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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 195 122
Rank change year-on-year -64 -73 +24
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 1,154 1,924 5,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.16% 1.94% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 2.03% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 714 878 1,468
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,029 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,875 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,206 £67,500 £56,774
% change year-on-year -9.32% +18.89% +3.23%

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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -81 898 £63,218 -15.71% 303
UK excluding London +22 841 £61,206 -9.32% 208
Work from Home -26 581 £70,000 -6.67% 152
London -149 251 £80,000 -0.37% 139
North of England +63 248 £61,206 +2.01% 43
North West +36 163 £60,603 -3.04% 23
Scotland +17 157 £75,000 +8.00% 16
South East +4 146 £45,000 -34.55% 50
South West -33 111 £62,500 -10.71% 33
Midlands -15 78 £61,206 -12.56% 31
Yorkshire +78 65 £61,206 +28.85% 13
East of England +7 51 £80,001 +39.13% 23
West Midlands +5 50 £61,206 -12.56% 24
East Midlands -7 28 £75,000 -6.25% 7
Northern Ireland +32 26 £75,400 - 8
Wales -1 24 £75,000 -36.33% 6
North East -14 20 £61,206 +28.39% 7

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
1 137 (11.87%) Apache Spark
2 56 (4.85%) Apache
3 46 (3.99%) WebLogic
4 20 (1.73%) Confluence
5 15 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (1.21%) nginx
7 11 (0.95%) IIS
7 11 (0.95%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.69%) Apache Pig
8 8 (0.69%) ArcGIS
8 8 (0.69%) Drupal
9 6 (0.52%) CMS
10 4 (0.35%) OpenZeppelin
11 3 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.26%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.17%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.17%) SAS
12 2 (0.17%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.17%) WordPress
13 1 (0.087%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 48 (4.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.087%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 46 (3.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (0.69%) Shopify
3 6 (0.52%) Magento
4 1 (0.087%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 491 (42.55%) AWS
2 347 (30.07%) Azure
3 137 (11.87%) Serverless
4 113 (9.79%) GCP
5 86 (7.45%) Amazon SQS
6 76 (6.59%) AWS Lambda
7 73 (6.33%) Amazon EKS
7 73 (6.33%) OpenShift
8 69 (5.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 64 (5.55%) GitHub
10 55 (4.77%) SaaS
11 51 (4.42%) Amazon S3
12 39 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
13 38 (3.29%) Amazon ECS
14 24 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (1.99%) IaaS
16 21 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
16 21 (1.82%) dbt
16 21 (1.82%) PaaS
17 16 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 87 (7.54%) DNS
2 80 (6.93%) TCP/IP
3 61 (5.29%) BGP
4 54 (4.68%) SSL
5 51 (4.42%) Firewall
6 27 (2.34%) AMQP
7 22 (1.91%) HTTP
7 22 (1.91%) LAN
7 22 (1.91%) WAN
8 20 (1.73%) Internet
9 16 (1.39%) VPN
10 15 (1.30%) MPLS
11 10 (0.87%) Wireshark
12 9 (0.78%) DHCP
13 8 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
13 8 (0.69%) Network Security
13 8 (0.69%) SMTP
13 8 (0.69%) Unified Communications
13 8 (0.69%) VLAN
13 8 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (14.47%) NoSQL
2 126 (10.92%) Relational Database
3 100 (8.67%) Hadoop
4 97 (8.41%) Big Data
5 95 (8.23%) Apache Hive
6 90 (7.80%) RDBMS
7 86 (7.45%) Amazon RDS
7 86 (7.45%) HBase
8 83 (7.19%) Oracle Database
9 72 (6.24%) PostgreSQL
10 51 (4.42%) MySQL
11 42 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
12 36 (3.12%) SQL Server
13 27 (2.34%) Cloudera CDH
13 27 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
14 25 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
15 15 (1.30%) Redis
16 14 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 13 (1.13%) MongoDB
17 13 (1.13%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 229 (19.84%) Git
2 194 (16.81%) Jenkins
3 93 (8.06%) GitLab
4 86 (7.45%) Bitbucket Server
5 36 (3.12%) JDeveloper
6 31 (2.69%) Artifactory
7 26 (2.25%) JIRA
8 15 (1.30%) Cypress.io
8 15 (1.30%) SonarQube
9 13 (1.13%) CircleCI
10 12 (1.04%) JUnit
10 12 (1.04%) Selenium
10 12 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
10 12 (1.04%) Subversion
11 10 (0.87%) GNU Toolchain
12 9 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
12 9 (0.78%) TeamCity
13 8 (0.69%) Checkstyle
13 8 (0.69%) Jaeger
14 7 (0.61%) Gatling
General
1 331 (28.68%) Social Skills
2 222 (19.24%) Finance
3 153 (13.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 119 (10.31%) Law
5 94 (8.15%) Legal
6 53 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
7 52 (4.51%) Public Sector
8 46 (3.99%) Marketing
9 40 (3.47%) Front Office
10 35 (3.03%) Banking
11 32 (2.77%) Retail
12 29 (2.51%) Aerospace
13 27 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
14 24 (2.08%) Games
15 22 (1.91%) Automotive
16 15 (1.30%) Electronics
17 14 (1.21%) Military
18 10 (0.87%) Financial Institution
19 9 (0.78%) Health Technology
20 8 (0.69%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 300 (26.00%) Software Engineer
2 270 (23.40%) Developer
3 228 (19.76%) Senior
4 184 (15.94%) Architect
5 181 (15.68%) Lead
6 108 (9.36%) AWS Engineer
7 95 (8.23%) Solutions Architect
8 82 (7.11%) Technical Leader
9 70 (6.07%) AWS Software Engineer
10 67 (5.81%) Database Developer
11 61 (5.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 61 (5.29%) DevOps Engineer
12 56 (4.85%) Database Engineer
13 49 (4.25%) Data Engineer
14 47 (4.07%) Lead Architect
15 46 (3.99%) Lead Solutions Architect
15 46 (3.99%) Technical Architect
16 45 (3.90%) Senior Software Engineer
17 43 (3.73%) Senior Architect
17 43 (3.73%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (16.03%) React
2 174 (15.08%) Node.js
3 115 (9.97%) Spring Boot
4 84 (7.28%) REST
5 76 (6.59%) RabbitMQ
6 67 (5.81%) AngularJS
7 62 (5.37%) Spring
8 58 (5.03%) HTML
9 50 (4.33%) Kafka
10 48 (4.16%) CSS
11 42 (3.64%) .NET
12 39 (3.38%) J2EE
12 39 (3.38%) Swagger
13 35 (3.03%) PyTorch
14 33 (2.86%) TensorFlow
15 32 (2.77%) Express.js
16 30 (2.60%) Web Services
17 28 (2.43%) Django
18 27 (2.34%) gRPC
18 27 (2.34%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 137 (11.87%) Algorithms
2 104 (9.01%) Public Cloud
3 97 (8.41%) Private Cloud
4 95 (8.23%) Management Information System
5 81 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
6 67 (5.81%) Cloud Native
7 55 (4.77%) Distributed Systems
7 55 (4.77%) Enterprise Software
8 38 (3.29%) Tandem
9 37 (3.21%) Blog
10 35 (3.03%) Blockchain
11 34 (2.95%) Data Structures
11 34 (2.95%) Embedded Systems
12 32 (2.77%) Data Centre
12 32 (2.77%) IoT
13 30 (2.60%) Product Ownership
14 21 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
15 19 (1.65%) Client/Server
16 17 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
16 17 (1.47%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 309 (26.78%) Linux
2 147 (12.74%) Unix
3 87 (7.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 58 (5.03%) Windows
5 49 (4.25%) Ubuntu
6 45 (3.90%) Debian
7 41 (3.55%) CentOS
8 18 (1.56%) Embedded Linux
9 14 (1.21%) Android
9 14 (1.21%) Mac OS X
10 7 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.61%) Windows Server
11 6 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.43%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.26%) Solaris
13 3 (0.26%) VMS
14 1 (0.087%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.087%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 638 (55.29%) Agile
2 513 (44.45%) Software Engineering
3 342 (29.64%) DevOps
4 289 (25.04%) CI/CD
5 255 (22.10%) Problem-Solving
6 246 (21.32%) Microservices
7 232 (20.10%) Mentoring
8 206 (17.85%) Actionable Insight
9 195 (16.90%) Coaching
10 194 (16.81%) Continuous Integration
11 186 (16.12%) Artificial Intelligence
12 176 (15.25%) SDLC
13 174 (15.08%) Scrum
14 165 (14.30%) Containerisation
15 164 (14.21%) Machine Learning
16 162 (14.04%) Test Automation
17 149 (12.91%) TDD
18 145 (12.56%) Collaborative Working
19 141 (12.22%) Computer Science
20 139 (12.05%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 505 (43.76%) Python
2 423 (36.66%) Java
3 219 (18.98%) JavaScript
4 212 (18.37%) SQL
5 131 (11.35%) C
6 121 (10.49%) Go
7 115 (9.97%) TypeScript
8 111 (9.62%) Bash
9 86 (7.45%) PL/SQL
10 78 (6.76%) C++
11 60 (5.20%) Ruby
12 48 (4.16%) C#
12 48 (4.16%) Perl
13 42 (3.64%) Rust
14 36 (3.12%) PHP
15 33 (2.86%) PowerShell
16 29 (2.51%) COBOL
16 29 (2.51%) Micro Focus COBOL
17 23 (1.99%) Embedded C
18 21 (1.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 257 (22.27%) Security Cleared
2 223 (19.32%) Degree
3 199 (17.24%) SC Cleared
4 60 (5.20%) Azure Certification
5 57 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 51 (4.42%) AWS Certification
7 49 (4.25%) Master's Degree
8 48 (4.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 36 (3.12%) DV Cleared
10 34 (2.95%) PhD
11 17 (1.47%) CISSP
12 15 (1.30%) GCIA
12 15 (1.30%) GCIH
12 15 (1.30%) GREM
13 14 (1.21%) CISM
14 9 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.69%) CCNA
16 4 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
17 3 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
18 2 (0.17%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (6.67%) QA
2 47 (4.07%) PMO
3 17 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.47%) GDPR
4 6 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.52%) JTAG
4 6 (0.52%) NCSC
5 5 (0.43%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.43%) NIST
6 4 (0.35%) SEPA
7 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.087%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 167 (14.47%) Docker
2 94 (8.15%) HDFS
3 21 (1.82%) Firmware
3 21 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
4 12 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.78%) Active Directory
5 9 (0.78%) Embedded Firmware
5 9 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.52%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.43%) Ceph
7 5 (0.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.26%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.26%) KVM
8 3 (0.26%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.17%) QEMU
9 2 (0.17%) Shibboleth
9 2 (0.17%) vSphere
9 2 (0.17%) Xen
10 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 221 (19.15%) Terraform
2 202 (17.50%) Kubernetes
3 116 (10.05%) Ansible
4 56 (4.85%) Puppet
5 36 (3.12%) Progress Chef
6 8 (0.69%) Grafana
6 8 (0.69%) Kiali
6 8 (0.69%) Kibana
7 6 (0.52%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 5 (0.43%) Knative
8 5 (0.43%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.35%) Nessus
9 4 (0.35%) Salt
10 3 (0.26%) Podman
11 2 (0.17%) Consul
11 2 (0.17%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.17%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.17%) Marathon
11 2 (0.17%) Mesos
12 1 (0.087%) Packer
Vendors
1 90 (7.80%) Oracle
2 88 (7.63%) Databricks
3 86 (7.45%) Informatica
4 76 (6.59%) Google
5 64 (5.55%) Microsoft
6 56 (4.85%) Cloudera
7 46 (3.99%) Sparx
8 32 (2.77%) Red Hat
9 29 (2.51%) Micro Focus
10 27 (2.34%) SaltStack
11 23 (1.99%) Cisco
12 14 (1.21%) Dell
13 13 (1.13%) Juniper
13 13 (1.13%) Splunk
13 13 (1.13%) VMware
14 12 (1.04%) Fortinet
14 12 (1.04%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.78%) AppDynamics
15 9 (0.78%) ESRI
15 9 (0.78%) Palo Alto