Open Source Jobs

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 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 253 200 110
Rank change year-on-year -53 -90 +35
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 1,186 1,748 5,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.09% 1.88% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.97% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 730 826 1,459
10th Percentile £41,125 £47,250 £42,604
25th Percentile £48,250 £57,500 £52,500
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 £89,852 £88,516
90th Percentile £100,125 £103,125 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,206 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.32% +17.39% +4.55%

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 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
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 9 June 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 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 -72 953 £65,000 -13.33% 243
UK excluding London +16 866 £61,206 -9.32% 154
Work from Home -36 561 £70,000 -6.67% 140
North of England +59 270 £61,206 -5.84% 40
London -159 258 £83,000 +3.37% 116
North West +50 188 £60,000 -11.11% 29
South East +12 162 £45,000 -32.08% 32
Scotland +7 143 £75,000 -0.73% 13
South West -36 107 £63,750 -8.93% 25
Midlands -28 84 £70,000 - 21
Yorkshire +65 62 £60,500 +7.56% 9
East of England -2 54 £80,001 +39.13% 10
West Midlands -13 52 £61,206 -12.56% 12
East Midlands -26 32 £75,000 -6.25% 9
Northern Ireland +29 24 £75,400 - 8
Wales +1 22 £75,000 -36.33% 7
North East -23 20 £68,103 +42.86% 2

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
1 137 (11.55%) Apache Spark
2 58 (4.89%) Apache
3 46 (3.88%) WebLogic
4 21 (1.77%) Confluence
5 14 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (1.10%) nginx
7 12 (1.01%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.93%) IIS
9 9 (0.76%) ArcGIS
10 7 (0.59%) CMS
10 7 (0.59%) Drupal
11 5 (0.42%) Apache Pig
12 4 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.34%) OpenZeppelin
13 3 (0.25%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.17%) Ethereum
14 2 (0.17%) SAS
14 2 (0.17%) WordPress
15 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Exchange
15 1 (0.084%) SharePoint
Applications
1 48 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.084%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.084%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 46 (3.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (0.67%) Shopify
3 6 (0.51%) Magento
4 1 (0.084%) Ripple
4 1 (0.084%) Ripple XRP
Cloud Services
1 522 (44.01%) AWS
2 372 (31.37%) Azure
3 111 (9.36%) GCP
4 96 (8.09%) Serverless
5 81 (6.83%) Amazon SQS
6 75 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
7 74 (6.24%) AWS Lambda
8 69 (5.82%) OpenShift
9 67 (5.65%) GitHub
10 63 (5.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 56 (4.72%) SaaS
12 44 (3.71%) Amazon S3
13 38 (3.20%) Amazon Kinesis
14 35 (2.95%) Amazon EC2
15 32 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
16 29 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
16 29 (2.45%) IaaS
17 28 (2.36%) dbt
18 27 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
18 27 (2.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 93 (7.84%) DNS
2 81 (6.83%) TCP/IP
3 64 (5.40%) BGP
4 59 (4.97%) Firewall
5 55 (4.64%) SSL
6 29 (2.45%) AMQP
7 27 (2.28%) WAN
8 26 (2.19%) HTTP
9 25 (2.11%) LAN
10 22 (1.85%) VPN
11 20 (1.69%) Internet
12 17 (1.43%) MPLS
13 10 (0.84%) Network Security
13 10 (0.84%) Unified Communications
13 10 (0.84%) Wireshark
14 9 (0.76%) Cisco ISE
14 9 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
14 9 (0.76%) DHCP
14 9 (0.76%) DMZ
14 9 (0.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (15.09%) NoSQL
2 101 (8.52%) PostgreSQL
3 94 (7.93%) Hadoop
4 90 (7.59%) Relational Database
5 86 (7.25%) Apache Hive
6 84 (7.08%) Amazon RDS
7 83 (7.00%) Big Data
8 81 (6.83%) HBase
9 54 (4.55%) RDBMS
10 48 (4.05%) MySQL
11 47 (3.96%) Oracle Database
12 38 (3.20%) SQL Server
13 37 (3.12%) DynamoDB
14 36 (3.04%) Amazon Redshift
15 34 (2.87%) Amazon Aurora
16 31 (2.61%) Redis
17 29 (2.45%) Cloudera CDH
18 28 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
19 27 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
20 16 (1.35%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 201 (16.95%) Git
2 186 (15.68%) Jenkins
3 99 (8.35%) GitLab
4 81 (6.83%) Bitbucket Server
5 28 (2.36%) JIRA
6 25 (2.11%) Artifactory
6 25 (2.11%) Gatling
7 15 (1.26%) CircleCI
7 15 (1.26%) Cypress.io
8 14 (1.18%) Selenium
9 12 (1.01%) SonarQube
9 12 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
10 11 (0.93%) Subversion
11 9 (0.76%) GNU Toolchain
11 9 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
11 9 (0.76%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.67%) Jaeger
12 8 (0.67%) JUnit
13 6 (0.51%) JMeter
13 6 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 363 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 213 (17.96%) Finance
3 160 (13.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 116 (9.78%) Law
5 94 (7.93%) Legal
6 55 (4.64%) Public Sector
7 51 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
8 40 (3.37%) Marketing
9 35 (2.95%) Front Office
10 32 (2.70%) Electronics
11 31 (2.61%) Aerospace
12 28 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (2.11%) Billing
14 24 (2.02%) Retail
15 23 (1.94%) Automotive
15 23 (1.94%) Games
16 22 (1.85%) Banking
17 13 (1.10%) Military
18 10 (0.84%) Financial Institution
19 9 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 301 (25.38%) Software Engineer
2 273 (23.02%) Developer
3 269 (22.68%) Senior
4 202 (17.03%) Lead
5 183 (15.43%) Architect
6 100 (8.43%) AWS Engineer
7 94 (7.93%) Technical Leader
8 85 (7.17%) Solutions Architect
9 68 (5.73%) AWS Software Engineer
10 62 (5.23%) Database Developer
11 58 (4.89%) DevOps Engineer
11 58 (4.89%) Senior Software Engineer
12 57 (4.81%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 54 (4.55%) Lead Architect
14 53 (4.47%) Technical Architect
15 51 (4.30%) Database Engineer
16 49 (4.13%) Data Engineer
16 49 (4.13%) Full Stack Developer
17 47 (3.96%) Senior Developer
18 46 (3.88%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (13.91%) React
2 145 (12.23%) Node.js
3 115 (9.70%) REST
4 103 (8.68%) Spring Boot
5 79 (6.66%) RabbitMQ
6 68 (5.73%) AngularJS
7 62 (5.23%) HTML
8 55 (4.64%) Web Services
9 51 (4.30%) Spring
10 50 (4.22%) GraphQL
11 49 (4.13%) CSS
12 48 (4.05%) Kafka
13 42 (3.54%) Django
14 41 (3.46%) .NET
14 41 (3.46%) Swagger
15 36 (3.04%) PyTorch
16 34 (2.87%) http4s
16 34 (2.87%) Scalaz
16 34 (2.87%) TensorFlow
17 32 (2.70%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 141 (11.89%) Algorithms
2 106 (8.94%) Public Cloud
3 102 (8.60%) Private Cloud
4 90 (7.59%) Management Information System
5 84 (7.08%) Self-Motivation
6 71 (5.99%) Cloud Native
7 70 (5.90%) Distributed Systems
8 62 (5.23%) Blog
9 54 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (3.20%) Data Centre
11 36 (3.04%) Media Streaming
12 34 (2.87%) Blockchain
12 34 (2.87%) Embedded Systems
13 33 (2.78%) Data Structures
14 32 (2.70%) IoT
14 32 (2.70%) Tandem
15 26 (2.19%) Product Ownership
16 20 (1.69%) Mobile App
17 19 (1.60%) NHS
18 17 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 333 (28.08%) Linux
2 148 (12.48%) Unix
3 93 (7.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 59 (4.97%) Windows
5 50 (4.22%) Ubuntu
6 44 (3.71%) CentOS
6 44 (3.71%) Debian
7 21 (1.77%) Android
8 20 (1.69%) Embedded Linux
9 14 (1.18%) Mac OS X
10 10 (0.84%) Windows Server
11 8 (0.67%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.42%) Windows 10
14 3 (0.25%) VMS
15 1 (0.084%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.084%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.084%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (55.48%) Agile
2 516 (43.51%) Software Engineering
3 348 (29.34%) DevOps
4 303 (25.55%) CI/CD
5 258 (21.75%) Mentoring
6 217 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
7 208 (17.54%) Coaching
8 207 (17.45%) Microservices
9 203 (17.12%) Continuous Integration
10 183 (15.43%) Scrum
11 181 (15.26%) SDLC
12 179 (15.09%) Artificial Intelligence
13 167 (14.08%) Actionable Insight
14 166 (14.00%) Computer Science
14 166 (14.00%) Test Automation
15 153 (12.90%) TDD
16 151 (12.73%) Machine Learning
17 147 (12.39%) Collaborative Working
18 145 (12.23%) Kanban
19 140 (11.80%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 488 (41.15%) Python
2 377 (31.79%) Java
3 200 (16.86%) SQL
4 180 (15.18%) JavaScript
5 146 (12.31%) C
6 122 (10.29%) TypeScript
7 89 (7.50%) C++
8 83 (7.00%) Go
9 82 (6.91%) Bash
10 81 (6.83%) PL/SQL
11 48 (4.05%) C#
11 48 (4.05%) Rust
12 46 (3.88%) Scala
13 44 (3.71%) PowerShell
14 36 (3.04%) PHP
15 29 (2.45%) COBOL
15 29 (2.45%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 24 (2.02%) Fortran
16 24 (2.02%) Kotlin
16 24 (2.02%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 282 (23.78%) Security Cleared
2 251 (21.16%) Degree
3 213 (17.96%) SC Cleared
4 73 (6.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (5.48%) Azure Certification
6 61 (5.14%) Master's Degree
7 51 (4.30%) AWS Certification
8 48 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 46 (3.88%) PhD
10 38 (3.20%) DV Cleared
11 16 (1.35%) CISSP
12 13 (1.10%) CISM
12 13 (1.10%) GCIA
12 13 (1.10%) GCIH
12 13 (1.10%) GREM
13 11 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (0.84%) CCNA
15 4 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
16 3 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
17 2 (0.17%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (3.96%) PMO
2 41 (3.46%) QA
3 18 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.43%) GDPR
5 7 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.59%) NCSC
6 6 (0.51%) JTAG
7 5 (0.42%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.42%) NIST
8 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 167 (14.08%) Docker
2 86 (7.25%) HDFS
3 25 (2.11%) Firmware
3 25 (2.11%) Virtual Servers
4 13 (1.10%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
5 11 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.51%) Ceph
8 5 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 4 (0.34%) KVM
10 3 (0.25%) QEMU
10 3 (0.25%) VirtualBox
10 3 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.25%) Xen
11 2 (0.17%) Kamailio
11 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.17%) vSphere
12 1 (0.084%) LXC
Systems Management
1 234 (19.73%) Terraform
2 212 (17.88%) Kubernetes
3 130 (10.96%) Ansible
4 64 (5.40%) Puppet
5 36 (3.04%) Progress Chef
6 14 (1.18%) Grafana
7 11 (0.93%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.67%) Kiali
8 8 (0.67%) Kibana
9 6 (0.51%) Knative
9 6 (0.51%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 5 (0.42%) Nessus
11 4 (0.34%) Salt
12 3 (0.25%) Podman
13 2 (0.17%) CASB
13 2 (0.17%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.17%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.17%) Marathon
13 2 (0.17%) Mesos
13 2 (0.17%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 85 (7.17%) Databricks
2 82 (6.91%) Microsoft
3 81 (6.83%) Informatica
4 79 (6.66%) Google
5 54 (4.55%) Oracle
6 51 (4.30%) Cloudera
7 46 (3.88%) Sparx
8 35 (2.95%) Red Hat
9 29 (2.45%) Micro Focus
9 29 (2.45%) SaltStack
10 26 (2.19%) Cisco
11 19 (1.60%) Splunk
12 15 (1.26%) Juniper
13 14 (1.18%) VMware
14 13 (1.10%) Dell
15 12 (1.01%) Fortinet
15 12 (1.01%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.93%) Palo Alto
17 9 (0.76%) AppDynamics
17 9 (0.76%) CheckPoint