Open Source Jobs in the South West

Open Source
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 187 156 132
Rank change year-on-year -31 -24 -3
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 113 121 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.20% 1.80% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.90% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 67 54 122
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,313 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,725 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +47.37% -13.64%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £73,438
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,125 £85,000
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
South 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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,778 6,353 7,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 82.84% 94.50% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,600 3,517 5,034
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,538
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +6.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,750 £66,188
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the South West

Open Source
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Open Source in the South West

Open Source
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Open Source in the South West

Open Source
Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Bristol +15 53 £60,000 -11.11% 16
Gloucestershire -32 45 £65,000 -8.45% 1
Devon - 9 - - 4
Dorset -25 3 £67,500 -10.00%
Wiltshire -19 1 - - 3
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 25 (22.12%) Apache
2 16 (14.16%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.54%) Confluence
3 4 (3.54%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (3.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 65 (57.52%) AWS
2 62 (54.87%) Azure
3 21 (18.58%) GCP
4 20 (17.70%) Amazon EKS
4 20 (17.70%) OpenShift
4 20 (17.70%) Serverless
5 17 (15.04%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (14.16%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (3.54%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (3.54%) Miro
8 2 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.16%) AMQP
2 12 (10.62%) DNS
2 12 (10.62%) TCP/IP
3 10 (8.85%) Internet
4 8 (7.08%) HTTP
4 8 (7.08%) SMTP
5 5 (4.42%) SSL
6 4 (3.54%) BGP
7 2 (1.77%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (1.77%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.77%) PBX
7 2 (1.77%) RTP
7 2 (1.77%) VoIP
8 1 (0.88%) Firewall
8 1 (0.88%) LAN
8 1 (0.88%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.88%) VPN
8 1 (0.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.58%) Big Data
2 16 (14.16%) Cloudera CDH
2 16 (14.16%) Hadoop
3 10 (8.85%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (6.19%) Oracle Database
4 7 (6.19%) RDBMS
4 7 (6.19%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.65%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.77%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 34 (30.09%) GitLab
2 15 (13.27%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.96%) Git
4 4 (3.54%) Cypress.io
4 4 (3.54%) JIRA
4 4 (3.54%) Selenium
5 3 (2.65%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.65%) JDeveloper
General
1 16 (14.16%) Aerospace
2 15 (13.27%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.73%) Finance
3 11 (9.73%) Presentation Skills
4 10 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.96%) Banking
5 9 (7.96%) Retail
6 7 (6.19%) Publishing
7 4 (3.54%) Automotive
7 4 (3.54%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.65%) Marketing
9 2 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.77%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.77%) Law
10 1 (0.88%) Games
10 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (40.71%) Developer
2 30 (26.55%) Software Engineer
3 22 (19.47%) Lead
4 19 (16.81%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 15 (13.27%) Full Stack Developer
6 14 (12.39%) Architect
7 11 (9.73%) Software Developer
7 11 (9.73%) Technical Leader
8 10 (8.85%) Java Developer
9 9 (7.96%) Senior
9 9 (7.96%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (7.08%) Embedded Developer
10 8 (7.08%) Firmware Developer
11 7 (6.19%) Lead Developer
12 5 (4.42%) Senior Developer
13 4 (3.54%) Compiler Engineer
13 4 (3.54%) Digital Product Manager
13 4 (3.54%) Lead Solutions Architect
13 4 (3.54%) Product Manager
13 4 (3.54%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (32.74%) React
2 29 (25.66%) Spring Boot
3 23 (20.35%) Spring
4 21 (18.58%) Node.js
5 20 (17.70%) RabbitMQ
6 18 (15.93%) AngularJS
7 17 (15.04%) Swagger
8 16 (14.16%) gRPC
8 16 (14.16%) Material-UI
8 16 (14.16%) OpenAPI
8 16 (14.16%) REST
9 7 (6.19%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (3.54%) Hibernate
10 4 (3.54%) LLVM
11 3 (2.65%) Kafka
11 3 (2.65%) RESTful
12 2 (1.77%) Android Jetpack
12 2 (1.77%) ARM Templates
12 2 (1.77%) HTML5
12 2 (1.77%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 35 (30.97%) Private Cloud
2 19 (16.81%) Cloud Native
3 11 (9.73%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (7.08%) CUDA
4 8 (7.08%) GNSS
4 8 (7.08%) Tandem
5 7 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (6.19%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.54%) IoT
6 4 (3.54%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.65%) Blockchain
7 3 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.65%) Robotics
7 3 (2.65%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.77%) NHS
8 2 (1.77%) PropTech
9 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 37 (32.74%) Linux
2 20 (17.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 20 (17.70%) Ubuntu
3 19 (16.81%) CentOS
4 17 (15.04%) Debian
5 12 (10.62%) Unix
6 10 (8.85%) Windows
7 2 (1.77%) Android
8 1 (0.88%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (74.34%) Agile
2 62 (54.87%) Software Engineering
3 40 (35.40%) Containerisation
4 39 (34.51%) DevOps
5 37 (32.74%) Continuous Integration
6 36 (31.86%) Kanban
6 36 (31.86%) Scrum
7 30 (26.55%) Full Stack Development
8 27 (23.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (22.12%) Actionable Insight
10 24 (21.24%) Collaborative Working
10 24 (21.24%) Microservices
11 23 (20.35%) API Development
12 22 (19.47%) Code Quality
12 22 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (18.58%) Requirements Analysis
14 18 (15.93%) CI/CD
14 18 (15.93%) Configuration Management
15 16 (14.16%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 14 (12.39%) Progressive Web App
Programming Languages
1 76 (67.26%) Java
2 42 (37.17%) JavaScript
3 41 (36.28%) Python
4 28 (24.78%) TypeScript
5 14 (12.39%) C
6 10 (8.85%) C++
6 10 (8.85%) Go
7 5 (4.42%) Bash
7 5 (4.42%) SQL
8 3 (2.65%) Perl
8 3 (2.65%) Ruby
9 2 (1.77%) Bicep
9 2 (1.77%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 68 (60.18%) Security Cleared
2 50 (44.25%) SC Cleared
3 21 (18.58%) DV Cleared
4 16 (14.16%) Degree
5 6 (5.31%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.54%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.77%) CCNA
7 2 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.65%) QA
2 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (17.70%) Docker
2 8 (7.08%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (7.08%) Firmware
3 2 (1.77%) Kamailio
3 2 (1.77%) Shibboleth
4 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.88%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (26.55%) Kubernetes
2 28 (24.78%) Ansible
3 20 (17.70%) Terraform
4 16 (14.16%) Puppet
5 7 (6.19%) Kibana
6 6 (5.31%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.88%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 21 (18.58%) Google
2 18 (15.93%) Red Hat
3 16 (14.16%) SaltStack
4 7 (6.19%) Oracle
5 5 (4.42%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.54%) Cisco
6 4 (3.54%) Dialogic
6 4 (3.54%) Ribbon
6 4 (3.54%) Sparx
7 2 (1.77%) Juniper
8 1 (0.88%) ESRI
8 1 (0.88%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.88%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.88%) VMware