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

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 272 223
Rank change year-on-year +39 -49 -26
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 861 708 1,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.13% 1.26% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.31% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 506 333 579
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% +17.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,001 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,750 £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 62,403 53,845 70,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.68% 95.47% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 42,667 28,673 41,516
10th Percentile £27,300 £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 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 3 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 3 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 +59 266 £61,206 -5.84% 46
North West +34 182 £60,603 -7.48% 33
South East +27 157 £45,000 -32.08% 38
Scotland -1 147 £75,000 +8.00% 12
South West -37 110 £65,000 -7.14% 33
Midlands -20 82 £70,000 - 23
Yorkshire +65 64 £61,206 +28.85% 9
East of England 0 53 £80,001 +39.13% 12
West Midlands -10 52 £61,206 -12.56% 15
East Midlands -8 30 £75,000 -6.25% 8
Northern Ireland +29 24 £75,400 - 6
Wales -2 22 £75,000 -36.33% 8
North East -23 20 £68,103 +42.86% 4
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 (14.05%) Apache Spark
2 43 (4.99%) Apache
3 40 (4.65%) WebLogic
4 16 (1.86%) Confluence
5 11 (1.28%) nginx
5 11 (1.28%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.58%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.46%) IIS
9 2 (0.23%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Kinematics
10 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
1 380 (44.13%) AWS
2 265 (30.78%) Azure
3 69 (8.01%) Amazon EKS
4 64 (7.43%) GCP
5 45 (5.23%) Serverless
6 42 (4.88%) OpenShift
7 40 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
8 36 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 35 (4.07%) SaaS
10 33 (3.83%) Amazon Kinesis
11 32 (3.72%) GitHub
12 21 (2.44%) dbt
13 12 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (1.39%) Google Analytics
13 12 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (1.16%) IaaS
15 8 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
16 7 (0.81%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 71 (8.25%) DNS
2 63 (7.32%) TCP/IP
3 41 (4.76%) SSL
4 40 (4.65%) BGP
5 37 (4.30%) Firewall
6 29 (3.37%) AMQP
7 18 (2.09%) 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%) Wireshark
11 5 (0.58%) VPN
12 3 (0.35%) Ethernet
13 2 (0.23%) Asterisk PBX
13 2 (0.23%) Network Security
13 2 (0.23%) NGN
13 2 (0.23%) PBX
13 2 (0.23%) RTP
13 2 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (19.05%) NoSQL
2 87 (10.10%) Hadoop
3 84 (9.76%) Apache Hive
3 84 (9.76%) HBase
4 78 (9.06%) Big Data
5 76 (8.83%) PostgreSQL
6 69 (8.01%) Relational Database
7 51 (5.92%) Amazon RDS
8 46 (5.34%) RDBMS
9 41 (4.76%) Oracle Database
10 35 (4.07%) MySQL
11 32 (3.72%) DynamoDB
12 31 (3.60%) Amazon Aurora
13 29 (3.37%) Cloudera CDH
14 26 (3.02%) Redis
15 21 (2.44%) SQL Server
16 13 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
17 11 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
17 11 (1.28%) MongoDB
17 11 (1.28%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 161 (18.70%) Git
2 135 (15.68%) Jenkins
3 89 (10.34%) GitLab
4 84 (9.76%) Bitbucket Server
5 22 (2.56%) Gatling
6 20 (2.32%) JIRA
7 15 (1.74%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.16%) GNU Toolchain
8 10 (1.16%) Selenium
8 10 (1.16%) Subversion
9 9 (1.05%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.81%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.81%) TeamCity
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%) Appium
12 5 (0.58%) Clang
13 4 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 292 (33.91%) Social Skills
2 143 (16.61%) Finance
3 128 (14.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 98 (11.38%) Law
5 74 (8.59%) Legal
6 51 (5.92%) Public Sector
7 34 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (3.95%) Marketing
8 31 (3.60%) Aerospace
9 27 (3.14%) Electronics
10 26 (3.02%) Retail
11 24 (2.79%) Banking
12 23 (2.67%) Automotive
13 21 (2.44%) Billing
14 19 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (2.09%) Games
16 14 (1.63%) Military
17 7 (0.81%) Publishing
18 6 (0.70%) Health Technology
18 6 (0.70%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 253 (29.38%) Software Engineer
2 222 (25.78%) Developer
3 163 (18.93%) Lead
4 159 (18.47%) Senior
5 146 (16.96%) Architect
6 81 (9.41%) Solutions Architect
6 81 (9.41%) Technical Leader
7 71 (8.25%) AWS Engineer
8 67 (7.78%) AWS Software Engineer
9 59 (6.85%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 58 (6.74%) Database Developer
11 54 (6.27%) Database Engineer
12 47 (5.46%) Lead Architect
13 45 (5.23%) Full Stack Developer
14 41 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
15 40 (4.65%) Lead Solutions Architect
16 39 (4.53%) Senior Developer
17 38 (4.41%) AWS Developer
17 38 (4.41%) Senior Architect
18 37 (4.30%) AWS Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (14.98%) React
2 122 (14.17%) Node.js
3 98 (11.38%) REST
4 87 (10.10%) Spring Boot
5 69 (8.01%) RabbitMQ
6 62 (7.20%) AngularJS
7 48 (5.57%) Spring
8 44 (5.11%) GraphQL
9 43 (4.99%) Web Services
10 39 (4.53%) Swagger
11 36 (4.18%) HTML
12 31 (3.60%) CSS
12 31 (3.60%) http4s
12 31 (3.60%) Scalaz
13 29 (3.37%) gRPC
13 29 (3.37%) Material-UI
13 29 (3.37%) OpenAPI
14 28 (3.25%) Express.js
15 26 (3.02%) Django
16 19 (2.21%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 120 (13.94%) Algorithms
2 90 (10.45%) Public Cloud
3 86 (9.99%) Private Cloud
4 74 (8.59%) Self-Motivation
5 68 (7.90%) Management Information System
6 46 (5.34%) Enterprise Software
7 44 (5.11%) Cloud Native
8 41 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
9 37 (4.30%) Blog
10 32 (3.72%) Embedded Systems
11 31 (3.60%) Media Streaming
12 26 (3.02%) IoT
13 17 (1.97%) Mobile App
14 16 (1.86%) Blockchain
14 16 (1.86%) Product Ownership
15 15 (1.74%) Data Centre
16 14 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
16 14 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
16 14 (1.63%) NHS
17 12 (1.39%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 261 (30.31%) Linux
2 141 (16.38%) Unix
3 86 (9.99%) 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 17 (1.97%) Embedded Linux
9 14 (1.63%) Mac OS X
10 11 (1.28%) 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
1 524 (60.86%) Agile
2 384 (44.60%) Software Engineering
3 233 (27.06%) DevOps
4 207 (24.04%) CI/CD
5 195 (22.65%) Mentoring
6 177 (20.56%) Microservices
7 173 (20.09%) Continuous Integration
8 166 (19.28%) Coaching
9 165 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
10 158 (18.35%) SDLC
11 157 (18.23%) Actionable Insight
12 148 (17.19%) Test Automation
13 145 (16.84%) Scrum
14 133 (15.45%) Artificial Intelligence
15 132 (15.33%) Kanban
16 126 (14.63%) Collaborative Working
17 125 (14.52%) TDD
18 114 (13.24%) Full Stack Development
19 109 (12.66%) Machine Learning
20 108 (12.54%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 316 (36.70%) Python
2 277 (32.17%) Java
3 139 (16.14%) JavaScript
4 137 (15.91%) SQL
5 123 (14.29%) C
6 89 (10.34%) TypeScript
7 84 (9.76%) PL/SQL
8 76 (8.83%) C++
9 60 (6.97%) Bash
10 32 (3.72%) Scala
11 29 (3.37%) COBOL
11 29 (3.37%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 28 (3.25%) Rust
13 27 (3.14%) C#
14 22 (2.56%) Fortran
15 20 (2.32%) Embedded C
16 18 (2.09%) PHP
17 15 (1.74%) Go
18 14 (1.63%) PowerShell
19 12 (1.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 258 (29.97%) Security Cleared
2 193 (22.42%) SC Cleared
3 180 (20.91%) Degree
4 56 (6.50%) Azure Certification
4 56 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (4.99%) AWS Certification
6 40 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 37 (4.30%) DV Cleared
8 35 (4.07%) Master's Degree
9 27 (3.14%) PhD
10 15 (1.74%) GCIA
10 15 (1.74%) GCIH
10 15 (1.74%) GREM
11 14 (1.63%) CISM
11 14 (1.63%) CISSP
12 3 (0.35%) CCNA
12 3 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.23%) CREST Certified
13 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
8 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 95 (11.03%) Docker
2 84 (9.76%) HDFS
3 23 (2.67%) Firmware
4 21 (2.44%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (1.16%) Active Directory
6 10 (1.16%) Embedded Firmware
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
1 160 (18.58%) Terraform
2 115 (13.36%) Kubernetes
3 77 (8.94%) Ansible
4 47 (5.46%) Puppet
5 24 (2.79%) Progress Chef
6 12 (1.39%) Grafana
7 10 (1.16%) 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 86 (9.99%) Databricks
2 84 (9.76%) Informatica
3 60 (6.97%) Google
4 54 (6.27%) Cloudera
5 53 (6.16%) Microsoft
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 14 (1.63%) Dell
11 12 (1.39%) VMware
12 10 (1.16%) Cisco
13 9 (1.05%) Splunk
14 8 (0.93%) Juniper
15 7 (0.81%) Apple
16 6 (0.70%) ESRI
16 6 (0.70%) F5
17 5 (0.58%) Dialogic
17 5 (0.58%) Ribbon