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 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 879 902 1151
Rank change year-on-year +23 +249 -245
Permanent jobs citing Open Source Development 43 43 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.046% 0.076%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.048% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 37 17 25
10th Percentile £53,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £71,000 -
90th Percentile £117,500 £88,000 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +49.00% -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 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Open Source Development in the UK

Open Source Development
Top 9 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 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
England +24 40 £80,001 +23.08% 5
Work from Home +66 21 £70,000 +12.00% 6
London +57 21 £100,000 +53.85% 2
UK excluding London -55 19 £74,500 +49.00% 6
East of England -6 11 £80,001 +60.00%
South West -27 4 £57,500 - 2
South East -6 3 £57,500 +21.05%
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 1

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 7 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (9.30%) AWS
3 4 (9.30%) GCP
3 4 (9.30%) Miro
3 4 (9.30%) SaaS
4 1 (2.33%) GitHub
4 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%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) Git
3 1 (2.33%) GitLab
3 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) Phabricator
3 1 (2.33%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (18.60%) Finance
2 7 (16.28%) Games
3 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (34.88%) Software Engineer
2 10 (23.26%) Linux Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) Ubuntu Engineer
4 7 (16.28%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (16.28%) Developer
4 7 (16.28%) Machine Learning Researcher
4 7 (16.28%) Senior
4 7 (16.28%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Blockchain Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Digital Product Manager
5 4 (9.30%) Product Manager
6 3 (6.98%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Security Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Security Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Digital Project Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Network Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.26%) GTK
2 8 (18.60%) PyTorch
2 8 (18.60%) TensorFlow
3 4 (9.30%) REST
3 4 (9.30%) Smart Contracts
3 4 (9.30%) WebSockets
4 2 (4.65%) CSS
4 2 (4.65%) Flask
4 2 (4.65%) HTML
4 2 (4.65%) React
5 1 (2.33%) .NET
5 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.33%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.33%) FFmpeg
5 1 (2.33%) Jest
5 1 (2.33%) Puppeteer
5 1 (2.33%) Redfish
5 1 (2.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 1 (2.33%) Wayland
5 1 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.58%) Blockchain
2 10 (23.26%) PKI
3 7 (16.28%) Algorithms
3 7 (16.28%) Cloud Native
3 7 (16.28%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (9.30%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (9.30%) Data Structures
4 4 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
5 3 (6.98%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (4.65%) Taxonomies
7 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.33%) Device Driver
7 1 (2.33%) FPGA
7 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
7 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 23 (53.49%) Software Engineering
3 13 (30.23%) CI/CD
4 11 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (23.26%) DevOps
5 10 (23.26%) Key Management
6 9 (20.93%) Computer Science
7 8 (18.60%) Data Visualisation
7 8 (18.60%) Machine Learning
7 8 (18.60%) Visualisation
8 7 (16.28%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (16.28%) Configuration Management
8 7 (16.28%) Cryptography
8 7 (16.28%) Customer Experience
8 7 (16.28%) Deep Learning
8 7 (16.28%) DevSecOps
8 7 (16.28%) Game Theory
8 7 (16.28%) Multi-Agent System
8 7 (16.28%) Probability Theory
8 7 (16.28%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 27 (62.79%) Python
2 13 (30.23%) C
3 11 (25.58%) Bash
4 8 (18.60%) Go
5 7 (16.28%) PowerShell
6 4 (9.30%) Java
6 4 (9.30%) PHP
6 4 (9.30%) Rust
7 3 (6.98%) C++
8 2 (4.65%) C#
9 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
9 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (23.26%) Degree
2 4 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) 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%) Ansible
3 7 (16.28%) Terraform
4 2 (4.65%) CASB
5 1 (2.33%) Grafana
5 1 (2.33%) Juju
5 1 (2.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) Google
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft