Open Source Jobs in the UK excluding London

Open Source
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 239 268 225
Rank change year-on-year +29 -43 -20
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 847 736 1,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.18% 1.24% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.30% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 496 336 588
10th Percentile £41,375 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £67,500 £56,774
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% +18.89% +3.23%
75th Percentile £80,001 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £85,000
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,818 56,534 68,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.50% 95.59% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 41,261 29,197 41,375
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
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 £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Open Source in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Open Source in the UK excluding London

Open Source
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
North West +29 168 £60,603 -4.94% 27
Scotland +15 156 £75,000 +8.00% 20
South East +7 146 £45,000 -34.55% 50
South West -31 113 £60,000 -14.29% 33
Midlands -15 78 £61,206 -12.56% 36
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% 27
East Midlands -17 28 £75,000 -6.25% 9
Northern Ireland +43 26 £75,400 - 10
Wales +1 24 £75,000 -36.33% 6
North East -9 20 £61,206 +28.39% 7
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 121 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 43 (5.08%) Apache
3 40 (4.72%) WebLogic
4 15 (1.77%) Confluence
5 11 (1.30%) nginx
5 11 (1.30%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.59%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.47%) IIS
9 2 (0.24%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) Kinematics
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 48 (5.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 40 (4.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (0.94%) Shopify
3 6 (0.71%) Magento
4 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 356 (42.03%) AWS
2 256 (30.22%) Azure
3 73 (8.62%) Serverless
4 67 (7.91%) Amazon EKS
5 66 (7.79%) GCP
6 40 (4.72%) Amazon SQS
6 40 (4.72%) OpenShift
7 37 (4.37%) SaaS
8 34 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 28 (3.31%) GitHub
11 19 (2.24%) Amazon Kinesis
12 15 (1.77%) dbt
13 12 (1.42%) Google Analytics
14 11 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (0.94%) IaaS
16 7 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (0.83%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 69 (8.15%) DNS
2 63 (7.44%) TCP/IP
3 41 (4.84%) SSL
4 40 (4.72%) BGP
5 34 (4.01%) Firewall
6 27 (3.19%) AMQP
7 18 (2.13%) Internet
8 15 (1.77%) HTTP
9 8 (0.94%) LAN
9 8 (0.94%) SMTP
9 8 (0.94%) WAN
10 6 (0.71%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.35%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.35%) VoIP
11 3 (0.35%) VPN
12 2 (0.24%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.24%) Network Security
12 2 (0.24%) PBX
12 2 (0.24%) RTP
12 2 (0.24%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (18.30%) NoSQL
2 99 (11.69%) Relational Database
3 87 (10.27%) Hadoop
4 86 (10.15%) Apache Hive
4 86 (10.15%) HBase
5 84 (9.92%) Big Data
6 76 (8.97%) RDBMS
7 71 (8.38%) Oracle Database
8 59 (6.97%) PostgreSQL
9 48 (5.67%) Amazon RDS
10 36 (4.25%) MySQL
11 27 (3.19%) Cloudera CDH
12 20 (2.36%) SQL Server
13 18 (2.13%) DynamoDB
14 17 (2.01%) Amazon Aurora
15 15 (1.77%) Redis
16 13 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
17 11 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
18 10 (1.18%) MongoDB
19 9 (1.06%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 186 (21.96%) Git
2 136 (16.06%) Jenkins
3 87 (10.27%) GitLab
4 86 (10.15%) Bitbucket Server
5 30 (3.54%) JDeveloper
6 18 (2.13%) JIRA
7 15 (1.77%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.18%) Gatling
8 10 (1.18%) GNU Toolchain
8 10 (1.18%) Selenium
8 10 (1.18%) Subversion
9 7 (0.83%) CircleCI
9 7 (0.83%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.83%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.71%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.71%) MSTest
10 6 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (0.71%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.59%) Appium
11 5 (0.59%) Clang
General
1 268 (31.64%) Social Skills
2 149 (17.59%) Finance
3 121 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 100 (11.81%) Law
5 76 (8.97%) Legal
6 49 (5.79%) Public Sector
7 35 (4.13%) Marketing
8 32 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
9 30 (3.54%) Banking
9 30 (3.54%) Retail
10 29 (3.42%) Aerospace
11 22 (2.60%) Automotive
12 19 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (2.13%) Games
14 16 (1.89%) Electronics
15 14 (1.65%) Military
16 10 (1.18%) Billing
17 7 (0.83%) Multimedia
17 7 (0.83%) Publishing
18 6 (0.71%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 263 (31.05%) Software Engineer
2 218 (25.74%) Developer
3 149 (17.59%) Lead
4 145 (17.12%) Architect
5 142 (16.77%) Senior
6 88 (10.39%) Solutions Architect
7 72 (8.50%) AWS Engineer
7 72 (8.50%) Technical Leader
8 68 (8.03%) AWS Software Engineer
9 61 (7.20%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 60 (7.08%) Database Developer
11 56 (6.61%) Database Engineer
12 42 (4.96%) Full Stack Developer
13 41 (4.84%) Lead Architect
14 40 (4.72%) Lead Solutions Architect
15 38 (4.49%) AWS Developer
15 38 (4.49%) Senior Architect
16 37 (4.37%) AWS Database Engineer
17 36 (4.25%) Senior Developer
18 35 (4.13%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (17.36%) React
2 145 (17.12%) Node.js
3 92 (10.86%) Spring Boot
4 78 (9.21%) REST
5 67 (7.91%) RabbitMQ
6 60 (7.08%) AngularJS
7 53 (6.26%) Spring
8 37 (4.37%) Swagger
9 34 (4.01%) HTML
10 30 (3.54%) CSS
10 30 (3.54%) GraphQL
11 28 (3.31%) Express.js
11 28 (3.31%) Web Services
12 27 (3.19%) gRPC
12 27 (3.19%) Material-UI
12 27 (3.19%) OpenAPI
13 20 (2.36%) SAML
14 18 (2.13%) Django
14 18 (2.13%) OAuth
14 18 (2.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 113 (13.34%) Algorithms
2 89 (10.51%) Public Cloud
3 86 (10.15%) Private Cloud
4 70 (8.26%) Management Information System
4 70 (8.26%) Self-Motivation
5 46 (5.43%) Cloud Native
5 46 (5.43%) Enterprise Software
6 33 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
7 31 (3.66%) Embedded Systems
8 26 (3.07%) IoT
9 22 (2.60%) Blog
10 18 (2.13%) Blockchain
11 17 (2.01%) Media Streaming
12 16 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (1.89%) Product Ownership
13 15 (1.77%) Mobile App
14 14 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
15 13 (1.53%) Data Structures
16 12 (1.42%) Data Centre
16 12 (1.42%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 242 (28.57%) Linux
2 135 (15.94%) Unix
3 81 (9.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 47 (5.55%) Windows
5 39 (4.60%) CentOS
6 36 (4.25%) Ubuntu
7 32 (3.78%) Debian
8 16 (1.89%) Embedded Linux
9 14 (1.65%) Mac OS X
10 9 (1.06%) Android
11 7 (0.83%) Windows Server
12 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.59%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.12%) Rocky
15 1 (0.12%) Solaris
15 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 505 (59.62%) Agile
2 390 (46.04%) Software Engineering
3 238 (28.10%) DevOps
4 204 (24.09%) Microservices
5 200 (23.61%) CI/CD
6 194 (22.90%) Problem-Solving
7 187 (22.08%) Actionable Insight
8 178 (21.02%) Continuous Integration
8 178 (21.02%) Mentoring
9 159 (18.77%) Coaching
10 151 (17.83%) SDLC
11 147 (17.36%) Test Automation
12 143 (16.88%) Scrum
13 138 (16.29%) Containerisation
14 134 (15.82%) Artificial Intelligence
15 130 (15.35%) Kanban
16 124 (14.64%) Collaborative Working
17 120 (14.17%) TDD
18 115 (13.58%) Machine Learning
19 113 (13.34%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 329 (38.84%) Python
2 306 (36.13%) Java
3 168 (19.83%) JavaScript
4 140 (16.53%) SQL
5 111 (13.11%) C
6 87 (10.27%) TypeScript
7 86 (10.15%) PL/SQL
8 83 (9.80%) Bash
9 67 (7.91%) C++
10 43 (5.08%) Go
11 41 (4.84%) Perl
12 38 (4.49%) Ruby
13 29 (3.42%) COBOL
13 29 (3.42%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 26 (3.07%) C#
15 24 (2.83%) Rust
16 20 (2.36%) Embedded C
17 18 (2.13%) PHP
17 18 (2.13%) Scala
18 12 (1.42%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 240 (28.34%) Security Cleared
2 183 (21.61%) SC Cleared
3 158 (18.65%) Degree
4 53 (6.26%) Azure Certification
5 45 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (5.08%) AWS Certification
7 40 (4.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 35 (4.13%) DV Cleared
9 25 (2.95%) Master's Degree
10 17 (2.01%) PhD
11 15 (1.77%) GCIA
11 15 (1.77%) GCIH
11 15 (1.77%) GREM
12 14 (1.65%) CISM
12 14 (1.65%) CISSP
13 2 (0.24%) CCNA
13 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.24%) CREST Certified
13 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.55%) PMO
2 46 (5.43%) QA
3 11 (1.30%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.71%) GDPR
4 6 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.71%) JTAG
5 5 (0.59%) NIST
6 4 (0.47%) SEPA
7 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 89 (10.51%) Docker
2 86 (10.15%) HDFS
3 21 (2.48%) Firmware
4 19 (2.24%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (1.06%) Active Directory
6 9 (1.06%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.83%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.59%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 3 (0.35%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.35%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.24%) KVM
10 2 (0.24%) QEMU
10 2 (0.24%) Shibboleth
10 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.24%) vSphere
10 2 (0.24%) Xen
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 151 (17.83%) Terraform
2 105 (12.40%) Kubernetes
3 74 (8.74%) Ansible
4 41 (4.84%) Puppet
5 25 (2.95%) Progress Chef
6 7 (0.83%) Grafana
6 7 (0.83%) Kibana
7 5 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.59%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.24%) Podman
9 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.12%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.12%) SQL Sentry
9 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 88 (10.39%) Databricks
2 86 (10.15%) Informatica
3 76 (8.97%) Oracle
4 59 (6.97%) Google
5 56 (6.61%) Cloudera
6 42 (4.96%) Microsoft
7 40 (4.72%) Sparx
8 31 (3.66%) Red Hat
9 29 (3.42%) Micro Focus
10 27 (3.19%) SaltStack
11 14 (1.65%) Dell
12 12 (1.42%) VMware
13 9 (1.06%) Cisco
14 7 (0.83%) Apple
14 7 (0.83%) Juniper
15 6 (0.71%) ESRI
15 6 (0.71%) F5
16 5 (0.59%) Fortinet
16 5 (0.59%) Teradata
17 4 (0.47%) Splunk