Open Source Jobs in Scotland

Open Source
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Open Source skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Open Source over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 136 158
Rank change year-on-year +2 +22 +33
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 11 161 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.39% 2.39% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 2.57% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5 30 14
10th Percentile £37,800 £61,243 £35,375
25th Percentile £42,000 £68,718 £39,294
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £75,000 £59,724
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +25.58% -17.34%
75th Percentile £60,750 £79,129 £100,000
90th Percentile £70,800 £91,934 -
UK median annual salary £73,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +12.31% -13.33% +7.14%

All Process and 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 2,594 6,257 4,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.05% 92.89% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,341 2,424 2,232
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,488
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,654
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.94% +9.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Open Source as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Open Source in Scotland

Open Source
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Open Source in Scotland.

Salary trend for Open Source in Scotland

Open Source
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Open Source in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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
Glasgow +85 4 £44,000 -29.60% 7
Edinburgh -27 2 - - 13
Aberdeen - 2 - - 1
Renfrewshire - 2 £45,000 - 6
Lanarkshire - 1 £56,500 - 2
Open Source
UK

Open Source
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (9.09%) OCI
4 1 (9.09%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle ODI
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Data Scientist
2 2 (18.18%) Embedded Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Security Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) EDI
1 1 (9.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Algorithms
1 2 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (18.18%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
2 1 (9.09%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (36.36%) Kalman Filter
1 4 (36.36%) OSINT
1 4 (36.36%) SIEM
2 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Incident Response
2 3 (27.27%) Threat Detection
3 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
3 2 (18.18%) Cyber Threat Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
3 2 (18.18%) Data Science
3 2 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) ETL
3 2 (18.18%) Event Correlation
3 2 (18.18%) Generative AI
3 2 (18.18%) LLM
3 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
3 2 (18.18%) Situational Awareness
3 2 (18.18%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Kusto Query Language
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) C
2 2 (18.18%) C++
2 2 (18.18%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) R
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) Degree
3 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) ArcSight
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) VMware