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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 96 89
Rank change year-on-year -43 -7 +21
Permanent jobs citing Unix 16 50 68
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.60% 1.53% 2.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.68% 13.40% 16.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9 14 37
10th Percentile £32,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,625 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £67,154 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% -4.85% +17.63%
75th Percentile £78,790 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile - £74,144 £84,056
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 137 373 424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.11% 11.45% 17.44%
Number of salaries quoted 77 223 332
10th Percentile £25,000 £28,750 £26,300
25th Percentile £29,500 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £52,500 £49,995
Median % change year-on-year -30.48% +5.01% -9.10%
75th Percentile £64,500 £64,375 £67,018
90th Percentile £75,400 £74,144 £80,000
UK median annual salary £42,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% -1.96% -2.86%

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 27 October 2025.

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 27 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -5 7 £37,500 +5.63%
Edinburgh -17 5 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Perth and Kinross - 3 £33,000 -
Renfrewshire -10 1 £52,500 +16.67%
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 5 (31.25%) Apache Spark
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 9 (56.25%) AWS
3 4 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
3 4 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (25.00%) dbt
3 4 (25.00%) GCP
3 4 (25.00%) Pulumi
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (18.75%) PaaS
4 3 (18.75%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 5 (31.25%) DHCP
2 5 (31.25%) DNS
2 5 (31.25%) Firewall
2 5 (31.25%) VPN
3 3 (18.75%) DKIM
3 3 (18.75%) DMARC
3 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Apache Hive
1 5 (31.25%) Big Data
1 5 (31.25%) Hadoop
1 5 (31.25%) HBase
2 4 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (25.00%) Redis
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Gradle
1 5 (31.25%) Maven
2 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
1 5 (31.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (31.25%) Law
1 5 (31.25%) Marketing
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Developer
1 5 (31.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Developer
1 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Java Developer
1 5 (31.25%) Java Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Java Software Developer
1 5 (31.25%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Senior
1 5 (31.25%) Software Developer
1 5 (31.25%) Software Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Help Desk Team Lead
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Lead
2 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Team Leader
3 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) JPA
1 5 (31.25%) REST
1 5 (31.25%) Spring
2 4 (25.00%) Django
3 1 (6.25%) PySpark
3 1 (6.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (31.25%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (12.50%) Driving Licence
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Linux
2 6 (37.50%) Windows
3 3 (18.75%) VMS
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.25%) AIX
4 1 (6.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
3 8 (50.00%) Open Source
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) AI
4 5 (31.25%) Decision-Making
4 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (31.25%) Machine Learning
4 5 (31.25%) Operational Stability
4 5 (31.25%) SDLC
4 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) TDD
4 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
5 4 (25.00%) Clean Code
5 4 (25.00%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (25.00%) Observability
5 4 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
5 4 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Java
1 5 (31.25%) PL/SQL
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) HDFS
2 4 (25.00%) Docker
3 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
3 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (25.00%) Terraform
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Copilot
4 2 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Cloudera
2 5 (31.25%) Databricks
3 4 (25.00%) Google
4 3 (18.75%) Apple
4 3 (18.75%) VMware
5 2 (12.50%) Cisco
5 2 (12.50%) Fortinet
6 1 (6.25%) IBM
6 1 (6.25%) Red Hat