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

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 115 92
Rank change year-on-year -5 -23 +76
Permanent jobs citing Unix 29 205 146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.01% 3.04% 3.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.03% 25.31% 19.13%
Number of salaries quoted 18 33 49
10th Percentile £32,000 £24,000 £43,207
25th Percentile £52,813 £32,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £42,202 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +56.98% -29.66% +4.35%
75th Percentile £93,778 £82,548 £80,000
90th Percentile - £99,359 -
UK median annual salary £69,384 £60,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +15.64% -13.60% +11.12%

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 193 810 763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.75% 12.03% 16.19%
Number of salaries quoted 159 424 430
10th Percentile £35,800 £25,440 £27,750
25th Percentile £46,740 £29,750 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £49,995 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.01% -0.01% -
75th Percentile £69,000 £61,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £78,375 £77,542
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -

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 May 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 May 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 -12 21 £85,253 +12.67% 11
Perth and Kinross - 3 £33,000 -
Glasgow +63 2 £65,000 +54.76% 12
Renfrewshire - 2 £57,500 - 6
West Lothian - 1 £62,500 - 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 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.90%) Apache
2 2 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.90%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) AWS
3 8 (27.59%) GCP
4 5 (17.24%) GitHub
5 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.90%) Apigee
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (6.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) SSL
2 3 (10.34%) DHCP
2 3 (10.34%) DKIM
2 3 (10.34%) DMARC
2 3 (10.34%) DNS
2 3 (10.34%) Firewall
2 3 (10.34%) VPN
2 3 (10.34%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.45%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.90%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (3.45%) DB2
3 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.24%) IBM UrbanCode
3 3 (10.34%) JUnit
4 2 (6.90%) Git
4 2 (6.90%) Maven
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (6.90%) SonarQube
4 2 (6.90%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (31.03%) Banking
1 9 (31.03%) Finance
2 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.90%) Tech for Good
4 1 (3.45%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Senior
2 6 (20.69%) Software Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Data Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Project Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Help Desk Team Lead
5 3 (10.34%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Lead
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Team Leader
5 3 (10.34%) Unix Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) AIX Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Angular Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Informatica Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Solaris Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) CSS
1 5 (17.24%) HTML
2 4 (13.79%) Middleware
3 3 (10.34%) Spring
3 3 (10.34%) Spring Boot
4 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.90%) Hibernate
4 2 (6.90%) J2EE
4 2 (6.90%) Java EE
4 2 (6.90%) REST
4 2 (6.90%) RESTful
4 2 (6.90%) SOAP
5 1 (3.45%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Mainframe
1 5 (17.24%) Public Cloud
2 4 (13.79%) Clustering
3 3 (10.34%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (6.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.45%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (3.45%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 25 (86.21%) Linux
2 7 (24.14%) Solaris
2 7 (24.14%) Windows
3 5 (17.24%) zOS
4 4 (13.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (10.34%) AIX
5 3 (10.34%) VMS
5 3 (10.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) DevOps
2 10 (34.48%) SDLC
2 10 (34.48%) Software Engineering
3 9 (31.03%) Agile
3 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
3 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (27.59%) Customer Service
4 8 (27.59%) IT Strategy
5 7 (24.14%) Mentoring
5 7 (24.14%) Roadmaps
6 5 (17.24%) Cash Management
6 5 (17.24%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (17.24%) Customer Requirements
6 5 (17.24%) Operational Stability
6 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (17.24%) Technology Roadmap
7 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (10.34%) Incident Response
7 3 (10.34%) Remote Monitoring and Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) Java
2 11 (37.93%) SQL
3 8 (27.59%) PowerShell
4 7 (24.14%) JavaScript
4 7 (24.14%) Python
5 5 (17.24%) Bash
5 5 (17.24%) JCL
5 5 (17.24%) Shell Script
6 2 (6.90%) Go
7 1 (3.45%) C
7 1 (3.45%) C++
7 1 (3.45%) Objective-C
7 1 (3.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
1 3 (10.34%) Hyper-V
1 3 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) CA Endevor
2 4 (13.79%) Terraform
3 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (6.90%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Red Hat
2 3 (10.34%) Apple
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) VMware
3 2 (6.90%) Informatica
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) IBM
4 1 (3.45%) Sybase