Open Source Jobs in the North West

Open Source
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 141 170 201
Rank change year-on-year +29 +31 -44
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 168 126 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.68% 1.63% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 1.71% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 108 76 80
10th Percentile £43,375 £43,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £42,343
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,603 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +6.25% +2.35%
75th Percentile £73,125 £79,063 £75,250
90th Percentile £84,964 £83,125 £95,625
England median annual salary £63,218 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.71% +7.14% +3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,207 7,382 9,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 82.31% 95.54% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6,214 3,877 5,302
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,500 £81,250
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the North West

Open Source
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the North West.

Salary trend for Open Source in the North West

Open Source
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the North West over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Open Source in the North West

Open Source
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the North West 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
Manchester +38 141 £55,000 -15.38% 24
Lancashire - 13 £61,206 - 2
Merseyside +13 11 - -
Cheshire -8 3 £65,000 +8.33% 1
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 16 (9.52%) Apache
1 16 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.76%) WebLogic
3 5 (2.98%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.98%) Confluence
4 4 (2.38%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 8 (4.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (3.57%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 54 (32.14%) AWS
2 41 (24.40%) Azure
3 19 (11.31%) Amazon EKS
4 17 (10.12%) Amazon Kinesis
4 17 (10.12%) GCP
4 17 (10.12%) Serverless
5 13 (7.74%) OpenShift
6 11 (6.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (4.17%) dbt
9 5 (2.98%) Google Analytics
9 5 (2.98%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.98%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.19%) GitHub
12 1 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.60%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.60%) Linode
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.55%) AMQP
2 8 (4.76%) BGP
2 8 (4.76%) DNS
2 8 (4.76%) SSL
2 8 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.79%) Firewall
4 2 (1.19%) Network Security
5 1 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (20.83%) NoSQL
2 26 (15.48%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (15.48%) Relational Database
3 17 (10.12%) Amazon Aurora
3 17 (10.12%) DynamoDB
4 16 (9.52%) RDBMS
5 14 (8.33%) Oracle Database
5 14 (8.33%) Redis
6 11 (6.55%) Big Data
6 11 (6.55%) Cloudera CDH
6 11 (6.55%) Hadoop
7 9 (5.36%) MySQL
8 8 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (2.98%) BigQuery
10 5 (2.98%) Looker
10 5 (2.98%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.98%) Power BI
10 5 (2.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (7.74%) Git
2 10 (5.95%) Gatling
3 8 (4.76%) GitLab
3 8 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.57%) JDeveloper
4 6 (3.57%) JIRA
5 5 (2.98%) Clang
6 3 (1.79%) webpack
7 1 (0.60%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.60%) Capybara
7 1 (0.60%) RSpec
General
1 66 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 18 (10.71%) Finance
3 14 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.55%) Aerospace
5 10 (5.95%) Automotive
5 10 (5.95%) Billing
5 10 (5.95%) Electronics
5 10 (5.95%) Games
6 6 (3.57%) Health Technology
6 6 (3.57%) Law
7 5 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.19%) Banking
9 2 (1.19%) Digital Economy
10 1 (0.60%) Advertising
10 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 75 (44.64%) Software Engineer
2 57 (33.93%) Senior
3 33 (19.64%) Lead
4 30 (17.86%) Developer
5 26 (15.48%) Architect
6 20 (11.90%) Solutions Architect
7 19 (11.31%) Senior Software Engineer
7 19 (11.31%) Technical Leader
8 14 (8.33%) Senior Architect
9 12 (7.14%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 11 (6.55%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 10 (5.95%) Full Stack Developer
11 10 (5.95%) PHP Developer
11 10 (5.95%) Python Engineer
12 9 (5.36%) Senior Developer
13 8 (4.76%) Compiler Engineer
13 8 (4.76%) Lead Architect
13 8 (4.76%) Lead Solutions Architect
14 7 (4.17%) C Software Engineer
14 7 (4.17%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (23.81%) Node.js
2 34 (20.24%) React
3 28 (16.67%) REST
4 26 (15.48%) HTML
5 22 (13.10%) AngularJS
5 22 (13.10%) Spring Boot
6 21 (12.50%) GraphQL
7 19 (11.31%) RabbitMQ
8 17 (10.12%) http4s
8 17 (10.12%) Scalaz
8 17 (10.12%) Web Services
9 16 (9.52%) CSS
10 14 (8.33%) JSON
10 14 (8.33%) Spring
11 13 (7.74%) Swagger
12 11 (6.55%) gRPC
12 11 (6.55%) Material-UI
12 11 (6.55%) OpenAPI
13 10 (5.95%) Electron
14 9 (5.36%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.10%) Public Cloud
2 17 (10.12%) Blog
2 17 (10.12%) Media Streaming
3 13 (7.74%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.95%) IoT
4 10 (5.95%) Private Cloud
5 8 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (4.17%) Device Driver
6 7 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
6 7 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.98%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.79%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.79%) NHS
10 2 (1.19%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.19%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.19%) Cybercrime
10 2 (1.19%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 62 (36.90%) Linux
2 19 (11.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (6.55%) CentOS
3 11 (6.55%) Debian
3 11 (6.55%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.98%) Windows
5 2 (1.19%) Unix
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (58.93%) Software Engineering
2 94 (55.95%) Agile
3 54 (32.14%) DevOps
4 48 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 44 (26.19%) Coaching
6 40 (23.81%) Mentoring
7 38 (22.62%) Computer Science
8 37 (22.02%) Microservices
9 32 (19.05%) Actionable Insight
9 32 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (15.48%) Scrum
11 25 (14.88%) Kanban
11 25 (14.88%) Unit Testing
12 23 (13.69%) Code Quality
12 23 (13.69%) Containerisation
12 23 (13.69%) Design Patterns
13 22 (13.10%) CI/CD
14 21 (12.50%) Integration Testing
15 20 (11.90%) Full Stack Development
16 19 (11.31%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 65 (38.69%) Python
2 57 (33.93%) Java
3 47 (27.98%) JavaScript
4 32 (19.05%) C
5 21 (12.50%) Rust
6 17 (10.12%) Scala
7 14 (8.33%) SQL
8 10 (5.95%) C++
8 10 (5.95%) COBOL
8 10 (5.95%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 10 (5.95%) PHP
8 10 (5.95%) TypeScript
9 8 (4.76%) Bash
10 7 (4.17%) Embedded C
10 7 (4.17%) Ruby
11 6 (3.57%) Go
11 6 (3.57%) Perl
12 5 (2.98%) C#
12 5 (2.98%) Fortran
13 2 (1.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 53 (31.55%) Degree
2 38 (22.62%) Security Cleared
3 37 (22.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (19.05%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.55%) DV Cleared
6 8 (4.76%) AWS Certification
6 8 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.76%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.79%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.19%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.57%) QA
2 2 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.19%) NIST
2 2 (1.19%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (1.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (12.50%) Ansible
2 15 (8.93%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.93%) Terraform
3 11 (6.55%) Puppet
4 8 (4.76%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (10.71%) Oracle
2 16 (9.52%) Google
3 11 (6.55%) Red Hat
3 11 (6.55%) SaltStack
4 10 (5.95%) Micro Focus
5 8 (4.76%) Sparx
6 6 (3.57%) F5
7 5 (2.98%) Teradata
8 4 (2.38%) ESRI
9 3 (1.79%) Microsoft
10 1 (0.60%) Spotify
10 1 (0.60%) Veeam
10 1 (0.60%) VMware