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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 96 105
Rank change year-on-year -35 +9 +12
Permanent jobs citing Unix 8 53 90
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.29% 1.97% 3.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.06% 16.06% 20.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5 19 31
10th Percentile £58,275 £42,500 £42,874
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 £60,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.82% -10.00% +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 158 330 443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.81% 12.24% 14.97%
Number of salaries quoted 79 191 295
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +2.86% -
75th Percentile £51,625 £66,250 £69,900
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £44,000 £50,242 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% +0.48% -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 1 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 1 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 -44 7 £73,801 +5.43% 3
Renfrewshire -9 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 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (50.00%) dbt
3 4 (50.00%) GCP
3 4 (50.00%) Pulumi
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (37.50%) PaaS
4 3 (37.50%) Sentry
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (25.00%) SaaS
5 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (50.00%) Redis
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Informatica Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Server Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) Server Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Solaris Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Django
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) AIX
2 1 (12.50%) Solaris
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (50.00%) Observability
3 4 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 4 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) Open Source
4 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Prototyping
5 2 (25.00%) BDD
5 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
5 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
5 2 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Copilot
3 2 (25.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) Informatica
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat