Unix Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Unix
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 54 69
Rank change year-on-year -17 +15 +2
Contract jobs citing Unix 5 16 13
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.63% 2.44% 1.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.56% 18.60% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 10
10th Percentile £207 £450 £409
25th Percentile £289 £475 £557
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £611
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -18.20% +16.43%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £634
90th Percentile £515 £567 -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £475 £383
% change year-on-year -10.53% +24.18% -29.30%

All Operating Systems
Edinburgh

Unix falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 90 86 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.28% 13.09% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 46 94
10th Percentile £174 £161 £169
25th Percentile £319 £208 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £355
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +30.28% -18.86%
75th Percentile £575 £542 £518
90th Percentile £612 £638 £634
Scotland median daily rate £450 £465 £400
% change year-on-year -3.17% +16.19% -13.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 16
10th Percentile - £21.37 £16.61
25th Percentile £15.81 £21.92 £18.10
Median hourly rate £35.41 £23.33 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year +51.76% +27.70% +3.10%
75th Percentile £60.13 £24.25 £58.31
90th Percentile £64.85 £24.49 £60.75
Scotland median hourly rate £15.95 £25.15 £25.09
% change year-on-year -36.58% +0.24% +30.81%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unix relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Unix job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Unix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Unix

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 8 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Edinburgh

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Unix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Unix

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
1 1 (20.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) IBM UrbanCode
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Solaris
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Service Management
2 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) ITSM
2 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (40.00%) Server Management
4 1 (20.00%) Application Packaging
4 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) REXX
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) linkerd
2 1 (20.00%) Nagios
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Avaya
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) IBM