Unix Contracts in Glasgow

Unix
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 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 19 30 16
Rank change year-on-year +11 -14 +24
Contract jobs citing Unix 90 58 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 11.28% 6.61% 10.07%
As % of the Operating Systems category 38.96% 30.69% 39.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 35 51
10th Percentile £408 £334 £425
25th Percentile £423 £369 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -18.78% -8.00% +17.92%
75th Percentile £550 £635 £750
90th Percentile - £722 -
Scotland median daily rate £470 £575 £545
% change year-on-year -18.35% +5.50% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £51.58
25th Percentile - £51.25 £57.35
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £62.46
Median % change year-on-year - -15.95% +26.08%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £67.11
90th Percentile - - £68.09
Scotland median hourly rate - £52.50 £60.55
% change year-on-year - -13.29% +22.22%

All Operating Systems
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 231 189 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 28.95% 21.55% 25.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 121 162
10th Percentile £393 £200 £250
25th Percentile £413 £325 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £550 £629 £676
90th Percentile £576 £750 £750
Scotland median daily rate £465 £500 £479
% change year-on-year -7.10% +4.38% +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - £30.10 £51.14
25th Percentile - £51.25 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year - -0.91% +142.20%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £66.56
90th Percentile - - £67.88
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -58.10% - +162.50%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Glasgow

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Glasgow

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Glasgow

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix 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 (1.11%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 24 (26.67%) Azure
2 17 (18.89%) OpenShift
3 13 (14.44%) AWS
4 11 (12.22%) Amazon S3
4 11 (12.22%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (7.78%) Cohesity
6 6 (6.67%) Entra ID
7 5 (5.56%) IaaS
8 3 (3.33%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.44%) SAN
2 11 (12.22%) NAS
3 1 (1.11%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.11%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.22%) DB2
2 9 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.67%) RDBMS
4 4 (4.44%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (23.33%) Git
2 16 (17.78%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.67%) JUnit
4 5 (5.56%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.33%) JIRA
6 1 (1.11%) Artifactory
General
1 34 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (14.44%) Finance
4 7 (7.78%) Banking
5 6 (6.67%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.33%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.22%) Front Office
7 2 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Legal
8 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (26.67%) Developer
2 20 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 17 (18.89%) Analyst
3 17 (18.89%) Technical Analyst
4 15 (16.67%) Linux Scripter
4 15 (16.67%) Python Engineer
5 12 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (12.22%) Linux Engineer
6 11 (12.22%) Programmer
6 11 (12.22%) Python Programmer
7 10 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (10.00%) Linux Developer
9 7 (7.78%) Unix Engineer
10 6 (6.67%) Applications Support
10 6 (6.67%) Network Engineer
10 6 (6.67%) Unix Linux Engineer
10 6 (6.67%) Unix Scripter
10 6 (6.67%) Unix Scripting Engineer
11 5 (5.56%) Backup Engineer
12 4 (4.44%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.33%) Spring Boot
2 9 (10.00%) Kafka
2 9 (10.00%) Spring
3 8 (8.89%) Loki
4 6 (6.67%) Middleware
5 3 (3.33%) J2EE
5 3 (3.33%) LDAP
5 3 (3.33%) REST
5 3 (3.33%) SOAP
5 3 (3.33%) X-Windows
6 2 (2.22%) .NET
7 1 (1.11%) Flash
7 1 (1.11%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 22 (24.44%) Management Information System
2 10 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 7 (7.78%) Virtual Team
4 5 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.33%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (2.22%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.11%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.11%) Insider Threat
8 1 (1.11%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.11%) NVMe
8 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 72 (80.00%) Linux
2 26 (28.89%) Windows
3 22 (24.44%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.33%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.22%) AIX
6 1 (1.11%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.33%) OO
2 20 (22.22%) Storage Management
3 19 (21.11%) Capacity Management
3 19 (21.11%) Software Engineering
4 18 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (18.89%) Technical Analysis
6 16 (17.78%) Data Protection
7 14 (15.56%) Agile
7 14 (15.56%) CI/CD
7 14 (15.56%) Concurrent Programming
7 14 (15.56%) Multithreading
8 13 (14.44%) Observability
9 11 (12.22%) Data Deduplication
9 11 (12.22%) Task Automation
10 10 (11.11%) Decision-Making
10 10 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 8 (8.89%) Design Patterns
13 7 (7.78%) High Availability
13 7 (7.78%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 59 (65.56%) Python
2 25 (27.78%) SQL
3 23 (25.56%) Perl
4 20 (22.22%) Java
5 12 (13.33%) Shell Script
6 7 (7.78%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.56%) Erlang
7 5 (5.56%) Prolog
8 3 (3.33%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.22%) C#
10 1 (1.11%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (3.33%) Degree
2 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.11%) NIST
3 1 (1.11%) QA
System Software
1 11 (12.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (8.89%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 7 (7.78%) Active Directory
3 7 (7.78%) Docker
4 5 (5.56%) Hyper-V
5 4 (4.44%) RACF
6 3 (3.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (2.22%) GPFS
8 1 (1.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 19 (21.11%) Kubernetes
2 13 (14.44%) NetBackup
3 12 (13.33%) Ansible
4 11 (12.22%) Oracle RMAN
5 8 (8.89%) Grafana
5 8 (8.89%) Prometheus
5 8 (8.89%) Terraform
6 4 (4.44%) Progress Chef
6 4 (4.44%) Puppet
7 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.22%) SCCM
7 2 (2.22%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 23 (25.56%) Veritas
2 16 (17.78%) VMware
3 8 (8.89%) CyberArk
3 8 (8.89%) Splunk
3 8 (8.89%) Sybase
4 7 (7.78%) Microsoft
5 5 (5.56%) IBM
6 3 (3.33%) DocuSign
7 2 (2.22%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (2.22%) Brocade
7 2 (2.22%) EMC
7 2 (2.22%) NetApp
7 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.11%) Cisco
8 1 (1.11%) Google
8 1 (1.11%) Oracle
8 1 (1.11%) Workday