Unix Contracts in Scotland

Unix
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 31 56 41
Rank change year-on-year +25 -15 +32
Contract jobs citing Unix 106 76 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 6.52% 3.43% 5.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.09% 21.17% 30.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 45 106
10th Percentile £405 £334 £419
25th Percentile £418 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £575 £545
Median % change year-on-year -18.35% +5.50% +9.00%
75th Percentile £550 £634 £688
90th Percentile £552 £715 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £50.64
25th Percentile - £51.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year - -13.29% +22.22%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £66.56
90th Percentile - - £67.88
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year +31.25% -31.73% -9.86%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 341 359 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.98% 16.19% 18.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 235 377
10th Percentile £191 £184 £160
25th Percentile £407 £324 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% +4.38% +6.44%
75th Percentile £550 £626 £600
90th Percentile £581 £745 £727
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 13
10th Percentile £16.33 £17.23 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.94 £18.27 £20.79
Median hourly rate £22.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.10% - +162.50%
75th Percentile £23.50 £60.75 £59.03
90th Percentile £24.43 £62.50 £65.36
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +11 90 £467 -18.78% 11
Edinburgh +1 12 £506 -18.67% 11
West Lothian +12 1 £188 - 1
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 1 (0.94%) Confluence
1 1 (0.94%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (23.58%) Azure
2 17 (16.04%) OpenShift
3 15 (14.15%) AWS
4 11 (10.38%) Amazon S3
4 11 (10.38%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (6.60%) Cohesity
6 6 (5.66%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.72%) IaaS
8 3 (2.83%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.89%) GCP
10 1 (0.94%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.26%) SAN
2 11 (10.38%) NAS
3 2 (1.89%) Firewall
3 2 (1.89%) LAN
3 2 (1.89%) WLAN
4 1 (0.94%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.94%) Internet
4 1 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.94%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.94%) Network Security
4 1 (0.94%) SNA
4 1 (0.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.38%) DB2
2 9 (8.49%) Relational Database
3 6 (5.66%) RDBMS
4 5 (4.72%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.94%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 21 (19.81%) Git
2 17 (16.04%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.66%) JUnit
4 5 (4.72%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.77%) JIRA
6 2 (1.89%) Toad
7 1 (0.94%) Artifactory
General
1 39 (36.79%) Social Skills
2 21 (19.81%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (16.98%) Finance
4 13 (12.26%) Banking
5 6 (5.66%) Investment Banking
5 6 (5.66%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.83%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.89%) Front Office
7 2 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.89%) Legal
8 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (24.53%) Developer
2 20 (18.87%) Java Developer
3 17 (16.04%) Analyst
3 17 (16.04%) Technical Analyst
4 15 (14.15%) Linux Scripter
4 15 (14.15%) Python Engineer
5 13 (12.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (11.32%) Linux Engineer
7 11 (10.38%) Programmer
7 11 (10.38%) Python Programmer
8 10 (9.43%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (8.49%) Linux Developer
9 9 (8.49%) Unix Engineer
10 8 (7.55%) Network Engineer
11 6 (5.66%) Applications Support
11 6 (5.66%) Unix Linux Engineer
11 6 (5.66%) Unix Scripter
11 6 (5.66%) Unix Scripting Engineer
12 5 (4.72%) Backup Engineer
13 4 (3.77%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.32%) Spring Boot
2 9 (8.49%) Kafka
2 9 (8.49%) Spring
3 8 (7.55%) Loki
4 6 (5.66%) Middleware
5 4 (3.77%) REST
6 3 (2.83%) J2EE
6 3 (2.83%) LDAP
6 3 (2.83%) SOAP
6 3 (2.83%) X-Windows
7 2 (1.89%) .NET
8 1 (0.94%) Flash
8 1 (0.94%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.64%) Management Information System
2 10 (9.43%) Algorithms
3 7 (6.60%) Virtual Team
4 6 (5.66%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (4.72%) Data Centre
5 5 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.77%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.83%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.89%) Clustering
8 2 (1.89%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.94%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.94%) NVMe
9 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 78 (73.58%) Linux
2 37 (34.91%) Windows
3 27 (25.47%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.83%) AIX
5 3 (2.83%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.89%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.94%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.94%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.94%) Solaris
7 1 (0.94%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (19.81%) OO
1 21 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
1 21 (19.81%) Storage Management
2 19 (17.92%) Capacity Management
2 19 (17.92%) Software Engineering
3 18 (16.98%) Data Protection
4 17 (16.04%) Agile
4 17 (16.04%) Technical Analysis
5 14 (13.21%) CI/CD
5 14 (13.21%) Concurrent Programming
5 14 (13.21%) Multithreading
6 13 (12.26%) Observability
6 13 (12.26%) Task Automation
7 12 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (10.38%) Data Deduplication
8 11 (10.38%) Decision-Making
8 11 (10.38%) ITIL
9 10 (9.43%) Penetration Testing
9 10 (9.43%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (8.49%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 61 (57.55%) Python
2 27 (25.47%) SQL
3 25 (23.58%) Perl
4 20 (18.87%) Java
5 13 (12.26%) Shell Script
6 7 (6.60%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.72%) Erlang
7 5 (4.72%) PL/SQL
7 5 (4.72%) Prolog
8 2 (1.89%) Bash
8 2 (1.89%) C#
9 1 (0.94%) C++
9 1 (0.94%) JCL
9 1 (0.94%) REXX
Qualifications
1 7 (6.60%) Degree
2 2 (1.89%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.60%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.94%) GDPR
4 1 (0.94%) NIST
4 1 (0.94%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.94%) QA
4 1 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.94%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (12.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (7.55%) Docker
2 8 (7.55%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 7 (6.60%) Active Directory
4 5 (4.72%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.77%) RACF
6 3 (2.83%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (2.83%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.89%) GPFS
7 2 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.94%) KVM
8 1 (0.94%) NFS
Systems Management
1 20 (18.87%) Kubernetes
2 15 (14.15%) Ansible
3 13 (12.26%) NetBackup
4 11 (10.38%) Oracle RMAN
5 9 (8.49%) Grafana
6 8 (7.55%) Prometheus
6 8 (7.55%) Terraform
7 5 (4.72%) Progress Chef
7 5 (4.72%) Puppet
8 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.89%) SCCM
8 2 (1.89%) Veritas Storage Foundation
9 1 (0.94%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.94%) Nagios
9 1 (0.94%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.94%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 23 (21.70%) Veritas
2 18 (16.98%) VMware
3 10 (9.43%) Splunk
4 8 (7.55%) CyberArk
4 8 (7.55%) Sybase
5 7 (6.60%) IBM
5 7 (6.60%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.60%) Oracle
6 3 (2.83%) DocuSign
6 3 (2.83%) NetApp
6 3 (2.83%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.89%) Avaloq
7 2 (1.89%) Avaya
7 2 (1.89%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (1.89%) Brocade
7 2 (1.89%) EMC
7 2 (1.89%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (1.89%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.89%) Google
7 2 (1.89%) ServiceNow