Unix Developer Contracts in Scotland

Unix Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Unix Developer daily rate in Scotland is £540 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 161 -
Rank change year-on-year +40 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Unix Developer 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.093% 0.11% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £348 - -
25th Percentile £420 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - -
75th Percentile £660 - -
90th Percentile £732 - -
UK median daily rate £800 £1,100 £525
% change year-on-year -27.27% +109.52% -8.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,018 2,574 3,263
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 95.40% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,244 1,816 2,311
10th Percentile £200 £231 £218
25th Percentile £356 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £649 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 45 51
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.90 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.25 £17.61
Median hourly rate £24.29 £21.67 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -34.33% -12.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.03 £47.98
90th Percentile £66.00 £68.25 £55.84
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Unix Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Unix Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Unix Developer in Scotland

Unix Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Unix Developer in Scotland

Unix Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix Developer in Scotland

Unix Developer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +11 2 £540 -
Unix Developer
UK

Unix Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Unix Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Unix Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills

Unix Developer Skill Set
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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (50.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) F5