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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 44 70
Rank change year-on-year -24 +26 +8
Contract jobs citing Unix 6 26 6
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.81% 4.16% 0.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.32% 29.21% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 4
10th Percentile £438 £440 £393
25th Percentile £458 £475 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +3.63% -6.76%
75th Percentile £512 £559 £571
90th Percentile £520 £638 £581
Scotland median daily rate £430 £475 £383
% change year-on-year -9.47% +24.18% -29.56%

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 95 89 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.84% 14.24% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 46 102
10th Percentile £148 £200 £163
25th Percentile £206 £403 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £355
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +33.80% -16.47%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £513
90th Percentile £600 £628 £684
Scotland median daily rate £390 £467 £410
% change year-on-year -16.49% +13.90% -13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 16
10th Percentile - - £16.61
25th Percentile - - £18.10
Median hourly rate £15.81 - £18.27
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.16%
75th Percentile £28.87 - £24.18
90th Percentile £60.65 - £40.84
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £25.15 £20.29
% change year-on-year -37.14% +23.98% +5.76%

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
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 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
1 1 (16.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) IBM UrbanCode
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Server Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Server Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Server Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Windows Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Solaris
3 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (33.33%) AIX
4 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (16.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Change Management
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 2 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Security Hardening
3 2 (33.33%) Server Management
3 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) REXX
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) linkerd
2 1 (16.67%) Nagios
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) Qualys
1 2 (33.33%) Rapid7
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 2 (33.33%) Tenable
2 1 (16.67%) Avaya
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) IBM