Unix Contracts in Scotland

Unix
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 49 82
Rank change year-on-year -7 +33 -3
Contract jobs citing Unix 71 137 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.30% 5.07% 2.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 19.72% 27.51% 19.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 89 52
10th Percentile £324 £423 £391
25th Percentile £351 £496 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.68% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £613 £634 £573
90th Percentile £634 £750 £634
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
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 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.57 £65.00
% change year-on-year -32.85% -8.35% +52.94%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 360 498 484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.74% 18.42% 14.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 351 322
10th Percentile £178 £160 £150
25th Percentile £313 £260 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £479 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.27% +6.44% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £550
90th Percentile £700 £723 £600
UK median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 24
10th Percentile £17.61 £14.82 £13.13
25th Percentile £18.17 £17.72 £15.59
Median hourly rate £39.25 £50.12 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -21.68% +165.72% +7.77%
75th Percentile £60.75 £59.41 £48.13
90th Percentile £62.50 £65.96 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £39.05 £23.00
% change year-on-year -43.47% +69.78% +31.43%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Scotland

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Scotland

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Scotland

Unix
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 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 -9 53 £391 -28.86% 9
Edinburgh +13 16 £623 +18.57% 3
West Lothian -2 2 £188 -54.55%
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 4 (5.63%) SAS
2 3 (4.23%) Apache
2 3 (4.23%) Confluence
3 2 (2.82%) JBoss
3 2 (2.82%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.82%) WildFly
4 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.35%) AWS
1 18 (25.35%) OpenShift
2 11 (15.49%) Azure
3 6 (8.45%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (5.63%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.82%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.41%) Cloud Run
7 1 (1.41%) GCP
7 1 (1.41%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (1.41%) IaaS
7 1 (1.41%) Serverless
7 1 (1.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.27%) Firewall
1 8 (11.27%) SAN
2 4 (5.63%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (5.63%) iSCSI
2 4 (5.63%) NAS
3 2 (2.82%) Internet
3 2 (2.82%) LAN
3 2 (2.82%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.82%) WLAN
4 1 (1.41%) DNS
4 1 (1.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (1.41%) HTTP
4 1 (1.41%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.49%) Oracle Database
2 6 (8.45%) DB2
2 6 (8.45%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (8.45%) Relational Database
3 5 (7.04%) Oracle Database 11g
3 5 (7.04%) Oracle Database 12c
3 5 (7.04%) Oracle8/8i Database
4 4 (5.63%) Metadata
4 4 (5.63%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.23%) Oracle Database 10g
5 3 (4.23%) Oracle Discoverer
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.82%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.41%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.41%) Big Data
7 1 (1.41%) Impala
7 1 (1.41%) MySQL
7 1 (1.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (28.17%) Git
1 20 (28.17%) Jenkins
2 8 (11.27%) Maven
3 6 (8.45%) Gradle
3 6 (8.45%) JIRA
4 3 (4.23%) JUnit
5 2 (2.82%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.82%) GitLab
5 2 (2.82%) Subversion
6 1 (1.41%) Oracle Forms
General
1 23 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.72%) Finance
3 13 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (18.31%) Banking
4 9 (12.68%) Public Sector
5 7 (9.86%) Investment Banking
5 7 (9.86%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.82%) Law
7 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (29.58%) Developer
2 17 (23.94%) Linux Engineer
3 11 (15.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (15.49%) Java Developer
3 11 (15.49%) Python Engineer
4 10 (14.08%) Linux Scripter
4 10 (14.08%) Unix Engineer
4 10 (14.08%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 9 (12.68%) Network Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) DBA
7 7 (9.86%) Security Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Windows Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) Java Scala Developer
9 5 (7.04%) Site Manager
9 5 (7.04%) Unix Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.68%) Spring
2 6 (8.45%) REST
3 5 (7.04%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 5 (7.04%) RESTful
4 4 (5.63%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.63%) Flash
4 4 (5.63%) POSIX
5 2 (2.82%) Hibernate
5 2 (2.82%) Java EE
5 2 (2.82%) JPA
5 2 (2.82%) JSP
5 2 (2.82%) JSTL
5 2 (2.82%) Redfish
5 2 (2.82%) Servlets
5 2 (2.82%) STL
5 2 (2.82%) XML
5 2 (2.82%) XSLT
6 1 (1.41%) Kafka
6 1 (1.41%) React
6 1 (1.41%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.45%) Algorithms
1 6 (8.45%) Data Structures
2 5 (7.04%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.63%) Client/Server
3 4 (5.63%) NVMe
4 3 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.23%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.82%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.41%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.41%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 40 (56.34%) Linux
2 24 (33.80%) Windows
3 10 (14.08%) Windows Server
4 5 (7.04%) Mac OS
5 4 (5.63%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (5.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.63%) VMS
6 1 (1.41%) AIX
6 1 (1.41%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (32.39%) Agile
2 19 (26.76%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (25.35%) CI/CD
3 18 (25.35%) OO
4 17 (23.94%) DevOps
5 15 (21.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 14 (19.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (15.49%) Migration
8 10 (14.08%) SDLC
9 9 (12.68%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (11.27%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (11.27%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (11.27%) Refactoring
11 7 (9.86%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (9.86%) Customer Requirements
11 7 (9.86%) Data Modelling
11 7 (9.86%) Data Protection
11 7 (9.86%) Deployment Automation
11 7 (9.86%) OWASP
12 6 (8.45%) Disk Encryption
Programming Languages
1 34 (47.89%) Python
2 23 (32.39%) Perl
3 21 (29.58%) Shell Script
4 20 (28.17%) SQL
5 19 (26.76%) Java
6 7 (9.86%) Bash
6 7 (9.86%) PL/SQL
7 6 (8.45%) Groovy
7 6 (8.45%) PowerShell
7 6 (8.45%) Ruby
8 5 (7.04%) Scala
9 3 (4.23%) C
10 1 (1.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (7.04%) Degree
2 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.82%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.63%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (18.31%) Docker
2 8 (11.27%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (5.63%) GPFS
3 4 (5.63%) NFS
4 1 (1.41%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (19.72%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.27%) Ansible
2 8 (11.27%) Oracle RMAN
2 8 (11.27%) Terraform
3 7 (9.86%) Data Guard
4 6 (8.45%) SCCM
5 4 (5.63%) NetBackup
5 4 (5.63%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 3 (4.23%) Dell DRAC
6 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (4.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (2.82%) Grafana
7 2 (2.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (30.99%) Oracle
2 8 (11.27%) Veritas
3 7 (9.86%) Google
4 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
4 6 (8.45%) Splunk
5 5 (7.04%) IBM
5 5 (7.04%) Sybase
6 4 (5.63%) Brocade
6 4 (5.63%) EMC
6 4 (5.63%) NetApp
7 3 (4.23%) BMC
7 3 (4.23%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (2.82%) Avaya
8 2 (2.82%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (2.82%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.82%) Greenplum
8 2 (2.82%) HP
9 1 (1.41%) F5
9 1 (1.41%) Solace
9 1 (1.41%) VMware