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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 192 137
Rank change year-on-year -76 -55 +5
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 904 1,719 4,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.05% 1.94% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 2.03% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 639 794 1,339
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,950
25th Percentile £48,250 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,218 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £84,964 £90,000 £89,375
90th Percentile £112,500 £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 73,567 84,580 131,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.06% 95.60% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 53,896 50,324 73,626
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 20 May 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 20 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
North of England +57 253 £61,206 -2.07% 48
London -154 250 £80,750 +0.57% 152
North West +29 168 £60,603 -4.94% 27
South East +7 146 £45,000 -34.55% 51
South West -31 113 £60,000 -14.29% 34
Midlands -15 78 £61,206 -12.56% 35
Yorkshire +78 65 £61,206 +8.81% 14
East of England +9 51 £80,001 +39.13% 23
West Midlands +4 50 £61,206 -12.56% 26
East Midlands -17 28 £75,000 -6.25% 9
North East -9 20 £61,206 +28.39% 7
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 56 (6.19%) Apache
2 49 (5.42%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.10%) WebLogic
4 14 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.55%) nginx
5 13 (1.44%) Confluence
6 11 (1.22%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.88%) Drupal
8 7 (0.77%) Apache Pig
8 7 (0.77%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.44%) CMS
9 4 (0.44%) IIS
9 4 (0.44%) OpenZeppelin
10 3 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.33%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.22%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.22%) SAS
11 2 (0.22%) WordPress
12 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.11%) Kinematics
Applications
1 48 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 28 (3.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (0.88%) Shopify
3 6 (0.66%) Magento
4 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 356 (39.38%) AWS
2 288 (31.86%) Azure
3 116 (12.83%) Serverless
4 95 (10.51%) GCP
5 74 (8.19%) AWS Lambda
6 68 (7.52%) Amazon SQS
6 68 (7.52%) OpenShift
7 67 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 55 (6.08%) Amazon EKS
9 49 (5.42%) Amazon S3
10 38 (4.20%) GitHub
11 37 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
12 36 (3.98%) Amazon ECS
13 34 (3.76%) SaaS
14 19 (2.10%) IaaS
15 18 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
16 17 (1.88%) Amazon Kinesis
16 17 (1.88%) PaaS
17 16 (1.77%) dbt
18 15 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 69 (7.63%) DNS
2 50 (5.53%) Firewall
3 49 (5.42%) TCP/IP
4 43 (4.76%) BGP
5 37 (4.09%) SSL
6 27 (2.99%) AMQP
7 23 (2.54%) LAN
7 23 (2.54%) WAN
8 22 (2.43%) HTTP
9 18 (1.99%) VPN
10 16 (1.77%) Internet
11 15 (1.66%) MPLS
12 9 (1.00%) DHCP
13 8 (0.88%) IPsec
13 8 (0.88%) Multicast
13 8 (0.88%) OSPF
13 8 (0.88%) SMTP
13 8 (0.88%) Unified Communications
14 7 (0.77%) VLAN
14 7 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (9.18%) NoSQL
2 78 (8.63%) Relational Database
3 73 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
4 66 (7.30%) Amazon RDS
5 57 (6.31%) RDBMS
6 53 (5.86%) Big Data
7 49 (5.42%) Oracle Database
8 43 (4.76%) Hadoop
9 42 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
9 42 (4.65%) MySQL
10 27 (2.99%) Cloudera CDH
11 26 (2.88%) SQL Server
12 23 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
13 19 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
14 18 (1.99%) DynamoDB
14 18 (1.99%) Redis
15 17 (1.88%) Amazon Aurora
16 13 (1.44%) MongoDB
17 12 (1.33%) SQLite
18 10 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 115 (12.72%) Git
2 96 (10.62%) Jenkins
3 87 (9.62%) GitLab
4 30 (3.32%) Artifactory
5 21 (2.32%) JDeveloper
6 17 (1.88%) JIRA
7 14 (1.55%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.44%) CircleCI
9 12 (1.33%) Subversion
10 11 (1.22%) JUnit
11 10 (1.11%) Gatling
11 10 (1.11%) GNU Toolchain
11 10 (1.11%) Selenium
12 9 (1.00%) Cypress.io
12 9 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (0.88%) TeamCity
14 7 (0.77%) Checkstyle
15 5 (0.55%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.55%) JMeter
General
1 256 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 116 (12.83%) Finance
3 52 (5.75%) Public Sector
4 44 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (4.54%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (4.42%) Front Office
7 29 (3.21%) Aerospace
7 29 (3.21%) Law
8 27 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
9 25 (2.77%) Banking
10 24 (2.65%) Retail
11 22 (2.43%) Automotive
12 21 (2.32%) Games
13 20 (2.21%) Marketing
14 12 (1.33%) Electronics
15 10 (1.11%) Billing
16 9 (1.00%) Health Technology
17 8 (0.88%) Legal
17 8 (0.88%) Publishing
18 7 (0.77%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 197 (21.79%) Senior
2 184 (20.35%) Software Engineer
3 174 (19.25%) Developer
4 157 (17.37%) Lead
5 147 (16.26%) Architect
6 79 (8.74%) Technical Leader
7 71 (7.85%) Solutions Architect
8 47 (5.20%) DevOps Engineer
9 43 (4.76%) Full Stack Developer
9 43 (4.76%) Senior Architect
10 41 (4.54%) AWS Engineer
11 38 (4.20%) Senior Software Engineer
12 36 (3.98%) AWS DevOps
12 36 (3.98%) Technical Architect
13 35 (3.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 35 (3.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 32 (3.54%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 32 (3.54%) Senior Solutions Architect
15 31 (3.43%) Senior Developer
16 30 (3.32%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (16.59%) React
2 115 (12.72%) Node.js
3 87 (9.62%) Spring Boot
4 84 (9.29%) REST
5 58 (6.42%) RabbitMQ
6 55 (6.08%) Spring
7 52 (5.75%) AngularJS
8 48 (5.31%) HTML
9 40 (4.42%) Kafka
10 38 (4.20%) J2EE
11 35 (3.87%) PyTorch
12 34 (3.76%) .NET
12 34 (3.76%) Swagger
13 33 (3.65%) TensorFlow
14 30 (3.32%) CSS
14 30 (3.32%) GraphQL
15 27 (2.99%) gRPC
15 27 (2.99%) Material-UI
15 27 (2.99%) OpenAPI
15 27 (2.99%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 91 (10.07%) Private Cloud
2 86 (9.51%) Public Cloud
3 82 (9.07%) Self-Motivation
4 74 (8.19%) Management Information System
5 59 (6.53%) Cloud Native
6 53 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
7 42 (4.65%) Algorithms
8 41 (4.54%) Blog
9 38 (4.20%) Tandem
10 37 (4.09%) Enterprise Software
11 33 (3.65%) Embedded Systems
12 32 (3.54%) Data Centre
13 31 (3.43%) Blockchain
14 28 (3.10%) Product Ownership
15 25 (2.77%) IoT
16 24 (2.65%) Data Structures
17 18 (1.99%) Client/Server
17 18 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
18 17 (1.88%) Media Streaming
19 15 (1.66%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 247 (27.32%) Linux
2 69 (7.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 45 (4.98%) Ubuntu
4 42 (4.65%) Unix
5 41 (4.54%) CentOS
6 40 (4.42%) Debian
7 36 (3.98%) Windows
8 8 (0.88%) Android
9 7 (0.77%) Embedded Linux
9 7 (0.77%) Windows Server
10 6 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.55%) Windows 10
11 5 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.44%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.22%) VMS
14 1 (0.11%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.11%) Rocky
14 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (51.66%) Agile
2 383 (42.37%) Software Engineering
3 268 (29.65%) DevOps
4 218 (24.12%) Mentoring
5 209 (23.12%) Problem-Solving
6 190 (21.02%) Coaching
7 172 (19.03%) CI/CD
8 166 (18.36%) Continuous Integration
9 160 (17.70%) Microservices
10 150 (16.59%) Scrum
11 148 (16.37%) Containerisation
12 145 (16.04%) Actionable Insight
13 128 (14.16%) Full Stack Development
14 120 (13.27%) Collaborative Working
14 120 (13.27%) Decision-Making
14 120 (13.27%) Kanban
15 118 (13.05%) Computer Science
16 99 (10.95%) Project Management
17 93 (10.29%) Roadmaps
18 91 (10.07%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 362 (40.04%) Python
2 329 (36.39%) Java
3 173 (19.14%) JavaScript
4 122 (13.50%) C
5 103 (11.39%) TypeScript
6 102 (11.28%) SQL
7 94 (10.40%) Go
8 78 (8.63%) Bash
9 76 (8.41%) C++
10 47 (5.20%) C#
11 43 (4.76%) Rust
12 33 (3.65%) Ruby
13 30 (3.32%) PHP
14 29 (3.21%) COBOL
14 29 (3.21%) Micro Focus COBOL
15 27 (2.99%) Perl
16 25 (2.77%) PowerShell
16 25 (2.77%) Scala
17 22 (2.43%) Embedded C
18 13 (1.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 214 (23.67%) Security Cleared
2 169 (18.69%) Degree
3 163 (18.03%) SC Cleared
4 58 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (4.76%) Azure Certification
6 36 (3.98%) DV Cleared
7 35 (3.87%) Master's Degree
8 33 (3.65%) AWS Certification
9 30 (3.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 28 (3.10%) PhD
11 10 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (1.00%) CCNA
13 3 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.33%) CISSP
13 3 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.22%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.11%) GCIA
15 1 (0.11%) GIAC
15 1 (0.11%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (5.42%) QA
2 47 (5.20%) PMO
3 15 (1.66%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.66%) NCSC
5 5 (0.55%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.55%) NIST
6 2 (0.22%) GDPR
6 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 150 (16.59%) Docker
2 22 (2.43%) Virtual Servers
3 12 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.11%) Firmware
4 10 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.00%) Active Directory
5 9 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.77%) HDFS
6 7 (0.77%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.66%) Ceph
8 5 (0.55%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 4 (0.44%) KVM
10 3 (0.33%) Kamailio
10 3 (0.33%) QEMU
10 3 (0.33%) VirtualBox
10 3 (0.33%) Xen
11 2 (0.22%) Shibboleth
11 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.22%) vSphere
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 170 (18.81%) Kubernetes
2 113 (12.50%) Terraform
3 96 (10.62%) Ansible
4 56 (6.19%) Puppet
5 36 (3.98%) Progress Chef
6 8 (0.88%) Grafana
6 8 (0.88%) Kibana
7 6 (0.66%) Knative
7 6 (0.66%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 5 (0.55%) Kiali
8 5 (0.55%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.44%) Salt
10 3 (0.33%) Nessus
10 3 (0.33%) Podman
11 2 (0.22%) Consul
11 2 (0.22%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.22%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.22%) Marathon
11 2 (0.22%) Mesos
12 1 (0.11%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 71 (7.85%) Google
2 56 (6.19%) Oracle
3 50 (5.53%) Microsoft
4 33 (3.65%) Red Hat
5 29 (3.21%) Micro Focus
6 28 (3.10%) Sparx
7 27 (2.99%) SaltStack
8 23 (2.54%) Cisco
9 14 (1.55%) Juniper
10 13 (1.44%) VMware
11 12 (1.33%) Fortinet
11 12 (1.33%) OpenAI
12 10 (1.11%) Splunk
13 9 (1.00%) Palo Alto
14 8 (0.88%) Bloomberg
14 8 (0.88%) ESRI
15 7 (0.77%) Apple
15 7 (0.77%) Arista
15 7 (0.77%) CheckPoint
15 7 (0.77%) Tufin