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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 117 84
Rank change year-on-year -28 -33 +60
Permanent jobs citing Unix 26 166 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.80% 2.55% 3.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.76% 22.31% 20.75%
Number of salaries quoted 14 22 53
10th Percentile £32,000 £24,000 £39,391
25th Percentile £33,063 £27,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,000 £58,386
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% -28.06% -2.69%
75th Percentile £70,625 £49,330 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £63,375 -
UK median annual salary £67,500 £58,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +16.38% -11.25% +0.54%

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 189 744 718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.78% 11.41% 17.44%
Number of salaries quoted 132 423 415
10th Percentile £32,300 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £69,000 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,675 £77,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £46,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.61% -12.38% -

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 5 July 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 5 July 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
Edinburgh -2 11 £78,810 +171.76% 13
Glasgow +34 9 £48,750 +16.07% 15
Perth and Kinross - 5 £33,000 -
Renfrewshire - 1 £60,000 - 1
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 5 (19.23%) Apache Spark
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (19.23%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.69%) Apache
2 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (7.69%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
1 9 (34.62%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (11.54%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.69%) Apigee
4 2 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) DHCP
1 7 (26.92%) DNS
1 7 (26.92%) Firewall
1 7 (26.92%) VPN
2 5 (19.23%) DKIM
2 5 (19.23%) DMARC
2 5 (19.23%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.85%) FTP
4 1 (3.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Apache Hive
1 5 (19.23%) Big Data
1 5 (19.23%) Hadoop
1 5 (19.23%) HBase
2 4 (15.38%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.85%) DB2
4 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Maven
2 5 (19.23%) Gradle
3 3 (11.54%) Git
3 3 (11.54%) JUnit
4 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (7.69%) SonarQube
4 2 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 9 (34.62%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (34.62%) Finance
3 5 (19.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (19.23%) Law
3 5 (19.23%) Marketing
4 4 (15.38%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Software Engineer
2 9 (34.62%) Developer
3 8 (30.77%) Java Developer
4 7 (26.92%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (26.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 6 (23.08%) Senior
5 6 (23.08%) Software Developer
6 5 (19.23%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 5 (19.23%) Help Desk Team Lead
6 5 (19.23%) Java Engineer
6 5 (19.23%) Java Software Developer
6 5 (19.23%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (19.23%) Lead
6 5 (19.23%) Team Leader
7 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (11.54%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) Analyst
8 2 (7.69%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) Spring
2 7 (26.92%) REST
3 5 (19.23%) JPA
4 3 (11.54%) Spring Boot
5 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 2 (7.69%) Hibernate
5 2 (7.69%) J2EE
5 2 (7.69%) Java EE
5 2 (7.69%) RESTful
5 2 (7.69%) SOAP
6 1 (3.85%) Kafka
6 1 (3.85%) Middleware
6 1 (3.85%) PySpark
6 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (7.69%) Driving Licence
2 2 (7.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.85%) Clustering
3 1 (3.85%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (3.85%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 15 (57.69%) Linux
2 9 (34.62%) Windows
3 5 (19.23%) VMS
4 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
5 2 (7.69%) Solaris
5 2 (7.69%) zOS
6 1 (3.85%) AIX
6 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (42.31%) Agile
2 11 (42.31%) CI/CD
3 10 (38.46%) SDLC
3 10 (38.46%) Software Engineering
4 9 (34.62%) DevOps
5 8 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (30.77%) TDD
6 7 (26.92%) Operational Stability
6 7 (26.92%) Test Automation
7 6 (23.08%) Decision-Making
8 5 (19.23%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (19.23%) Incident Response
8 5 (19.23%) IT Strategy
8 5 (19.23%) Machine Learning
8 5 (19.23%) Open Source
8 5 (19.23%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 4 (15.38%) Microservices
9 4 (15.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Java
2 11 (42.31%) SQL
3 5 (19.23%) PL/SQL
3 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
3 5 (19.23%) Python
4 2 (7.69%) Go
4 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.85%) C
5 1 (3.85%) C++
5 1 (3.85%) Objective-C
5 1 (3.85%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
1 2 (7.69%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) HDFS
1 5 (19.23%) Hyper-V
1 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.69%) FortiGate
3 2 (7.69%) Istio
3 2 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 5 (19.23%) Apple
2 5 (19.23%) Cloudera
2 5 (19.23%) Databricks
2 5 (19.23%) VMware
3 2 (7.69%) Cisco
3 2 (7.69%) Fortinet
3 2 (7.69%) Informatica
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) IBM
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.85%) Sybase