 29 (3.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 29 (3.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (14.90%) React
2 109 (11.44%) REST
3 100 (10.49%) Node.js
4 80 (8.39%) Spring Boot
5 61 (6.40%) RabbitMQ
6 53 (5.56%) AngularJS
7 51 (5.35%) HTML
8 50 (5.25%) GraphQL
9 49 (5.14%) Spring
10 47 (4.93%) Web Services
11 41 (4.30%) Kafka
12 36 (3.78%) PyTorch
12 36 (3.78%) Swagger
13 34 (3.57%) .NET
13 34 (3.57%) http4s
13 34 (3.57%) Scalaz
13 34 (3.57%) TensorFlow
14 32 (3.36%) CSS
15 30 (3.15%) Django
15 30 (3.15%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 95 (9.97%) Private Cloud
2 88 (9.23%) Public Cloud
3 84 (8.81%) Self-Motivation
4 74 (7.76%) Management Information System
5 65 (6.82%) Cloud Native
6 63 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
7 62 (6.51%) Blog
8 53 (5.56%) Algorithms
9 38 (3.99%) Data Centre
10 36 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
10 36 (3.78%) Media Streaming
11 33 (3.46%) Embedded Systems
12 32 (3.36%) Blockchain
12 32 (3.36%) Tandem
13 26 (2.73%) Product Ownership
14 25 (2.62%) Data Structures
14 25 (2.62%) IoT
15 17 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
15 17 (1.78%) Mobile App
16 16 (1.68%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 271 (28.44%) Linux
2 75 (7.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 51 (5.35%) Unix
4 47 (4.93%) Ubuntu
5 44 (4.62%) CentOS
6 41 (4.30%) Debian
6 41 (4.30%) Windows
7 15 (1.57%) Android
8 10 (1.05%) Windows Server
9 9 (0.94%) Embedded Linux
10 6 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.52%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.52%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.31%) VMS
13 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.10%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.10%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 487 (51.10%) Agile
2 402 (42.18%) Software Engineering
3 282 (29.59%) DevOps
4 235 (24.66%) Mentoring
5 199 (20.88%) Coaching
6 189 (19.83%) CI/CD
7 187 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
8 182 (19.10%) Continuous Integration
9 159 (16.68%) Scrum
10 145 (15.22%) Microservices
11 140 (14.69%) Computer Science
12 132 (13.85%) Containerisation
13 131 (13.75%) Full Stack Development
14 125 (13.12%) Kanban
15 122 (12.80%) Actionable Insight
15 122 (12.80%) Collaborative Working
16 115 (12.07%) Decision-Making
17 104 (10.91%) Infrastructure as Code
18 100 (10.49%) Project Management
19 94 (9.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 364 (38.20%) Python
2 308 (32.32%) Java
3 153 (16.05%) JavaScript
4 136 (14.27%) C
5 111 (11.65%) TypeScript
6 101 (10.60%) SQL
7 86 (9.02%) C++
8 70 (7.35%) Go
9 67 (7.03%) Bash
10 48 (5.04%) C#
10 48 (5.04%) Rust
11 46 (4.83%) Scala
12 37 (3.88%) PowerShell
13 30 (3.15%) PHP
14 29 (3.04%) COBOL
14 29 (3.04%) Micro Focus COBOL
15 24 (2.52%) Fortran
16 22 (2.31%) Embedded C
17 20 (2.10%) Kotlin
18 13 (1.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 236 (24.76%) Security Cleared
2 195 (20.46%) Degree
3 173 (18.15%) SC Cleared
4 71 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (4.93%) Azure Certification
5 47 (4.93%) Master's Degree
6 40 (4.20%) PhD
7 38 (3.99%) DV Cleared
8 33 (3.46%) AWS Certification
9 30 (3.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.05%) CCNA
12 4 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.31%) CISSP
13 3 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.21%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 1 (0.10%) DBS Check
15 1 (0.10%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (4.93%) PMO
2 29 (3.04%) QA
3 16 (1.68%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (0.73%) NCSC
5 5 (0.52%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.52%) NIST
6 2 (0.21%) GDPR
6 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 151 (15.84%) Docker
2 25 (2.62%) Virtual Servers
3 14 (1.47%) Firmware
4 13 (1.36%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (1.15%) Embedded Firmware
5 11 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.84%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.63%) Ceph
8 5 (0.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (0.52%) HDFS
9 4 (0.42%) KVM
10 3 (0.31%) QEMU
10 3 (0.31%) VirtualBox
10 3 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.31%) Xen
11 2 (0.21%) Kamailio
11 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.21%) vSphere
12 1 (0.10%) LXC
Systems Management
1 182 (19.10%) Kubernetes
2 133 (13.96%) Terraform
3 109 (11.44%) Ansible
4 64 (6.72%) Puppet
5 36 (3.78%) Progress Chef
6 14 (1.47%) Grafana
7 11 (1.15%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.84%) Kibana
9 6 (0.63%) Knative
9 6 (0.63%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 5 (0.52%) Kiali
10 5 (0.52%) Nessus
11 4 (0.42%) Salt
12 3 (0.31%) Podman
13 2 (0.21%) CASB
13 2 (0.21%) Consul
13 2 (0.21%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.21%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.21%) Mesos
13 2 (0.21%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 75 (7.87%) Google
2 69 (7.24%) Microsoft
3 35 (3.67%) Oracle
3 35 (3.67%) Red Hat
4 29 (3.04%) Micro Focus
4 29 (3.04%) SaltStack
5 28 (2.94%) Sparx
6 26 (2.73%) Cisco
7 16 (1.68%) Splunk
8 15 (1.57%) Juniper
9 14 (1.47%) VMware
10 12 (1.26%) Fortinet
10 12 (1.26%) OpenAI
11 11 (1.15%) Palo Alto
12 9 (0.94%) Bloomberg
12 9 (0.94%) CheckPoint
13 8 (0.84%) Apple
13 8 (0.84%) ESRI
14 7 (0.73%) Arista
14 7 (0.73%) Tufin