Unix Contracts in Edinburgh

Unix
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Unix skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unix over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 59 78
Rank change year-on-year +4 +19 -6
Contract jobs citing Unix 16 52 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.98% 4.00% 2.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.82% 24.88% 20.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 44 22
10th Percentile £408 £446 £400
25th Percentile £475 £491 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £515 £513
Median % change year-on-year +20.82% +0.54% +20.59%
75th Percentile £634 £555 £584
90th Percentile - £579 £723
Scotland median daily rate £575 £545 £495
% change year-on-year +5.50% +10.10% +16.47%

All Operating Systems
Edinburgh

Unix is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 85 209 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.51% 16.09% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 152 143
10th Percentile £202 £160 £137
25th Percentile £340 £225 £177
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £454 £438
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% +3.71% +2.94%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £544
90th Percentile £731 £622 £598
Scotland median daily rate £500 £479 £450
% change year-on-year +4.38% +6.44% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 9
10th Percentile £18.22 - £17.01
25th Percentile £18.27 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.11 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.95% +75.55% +14.29%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £40.75
90th Percentile - - £54.60
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +162.50% +33.33%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Edinburgh

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Unix in Edinburgh

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Edinburgh

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Edinburgh

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (12.50%) Apache
1 2 (12.50%) Confluence
1 2 (12.50%) JBoss
1 2 (12.50%) Tomcat
1 2 (12.50%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (37.50%) OpenShift
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) Azure
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Run
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle Database
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle Database 11g
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database 10g
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Discoverer
3 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
4 1 (6.25%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Git
1 8 (50.00%) Maven
2 6 (37.50%) Gradle
2 6 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 2 (12.50%) JUnit
3 2 (12.50%) Subversion
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Finance
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Site Manager
1 5 (31.25%) Site Reliability Manager
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) DBA
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Senior DBA
4 2 (12.50%) Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Development Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Oracle DBA
5 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Development Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Spring
2 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
2 2 (12.50%) Java EE
2 2 (12.50%) JPA
2 2 (12.50%) JSP
2 2 (12.50%) JSTL
2 2 (12.50%) Servlets
2 2 (12.50%) STL
2 2 (12.50%) XML
2 2 (12.50%) XSLT
3 1 (6.25%) Guice
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) OpenJDK
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Code
4 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Linux
2 7 (43.75%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 7 (43.75%) OWASP
3 6 (37.50%) Application Security
3 6 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
3 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) Migration
4 5 (31.25%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (31.25%) Service-Level Objective
4 5 (31.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (25.00%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
6 3 (18.75%) Database Tuning
6 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (12.50%) Case Management
7 2 (12.50%) DevOps
7 2 (12.50%) Prototyping
7 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Shell Script
2 6 (37.50%) Bash
2 6 (37.50%) Groovy
2 6 (37.50%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) Ruby
3 5 (31.25%) Java
4 2 (12.50%) Perl
5 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (6.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Ansible
1 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 6 (37.50%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) Data Guard
2 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) Solace
2 1 (6.25%) Tripwire
2 1 (6.25%) VMware