Open Source Jobs in the South East

Open Source
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 247 257 244
Rank change year-on-year +10 -13 -64
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 159 140 285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.89% 1.02% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.08% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 132 58 119
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,392 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £66,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.08% +6.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £64,813 £80,313 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £107,500 -
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 East

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 East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,794 12,976 19,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 83.07% 94.36% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 10,162 7,675 11,832
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,396 £85,000 £82,500
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 East

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the South East

Open Source
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Open Source in the South East

Open Source
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Open Source in the South East

Open Source
Job Locations in the South East

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 East 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
Thames Valley +52 113 £45,000 -18.18% 11
Buckinghamshire +17 48 £45,000 -40.00% 4
Berkshire +37 43 £58,000 -3.33% 5
Hampshire -43 26 £62,500 -10.71% 9
Oxfordshire +4 22 £40,000 -5.88% 3
West Sussex +23 6 £49,000 - 4
Surrey -38 4 £65,000 -25.71% 1
East Sussex +13 1 £65,000 - 4
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (6.92%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.52%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.26%) Apache
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.63%) CMS
4 1 (0.63%) Confluence
4 1 (0.63%) Kinematics
4 1 (0.63%) nginx
4 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 47 (29.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (36.48%) AWS
1 58 (36.48%) Azure
2 8 (5.03%) GitHub
2 8 (5.03%) SaaS
3 7 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (3.77%) IaaS
4 6 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.14%) GCP
6 4 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (2.52%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.63%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.63%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.63%) Discord
7 1 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.63%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.63%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 22 (13.84%) DNS
2 18 (11.32%) Firewall
3 10 (6.29%) HTTP
4 7 (4.40%) LAN
4 7 (4.40%) WAN
5 6 (3.77%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.52%) BGP
6 4 (2.52%) SSL
7 3 (1.89%) Internet
8 1 (0.63%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.92%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (6.92%) MySQL
2 10 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.40%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.14%) InfluxDB
4 5 (3.14%) MariaDB
5 4 (2.52%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.52%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.89%) Big Data
7 2 (1.26%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.26%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.26%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.63%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.63%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.63%) Redis
8 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (9.43%) Git
2 13 (8.18%) GitLab
3 9 (5.66%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.26%) Android Studio
4 2 (1.26%) JIRA
5 1 (0.63%) Selenium
5 1 (0.63%) Vagrant
General
1 78 (49.06%) Social Skills
2 8 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (5.03%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (3.14%) Finance
3 5 (3.14%) Public Sector
4 2 (1.26%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.63%) Automotive
5 1 (0.63%) Legal
5 1 (0.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 36 (22.64%) Software Engineer
2 26 (16.35%) Architect
3 24 (15.09%) Senior
4 14 (8.81%) Senior Software Engineer
5 13 (8.18%) Developer
5 13 (8.18%) Lead
6 10 (6.29%) Research Engineer
6 10 (6.29%) Research Software Engineer
7 8 (5.03%) Linux Engineer
7 8 (5.03%) Technical Architect
8 6 (3.77%) Development Engineer
8 6 (3.77%) Infrastructure Manager
8 6 (3.77%) Senior Developer
8 6 (3.77%) Software Development Engineer
8 6 (3.77%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (3.77%) Technical Leader
8 6 (3.77%) Test Development Engineer
9 5 (3.14%) Lead Architect
9 5 (3.14%) Linux Systems Engineer
9 5 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.47%) REST
2 18 (11.32%) OAuth
2 18 (11.32%) OpenID
2 18 (11.32%) SAML
3 9 (5.66%) React
4 6 (3.77%) Node.js
5 5 (3.14%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.52%) EDI
6 4 (2.52%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.89%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.89%) Express.js
8 2 (1.26%) Android SDK
8 2 (1.26%) CSS
8 2 (1.26%) HTML
8 2 (1.26%) HTML5
8 2 (1.26%) LAMP
8 2 (1.26%) Laravel
9 1 (0.63%) Ajax
9 1 (0.63%) Spring
9 1 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 54 (33.96%) Management Information System
2 50 (31.45%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (11.32%) Algorithms
4 12 (7.55%) Data Centre
5 10 (6.29%) Life Science
5 10 (6.29%) Private Cloud
6 5 (3.14%) PKI
6 5 (3.14%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.52%) Device Driver
7 4 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.89%) Clustering
8 3 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.89%) Mixed Reality
8 3 (1.89%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.26%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.26%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.26%) Social Media
10 1 (0.63%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.63%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 74 (46.54%) Linux
2 20 (12.58%) Unix
3 19 (11.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (11.32%) Windows
5 9 (5.66%) CentOS
6 6 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (3.77%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (3.14%) Ubuntu
7 5 (3.14%) Windows 10
7 5 (3.14%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (2.52%) Windows Server
9 3 (1.89%) Android
10 2 (1.26%) Debian
11 1 (0.63%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (47.80%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (35.22%) Mentoring
3 55 (34.59%) Actionable Insight
3 55 (34.59%) Decision-Making
4 53 (33.33%) Coaching
4 53 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
5 51 (32.08%) Agile
5 51 (32.08%) Project Management
6 48 (30.19%) Business Development
6 48 (30.19%) OSINT
7 47 (29.56%) Customer Requirements
7 47 (29.56%) Process Management
8 43 (27.04%) Software Engineering
9 31 (19.50%) Software Testing
10 29 (18.24%) Scrum
11 28 (17.61%) Computer Science
12 27 (16.98%) DevOps
13 26 (16.35%) Kanban
14 23 (14.47%) Microservices
14 23 (14.47%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 47 (29.56%) Java
2 46 (28.93%) Python
3 31 (19.50%) Bash
4 22 (13.84%) C
5 19 (11.95%) C++
6 17 (10.69%) Fortran
7 15 (9.43%) JavaScript
8 8 (5.03%) TypeScript
9 7 (4.40%) Go
10 6 (3.77%) Ruby
11 5 (3.14%) Perl
11 5 (3.14%) PHP
11 5 (3.14%) SQL
12 4 (2.52%) Rust
13 3 (1.89%) Haskell
13 3 (1.89%) Kotlin
14 2 (1.26%) C#
15 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.63%) R
15 1 (0.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (37.74%) Security Cleared
2 36 (22.64%) Degree
3 31 (19.50%) SC Cleared
4 20 (12.58%) Master's Degree
5 17 (10.69%) PhD
6 15 (9.43%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.52%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.89%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.63%) ISEB
10 1 (0.63%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (29.56%) PMO
2 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 18 (11.32%) Virtual Servers
2 14 (8.81%) Docker
3 7 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 5 (3.14%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.89%) VirtualBox
6 2 (1.26%) KVM
6 2 (1.26%) QEMU
6 2 (1.26%) Xen
7 1 (0.63%) Firmware
7 1 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (13.84%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.43%) Puppet
3 11 (6.92%) Ansible
4 7 (4.40%) Terraform
5 5 (3.14%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 2 (1.26%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.63%) Grafana
7 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (16.35%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.03%) VMware
3 5 (3.14%) Cisco
3 5 (3.14%) Fortinet
3 5 (3.14%) Juniper
3 5 (3.14%) Oracle
4 4 (2.52%) Google
4 4 (2.52%) Sparx
5 2 (1.26%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.63%) Apple
6 1 (0.63%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.63%) EMC
6 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.63%) Veeam