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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 235 271 226
Rank change year-on-year +36 -45 -31
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 861 703 1,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.09% 1.26% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.32% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 500 330 574
10th Percentile £41,475 £42,375 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £45,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% +17.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £76,188
90th Percentile £88,875 £88,750 £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 63,849 53,205 71,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.12% 95.49% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 43,309 28,441 41,725
10th Percentile £27,500 £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% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 8 June 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 8 June 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 +53 266 £61,206 -5.84% 41
North West +45 185 £60,603 -10.22% 30
South East +17 162 £45,000 -32.08% 31
Scotland +10 143 £75,000 +3.45% 13
South West -46 106 £65,000 -7.14% 25
Midlands -35 84 £70,000 - 22
Yorkshire +66 61 £60,250 -7.31% 9
East of England -2 54 £80,001 +39.13% 10
West Midlands -7 52 £61,206 -12.56% 12
East Midlands -26 32 £75,000 -6.25% 10
Northern Ireland +32 24 £75,400 - 6
Wales -4 22 £75,000 -36.33% 7
North East -24 20 £68,103 +42.86% 2
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
1 119 (13.82%) Apache Spark
2 44 (5.11%) Apache
3 40 (4.65%) WebLogic
4 16 (1.86%) Confluence
5 11 (1.28%) OpenStack
6 10 (1.16%) nginx
7 7 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.58%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.46%) IIS
10 2 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Kinematics
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 48 (5.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 40 (4.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (0.93%) Shopify
3 6 (0.70%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 381 (44.25%) AWS
2 267 (31.01%) Azure
3 69 (8.01%) Amazon EKS
4 59 (6.85%) GCP
5 45 (5.23%) Serverless
6 42 (4.88%) OpenShift
7 40 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
8 36 (4.18%) Amazon Kinesis
8 36 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
10 34 (3.95%) SaaS
11 33 (3.83%) GitHub
12 21 (2.44%) dbt
13 13 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (1.39%) Google Analytics
14 12 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (1.28%) IaaS
16 8 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
17 7 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 73 (8.48%) DNS
2 63 (7.32%) TCP/IP
3 41 (4.76%) SSL
4 40 (4.65%) BGP
5 38 (4.41%) Firewall
6 29 (3.37%) AMQP
7 19 (2.21%) HTTP
8 16 (1.86%) Internet
9 8 (0.93%) LAN
9 8 (0.93%) SMTP
9 8 (0.93%) WAN
10 6 (0.70%) VPN
10 6 (0.70%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.35%) Ethernet
12 2 (0.23%) Asterisk PBX
12 2 (0.23%) Network Security
12 2 (0.23%) PBX
12 2 (0.23%) RTP
12 2 (0.23%) VoIP
12 2 (0.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (18.58%) NoSQL
2 84 (9.76%) Hadoop
3 81 (9.41%) Apache Hive
3 81 (9.41%) HBase
4 78 (9.06%) PostgreSQL
5 72 (8.36%) Big Data
6 70 (8.13%) Relational Database
7 53 (6.16%) Amazon RDS
8 46 (5.34%) RDBMS
9 41 (4.76%) Oracle Database
10 35 (4.07%) DynamoDB
10 35 (4.07%) MySQL
11 33 (3.83%) Amazon Aurora
12 29 (3.37%) Cloudera CDH
13 28 (3.25%) Redis
14 21 (2.44%) SQL Server
15 14 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
16 11 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (1.28%) MongoDB
16 11 (1.28%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 162 (18.82%) Git
2 132 (15.33%) Jenkins
3 90 (10.45%) GitLab
4 81 (9.41%) Bitbucket Server
5 24 (2.79%) Gatling
6 21 (2.44%) JIRA
7 15 (1.74%) Cypress.io
8 11 (1.28%) Selenium
9 9 (1.05%) CircleCI
9 9 (1.05%) GNU Toolchain
9 9 (1.05%) Subversion
10 7 (0.81%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.81%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.70%) Appium
11 6 (0.70%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.70%) MSTest
11 6 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.70%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.58%) Clang
12 5 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 295 (34.26%) Social Skills
2 134 (15.56%) Finance
3 125 (14.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 94 (10.92%) Law
5 74 (8.59%) Legal
6 51 (5.92%) Public Sector
7 32 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
8 31 (3.60%) Aerospace
9 30 (3.48%) Marketing
10 29 (3.37%) Electronics
11 23 (2.67%) Automotive
11 23 (2.67%) Billing
12 22 (2.56%) Retail
13 19 (2.21%) Banking
13 19 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (2.09%) Games
15 13 (1.51%) Military
16 7 (0.81%) Publishing
17 6 (0.70%) Health Technology
17 6 (0.70%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 254 (29.50%) Software Engineer
2 221 (25.67%) Developer
3 164 (19.05%) Lead
4 162 (18.82%) Senior
5 144 (16.72%) Architect
6 82 (9.52%) Technical Leader
7 77 (8.94%) Solutions Architect
8 71 (8.25%) AWS Engineer
9 67 (7.78%) AWS Software Engineer
10 57 (6.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 55 (6.39%) Database Developer
12 51 (5.92%) Database Engineer
13 47 (5.46%) Lead Architect
14 46 (5.34%) Full Stack Developer
15 42 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
16 40 (4.65%) Lead Solutions Architect
17 39 (4.53%) Senior Developer
18 38 (4.41%) AWS Developer
18 38 (4.41%) Senior Architect
19 37 (4.30%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (15.21%) React
2 121 (14.05%) Node.js
3 102 (11.85%) REST
4 83 (9.64%) Spring Boot
5 69 (8.01%) RabbitMQ
6 62 (7.20%) AngularJS
7 47 (5.46%) GraphQL
8 46 (5.34%) Web Services
9 44 (5.11%) Spring
10 39 (4.53%) Swagger
11 37 (4.30%) HTML
12 33 (3.83%) http4s
12 33 (3.83%) Scalaz
13 32 (3.72%) CSS
14 29 (3.37%) gRPC
14 29 (3.37%) Material-UI
14 29 (3.37%) OpenAPI
15 28 (3.25%) Express.js
16 26 (3.02%) Django
17 20 (2.32%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 119 (13.82%) Algorithms
2 90 (10.45%) Public Cloud
3 86 (9.99%) Private Cloud
4 74 (8.59%) Self-Motivation
5 65 (7.55%) Management Information System
6 46 (5.34%) Enterprise Software
7 41 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
8 40 (4.65%) Blog
8 40 (4.65%) Cloud Native
9 34 (3.95%) Media Streaming
10 31 (3.60%) Embedded Systems
11 26 (3.02%) IoT
12 18 (2.09%) Mobile App
13 16 (1.86%) Blockchain
13 16 (1.86%) Data Centre
13 16 (1.86%) Product Ownership
14 14 (1.63%) NHS
15 13 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
16 12 (1.39%) Data Structures
16 12 (1.39%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 264 (30.66%) Linux
2 138 (16.03%) Unix
3 87 (10.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 47 (5.46%) Windows
5 42 (4.88%) CentOS
6 38 (4.41%) Ubuntu
7 33 (3.83%) Debian
8 18 (2.09%) Embedded Linux
9 13 (1.51%) Mac OS X
10 12 (1.39%) Android
11 7 (0.81%) Windows Server
12 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.58%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.12%) Rocky
15 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (60.63%) Agile
2 386 (44.83%) Software Engineering
3 235 (27.29%) DevOps
4 205 (23.81%) CI/CD
5 195 (22.65%) Mentoring
6 177 (20.56%) Continuous Integration
7 172 (19.98%) Microservices
8 166 (19.28%) Coaching
9 165 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
10 158 (18.35%) SDLC
11 154 (17.89%) Actionable Insight
12 146 (16.96%) Scrum
12 146 (16.96%) Test Automation
13 133 (15.45%) Kanban
14 130 (15.10%) Artificial Intelligence
15 126 (14.63%) Collaborative Working
16 121 (14.05%) TDD
17 115 (13.36%) Full Stack Development
18 112 (13.01%) Computer Science
19 104 (12.08%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 314 (36.47%) Python
2 271 (31.48%) Java
3 136 (15.80%) JavaScript
4 131 (15.21%) SQL
5 125 (14.52%) C
6 90 (10.45%) TypeScript
7 81 (9.41%) PL/SQL
8 78 (9.06%) C++
9 60 (6.97%) Bash
10 35 (4.07%) Scala
11 29 (3.37%) COBOL
11 29 (3.37%) Micro Focus COBOL
11 29 (3.37%) Rust
12 28 (3.25%) C#
13 24 (2.79%) Fortran
14 20 (2.32%) Embedded C
15 19 (2.21%) PHP
16 15 (1.74%) Go
17 14 (1.63%) Kotlin
17 14 (1.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 259 (30.08%) Security Cleared
2 192 (22.30%) SC Cleared
3 184 (21.37%) Degree
4 58 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (6.62%) Azure Certification
6 43 (4.99%) AWS Certification
7 40 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 37 (4.30%) DV Cleared
8 37 (4.30%) Master's Degree
9 29 (3.37%) PhD
10 13 (1.51%) CISM
10 13 (1.51%) CISSP
10 13 (1.51%) GCIA
10 13 (1.51%) GCIH
10 13 (1.51%) GREM
11 3 (0.35%) CCNA
11 3 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.23%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.46%) PMO
2 16 (1.86%) QA
3 11 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.70%) GDPR
5 6 (0.70%) JTAG
6 5 (0.58%) NIST
7 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 95 (11.03%) Docker
2 81 (9.41%) HDFS
3 25 (2.90%) Firmware
4 22 (2.56%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (1.28%) Embedded Firmware
5 11 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (1.16%) Active Directory
7 7 (0.81%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.58%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 3 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.35%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.23%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.23%) KVM
10 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.23%) QEMU
10 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.23%) vSphere
10 2 (0.23%) Xen
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 158 (18.35%) Terraform
2 116 (13.47%) Kubernetes
3 77 (8.94%) Ansible
4 48 (5.57%) Puppet
5 24 (2.79%) Progress Chef
6 13 (1.51%) Grafana
7 11 (1.28%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.81%) Kibana
9 5 (0.58%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 2 (0.23%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.23%) Podman
10 2 (0.23%) SQL Sentry
11 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.12%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 84 (9.76%) Databricks
2 81 (9.41%) Informatica
3 58 (6.74%) Google
4 52 (6.04%) Microsoft
5 51 (5.92%) Cloudera
6 46 (5.34%) Oracle
7 40 (4.65%) Sparx
8 33 (3.83%) Red Hat
9 29 (3.37%) Micro Focus
9 29 (3.37%) SaltStack
10 13 (1.51%) Dell
11 12 (1.39%) VMware
12 10 (1.16%) Cisco
12 10 (1.16%) Splunk
13 8 (0.93%) Juniper
14 7 (0.81%) Apple
15 6 (0.70%) ESRI
15 6 (0.70%) F5
16 5 (0.58%) Dialogic
16 5 (0.58%) Ribbon