Open Source Jobs in the North West

Open Source
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 179 193
Rank change year-on-year +50 +14 -30
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 188 115 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.68% 1.57% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 1.65% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 113 73 81
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £83,750 £101,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +4.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,970 6,987 9,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 80.02% 95.58% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,539 3,850 5,342
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.03%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the North West

Open Source
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Open Source in the North West

Open Source
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the North West over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Open Source in the North West

Open Source
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the North West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Manchester +53 164 £60,000 -11.11% 26
Lancashire - 13 £61,206 - 2
Merseyside +7 8 - -
Cheshire -22 3 £65,000 +8.33% 3
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 18 (9.57%) Apache
1 18 (9.57%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.26%) WebLogic
3 5 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.66%) Confluence
4 4 (2.13%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 8 (4.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (3.19%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 77 (40.96%) AWS
2 44 (23.40%) Azure
3 36 (19.15%) Amazon Kinesis
4 19 (10.11%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (9.57%) GCP
6 13 (6.91%) OpenShift
7 11 (5.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (5.85%) Serverless
8 8 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (4.26%) dbt
9 5 (2.66%) Google Analytics
9 5 (2.66%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.66%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.60%) GitHub
10 3 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.06%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.53%) Linode
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.85%) AMQP
2 8 (4.26%) BGP
2 8 (4.26%) DNS
2 8 (4.26%) SSL
2 8 (4.26%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.60%) Firewall
4 2 (1.06%) Network Security
5 1 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (27.66%) NoSQL
2 45 (23.94%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (19.15%) DynamoDB
4 34 (18.09%) Amazon Aurora
5 28 (14.89%) Redis
6 20 (10.64%) Relational Database
7 13 (6.91%) Big Data
8 11 (5.85%) Cloudera CDH
8 11 (5.85%) Hadoop
8 11 (5.85%) MySQL
9 10 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (5.32%) RDBMS
10 8 (4.26%) Oracle Database
11 6 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (2.66%) BigQuery
12 5 (2.66%) Looker
12 5 (2.66%) MongoDB
12 5 (2.66%) Power BI
12 5 (2.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (12.77%) Gatling
2 11 (5.85%) GitLab
3 8 (4.26%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.72%) Git
5 6 (3.19%) JIRA
6 5 (2.66%) Clang
7 3 (1.60%) webpack
8 1 (0.53%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.53%) Capybara
8 1 (0.53%) RSpec
General
1 85 (45.21%) Social Skills
2 24 (12.77%) Billing
2 24 (12.77%) Electronics
3 19 (10.11%) Finance
4 14 (7.45%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.85%) Aerospace
5 11 (5.85%) Automotive
6 10 (5.32%) Games
7 6 (3.19%) Health Technology
7 6 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.19%) Law
8 3 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.06%) Banking
9 2 (1.06%) Digital Economy
10 1 (0.53%) Advertising
10 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 87 (46.28%) Software Engineer
2 62 (32.98%) Senior
3 39 (20.74%) Lead
4 32 (17.02%) Developer
5 27 (14.36%) Architect
6 25 (13.30%) Technical Leader
7 20 (10.64%) Solutions Architect
8 19 (10.11%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (7.45%) Senior Architect
10 12 (6.38%) Full Stack Developer
10 12 (6.38%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 11 (5.85%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 11 (5.85%) Lead Software Engineer
11 11 (5.85%) Technical Engineer
12 10 (5.32%) PHP Developer
12 10 (5.32%) Python Engineer
13 9 (4.79%) Lead Architect
13 9 (4.79%) Scala Engineer
13 9 (4.79%) Senior Developer
13 9 (4.79%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (25.00%) REST
2 40 (21.28%) GraphQL
3 36 (19.15%) Web Services
4 35 (18.62%) Node.js
5 34 (18.09%) http4s
5 34 (18.09%) Scalaz
6 31 (16.49%) React
7 26 (13.83%) HTML
8 22 (11.70%) AngularJS
8 22 (11.70%) Spring Boot
9 19 (10.11%) RabbitMQ
10 16 (8.51%) CSS
10 16 (8.51%) Lambda Expressions
11 14 (7.45%) JSON
11 14 (7.45%) Spring
12 13 (6.91%) Swagger
13 11 (5.85%) gRPC
13 11 (5.85%) Material-UI
13 11 (5.85%) OpenAPI
14 10 (5.32%) Electron
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.15%) Blog
1 36 (19.15%) Media Streaming
2 22 (11.70%) Public Cloud
3 20 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (6.91%) Cloud Native
4 13 (6.91%) Private Cloud
5 12 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (5.32%) IoT
7 8 (4.26%) Embedded Systems
7 8 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.72%) Device Driver
9 6 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.66%) Mainframe
11 3 (1.60%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.60%) NHS
12 2 (1.06%) Algorithms
12 2 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (1.06%) Cybercrime
12 2 (1.06%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 64 (34.04%) Linux
2 19 (10.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (5.85%) CentOS
3 11 (5.85%) Debian
3 11 (5.85%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.66%) Windows
5 2 (1.06%) Unix
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (61.70%) Agile
2 113 (60.11%) Software Engineering
3 71 (37.77%) DevOps
4 65 (34.57%) Continuous Integration
5 54 (28.72%) Coaching
6 52 (27.66%) Computer Science
7 51 (27.13%) Mentoring
8 40 (21.28%) Integration Testing
8 40 (21.28%) Microservices
9 38 (20.21%) Unit Testing
10 34 (18.09%) Functional Programming
11 29 (15.43%) Analytics
12 28 (14.89%) Scrum
13 27 (14.36%) Kanban
14 26 (13.83%) Actionable Insight
14 26 (13.83%) CI/CD
14 26 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (12.77%) A/B Testing
15 24 (12.77%) Customer Retention
15 24 (12.77%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 64 (34.04%) Python
2 63 (33.51%) Java
3 41 (21.81%) JavaScript
4 36 (19.15%) Scala
5 34 (18.09%) C
6 23 (12.23%) Rust
7 14 (7.45%) SQL
8 12 (6.38%) C++
8 12 (6.38%) TypeScript
9 10 (5.32%) COBOL
9 10 (5.32%) Micro Focus COBOL
9 10 (5.32%) PHP
10 7 (3.72%) Embedded C
11 5 (2.66%) C#
11 5 (2.66%) Fortran
12 2 (1.06%) Bash
12 2 (1.06%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.06%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.53%) Go
13 1 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 67 (35.64%) Degree
2 51 (27.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 41 (21.81%) Security Cleared
4 35 (18.62%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.85%) DV Cleared
6 8 (4.26%) AWS Certification
6 8 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.26%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.60%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.06%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.06%) NIST
1 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (1.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (11.70%) Ansible
2 18 (9.57%) Terraform
3 17 (9.04%) Kubernetes
4 12 (6.38%) Puppet
5 9 (4.79%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 17 (9.04%) Google
2 12 (6.38%) Oracle
3 11 (5.85%) Red Hat
3 11 (5.85%) SaltStack
4 10 (5.32%) Micro Focus
5 8 (4.26%) Sparx
6 6 (3.19%) F5
7 5 (2.66%) Teradata
8 4 (2.13%) ESRI
9 3 (1.60%) Microsoft
10 2 (1.06%) Databricks
11 1 (0.53%) Spotify
11 1 (0.53%) Veeam
11 1 (0.53%) VMware