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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 67 73
Rank change year-on-year +22 +6 +23
Contract jobs citing Unix 25 7 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.95% 0.86% 2.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.09% 4.70% 17.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 16
10th Percentile £440 £394 £463
25th Percentile £475 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £521
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -18.47% +4.25%
75th Percentile £559 £565 £545
90th Percentile £638 £579 £572
Scotland median daily rate £475 £383 £537
% change year-on-year +24.18% -28.70% +6.24%

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 89 149 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.06% 18.26% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 102 81
10th Percentile £205 £163 £163
25th Percentile £406 £230 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £355 £463
Median % change year-on-year +33.80% -23.24% -5.13%
75th Percentile £544 £513 £525
90th Percentile £630 £668 £588
Scotland median daily rate £471 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +17.75% -15.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 16 6
10th Percentile - £16.61 £12.41
25th Percentile - £18.10 £14.30
Median hourly rate - £18.27 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year - +3.16% -16.66%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £44.74
90th Percentile - £40.84 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £19.28 £48.87
% change year-on-year +30.46% -60.55% +175.76%

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
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 16 September 2025.

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 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 (8.00%) Apache
1 2 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) AWS
2 8 (32.00%) Azure
3 6 (24.00%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (24.00%) Amazon S3
4 5 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (16.00%) OpenShift
6 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (8.00%) GCP
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (4.00%) GitHub
8 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) Firewall
2 6 (24.00%) Network Security
3 3 (12.00%) Unified Communications
3 3 (12.00%) VoIP
3 3 (12.00%) VPN
4 1 (4.00%) Internet
4 1 (4.00%) LAN
4 1 (4.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (12.00%) InfluxDB
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (8.00%) BigQuery
3 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.00%) Looker
3 2 (8.00%) Metadata
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (8.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.00%) Git
3 2 (8.00%) ER Studio
4 1 (4.00%) GitLab
General
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (36.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Senior
2 4 (16.00%) Site Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Data Modeller
4 2 (8.00%) Informatica Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) IT Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Network Specialist
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Data Modeller
4 2 (8.00%) Unix Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Lead
5 1 (4.00%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) AWS CDK
1 2 (8.00%) Kafka
2 1 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (76.00%) Linux
2 9 (36.00%) Windows
3 5 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (8.00%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (8.00%) Solaris
6 1 (4.00%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Agile
2 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (32.00%) DevOps
4 7 (28.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (16.00%) Network Load Balancing
7 4 (16.00%) Observability
7 4 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (16.00%) Software Delivery
8 3 (12.00%) Decision-Making
8 3 (12.00%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (12.00%) Identity Management
8 3 (12.00%) Kanban
8 3 (12.00%) Scrum
8 3 (12.00%) Service Delivery
8 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (12.00%) TOGAF
8 3 (12.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 8 (32.00%) Python
3 6 (24.00%) Bash
3 6 (24.00%) Perl
4 3 (12.00%) SQL
5 1 (4.00%) Go
5 1 (4.00%) Java
5 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (12.00%) CCIE
3 3 (12.00%) CCIE Collaboration
3 3 (12.00%) CCNA
3 3 (12.00%) CCNP
3 3 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (12.00%) CISSP
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Docker
2 4 (16.00%) KVM
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (40.00%) Ansible
1 10 (40.00%) Grafana
2 9 (36.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (36.00%) Terraform
3 5 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 5 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
4 3 (12.00%) HAProxy
4 3 (12.00%) Nagios
5 2 (8.00%) Fluentd
6 1 (4.00%) linkerd
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle
2 5 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 4 (16.00%) Commvault
4 3 (12.00%) Cisco
5 2 (8.00%) Google
5 2 (8.00%) Informatica
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.00%) Avaya
6 1 (4.00%) Citrix
6 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
6 1 (4.00%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (4.00%) ForgeRock
6 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.00%) NetApp
6 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.00%) Ping Identity
6 1 (4.00%) VMware