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 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 84 67
Rank change year-on-year -18 -17 +64
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 4 16 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.38% 1.38% 3.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 1.44% 4.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 30
10th Percentile - - £60,200
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -1.80% +9.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £80,227 £76,385
90th Percentile - £91,175 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £80,265 £69,308 £70,576
% change year-on-year +15.81% -1.80% +12.92%

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 898 1,112 963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.61% 96.03% 92.15%
Number of salaries quoted 385 416 774
10th Percentile £26,000 £36,250 £31,400
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,250 £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.64% +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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECR
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) dbt
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) PaaS
2 3 (75.00%) Pulumi
2 3 (75.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (75.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (75.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Observability
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Prototyping
1 3 (75.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Copilot
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google