Unix Jobs in Scotland

Unix
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 75 127
Rank change year-on-year -49 +52 -5
Permanent jobs citing Unix 141 154 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.47% 4.06% 2.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.17% 22.48% 14.46%
Number of salaries quoted 17 53 85
10th Percentile - £39,391 £38,021
25th Percentile £24,000 £42,874 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.38% +8.33% +22.45%
75th Percentile £43,570 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £46,642 £83,245 £86,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.40% +4.80% +4.17%

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 636 685 927
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.16% 18.05% 15.22%
Number of salaries quoted 361 396 588
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £25,709
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,610 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.02% -9.32% +23.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,433 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Unix in Scotland

Unix
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -17 102 £42,000 -23.64%
Edinburgh +1 37 £29,000 -61.33% 2
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 60 (42.55%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.55%) Tomcat
2 5 (3.55%) WebSphere
3 4 (2.84%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (6.38%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 90 (63.83%) AWS
2 20 (14.18%) Azure
3 7 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (4.96%) SaaS
4 4 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (2.84%) Google Docs
5 3 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (2.13%) GCP
6 1 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.71%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.71%) Firewall
1 1 (0.71%) SSL
1 1 (0.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (46.10%) NoSQL
2 60 (42.55%) Apache Hive
2 60 (42.55%) HBase
3 30 (21.28%) Big Data
3 30 (21.28%) Hadoop
4 9 (6.38%) DB2
5 5 (3.55%) Pentaho
6 4 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.13%) Ingres
7 3 (2.13%) Oracle Database
7 3 (2.13%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.13%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.13%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.42%) MySQL
9 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 68 (48.23%) Jenkins
2 63 (44.68%) Git
3 60 (42.55%) Bitbucket Server
4 7 (4.96%) CircleCI
4 7 (4.96%) GitLab
5 6 (4.26%) JIRA
6 5 (3.55%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.71%) Gradle
7 1 (0.71%) Maven
General
1 105 (74.47%) Finance
1 105 (74.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 95 (67.38%) Law
3 85 (60.28%) Legal
4 19 (13.48%) Social Skills
5 9 (6.38%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.55%) Military
8 3 (2.13%) Marketing
9 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (65.25%) Software Engineer
2 60 (42.55%) AWS Engineer
2 60 (42.55%) AWS Software Engineer
3 44 (31.21%) Developer
4 33 (23.40%) Database Engineer
5 30 (21.28%) AWS Database Engineer
5 30 (21.28%) AWS Developer
5 30 (21.28%) Big Data Engineer
5 30 (21.28%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 30 (21.28%) Data Engineer
5 30 (21.28%) Database Developer
5 30 (21.28%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 23 (16.31%) Java Engineer
6 23 (16.31%) Java Software Engineer
7 20 (14.18%) Python Engineer
7 20 (14.18%) Python Software Engineer
8 11 (7.80%) Java Developer
9 6 (4.26%) Analyst
9 6 (4.26%) IT Manager
9 6 (4.26%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.93%) Spring
2 7 (4.96%) Spring Boot
3 5 (3.55%) Kafka
4 4 (2.84%) AngularJS
4 4 (2.84%) Java EE
4 4 (2.84%) LDAP
4 4 (2.84%) OpenJDK
4 4 (2.84%) REST
4 4 (2.84%) SOAP
5 3 (2.13%) Hibernate
5 3 (2.13%) JPA
5 3 (2.13%) RESTful
6 2 (1.42%) Node.js
6 2 (1.42%) React
6 2 (1.42%) Redux
6 2 (1.42%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (0.71%) CSS
7 1 (0.71%) HTML
7 1 (0.71%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 80 (56.74%) Algorithms
2 8 (5.67%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.55%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.13%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.71%) Clustering
6 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (29.08%) Linux
2 32 (22.70%) Windows
3 9 (6.38%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.55%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.71%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (79.43%) Agile
2 94 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 92 (65.25%) CI/CD
3 92 (65.25%) SDLC
4 85 (60.28%) Artificial Intelligence
4 85 (60.28%) Risk Management
5 84 (59.57%) Operational Stability
6 83 (58.87%) Community of Practice
6 83 (58.87%) Machine Learning
7 82 (58.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 80 (56.74%) Visualisation
9 69 (48.94%) TDD
10 65 (46.10%) Open Source
11 64 (45.39%) Test Automation
12 60 (42.55%) Batch Processing
13 33 (23.40%) Microservices
14 29 (20.57%) Wealth Management
15 25 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
16 17 (12.06%) DevOps
17 14 (9.93%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 108 (76.60%) SQL
2 95 (67.38%) Python
3 73 (51.77%) Java
4 61 (43.26%) PL/SQL
5 15 (10.64%) Shell Script
6 5 (3.55%) Bash
7 4 (2.84%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.84%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.13%) Perl
8 3 (2.13%) Ruby
9 2 (1.42%) C++
9 2 (1.42%) Elixir
9 2 (1.42%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.71%) C
10 1 (0.71%) Groovy
10 1 (0.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (12.77%) Degree
2 9 (6.38%) CISA
3 5 (3.55%) CISM
3 5 (3.55%) CISSP
3 5 (3.55%) GCIA
3 5 (3.55%) GCIH
3 5 (3.55%) GREM
4 3 (2.13%) HND
5 2 (1.42%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.42%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.38%) ITGC
1 9 (6.38%) PMO
2 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (42.55%) HDFS
2 3 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.42%) Docker
4 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 65 (46.10%) Terraform
2 5 (3.55%) Grafana
2 5 (3.55%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (2.13%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.71%) Ansible
Vendors
1 80 (56.74%) Databricks
2 60 (42.55%) Informatica
3 40 (28.37%) Oracle
4 30 (21.28%) Cloudera
5 16 (11.35%) Microsoft
6 9 (6.38%) Sage
6 9 (6.38%) SAP
6 9 (6.38%) Sybase
7 8 (5.67%) Splunk
8 6 (4.26%) VMware
9 5 (3.55%) AppDynamics
9 5 (3.55%) CA
9 5 (3.55%) Dell
10 4 (2.84%) BeyondTrust
10 4 (2.84%) CyberArk
10 4 (2.84%) Google
11 3 (2.13%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.71%) CA Agile Central
12 1 (0.71%) CyberTech