Unix Contracts in Edinburgh

Unix
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 67 74
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 +17
Contract jobs citing Unix 16 13 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.44% 1.49% 2.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.18% 9.42% 18.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 31
10th Percentile £450 £409 £450
25th Percentile £475 £557 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £611 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.20% +16.43% -2.78%
75th Percentile £538 £634 £559
90th Percentile £567 - £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £383 £541
% change year-on-year +24.18% -29.30% +8.20%

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 88 138 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.39% 15.81% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 94 133
10th Percentile £161 £169 £160
25th Percentile £208 £240 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £355 £438
Median % change year-on-year +30.28% -18.86% -7.89%
75th Percentile £542 £518 £525
90th Percentile £638 £634 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £400 £464
% change year-on-year +15.63% -13.84% +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 5
10th Percentile £17.57 £16.61 £14.98
25th Percentile £19.78 £18.10 £17.70
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% +3.10% -5.49%
75th Percentile £23.42 £58.31 £53.75
90th Percentile £24.16 £60.75 £59.00
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £25.09 £19.18
% change year-on-year +0.24% +30.81% +8.92%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Unix in Edinburgh

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Edinburgh

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Edinburgh

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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 (12.50%) Apache
1 2 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Internet
1 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (6.25%) LAN
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
1 1 (6.25%) SNA
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (12.50%) BigQuery
1 2 (12.50%) Looker
1 2 (12.50%) Metadata
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.25%) InfluxDB
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) ER Studio
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Toad
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Retail Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Data Modeller
2 2 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Informatica Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Data Modeller
2 2 (12.50%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Technical Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Linux
2 6 (37.50%) Windows
3 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
4 2 (12.50%) Solaris
5 1 (6.25%) AIX
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (6.25%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (6.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Agile
1 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (25.00%) DevOps
2 4 (25.00%) ITIL
2 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
4 2 (12.50%) Change Management
4 2 (12.50%) Data Management
4 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 2 (12.50%) Data Transformation
4 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (12.50%) ETL
4 2 (12.50%) Logical Data Model
4 2 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Physical Data Model
4 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2
4 2 (12.50%) Project Management
4 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
4 2 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Perl
2 3 (18.75%) Shell Script
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) JCL
4 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.25%) REXX
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) KVM
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) HAProxy
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Nagios
2 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
2 1 (6.25%) Puppet
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (6.25%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) Google
2 3 (18.75%) Red Hat
3 2 (12.50%) IBM
3 2 (12.50%) Informatica
4 1 (6.25%) Avaloq
4 1 (6.25%) Avaya
4 1 (6.25%) Commvault
4 1 (6.25%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.25%) NetApp
4 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.25%) Tanium
4 1 (6.25%) VMware