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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 71 63
Rank change year-on-year +30 -8 +23
Contract jobs citing Unix 23 6 27
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.76% 0.76% 2.70%
As % of the Operating Systems category 29.11% 4.08% 22.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 20
10th Percentile £416 £397 £446
25th Percentile £466 £407 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -6.19% +2.24%
75th Percentile £554 £571 £550
90th Percentile £647 £581 £579
Scotland median daily rate £475 £384 £536
% change year-on-year +23.78% -28.37% -1.52%

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 79 147 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.91% 18.58% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 100 76
10th Percentile £180 £161 £163
25th Percentile £403 £227 £232
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £340 £431
Median % change year-on-year +39.71% -21.16% -11.54%
75th Percentile £534 £498 £523
90th Percentile £574 £685 £572
Scotland median daily rate £454 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +13.50% -15.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 5
10th Percentile - £15.50 £12.25
25th Percentile - £18.10 £13.16
Median hourly rate - £21.14 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year - +19.45% +2.61%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £17.72
90th Percentile - £54.17 £44.59
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £20.29 £19.06
% change year-on-year +23.98% +6.45% +19.32%

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 21 October 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 & 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 2 (8.70%) Apache
1 2 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) AWS
2 9 (39.13%) Azure
3 7 (30.43%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (30.43%) Amazon S3
4 5 (21.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (17.39%) OpenShift
6 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (8.70%) GCP
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (4.35%) GitHub
8 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) Firewall
1 6 (26.09%) Network Security
2 3 (13.04%) Unified Communications
2 3 (13.04%) VoIP
2 3 (13.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
2 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (8.70%) InfluxDB
2 2 (8.70%) Looker
2 2 (8.70%) Metadata
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 4 (17.39%) Git
3 2 (8.70%) ER Studio
4 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Public Sector
3 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Senior
2 4 (17.39%) Site Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Data Modeller
4 2 (8.70%) Informatica Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Network Specialist
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Modeller
5 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) IT Architect
5 1 (4.35%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) AWS CDK
1 2 (8.70%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (78.26%) Linux
2 6 (26.09%) Windows
3 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (13.04%) Windows Server
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (4.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Agile
2 13 (56.52%) CI/CD
3 8 (34.78%) DevOps
4 6 (26.09%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (21.74%) Software Delivery
6 4 (17.39%) Network Load Balancing
6 4 (17.39%) Observability
6 4 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (13.04%) Identity Management
7 3 (13.04%) Migration
7 3 (13.04%) Scrum
7 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
7 3 (13.04%) TOGAF
7 3 (13.04%) Translating Business Requirements
8 2 (8.70%) Data Integration
8 2 (8.70%) Data Protection
8 2 (8.70%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Shell Script
2 8 (34.78%) Python
3 6 (26.09%) Perl
4 5 (21.74%) Bash
5 3 (13.04%) SQL
6 2 (8.70%) Java
7 1 (4.35%) Go
7 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Degree
2 4 (17.39%) AWS Certification
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Certification
3 3 (13.04%) CCIE
3 3 (13.04%) CCIE Collaboration
3 3 (13.04%) CCNA
3 3 (13.04%) CCNP
3 3 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (13.04%) CISSP
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) Docker
2 3 (13.04%) KVM
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) Ansible
1 10 (43.48%) Grafana
1 10 (43.48%) Kubernetes
1 10 (43.48%) Terraform
2 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
3 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (8.70%) Fluentd
4 2 (8.70%) HAProxy
4 2 (8.70%) Nagios
5 1 (4.35%) linkerd
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle
1 4 (17.39%) Red Hat
2 3 (13.04%) Cisco
2 3 (13.04%) Commvault
3 2 (8.70%) Google
3 2 (8.70%) Informatica
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.35%) Citrix
4 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.35%) ForgeRock
4 1 (4.35%) Ping Identity
4 1 (4.35%) VMware