Unix Contracts in Edinburgh

Unix
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 71 80
Rank change year-on-year +11 +9 -11
Contract jobs citing Unix 12 32 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.36% 2.70% 2.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.60% 17.39% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 30 23
10th Percentile £407 £448 £400
25th Percentile £534 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.57% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £634 £560 £588
90th Percentile - £610 £718
Scotland median daily rate £383 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -29.82% +9.00% +11.11%

All Operating Systems
Edinburgh

Unix falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 125 184 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.17% 15.51% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 139 152
10th Percentile £183 £160 £137
25th Percentile £240 £221 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -2.22% +9.76%
75th Percentile £500 £531 £540
90th Percentile £634 £615 £588
Scotland median daily rate £400 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -13.98% +3.33% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 8
10th Percentile £18.00 £17.70 £16.76
25th Percentile £18.13 £17.71 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.27 £17.72 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.10% -5.49% +7.14%
75th Percentile £59.13 £35.74 £44.14
90th Percentile £60.75 £46.54 £54.74
Scotland median hourly rate £26.00 £35.80 £18.86
% change year-on-year -27.36% +89.79% +7.77%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Edinburgh

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Unix in Edinburgh

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Edinburgh

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (16.67%) Apache
1 2 (16.67%) Confluence
1 2 (16.67%) JBoss
1 2 (16.67%) Tomcat
1 2 (16.67%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Run
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database 11g
1 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (8.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Git
1 8 (66.67%) Maven
2 6 (50.00%) Gradle
2 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 2 (16.67%) JUnit
3 2 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 2 (16.67%) Banking
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Site Manager
1 5 (41.67%) Site Reliability Manager
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Full Stack Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Development Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Spring
2 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (16.67%) Java EE
2 2 (16.67%) JPA
2 2 (16.67%) JSP
2 2 (16.67%) JSTL
2 2 (16.67%) Servlets
2 2 (16.67%) STL
2 2 (16.67%) XML
2 2 (16.67%) XSLT
3 1 (8.33%) Guice
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) OpenJDK
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Code
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
1 7 (58.33%) OWASP
2 6 (50.00%) Application Security
2 6 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (41.67%) Service-Level Objective
3 5 (41.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Migration
6 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 2 (16.67%) DevOps
6 2 (16.67%) E-Commerce
6 2 (16.67%) OO
6 2 (16.67%) OOD
6 2 (16.67%) Scrum
6 2 (16.67%) UML
6 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Shell Script
2 6 (50.00%) Bash
2 6 (50.00%) Groovy
2 6 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) Ruby
3 5 (41.67%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) Perl
5 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (8.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Ansible
1 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) Solace
2 1 (8.33%) VMware