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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 131 148
Rank change year-on-year +3 +17 -9
Permanent jobs citing Open Source 19 18 82
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.53% 0.71% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.79% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 11
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £45,000 £66,595
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,654 £56,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.13% -24.67% -0.73%
75th Percentile £78,312 £62,625 £79,613
90th Percentile - £72,980 £98,474
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,000 £69,308
% change year-on-year +9.59% +5.33% -0.99%

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 2,482 2,272 4,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 69.88% 89.94% 87.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,411 1,000 1,956
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,929 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,851 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £44,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +11 11 £74,830 - 3
Glasgow +15 6 £65,000 +47.73% 6
Stirling - 2 £40,000 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Amazon Bedrock
2 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) dbt
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (10.53%) GitHub
4 2 (10.53%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) MySQL
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (5.26%) Big Data
2 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (78.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (42.11%) Finance
3 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
4 4 (21.05%) Aerospace
4 4 (21.05%) Law
4 4 (21.05%) Marketing
4 4 (21.05%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.26%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Consultant
2 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Security Consultant
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Senior Consultant
2 4 (21.05%) Senior Security Consultant
2 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
3 3 (15.79%) Lead Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Reliability Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (10.53%) ERP Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
4 2 (10.53%) PHP Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) CrewAI
1 3 (15.79%) Kafka
1 3 (15.79%) LangChain
1 3 (15.79%) LangGraph
1 3 (15.79%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (15.79%) Ray
1 3 (15.79%) vLLM
2 2 (10.53%) Hibernate
2 2 (10.53%) JPA
2 2 (10.53%) REST
2 2 (10.53%) Spring
2 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.26%) Memcached
3 1 (5.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) AI Agents
1 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Agile
2 9 (47.37%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (36.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 7 (36.84%) Technical Architecture
4 6 (31.58%) AI
4 6 (31.58%) LLM
4 6 (31.58%) Machine Learning
4 6 (31.58%) Software Engineering
5 5 (26.32%) Migration
5 5 (26.32%) Risk Assessment
5 5 (26.32%) Validation
6 4 (21.05%) Communications Security
6 4 (21.05%) Customer Requirements
6 4 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (21.05%) Information Security
6 4 (21.05%) Observability
6 4 (21.05%) Operational Stability
6 4 (21.05%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 4 (21.05%) Security Management
6 4 (21.05%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) NCSC
1 4 (21.05%) NIST
1 4 (21.05%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Firmware
2 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 4 (21.05%) Grafana
3 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
3 3 (15.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) NVIDIA
1 3 (15.79%) OpenAI
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk