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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 55 84
Rank change year-on-year -5 +29 -1
Contract jobs citing Unix 68 128 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.17% 4.78% 2.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.73% 26.18% 19.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 80 51
10th Percentile £322 £424 £390
25th Percentile £350 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -30.42% +9.95% +17.65%
75th Percentile £613 £603 £575
90th Percentile £634 £750 £639
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
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 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.57 £66.00
% change year-on-year -32.85% -9.74% +23.65%

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 363 489 500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.94% 18.27% 14.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 334 336
10th Percentile £176 £158 £150
25th Percentile £290 £250 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £696 £700 £600
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 25
10th Percentile £18.00 £15.14 £12.15
25th Percentile £18.20 £17.72 £15.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £47.73 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -45.53% +169.36% +1.26%
75th Percentile £60.75 £59.03 £47.25
90th Percentile £62.50 £65.36 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -47.06% +93.18% +25.71%

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 June 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 1 June 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 -6 54 £380 -30.86% 5
Edinburgh +7 12 £623 +18.57% 7
West Lothian +2 2 £188 -54.55% 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 3 (4.41%) Apache
1 3 (4.41%) Apache Spark
1 3 (4.41%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) JBoss
2 2 (2.94%) SAS
2 2 (2.94%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.94%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 22 (32.35%) AWS
2 15 (22.06%) OpenShift
3 11 (16.18%) Azure
4 8 (11.76%) Amazon S3
5 6 (8.82%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.47%) Cloud Run
8 1 (1.47%) GCP
8 1 (1.47%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (1.47%) Serverless
8 1 (1.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.24%) Firewall
2 5 (7.35%) SAN
3 3 (4.41%) NAS
4 2 (2.94%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (2.94%) Internet
4 2 (2.94%) iSCSI
4 2 (2.94%) LAN
4 2 (2.94%) WLAN
5 1 (1.47%) DNS
5 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.12%) Oracle Database
2 6 (8.82%) Amazon Athena
2 6 (8.82%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (8.82%) Relational Database
3 5 (7.35%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (7.35%) Oracle Database 12c
3 5 (7.35%) Oracle8/8i Database
4 4 (5.88%) DB2
4 4 (5.88%) Metadata
4 4 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.88%) Spark SQL
5 3 (4.41%) Apache Hive
5 3 (4.41%) Big Data
5 3 (4.41%) Impala
5 3 (4.41%) MySQL
6 2 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.94%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (1.47%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (23.53%) Git
1 16 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 8 (11.76%) Maven
3 7 (10.29%) JIRA
4 6 (8.82%) Gradle
5 3 (4.41%) JUnit
6 2 (2.94%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.94%) GitLab
6 2 (2.94%) Subversion
General
1 18 (26.47%) Finance
1 18 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.12%) Banking
3 9 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.82%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.94%) Law
8 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (41.18%) Developer
2 12 (17.65%) Linux Engineer
3 9 (13.24%) Java Developer
4 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (11.76%) Network Engineer
4 8 (11.76%) Python Engineer
4 8 (11.76%) Unix Engineer
4 8 (11.76%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 7 (10.29%) Linux Scripter
5 7 (10.29%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (10.29%) Windows Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Security Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Database Developer
7 5 (7.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Oracle Developer
7 5 (7.35%) PL/SQL Developer
7 5 (7.35%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.24%) Spring
2 5 (7.35%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 5 (7.35%) REST
2 5 (7.35%) RESTful
3 4 (5.88%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.94%) Flash
4 2 (2.94%) Hibernate
4 2 (2.94%) Java EE
4 2 (2.94%) JPA
4 2 (2.94%) JSP
4 2 (2.94%) JSTL
4 2 (2.94%) POSIX
4 2 (2.94%) Servlets
4 2 (2.94%) STL
4 2 (2.94%) XML
4 2 (2.94%) XSLT
5 1 (1.47%) .NET
5 1 (1.47%) CSS
5 1 (1.47%) Guice
5 1 (1.47%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.82%) Data Structures
2 5 (7.35%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.35%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.88%) Virtual Team
4 3 (4.41%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.94%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.94%) NVMe
6 1 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.47%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.47%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 32 (47.06%) Linux
2 21 (30.88%) Windows
3 7 (10.29%) Windows Server
4 5 (7.35%) Mac OS
5 4 (5.88%) VMS
6 2 (2.94%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.47%) AIX
7 1 (1.47%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (35.29%) Agile
2 16 (23.53%) CI/CD
2 16 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (22.06%) DevOps
4 14 (20.59%) OO
4 14 (20.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 13 (19.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (14.71%) SDLC
7 9 (13.24%) Migration
8 8 (11.76%) Refactoring
9 7 (10.29%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (10.29%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (10.29%) Data Modelling
9 7 (10.29%) OWASP
9 7 (10.29%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (10.29%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (8.82%) Application Security
10 6 (8.82%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (8.82%) Disk Encryption
11 5 (7.35%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 27 (39.71%) SQL
2 26 (38.24%) Python
2 26 (38.24%) Shell Script
3 16 (23.53%) Perl
4 15 (22.06%) Java
5 14 (20.59%) PL/SQL
6 6 (8.82%) Bash
6 6 (8.82%) Groovy
6 6 (8.82%) PowerShell
6 6 (8.82%) Ruby
7 4 (5.88%) Scala
8 1 (1.47%) C
8 1 (1.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (7.35%) Degree
2 3 (4.41%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (16.18%) Docker
2 5 (7.35%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (2.94%) GPFS
3 2 (2.94%) NFS
Systems Management
1 11 (16.18%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.29%) Ansible
2 7 (10.29%) Terraform
3 6 (8.82%) SCCM
4 5 (7.35%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (5.88%) Data Guard
6 3 (4.41%) Dell DRAC
6 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (4.41%) NetBackup
7 2 (2.94%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 1 (1.47%) Grafana
8 1 (1.47%) Nessus
8 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (41.18%) Oracle
2 7 (10.29%) Google
2 7 (10.29%) Splunk
3 6 (8.82%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.35%) Veritas
5 4 (5.88%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (4.41%) BMC
6 3 (4.41%) IBM
6 3 (4.41%) Sybase
7 2 (2.94%) Avaya
7 2 (2.94%) Brocade
7 2 (2.94%) EMC
7 2 (2.94%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (2.94%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.94%) Greenplum
7 2 (2.94%) NetApp
8 1 (1.47%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.47%) HP
8 1 (1.47%) Solace
8 1 (1.47%) VMware