Unix Contracts in Scotland

Unix
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Unix skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unix over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 42 78
Rank change year-on-year -16 +36 +1
Contract jobs citing Unix 77 164 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.45% 5.74% 3.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.21% 30.89% 20.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 106 59
10th Percentile £334 £419 £390
25th Percentile £400 £475 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £545 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% +11.22% +15.29%
75th Percentile £634 £700 £568
90th Percentile £715 £750 £605
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £50.64 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £60.55 £49.54
Median % change year-on-year -13.29% +22.22% -21.68%
75th Percentile £53.75 £66.56 -
90th Percentile - £67.88 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £65.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% -9.86% +47.73%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

Unix is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 363 531 514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.27% 18.58% 14.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 372 346
10th Percentile £182 £160 £137
25th Percentile £325 £260 £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.28% +6.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £538
90th Percentile £744 £737 £600
UK median daily rate £468 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 24
10th Percentile £17.23 £17.72 £15.04
25th Percentile £18.27 £20.79 £17.03
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +162.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £60.75 £59.03 £49.85
90th Percentile £62.50 £65.36 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.28
% change year-on-year -42.86% +72.80% +24.57%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Scotland

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Scotland

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Scotland

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Scotland

Unix
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -13 59 £575 -9.31% 4
Edinburgh +3 16 £623 +20.82% 4
West Lothian -6 2 £188 -54.55%
Unix
UK

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (7.79%) SAS
2 3 (3.90%) Apache
2 3 (3.90%) Confluence
3 2 (2.60%) JBoss
3 2 (2.60%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.60%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 21 (27.27%) AWS
2 18 (23.38%) OpenShift
3 13 (16.88%) Azure
4 6 (7.79%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (3.90%) Amazon Cognito
5 3 (3.90%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.60%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.60%) IaaS
6 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.60%) Serverless
7 1 (1.30%) Cloud Run
7 1 (1.30%) GCP
7 1 (1.30%) GitHub
7 1 (1.30%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (1.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.29%) Firewall
2 9 (11.69%) TCP/IP
3 8 (10.39%) HTTP
3 8 (10.39%) SAN
3 8 (10.39%) SSL
4 7 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 7 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
4 7 (9.09%) iSCSI
4 7 (9.09%) NetScaler
5 4 (5.19%) NAS
6 2 (2.60%) Internet
6 2 (2.60%) LAN
6 2 (2.60%) WLAN
7 1 (1.30%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 6 (7.79%) DB2
3 5 (6.49%) Oracle Database 11g
3 5 (6.49%) Oracle Database 12c
3 5 (6.49%) Oracle8/8i Database
3 5 (6.49%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.19%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (5.19%) Metadata
4 4 (5.19%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.90%) Oracle Database 10g
5 3 (3.90%) Oracle Discoverer
6 2 (2.60%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.30%) Power BI
7 1 (1.30%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 26 (33.77%) Git
1 26 (33.77%) Jenkins
2 8 (10.39%) Maven
3 6 (7.79%) Gradle
4 3 (3.90%) GitLab
4 3 (3.90%) JIRA
5 2 (2.60%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.60%) JUnit
5 2 (2.60%) Subversion
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle Forms
General
1 28 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.08%) Banking
3 13 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (14.29%) Finance
5 10 (12.99%) Public Sector
6 8 (10.39%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (10.39%) Investment Banking
7 7 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.60%) Law
9 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (27.27%) Developer
2 17 (22.08%) Linux Engineer
3 15 (19.48%) Java Developer
4 12 (15.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (15.58%) Python Engineer
5 11 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (11.69%) Linux Scripter
6 9 (11.69%) Unix Engineer
6 9 (11.69%) Unix Linux Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) DBA
7 7 (9.09%) Linux Developer
7 7 (9.09%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) Network Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) Security Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Python Developer
8 6 (7.79%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.29%) REST
2 8 (10.39%) AngularJS
2 8 (10.39%) Spring
3 6 (7.79%) Flash
3 6 (7.79%) POSIX
4 5 (6.49%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 5 (6.49%) Twisted
5 4 (5.19%) RESTful
6 2 (2.60%) FastAPI
6 2 (2.60%) Hibernate
6 2 (2.60%) Java EE
6 2 (2.60%) JPA
6 2 (2.60%) JSP
6 2 (2.60%) JSTL
6 2 (2.60%) Redfish
6 2 (2.60%) Servlets
6 2 (2.60%) STL
6 2 (2.60%) XML
6 2 (2.60%) XSLT
7 1 (1.30%) OpenJDK
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) Algorithms
1 6 (7.79%) Data Structures
2 5 (6.49%) Client/Server
2 5 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.49%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (5.19%) NVMe
4 3 (3.90%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.90%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.60%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.60%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.30%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.30%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 54 (70.13%) Linux
2 30 (38.96%) Windows
3 13 (16.88%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (6.49%) Mac OS
6 4 (5.19%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (5.19%) VMS
7 1 (1.30%) AIX
7 1 (1.30%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 25 (32.47%) DevOps
3 19 (24.68%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (23.38%) Agile
5 16 (20.78%) OO
6 15 (19.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 14 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (18.18%) Migration
8 13 (16.88%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (12.99%) Data Protection
9 10 (12.99%) OWASP
10 9 (11.69%) Application Security
10 9 (11.69%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (11.69%) High Availability
11 8 (10.39%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (10.39%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (10.39%) Refactoring
12 7 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
12 7 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
12 7 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 44 (57.14%) Python
2 29 (37.66%) Perl
3 28 (36.36%) Java
4 17 (22.08%) SQL
5 14 (18.18%) Bash
5 14 (18.18%) Shell Script
6 7 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 6 (7.79%) Groovy
7 6 (7.79%) Ruby
8 5 (6.49%) JavaScript
8 5 (6.49%) Scala
9 3 (3.90%) C
10 1 (1.30%) PHP
10 1 (1.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.19%) Degree
2 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.19%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.30%) NCSC
2 1 (1.30%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (16.88%) Docker
2 8 (10.39%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (7.79%) NFS
4 4 (5.19%) GPFS
5 2 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (19.48%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.69%) Ansible
3 8 (10.39%) Oracle RMAN
3 8 (10.39%) Terraform
4 7 (9.09%) Data Guard
5 6 (7.79%) SCCM
6 4 (5.19%) NetBackup
6 4 (5.19%) Veritas Storage Foundation
7 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (2.60%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (2.60%) Grafana
8 2 (2.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (18.18%) Oracle
2 10 (12.99%) F5
3 8 (10.39%) Veritas
4 6 (7.79%) Google
4 6 (7.79%) Microsoft
4 6 (7.79%) Splunk
5 5 (6.49%) IBM
5 5 (6.49%) Sybase
6 4 (5.19%) Brocade
6 4 (5.19%) EMC
6 4 (5.19%) NetApp
7 3 (3.90%) VMware
8 2 (2.60%) Avaya
8 2 (2.60%) BMC
8 2 (2.60%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (2.60%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.60%) Greenplum
8 2 (2.60%) HP
9 1 (1.30%) Databricks
9 1 (1.30%) Dell