Unix Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Unix
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 47 40
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 +28
Contract jobs citing Unix 60 74 120
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.82% 4.30% 4.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.59% 22.56% 28.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 43 75
10th Percentile £353 £356 £400
25th Percentile £401 £370 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% -15.55% +0.55%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £631
90th Percentile £548 £588 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -4.39% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £41.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -31.71% -34.92% -10.00%

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 244 328 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 15.53% 19.07% 17.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 182 246
10th Percentile £174 £171 £195
25th Percentile £239 £348 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £525 £529 £635
90th Percentile £575 £623 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 24
10th Percentile - £13.89 £16.15
25th Percentile - £20.62 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +11.78% +17.31% +12.56%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £61.75
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -50.00% +56.25% +28.00%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unix relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Unix job vacancy trend in Scotland

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Unix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Unix

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Scotland

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Unix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Unix

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 13 December 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 -18 37 £450 -3.12% 1
Edinburgh +18 20 £475 -3.55% 1
West Lothian - 2 £158 -
Unix
UK

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.33%) Apache
1 2 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 23 (38.33%) AWS
2 18 (30.00%) Azure
3 7 (11.67%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (11.67%) Amazon S3
4 5 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (6.67%) Apigee
5 4 (6.67%) OpenShift
6 3 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.00%) GCP
7 2 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.67%) GitHub
8 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 7 (11.67%) DNS
2 7 (11.67%) Firewall
2 7 (11.67%) HTTP
2 7 (11.67%) Network Security
3 4 (6.67%) DHCP
3 4 (6.67%) SSL
3 4 (6.67%) VPN
4 3 (5.00%) Unified Communications
4 3 (5.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.67%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.33%) DB2
5 2 (3.33%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.67%) MySQL
6 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (15.00%) Git
3 3 (5.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.33%) JUnit
5 1 (1.67%) GitLab
5 1 (1.67%) JIRA
General
1 16 (26.67%) Finance
1 16 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.00%) Banking
5 3 (5.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 13 (21.67%) Developer
2 12 (20.00%) Analyst
3 9 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 9 (15.00%) Technical Analyst
4 8 (13.33%) Programmer
4 8 (13.33%) Python Programmer
4 8 (13.33%) Senior
5 7 (11.67%) Site Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Java Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Architect
7 4 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (5.00%) Data Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch Developer
9 2 (3.33%) Informatica Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.33%) REST
1 8 (13.33%) SOAP
2 5 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 4 (6.67%) Kafka
3 4 (6.67%) Spring
4 3 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (5.00%) RESTful
5 2 (3.33%) AWS CDK
5 2 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.33%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.67%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.67%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.67%) J2EE
6 1 (1.67%) J2SE
6 1 (1.67%) JMS
6 1 (1.67%) JPA
6 1 (1.67%) React
6 1 (1.67%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 5 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (5.00%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.33%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.67%) Clustering
5 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.67%) Derivative
5 1 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (1.67%) NHS
5 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) STIX
5 1 (1.67%) TAXII
5 1 (1.67%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 50 (83.33%) Linux
2 12 (20.00%) Windows
3 5 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.00%) Mac OS
5 2 (3.33%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (3.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (45.00%) Agile
2 26 (43.33%) CI/CD
3 18 (30.00%) DevOps
4 14 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (21.67%) Analytics
6 12 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (18.33%) Incident Response
7 11 (18.33%) OO
7 11 (18.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 10 (16.67%) Technical Analysis
9 9 (15.00%) Observability
9 9 (15.00%) Storage Management
10 8 (13.33%) Capacity Management
10 8 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
11 6 (10.00%) Migration
12 5 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
12 5 (8.33%) High Availability
12 5 (8.33%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 32 (53.33%) Python
2 19 (31.67%) Perl
3 16 (26.67%) Shell Script
4 12 (20.00%) Bash
4 12 (20.00%) SQL
5 9 (15.00%) Java
6 6 (10.00%) PowerShell
7 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
8 3 (5.00%) PromQL
8 3 (5.00%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (1.67%) Go
9 1 (1.67%) Korn
9 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (13.33%) Degree
2 4 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 4 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.00%) CCIE
3 3 (5.00%) CCIE Collaboration
3 3 (5.00%) CCNA
3 3 (5.00%) CCNP
3 3 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.00%) CISSP
4 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 12 (20.00%) Docker
2 3 (5.00%) KVM
3 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (21.67%) Grafana
2 12 (20.00%) Ansible
2 12 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (20.00%) Terraform
3 8 (13.33%) Prometheus
4 4 (6.67%) Red Hat Satellite
5 3 (5.00%) SCCM
6 2 (3.33%) Fluentd
6 2 (3.33%) HAProxy
6 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.33%) Nagios
6 2 (3.33%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.67%) linkerd
Vendors
1 14 (23.33%) Splunk
2 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.67%) Red Hat
4 5 (8.33%) Oracle
5 4 (6.67%) F5
5 4 (6.67%) Infoblox
5 4 (6.67%) MuleSoft
5 4 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 3 (5.00%) ArcSight
6 3 (5.00%) Cisco
6 3 (5.00%) Commvault
6 3 (5.00%) PagerDuty
7 2 (3.33%) Ab Initio
7 2 (3.33%) IBM
7 2 (3.33%) Informatica
8 1 (1.67%) Citrix
8 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.67%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.67%) Sybase
8 1 (1.67%) VMware