Unix Contracts in Glasgow

Unix
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Unix skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unix over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 22 50
Rank change year-on-year -7 +28 +4
Contract jobs citing Unix 51 82 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 6.29% 9.22% 4.01%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.00% 36.61% 22.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 42 18
10th Percentile £322 £414 £418
25th Percentile £337 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -31.27% +1.85% +17.39%
75th Percentile £556 £745 £575
90th Percentile £613 £750 £614
Scotland median daily rate £391 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -28.86% +10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £51.58 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £57.35 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £62.46 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.95% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £67.11 -
90th Percentile - £68.09 -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £62.46 -
% change year-on-year -15.95% - -

All Operating Systems
Glasgow

Unix is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 170 224 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 20.96% 25.20% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 147 119
10th Percentile £199 £258 £183
25th Percentile £313 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £468
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +17.65% +16.88%
75th Percentile £575 £674 £569
90th Percentile £728 £750 £638
Scotland median daily rate £400 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 2
10th Percentile £30.10 £13.96 £15.79
25th Percentile £51.25 £31.12 £16.91
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £20.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +181.45% -65.58%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.56 £24.80
90th Percentile - £67.44 £26.42
Scotland median hourly rate £24.18 £47.73 £18.86
% change year-on-year -49.34% +153.08% +7.77%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Glasgow

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Glasgow

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Glasgow over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Glasgow

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Glasgow

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.92%) SAS
3 1 (1.96%) Apache
3 1 (1.96%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (23.53%) AWS
2 10 (19.61%) Azure
3 9 (17.65%) OpenShift
4 4 (7.84%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.96%) Serverless
5 1 (1.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) SAN
2 3 (5.88%) NAS
3 2 (3.92%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (3.92%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.96%) DNS
4 1 (1.96%) Firewall
4 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.65%) Oracle Database
2 5 (9.80%) Oracle Database 12c
2 5 (9.80%) Oracle8/8i Database
3 4 (7.84%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (7.84%) DB2
3 4 (7.84%) Metadata
3 4 (7.84%) NoSQL
3 4 (7.84%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (7.84%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.88%) Apache Hive
4 3 (5.88%) Big Data
4 3 (5.88%) Impala
4 3 (5.88%) MySQL
4 3 (5.88%) Spark SQL
5 2 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (19.61%) Jenkins
2 8 (15.69%) Git
3 5 (9.80%) JIRA
4 2 (3.92%) CircleCI
4 2 (3.92%) GitLab
5 1 (1.96%) JUnit
General
1 16 (31.37%) Finance
2 15 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 11 (21.57%) Banking
4 7 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (11.76%) Investment Banking
6 4 (7.84%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (7.84%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.92%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (41.18%) Developer
2 12 (23.53%) Linux Engineer
3 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (15.69%) Python Engineer
3 8 (15.69%) Unix Engineer
3 8 (15.69%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 7 (13.73%) Java Developer
4 7 (13.73%) Linux Scripter
4 7 (13.73%) Network Engineer
4 7 (13.73%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (13.73%) Windows Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Security Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Java Scala Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Scala Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Unix Scripter
7 4 (7.84%) Unix Scripting Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.80%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 5 (9.80%) REST
1 5 (9.80%) RESTful
2 4 (7.84%) Spring
3 2 (3.92%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.92%) Flash
3 2 (3.92%) POSIX
4 1 (1.96%) .NET
4 1 (1.96%) Apache Beam
4 1 (1.96%) CSS
4 1 (1.96%) HTML
4 1 (1.96%) React
4 1 (1.96%) Redfish
4 1 (1.96%) Spring Batch
4 1 (1.96%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Data Structures
1 4 (7.84%) Virtual Team
2 3 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.92%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.92%) NVMe
3 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.96%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (43.14%) Linux
2 13 (25.49%) Windows
3 5 (9.80%) Mac OS
3 5 (9.80%) Windows Server
4 4 (7.84%) VMS
5 2 (3.92%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (37.25%) Agile
2 13 (25.49%) DevOps
3 12 (23.53%) OO
4 9 (17.65%) CI/CD
4 9 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (17.65%) SDLC
4 9 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 8 (15.69%) Refactoring
6 7 (13.73%) Data Modelling
6 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (13.73%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (13.73%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (11.76%) Disk Encryption
7 6 (11.76%) Migration
8 5 (9.80%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (7.84%) Capacity Planning
9 4 (7.84%) Data Migration
9 4 (7.84%) Release Management
9 4 (7.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (45.10%) SQL
2 20 (39.22%) Python
3 18 (35.29%) Shell Script
4 14 (27.45%) Perl
5 11 (21.57%) PL/SQL
6 10 (19.61%) Java
7 6 (11.76%) PowerShell
8 4 (7.84%) Scala
9 1 (1.96%) C
9 1 (1.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.96%) Degree
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 6 (11.76%) Docker
2 5 (9.80%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (3.92%) GPFS
3 2 (3.92%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (11.76%) SCCM
2 5 (9.80%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.80%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (7.84%) Data Guard
4 3 (5.88%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (5.88%) NetBackup
5 2 (3.92%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 1 (1.96%) Ansible
6 1 (1.96%) Grafana
6 1 (1.96%) Nessus
6 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (39.22%) Oracle
2 7 (13.73%) Splunk
3 6 (11.76%) Google
3 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 5 (9.80%) Veritas
5 4 (7.84%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (5.88%) BMC
6 3 (5.88%) Sybase
7 2 (3.92%) Brocade
7 2 (3.92%) EMC
7 2 (3.92%) Greenplum
7 2 (3.92%) IBM
7 2 (3.92%) NetApp
8 1 (1.96%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.96%) Databricks
8 1 (1.96%) Dell
8 1 (1.96%) HP