Open Source Jobs in the North of England

Open Source
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Open Source skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Open Source over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 163 236
Rank change year-on-year -135 +73 -30
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 41 283 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.35% 1.39% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 1.74% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 36 184 106
10th Percentile £46,625 £42,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £48,250 £47,672
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,206 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.20% -5.84% +13.04%
75th Percentile £74,444 £78,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £84,964 £83,750
England median annual salary £73,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +12.31% -13.33% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Open Source falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,929 16,242 14,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 92.30% 79.78% 96.73%
Number of salaries quoted 5,463 11,944 7,749
10th Percentile £25,084 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £61,967 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,158 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in the North of England

Open Source
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Open Source in the North of England

Open Source
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Open Source in the North of England

Open Source
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 16 June 2025. 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
North West -132 26 £68,505 +14.17% 421
Yorkshire +10 8 £49,000 -19.48% 276
North East +36 7 £67,037 -10.62% 52
Open Source
England

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (9.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.44%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 27 (65.85%) AWS
2 24 (58.54%) Azure
3 17 (41.46%) GCP
4 8 (19.51%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (17.07%) Serverless
6 6 (14.63%) Amazon ECR
6 6 (14.63%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (14.63%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 6 (14.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 6 (14.63%) AWS CodeBuild
6 6 (14.63%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (14.63%) dbt
6 6 (14.63%) GitHub
6 6 (14.63%) Pulumi
7 5 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (9.76%) Sentry
9 2 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.63%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (24.39%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (21.95%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (19.51%) MongoDB
3 8 (19.51%) MySQL
4 7 (17.07%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (17.07%) Redis
5 4 (9.76%) Relational Database
5 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
6 3 (7.32%) RDBMS
6 3 (7.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.44%) GIS
8 1 (2.44%) Neo4j
8 1 (2.44%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) Git
2 3 (7.32%) Bitbucket
2 3 (7.32%) GitLab
3 2 (4.88%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (46.34%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.07%) Finance
2 7 (17.07%) Public Sector
3 6 (14.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (7.32%) Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Advertising
5 2 (4.88%) Retail
5 2 (4.88%) Retail Finance
6 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (46.34%) Senior
2 6 (14.63%) Lead
3 5 (12.20%) Software Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Data Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Engineering Manager
4 4 (9.76%) Senior Data Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Site Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Team Leader
5 3 (7.32%) DBA
5 3 (7.32%) Developer
5 3 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Software Engineering Manager
5 3 (7.32%) Software Engineering Team Leader
5 3 (7.32%) Software Manager
5 3 (7.32%) Software Team Leader
5 3 (7.32%) SQL DBA
6 2 (4.88%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.07%) AngularJS
2 6 (14.63%) Django
2 6 (14.63%) Vue
3 5 (12.20%) Laravel
4 4 (9.76%) CSS
4 4 (9.76%) HTML
4 4 (9.76%) React
4 4 (9.76%) Spring
4 4 (9.76%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.32%) Hibernate
6 2 (4.88%) .NET
6 2 (4.88%) Node.js
6 2 (4.88%) REST
6 2 (4.88%) RESTful
7 1 (2.44%) .NET Core
7 1 (2.44%) D3.js
7 1 (2.44%) Kafka
7 1 (2.44%) Keras
7 1 (2.44%) OpenCV
7 1 (2.44%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 10 (24.39%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.32%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.88%) Clustering
3 2 (4.88%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.44%) Blog
4 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (24.39%) Linux
2 6 (14.63%) Unix
3 3 (7.32%) Windows
4 2 (4.88%) CentOS
5 1 (2.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (53.66%) CI/CD
2 18 (43.90%) DevOps
3 17 (41.46%) Software Engineering
4 13 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (26.83%) Agile
5 11 (26.83%) Containerisation
6 10 (24.39%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (21.95%) Clean Code
7 9 (21.95%) Microservices
8 8 (19.51%) Mentoring
9 7 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (17.07%) Roadmaps
9 7 (17.07%) Test Automation
10 6 (14.63%) Application Performance Monitoring
10 6 (14.63%) Continuous Delivery
10 6 (14.63%) High Availability
10 6 (14.63%) Machine Learning
10 6 (14.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (14.63%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (48.78%) Python
2 13 (31.71%) SQL
3 11 (26.83%) Java
3 11 (26.83%) JavaScript
4 8 (19.51%) PHP
5 7 (17.07%) TypeScript
6 4 (9.76%) Scala
7 3 (7.32%) Go
7 3 (7.32%) T-SQL
8 2 (4.88%) C++
9 1 (2.44%) C#
9 1 (2.44%) Julia
9 1 (2.44%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.44%) Perl
9 1 (2.44%) R
9 1 (2.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) Degree
4 3 (7.32%) DBS Check
5 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.44%) GDPR
1 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (34.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (34.15%) Terraform
2 8 (19.51%) Kubernetes
3 6 (14.63%) AWS Copilot
4 4 (9.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) Google
2 4 (9.76%) Databricks
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.76%) Oracle
2 4 (9.76%) Palantir
3 3 (7.32%) Informatica
3 3 (7.32%) RedGate
3 3 (7.32%) Talend
4 2 (4.88%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.88%) PagerDuty
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