Unix Contracts in Glasgow

Unix
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 17 41
Rank change year-on-year -14 +24 +10
Contract jobs citing Unix 58 91 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 6.61% 9.95% 4.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.37% 39.74% 25.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 50 24
10th Percentile £334 £424 £400
25th Percentile £369 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £630 £528
Median % change year-on-year -8.66% +19.34% +24.12%
75th Percentile £635 £750 £573
90th Percentile £722 - £647
Scotland median daily rate £575 £545 £490
% change year-on-year +5.50% +11.22% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £51.58 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £57.35 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £62.46 £49.54
Median % change year-on-year -15.95% +26.08% -25.50%
75th Percentile £53.75 £67.11 -
90th Percentile - £68.09 -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £60.55 £49.54
% change year-on-year -13.29% +22.22% -21.68%

All Operating Systems
Glasgow

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 Glasgow with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 191 229 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 21.78% 25.03% 18.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 158 129
10th Percentile £200 £250 £160
25th Percentile £331 £400 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +20.81%
75th Percentile £628 £676 £540
90th Percentile £750 £750 £600
Scotland median daily rate £500 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +4.28% +6.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile £30.10 £51.14 £16.53
25th Percentile £51.25 £56.25 £18.77
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.55 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +142.20% +100.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.56 £38.52
90th Percentile - £67.88 £45.13
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +162.50% +33.33%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Glasgow

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Glasgow

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Glasgow over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Glasgow

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Glasgow

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 6 (10.34%) SAS
2 1 (1.72%) Apache
2 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.41%) AWS
2 12 (20.69%) Azure
2 12 (20.69%) OpenShift
3 3 (5.17%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (3.45%) IaaS
4 2 (3.45%) Serverless
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.72%) GitHub
5 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.52%) TCP/IP
2 8 (13.79%) HTTP
2 8 (13.79%) SAN
2 8 (13.79%) SSL
3 7 (12.07%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 7 (12.07%) Fibre Channel
3 7 (12.07%) iSCSI
3 7 (12.07%) NetScaler
4 4 (6.90%) NAS
5 3 (5.17%) Firewall
6 1 (1.72%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.34%) DB2
1 6 (10.34%) Oracle Database
2 5 (8.62%) Oracle Database 12c
2 5 (8.62%) Oracle8/8i Database
3 4 (6.90%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (6.90%) Metadata
3 4 (6.90%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.17%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (34.48%) Jenkins
2 18 (31.03%) Git
3 3 (5.17%) GitLab
4 2 (3.45%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 21 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.86%) Banking
3 10 (17.24%) Finance
4 8 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.79%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (13.79%) Investment Banking
5 4 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 17 (29.31%) Developer
1 17 (29.31%) Linux Engineer
2 13 (22.41%) Java Developer
3 12 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (20.69%) Python Engineer
4 10 (17.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (15.52%) Linux Scripter
5 9 (15.52%) Unix Engineer
5 9 (15.52%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 7 (12.07%) Linux Developer
6 7 (12.07%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (12.07%) Windows Engineer
7 6 (10.34%) Network Engineer
7 6 (10.34%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (10.34%) Python Developer
7 6 (10.34%) Security Engineer
7 6 (10.34%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 5 (8.62%) Scala Developer
8 5 (8.62%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.97%) REST
2 6 (10.34%) AngularJS
2 6 (10.34%) Flash
2 6 (10.34%) POSIX
3 5 (8.62%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 5 (8.62%) Twisted
4 4 (6.90%) RESTful
5 3 (5.17%) Spring
6 2 (3.45%) Redfish
7 1 (1.72%) .NET
7 1 (1.72%) Apache Beam
7 1 (1.72%) CSS
7 1 (1.72%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.72%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) Client/Server
2 4 (6.90%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.90%) Data Structures
2 4 (6.90%) NVMe
3 3 (5.17%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.45%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.72%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.72%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 42 (72.41%) Linux
2 21 (36.21%) Windows
3 11 (18.97%) Windows Server
4 6 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (8.62%) Mac OS
6 4 (6.90%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (6.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.93%) DevOps
2 21 (36.21%) CI/CD
3 14 (24.14%) Agile
3 14 (24.14%) OO
4 12 (20.69%) Infrastructure Automation
5 10 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 8 (13.79%) High Availability
6 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (13.79%) Migration
6 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (13.79%) Refactoring
7 7 (12.07%) Data Protection
7 7 (12.07%) SDLC
8 6 (10.34%) Customer Requirements
8 6 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (10.34%) Disk Encryption
8 6 (10.34%) Low Latency
8 6 (10.34%) Observability
8 6 (10.34%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (63.79%) Python
2 27 (46.55%) Perl
3 23 (39.66%) Java
4 15 (25.86%) SQL
5 8 (13.79%) Bash
6 7 (12.07%) PowerShell
6 7 (12.07%) Shell Script
7 5 (8.62%) JavaScript
7 5 (8.62%) Scala
8 3 (5.17%) C
9 1 (1.72%) PHP
9 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (13.79%) Docker
2 6 (10.34%) NFS
3 5 (8.62%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (6.90%) GPFS
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (15.52%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.34%) SCCM
3 5 (8.62%) Oracle RMAN
4 4 (6.90%) Data Guard
4 4 (6.90%) NetBackup
4 4 (6.90%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.45%) Ansible
6 2 (3.45%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (3.45%) Grafana
6 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) F5
2 8 (13.79%) Veritas
3 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.34%) Oracle
3 6 (10.34%) Splunk
4 5 (8.62%) Google
4 5 (8.62%) Sybase
5 4 (6.90%) Brocade
5 4 (6.90%) EMC
5 4 (6.90%) IBM
5 4 (6.90%) NetApp
6 2 (3.45%) BMC
6 2 (3.45%) Greenplum
6 2 (3.45%) HP
7 1 (1.72%) Databricks
7 1 (1.72%) Dell
7 1 (1.72%) VMware