State of Open: The UK in 2021, Phase Two
Released on 7 July 2021
The first large-scale survey of open source adoption across UK business and industry, undertaken in Q2 2021, with survey outputs and case studies. Sponsored by GitHub.
Report Includes:
- The State of Open Survey 2021: adoption, contribution, policies and skills across UK organisations
- Case studies from UK business and industry
- Survey interview of Dr Jennifer Barth by OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock
Executive Summary
Adoption is near-universal
- 97% of UK organisations use open source technologies; 89% run open source software internally
- 65% of respondents contribute to open source projects — including 53% of non-tech organisations
Why organisations adopt
- Top reasons: saving on costs (75%), more collaboration (72%), skills development (64%), quality of code (61%) and security (52%)
- 77% of the UK public sector looks to open source for skills development
Maturity is growing
- Just over half (54%) of organisations have written policies and processes for open source contributions
Survey interview of Dr Jennifer Barth by OpenUK CEO, Amanda Brock
Case Studies
OpenUK Annual Survey
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