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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 73 89
Rank change year-on-year -5 +16 +49
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 3 20 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.39% 1.60% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 1.81% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 13
10th Percentile £69,066 £50,493 £48,186
25th Percentile £69,447 £58,485 £58,882
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,316 £70,576 £67,634
Median % change year-on-year +5.30% +4.35% +58.67%
75th Percentile £78,670 £88,849 £77,542
90th Percentile £78,742 £98,474 -
Scotland median annual salary £66,401 £69,942 £69,105
% change year-on-year -5.06% +1.21% +15.17%

All Process and 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 705 1,103 1,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 92.64% 88.10% 94.02%
Number of salaries quoted 291 484 816
10th Percentile £25,684 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £46,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £75,313
90th Percentile £86,776 £90,000 £87,419
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%

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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
2 1 (33.33%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) Neo4j
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Django
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Cypher
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google