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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 29 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 +28
Contract jobs citing Unix 72 51 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 9.47% 6.29% 9.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.49% 30.00% 36.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 31 42
10th Percentile £408 £322 £414
25th Percentile £424 £337 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £378 £550
Median % change year-on-year +24.93% -31.27% +1.85%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £745
90th Percentile £573 £613 £750
Scotland median daily rate £475 £391 £550
% change year-on-year +21.41% -28.86% +10.00%
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% -
75th Percentile - £53.75 £67.11
90th Percentile - - £68.09
Scotland median hourly rate - £52.50 £62.46
% change year-on-year - -15.95% -

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 215 170 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 28.29% 20.96% 25.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 109 147
10th Percentile £264 £199 £258
25th Percentile £410 £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.19% -27.27% +17.65%
75th Percentile £541 £575 £674
90th Percentile £577 £728 £750
Scotland median daily rate £459 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +14.69% -15.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 7
10th Percentile - £30.10 £13.96
25th Percentile - £51.25 £31.12
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +181.45%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £63.56
90th Percentile - - £67.44
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £24.18 £47.73
% change year-on-year -9.02% -49.34% +153.08%

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 30 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

Unix
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 (1.39%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.39%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.44%) OpenShift
2 13 (18.06%) Azure
3 12 (16.67%) AWS
4 8 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 8 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (11.11%) IaaS
5 7 (9.72%) Cohesity
6 4 (5.56%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.39%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.89%) SAN
2 8 (11.11%) NAS
3 1 (1.39%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.39%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.89%) Relational Database
2 9 (12.50%) DB2
3 6 (8.33%) RDBMS
4 4 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (29.17%) Git
2 17 (23.61%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.33%) Bitbucket
3 6 (8.33%) JUnit
4 1 (1.39%) Artifactory
General
1 31 (43.06%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.72%) Finance
4 4 (5.56%) Banking
4 4 (5.56%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.78%) Front Office
6 2 (2.78%) Legal
7 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (22.22%) Python Engineer
2 15 (20.83%) Developer
3 12 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 12 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
4 11 (15.28%) Linux Scripter
4 11 (15.28%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (13.89%) Analyst
5 10 (13.89%) Programmer
5 10 (13.89%) Python Programmer
5 10 (13.89%) Technical Analyst
6 9 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Linux Developer
7 7 (9.72%) VMware Engineer
8 6 (8.33%) Applications Support
9 5 (6.94%) Backup Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) Unix Engineer
10 4 (5.56%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 4 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
10 4 (5.56%) Unix Scripter
10 4 (5.56%) Unix Scripting Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.11%) Loki
2 7 (9.72%) Kafka
3 6 (8.33%) Spring
3 6 (8.33%) Spring Boot
4 4 (5.56%) Middleware
5 3 (4.17%) LDAP
5 3 (4.17%) X-Windows
6 2 (2.78%) .NET
7 1 (1.39%) Flash
7 1 (1.39%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.39%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 24 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 9 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 8 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (8.33%) Algorithms
5 3 (4.17%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.39%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.39%) Insider Threat
7 1 (1.39%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.39%) NVMe
7 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 62 (86.11%) Linux
2 20 (27.78%) Windows
3 19 (26.39%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.17%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.39%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (26.39%) Storage Management
2 18 (25.00%) Capacity Management
2 18 (25.00%) OO
3 16 (22.22%) Agile
3 16 (22.22%) Technical Analysis
4 14 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (18.06%) Software Engineering
6 12 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 12 (16.67%) Concurrent Programming
7 11 (15.28%) Data Protection
7 11 (15.28%) Observability
7 11 (15.28%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (15.28%) Task Automation
8 10 (13.89%) High Availability
9 9 (12.50%) Multithreading
10 8 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (11.11%) Data Deduplication
11 7 (9.72%) Decision-Making
11 7 (9.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 57 (79.17%) Python
2 24 (33.33%) SQL
3 23 (31.94%) Perl
4 12 (16.67%) Java
5 10 (13.89%) Shell Script
6 8 (11.11%) Erlang
6 8 (11.11%) Prolog
7 7 (9.72%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.78%) C#
9 1 (1.39%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.39%) Degree
1 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 13 (18.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (11.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 6 (8.33%) Docker
4 5 (6.94%) Active Directory
5 3 (4.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (4.17%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.78%) GPFS
7 1 (1.39%) NFS
Systems Management
1 15 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 10 (13.89%) Ansible
2 10 (13.89%) NetBackup
3 9 (12.50%) Grafana
3 9 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 8 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (11.11%) Terraform
5 2 (2.78%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.78%) Puppet
5 2 (2.78%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 20 (27.78%) Veritas
2 16 (22.22%) VMware
3 9 (12.50%) Splunk
4 8 (11.11%) Sybase
5 5 (6.94%) IBM
5 5 (6.94%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.78%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (2.78%) Brocade
6 2 (2.78%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.78%) EMC
6 2 (2.78%) NetApp
7 1 (1.39%) Databricks
7 1 (1.39%) Google
7 1 (1.39%) Greenplum
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle
7 1 (1.39%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.39%) Workday