Open Source Development Jobs

Open Source Software Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Open Source Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Open Source Development over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 862 905 1136
Rank change year-on-year +43 +231 -233
Permanent jobs citing Open Source Development 43 41 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.043% 0.076%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.049% 0.045% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 38 15 24
10th Percentile £53,875 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,250 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £67,500 -
90th Percentile £117,500 £70,600 £68,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +40.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Open Source Development 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 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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% +9.38%

Open Source Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source Development in the UK

Open Source Development
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Open Source Development in the UK

Open Source Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source Development over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Open Source Development in the UK

Open Source Development
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source Development within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +65 40 £80,000 +23.08% 4
London +100 20 £100,000 +53.85% 1
Work from Home +57 20 £70,000 +16.67% 6
UK excluding London -29 20 £70,000 +40.00% 7
East of England +1 11 £80,001 +60.00%
South West -24 6 £57,500 - 2
South East -12 3 £57,500 -4.17%

Open Source Development
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 4 (9.30%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) CMS
2 2 (4.65%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 11 (25.58%) Azure
2 6 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (11.63%) AWS
3 5 (11.63%) GCP
4 4 (9.30%) Miro
4 4 (9.30%) SaaS
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (23.26%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.65%) Network Security
2 2 (4.65%) SD-WAN
2 2 (4.65%) WAN
3 1 (2.33%) DHCP
3 1 (2.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) MySQL
2 1 (2.33%) MariaDB
2 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) JIRA
2 1 (2.33%) Git
2 1 (2.33%) GitLab
2 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.33%) Phabricator
2 1 (2.33%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (16.28%) Finance
1 7 (16.28%) Games
2 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (32.56%) Software Engineer
2 10 (23.26%) Linux Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) Developer
3 8 (18.60%) Ubuntu Engineer
4 7 (16.28%) Machine Learning Researcher
4 7 (16.28%) Senior
5 6 (13.95%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (13.95%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Blockchain Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Digital Product Manager
6 4 (9.30%) Product Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Digital Project Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Lead
7 2 (4.65%) Network Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Open Source Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Security Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.26%) GTK
2 7 (16.28%) PyTorch
2 7 (16.28%) TensorFlow
3 4 (9.30%) REST
3 4 (9.30%) Smart Contracts
3 4 (9.30%) WebSockets
4 2 (4.65%) ARM Templates
4 2 (4.65%) Flask
5 1 (2.33%) CSS
5 1 (2.33%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.33%) FFmpeg
5 1 (2.33%) GStreamer
5 1 (2.33%) HTML
5 1 (2.33%) HTML5
5 1 (2.33%) LLVM
5 1 (2.33%) React
5 1 (2.33%) Redfish
5 1 (2.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 1 (2.33%) Wayland
5 1 (2.33%) WebKit
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.58%) Blockchain
2 10 (23.26%) PKI
3 7 (16.28%) Algorithms
3 7 (16.28%) Distributed Computing
4 6 (13.95%) Cloud Native
4 6 (13.95%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (9.30%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (9.30%) Data Structures
5 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
6 3 (6.98%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (4.65%) PropTech
7 2 (4.65%) Taxonomies
8 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
8 1 (2.33%) Device Driver
8 1 (2.33%) FPGA
8 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (32.56%) Linux
2 11 (25.58%) Debian
2 11 (25.58%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.65%) Windows
3 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) Open Source
2 22 (51.16%) Software Engineering
3 13 (30.23%) CI/CD
4 10 (23.26%) DevOps
4 10 (23.26%) Key Management
4 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (20.93%) Computer Science
6 8 (18.60%) Data Visualisation
6 8 (18.60%) Visualisation
7 7 (16.28%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (16.28%) Cryptography
7 7 (16.28%) Customer Experience
7 7 (16.28%) Deep Learning
7 7 (16.28%) Differential Privacy
7 7 (16.28%) Game Theory
7 7 (16.28%) Machine Learning
7 7 (16.28%) Multi-Agent System
7 7 (16.28%) Probability Theory
7 7 (16.28%) Statistics
8 6 (13.95%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 25 (58.14%) Python
2 13 (30.23%) C
3 11 (25.58%) Bash
4 8 (18.60%) Go
5 6 (13.95%) Java
5 6 (13.95%) PowerShell
6 4 (9.30%) Rust
7 3 (6.98%) C++
7 3 (6.98%) PHP
8 2 (4.65%) Bicep
9 1 (2.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) Degree
2 4 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Firmware
3 1 (2.33%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (2.33%) KVM
3 1 (2.33%) LXC
Systems Management
1 12 (27.91%) Kubernetes
2 8 (18.60%) Terraform
3 7 (16.28%) Ansible
4 2 (4.65%) CASB
5 1 (2.33%) Grafana
5 1 (2.33%) Juju
5 1 (2.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) Google
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft