Open Source Job Trends in Edinburgh

Open Source
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Open Source skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 90 67
Rank change year-on-year +3 -23 +35
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 1 3 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.084% 0.33% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.34% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 23
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85,000 - £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.48%
75th Percentile £115,000 - £79,800
90th Percentile - - £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £75,350 £45,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +67.44% -40.00% +8.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 875 889 1,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 73.10% 97.37% 88.69%
Number of salaries quoted 497 419 963
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £73,625
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £97,500
Scotland median annual salary £45,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.27% +4.76% -8.70%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Open Source relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Open Source job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Open Source
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Open Source.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Open Source

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CrewAI
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Autonomous Agent
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI