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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 54 60
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing Unix 5 10 16
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.78% 1.66% 1.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.20% 11.63% 23.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - £439 £462
25th Percentile £153 £478 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £155 £506 £623
Median % change year-on-year -69.38% -18.67% +19.42%
75th Percentile £158 £528 £634
90th Percentile - £546 £647
Scotland median daily rate £414 £465 £618
% change year-on-year -11.03% -24.74% +12.27%

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 49 86 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.61% 14.26% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 48 38
10th Percentile £166 £174 £176
25th Percentile £256 £194 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £431 £515
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -16.26% +14.44%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £634
90th Percentile £585 £649 £758
Scotland median daily rate £402 £450 £538
% change year-on-year -10.67% -16.36% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 10
10th Percentile - £20.51 £18.24
25th Percentile - £21.00 £18.27
Median hourly rate - £22.94 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year - -46.97% +144.07%
75th Percentile - £24.02 £60.75
90th Percentile - £25.62 £60.83
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £22.44 £39.25
% change year-on-year -27.58% -42.83% +2.80%

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
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 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Change Management
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Application Packaging
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Korn
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Avaya
2 1 (20.00%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle