Unix Jobs in Edinburgh

Unix
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 63 77
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 +43
Permanent jobs citing Unix 21 51 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.28% 3.36% 3.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.11% 20.82% 24.18%
Number of salaries quoted 10 17 31
10th Percentile £53,000 £24,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £74,870 £27,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 £75,669 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% +8.96% +13.51%
75th Percentile £93,778 £96,539 £80,000
90th Percentile - £100,064 -
Scotland median annual salary £66,250 £42,202 £65,000
% change year-on-year +56.98% -35.07% +13.04%

All Operating Systems
Edinburgh

Unix falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 95 245 335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.33% 16.12% 15.74%
Number of salaries quoted 74 176 197
10th Percentile £46,544 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £82,751 £70,608 £72,500
90th Percentile £144,613 £91,934 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £56,500 £49,990 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.02% -0.02% -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Edinburgh

Unix
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unix in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Unix in Edinburgh

Unix
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Unix in Edinburgh

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (9.52%) Apache
1 2 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (9.52%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) AWS
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
1 8 (38.10%) GCP
2 5 (23.81%) GitHub
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
3 2 (9.52%) Apigee
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (9.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) SSL
2 1 (4.76%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (9.52%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (23.81%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (9.52%) Git
3 2 (9.52%) JUnit
3 2 (9.52%) Maven
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (9.52%) SonarQube
3 2 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (42.86%) Banking
1 9 (42.86%) Finance
2 8 (38.10%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Senior
2 5 (23.81%) Analyst
2 5 (23.81%) Software Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Data Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Project Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Angular Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Informatica Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) CSS
1 5 (23.81%) HTML
2 4 (19.05%) Middleware
3 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
3 2 (9.52%) Hibernate
3 2 (9.52%) J2EE
3 2 (9.52%) Java EE
3 2 (9.52%) REST
3 2 (9.52%) RESTful
3 2 (9.52%) SOAP
3 2 (9.52%) Spring
3 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Mainframe
1 5 (23.81%) Public Cloud
2 4 (19.05%) Clustering
3 2 (9.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.76%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (23.81%) zOS
3 4 (19.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (19.05%) Solaris
4 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) DevOps
2 9 (42.86%) Agile
2 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 9 (42.86%) SDLC
2 9 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 7 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 5 (23.81%) Cash Management
5 5 (23.81%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (23.81%) Customer Service
5 5 (23.81%) IT Strategy
5 5 (23.81%) Operational Stability
5 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (23.81%) Technology Roadmap
6 4 (19.05%) Customer Requirements
7 3 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (14.29%) TDD
8 2 (9.52%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Java
2 10 (47.62%) SQL
3 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 5 (23.81%) Bash
4 5 (23.81%) JCL
4 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
4 5 (23.81%) Python
4 5 (23.81%) Shell Script
5 2 (9.52%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) CA Endevor
2 4 (19.05%) Terraform
3 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 2 (9.52%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Red Hat
2 2 (9.52%) Informatica
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle