Unix Job Trends in Scotland

Unix
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 95 111
Rank change year-on-year -37 +16 +12
Permanent jobs citing Unix 10 52 90
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.36% 2.00% 2.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.92% 16.61% 20.09%
Number of salaries quoted 5 19 31
10th Percentile £58,275 £42,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £68,813 £59,375 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -8.41% +26.12%
75th Percentile £78,790 £83,961 £84,056
90th Percentile - £93,778 £100,064
UK median annual salary £61,250 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +2.08% -11.11% +3.85%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 169 313 448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.16% 12.03% 14.43%
Number of salaries quoted 82 176 303
10th Percentile £25,175 £30,875 £26,039
25th Percentile £29,750 £37,188 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.24% - -
75th Percentile £49,875 £65,000 £68,650
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Unix job vacancy trend in Scotland

Unix
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Unix

Unix
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Unix in Scotland

Unix
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -36 9 £73,801 +5.43% 3
Renfrewshire -10 1 £52,500 +5.00%
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 4 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon ECR
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (40.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 4 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (40.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 4 (40.00%) dbt
3 4 (40.00%) GCP
3 4 (40.00%) Pulumi
3 4 (40.00%) SaaS
3 4 (40.00%) Serverless
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (30.00%) PaaS
4 3 (30.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (40.00%) Redis
3 4 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Informatica Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Server Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Server Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Solaris Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Django
1 4 (40.00%) REST
1 4 (40.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (30.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) AIX
2 1 (10.00%) Solaris
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) API Integration
3 4 (40.00%) BDD
3 4 (40.00%) Clean Code
3 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 4 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Event-Driven
3 4 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (40.00%) Observability
3 4 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (40.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 4 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Workflow
4 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
1 4 (40.00%) Shell Script
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Control-M
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Google
1 4 (40.00%) Informatica
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat