Open Source
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 254 193 126
Rank change year-on-year -61 -67 +19
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 1,146 1,969 4,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 1.95% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 2.04% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 718 902 1,495
10th Percentile £40,875 £46,350 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £52,465
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £84,964 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,500 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,206 £67,500 £56,774
% change year-on-year -9.32% +18.89% +3.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,921 96,445 150,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.59% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 59,902 56,808 82,456
10th Percentile £29,010 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the UK

Open Source
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Open Source in the UK

Open Source
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Open Source in the UK

Open Source
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 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
England -84 888 £63,218 -15.71% 263
UK excluding London +22 833 £61,206 -9.32% 166
Work from Home -25 584 £70,000 -6.67% 146
London -160 250 £80,000 -0.37% 112
North of England +44 240 £61,206 +2.01% 42
Scotland +16 158 £75,000 +25.58% 14
North West +23 156 £60,603 -3.04% 18
South East -3 144 £45,000 -35.71% 30
South West -35 112 £62,500 -10.71% 30
Midlands -16 79 £61,206 -12.56% 28
Yorkshire +75 64 £61,206 +28.85% 16
East of England +19 50 £80,001 +39.13% 15
West Midlands 0 50 £61,206 -12.56% 20
East Midlands -15 29 £75,000 -6.25% 8
Northern Ireland +39 26 £75,400 - 5
Wales -1 24 £75,000 -36.33% 4
North East -12 20 £61,206 +28.39% 8

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 133 (11.61%) Apache Spark
2 55 (4.80%) Apache
3 46 (4.01%) WebLogic
4 20 (1.75%) Confluence
5 15 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (1.22%) nginx
7 11 (0.96%) IIS
7 11 (0.96%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.70%) Apache Pig
8 8 (0.70%) ArcGIS
8 8 (0.70%) Drupal
9 6 (0.52%) CMS
10 4 (0.35%) OpenZeppelin
11 3 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.17%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.17%) SAS
12 2 (0.17%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.17%) WordPress
13 1 (0.087%) Kinematics
Applications
1 48 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.087%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 46 (4.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (0.70%) Shopify
3 6 (0.52%) Magento
4 1 (0.087%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 482 (42.06%) AWS
2 345 (30.10%) Azure
3 137 (11.95%) Serverless
4 111 (9.69%) GCP
5 87 (7.59%) Amazon SQS
6 76 (6.63%) AWS Lambda
7 74 (6.46%) OpenShift
8 72 (6.28%) Amazon EKS
9 70 (6.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 63 (5.50%) GitHub
11 54 (4.71%) SaaS
12 52 (4.54%) Amazon S3
13 40 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
13 40 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
14 23 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (1.92%) IaaS
16 21 (1.83%) dbt
17 20 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
17 20 (1.75%) PaaS
18 16 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 88 (7.68%) DNS
2 81 (7.07%) TCP/IP
3 60 (5.24%) BGP
4 54 (4.71%) SSL
5 50 (4.36%) Firewall
6 26 (2.27%) AMQP
7 21 (1.83%) HTTP
7 21 (1.83%) LAN
7 21 (1.83%) WAN
8 20 (1.75%) Internet
9 15 (1.31%) VPN
10 14 (1.22%) MPLS
11 10 (0.87%) DHCP
11 10 (0.87%) Wireshark
12 8 (0.70%) Network Security
12 8 (0.70%) SMTP
13 7 (0.61%) DMZ
13 7 (0.61%) DWDM
13 7 (0.61%) EIGRP
13 7 (0.61%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (13.70%) NoSQL
2 124 (10.82%) Relational Database
3 97 (8.46%) Hadoop
4 96 (8.38%) Big Data
5 95 (8.29%) Apache Hive
6 90 (7.85%) RDBMS
7 87 (7.59%) Amazon RDS
8 86 (7.50%) HBase
9 83 (7.24%) Oracle Database
10 62 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
11 51 (4.45%) MySQL
12 44 (3.84%) Amazon Redshift
13 34 (2.97%) SQL Server
14 27 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
15 26 (2.27%) Cloudera CDH
16 25 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
17 14 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 13 (1.13%) MongoDB
19 12 (1.05%) SQLite
20 11 (0.96%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 228 (19.90%) Git
2 196 (17.10%) Jenkins
3 93 (8.12%) GitLab
4 86 (7.50%) Bitbucket Server
5 36 (3.14%) JDeveloper
6 33 (2.88%) Artifactory
7 27 (2.36%) JIRA
8 15 (1.31%) Cypress.io
8 15 (1.31%) SonarQube
9 13 (1.13%) JUnit
10 12 (1.05%) CircleCI
10 12 (1.05%) Selenium
10 12 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
10 12 (1.05%) Subversion
11 10 (0.87%) GNU Toolchain
12 9 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
12 9 (0.79%) TeamCity
13 8 (0.70%) Checkstyle
13 8 (0.70%) Jaeger
14 6 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 324 (28.27%) Social Skills
2 227 (19.81%) Finance
3 151 (13.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 118 (10.30%) Law
5 95 (8.29%) Legal
6 51 (4.45%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (4.45%) Public Sector
7 46 (4.01%) Marketing
8 41 (3.58%) Front Office
9 35 (3.05%) Banking
10 32 (2.79%) Retail
11 28 (2.44%) Aerospace
12 27 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (2.18%) Games
14 22 (1.92%) Automotive
15 14 (1.22%) Military
16 10 (0.87%) Electronics
16 10 (0.87%) Financial Institution
17 9 (0.79%) Health Technology
18 8 (0.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 293 (25.57%) Software Engineer
2 270 (23.56%) Developer
3 223 (19.46%) Senior
4 185 (16.14%) Architect
5 178 (15.53%) Lead
6 110 (9.60%) AWS Engineer
7 97 (8.46%) Solutions Architect
8 80 (6.98%) Technical Leader
9 70 (6.11%) AWS Software Engineer
10 67 (5.85%) Database Developer
11 62 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
12 61 (5.32%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 56 (4.89%) Database Engineer
14 49 (4.28%) Data Engineer
15 47 (4.10%) Lead Architect
15 47 (4.10%) Technical Architect
16 46 (4.01%) Lead Solutions Architect
17 45 (3.93%) Senior Software Engineer
18 43 (3.75%) Senior Architect
19 42 (3.66%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (15.97%) React
2 173 (15.10%) Node.js
3 117 (10.21%) Spring Boot
4 76 (6.63%) REST
5 75 (6.54%) RabbitMQ
6 66 (5.76%) AngularJS
7 63 (5.50%) Spring
8 57 (4.97%) HTML
9 52 (4.54%) Kafka
10 47 (4.10%) CSS
11 41 (3.58%) .NET
11 41 (3.58%) J2EE
12 38 (3.32%) Swagger
13 34 (2.97%) PyTorch
14 32 (2.79%) Express.js
15 31 (2.71%) TensorFlow
16 27 (2.36%) Django
17 26 (2.27%) gRPC
17 26 (2.27%) Material-UI
17 26 (2.27%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 138 (12.04%) Algorithms
2 103 (8.99%) Public Cloud
3 96 (8.38%) Private Cloud
4 95 (8.29%) Management Information System
5 79 (6.89%) Self-Motivation
6 66 (5.76%) Cloud Native
7 55 (4.80%) Enterprise Software
8 50 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
9 40 (3.49%) Tandem
10 37 (3.23%) Blockchain
11 34 (2.97%) Data Structures
11 34 (2.97%) Embedded Systems
12 32 (2.79%) IoT
13 30 (2.62%) Data Centre
13 30 (2.62%) Product Ownership
14 29 (2.53%) Blog
15 21 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
16 19 (1.66%) Client/Server
17 17 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
17 17 (1.48%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 307 (26.79%) Linux
2 148 (12.91%) Unix
3 85 (7.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 58 (5.06%) Windows
5 48 (4.19%) Ubuntu
6 44 (3.84%) Debian
7 40 (3.49%) CentOS
8 18 (1.57%) Embedded Linux
9 14 (1.22%) Android
9 14 (1.22%) Mac OS X
10 7 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.61%) Windows Server
11 6 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.44%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.26%) Solaris
13 3 (0.26%) VMS
14 1 (0.087%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.087%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 633 (55.24%) Agile
2 509 (44.42%) Software Engineering
3 333 (29.06%) DevOps
4 287 (25.04%) CI/CD
5 255 (22.25%) Problem-Solving
6 243 (21.20%) Microservices
7 227 (19.81%) Mentoring
8 205 (17.89%) Actionable Insight
9 191 (16.67%) Coaching
10 188 (16.40%) Continuous Integration
11 185 (16.14%) Artificial Intelligence
12 178 (15.53%) SDLC
13 172 (15.01%) Scrum
14 163 (14.22%) Machine Learning
15 162 (14.14%) Containerisation
16 159 (13.87%) Test Automation
17 148 (12.91%) TDD
18 144 (12.57%) Collaborative Working
19 138 (12.04%) Kanban
20 137 (11.95%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 507 (44.24%) Python
2 424 (37.00%) Java
3 216 (18.85%) JavaScript
4 209 (18.24%) SQL
5 130 (11.34%) C
6 122 (10.65%) Go
7 114 (9.95%) TypeScript
8 112 (9.77%) Bash
9 86 (7.50%) PL/SQL
10 80 (6.98%) C++
11 61 (5.32%) Ruby
12 48 (4.19%) Perl
13 47 (4.10%) C#
14 41 (3.58%) Rust
15 36 (3.14%) PHP
16 33 (2.88%) PowerShell
17 29 (2.53%) COBOL
17 29 (2.53%) Micro Focus COBOL
18 23 (2.01%) Embedded C
19 17 (1.48%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 258 (22.51%) Security Cleared
2 219 (19.11%) Degree
3 199 (17.36%) SC Cleared
4 60 (5.24%) Azure Certification
5 52 (4.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 51 (4.45%) AWS Certification
7 48 (4.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 47 (4.10%) Master's Degree
9 35 (3.05%) DV Cleared
9 35 (3.05%) PhD
10 17 (1.48%) CISSP
11 16 (1.40%) GCIA
11 16 (1.40%) GCIH
12 15 (1.31%) GREM
13 14 (1.22%) CISM
14 9 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.70%) CCNA
16 4 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
17 3 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
18 2 (0.17%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (6.63%) QA
2 47 (4.10%) PMO
3 18 (1.57%) GDPR
4 17 (1.48%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.52%) JTAG
6 6 (0.52%) NIST
7 5 (0.44%) NCSC
8 4 (0.35%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.35%) SEPA
9 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.087%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 171 (14.92%) Docker
2 94 (8.20%) HDFS
3 21 (1.83%) Firmware
3 21 (1.83%) Virtual Servers
4 12 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.79%) Active Directory
5 9 (0.79%) Embedded Firmware
6 8 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.52%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 4 (0.35%) Ceph
10 3 (0.26%) Kamailio
10 3 (0.26%) KVM
10 3 (0.26%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.17%) QEMU
11 2 (0.17%) Shibboleth
11 2 (0.17%) vSphere
11 2 (0.17%) Xen
12 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.087%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 220 (19.20%) Terraform
2 203 (17.71%) Kubernetes
3 113 (9.86%) Ansible
4 54 (4.71%) Puppet
5 36 (3.14%) Progress Chef
6 8 (0.70%) Grafana
6 8 (0.70%) Kiali
6 8 (0.70%) Kibana
7 6 (0.52%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 5 (0.44%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.35%) Knative
9 4 (0.35%) Salt
10 3 (0.26%) Nessus
10 3 (0.26%) Podman
11 2 (0.17%) Consul
11 2 (0.17%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.17%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.17%) Marathon
11 2 (0.17%) Mesos
12 1 (0.087%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 88 (7.68%) Databricks
1 88 (7.68%) Oracle
2 86 (7.50%) Informatica
3 75 (6.54%) Google
4 64 (5.58%) Microsoft
5 56 (4.89%) Cloudera
6 46 (4.01%) Sparx
7 31 (2.71%) Red Hat
8 29 (2.53%) Micro Focus
9 26 (2.27%) SaltStack
10 22 (1.92%) Cisco
11 14 (1.22%) Dell
12 13 (1.13%) Juniper
12 13 (1.13%) Splunk
12 13 (1.13%) VMware
13 12 (1.05%) Fortinet
13 12 (1.05%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.79%) AppDynamics
14 9 (0.79%) ESRI
15 8 (0.70%) Palo Alto