POSIX Contracts in Glasgow

Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring POSIX skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited POSIX over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 75 61
Rank change year-on-year -3 -14 -
Contract jobs citing POSIX 1 7 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.13% 0.80% 2.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.47% 3.47% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - - £447
25th Percentile - £609 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £655 £571
Median % change year-on-year -27.97% +14.75% -
75th Percentile - £722 £618
90th Percentile - - £639
Scotland median daily rate £472 £655 £571
% change year-on-year -27.97% +14.75% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Glasgow

POSIX falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 214 202 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 26.82% 23.03% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 130 115
10th Percentile £313 £350 £388
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £458 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% -11.97% +10.34%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £650
90th Percentile £601 £626 £738
Scotland median daily rate £471 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £47.73
Median % change year-on-year - +15.23% -3.65%
Scotland median hourly rate - £53.75 £59.03
% change year-on-year - -8.94% +24.93%

POSIX
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing POSIX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for POSIX in Glasgow

POSIX
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing POSIX in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for POSIX in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) GPFS
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Sybase
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas