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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 58 55
Rank change year-on-year +11 -3 +16
Contract jobs citing Unix 17 7 27
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.94% 1.16% 2.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.87% 8.24% 32.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 18
10th Percentile £375 - £475
25th Percentile £416 £413 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £533
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -20.19% +3.85%
75th Percentile £516 £438 £550
90th Percentile £540 - £587
Scotland median daily rate £425 £450 £550
% change year-on-year -5.56% -18.18% -2.48%

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 61 85 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.54% 14.12% 9.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 44 55
10th Percentile £175 £168 £153
25th Percentile £363 £194 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £538 £523 £581
90th Percentile £575 £685 £663
Scotland median daily rate £425 £450 £543
% change year-on-year -5.56% -17.13% +14.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 14 3
10th Percentile - £20.05 £21.37
25th Percentile - £21.00 £35.95
Median hourly rate - £23.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - -61.98% +241.42%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £61.13
90th Percentile - £31.40 £61.35
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £22.88 £59.03
% change year-on-year +9.95% -61.25% +233.13%

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 18 January 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 (5.88%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon S3
2 5 (29.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (23.53%) OpenShift
4 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
1 3 (17.65%) Network Security
1 3 (17.65%) Unified Communications
1 3 (17.65%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (11.76%) InfluxDB
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (23.53%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 7 (41.18%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Site Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Network Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Unix Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.88%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.76%) Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Linux
2 6 (35.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (23.53%) Windows
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Agile
1 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (35.29%) DevOps
3 5 (29.41%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (29.41%) Software Delivery
4 4 (23.53%) Network Load Balancing
4 4 (23.53%) Observability
4 4 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Scrum
5 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
6 2 (11.76%) Change Management
6 2 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (11.76%) High Availability
6 2 (11.76%) ITIL
6 2 (11.76%) Kanban
6 2 (11.76%) Migration
6 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Shell Script
2 7 (41.18%) Bash
3 5 (29.41%) Perl
3 5 (29.41%) Python
4 2 (11.76%) Korn
5 1 (5.88%) Go
5 1 (5.88%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) CCIE
1 3 (17.65%) CCIE Collaboration
1 3 (17.65%) CCNA
1 3 (17.65%) CCNP
1 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Docker
2 3 (17.65%) KVM
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Ansible
1 10 (58.82%) Grafana
1 10 (58.82%) Kubernetes
1 10 (58.82%) Terraform
2 5 (29.41%) Prometheus
3 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (11.76%) Fluentd
4 2 (11.76%) HAProxy
4 2 (11.76%) Nagios
5 1 (5.88%) linkerd
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Red Hat
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco
2 3 (17.65%) Commvault
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.88%) ForgeRock
3 1 (5.88%) Ping Identity