Open Source Job Trends in Scotland

Open Source
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Open Source skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 130 158
Rank change year-on-year +1 +28 -20
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 11 18 105
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.33% 0.72% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.79% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 11 6 16
10th Percentile £65,000 £38,500 £49,991
25th Percentile £68,042 £42,750 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,830 £45,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +66.29% -40.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £78,312 £57,063 £79,600
90th Percentile - £60,750 £89,237
UK median annual salary £75,000 £73,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +2.74% +11.51% -12.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,374 2,277 5,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.97% 90.72% 88.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,396 1,007 2,422
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,968 £28,025
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Open Source job vacancy trend in Scotland

Open Source
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Open Source.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Open Source

Open Source
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Open Source in Scotland

Open Source
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Open Source within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 July 2026. 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
Edinburgh +16 8 £74,830 - 1
Glasgow +11 2 £65,000 +64.56% 3
Stirling - 1 £40,000 - 2
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (36.36%) dbt
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MySQL
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (63.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 2 (18.18%) ERP Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
4 1 (9.09%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
1 2 (18.18%) JPA
1 2 (18.18%) Kafka
1 2 (18.18%) REST
1 2 (18.18%) Spring
1 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
2 1 (9.09%) CrewAI
2 1 (9.09%) LangGraph
2 1 (9.09%) NumPy
2 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
2 1 (9.09%) scikit-learn
2 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) AI Agents
1 1 (9.09%) Autonomous Agent
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 7 (63.64%) Technical Architecture
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (45.45%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) AI
4 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (27.27%) LLM
4 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
4 3 (27.27%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
5 2 (18.18%) ERP
5 2 (18.18%) Prototyping
5 2 (18.18%) Rapid Prototyping
5 2 (18.18%) Service Design
6 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) PHP
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) OpenAI
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft