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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 57 54
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 -5
Contract jobs citing Unix 6 7 26
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.00% 1.14% 2.87%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.95% 7.69% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 16
10th Percentile £202 - £442
25th Percentile £276 £413 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -22.73% +7.21%
75th Percentile £438 £438 £627
90th Percentile £460 - £634
Scotland median daily rate £420 £450 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% -18.18% +1.01%

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 43 91 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.15% 14.87% 8.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 47 49
10th Percentile £171 £179 £160
25th Percentile £294 £192 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -30.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £519 £519 £600
90th Percentile £615 £685 £690
Scotland median daily rate £400 £450 £541
% change year-on-year -11.11% -16.78% +8.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 7
10th Percentile - - £20.26
25th Percentile - £21.00 £43.13
Median hourly rate - £23.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - -61.98% +200.85%
75th Percentile - £24.42 £60.75
90th Percentile - £34.29 £61.05
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £22.44 £60.50
% change year-on-year -27.58% -62.91% +241.42%

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 8 February 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) OOD
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Korn
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Perl
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat