Unix Jobs in Scotland

Unix
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Unix skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Unix over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 93 168
Rank change year-on-year -19 +75 -60
Permanent jobs citing Unix 203 147 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.04% 3.18% 1.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.53% 19.50% 8.37%
Number of salaries quoted 31 48 53
10th Percentile £24,000 £42,963 £29,400
25th Percentile £30,000 £44,688 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £60,000 £57,931
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +3.57% +21.96%
75th Percentile £82,548 £80,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,064 - £79,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £62,500
% change year-on-year -13.60% +11.12% +4.17%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 795 754 980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.90% 16.29% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 415 420 562
10th Percentile £26,100 £27,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +14.44%
75th Percentile £61,375 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,925
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -24 152 £42,000 -23.64% 7
Edinburgh +14 49 £75,669 +0.89% 3
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
1 102 (50.25%) Apache Spark
2 16 (7.88%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (5.91%) WebSphere
4 7 (3.45%) Captiva
4 7 (3.45%) FileNet
5 5 (2.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (5.42%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 133 (65.52%) AWS
2 25 (12.32%) Azure
3 20 (9.85%) Amazon EKS
3 20 (9.85%) SaaS
4 11 (5.42%) GCP
5 7 (3.45%) GitHub
5 7 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.96%) IaaS
6 6 (2.96%) PaaS
7 4 (1.97%) Google Docs
8 3 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.49%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.99%) Network Security
2 1 (0.49%) Firewall
2 1 (0.49%) SAN
2 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (50.25%) Apache Hive
1 102 (50.25%) HBase
2 94 (46.31%) NoSQL
3 72 (35.47%) Hadoop
4 37 (18.23%) Big Data
5 11 (5.42%) DB2
6 5 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.46%) Pentaho
7 4 (1.97%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.97%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.48%) Ingres
8 3 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.48%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.99%) MySQL
9 2 (0.99%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.99%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 98 (48.28%) Jenkins
2 87 (42.86%) Git
3 86 (42.36%) Bitbucket Server
4 13 (6.40%) JIRA
5 11 (5.42%) CircleCI
5 11 (5.42%) GitLab
6 7 (3.45%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (2.46%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.49%) Gradle
8 1 (0.49%) Maven
General
1 164 (80.79%) Finance
2 153 (75.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 141 (69.46%) Law
4 108 (53.20%) Legal
5 29 (14.29%) Social Skills
6 22 (10.84%) Marketing
7 14 (6.90%) Military
8 12 (5.91%) Public Sector
9 11 (5.42%) Banking
10 2 (0.99%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.99%) Games
10 2 (0.99%) Retail
11 1 (0.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 137 (67.49%) Software Engineer
2 69 (33.99%) Developer
3 67 (33.00%) AWS Engineer
3 67 (33.00%) AWS Software Engineer
4 59 (29.06%) Database Engineer
5 56 (27.59%) Database Developer
5 56 (27.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 39 (19.21%) Java Engineer
6 39 (19.21%) Java Software Engineer
7 37 (18.23%) AWS Database Engineer
7 37 (18.23%) AWS Developer
8 33 (16.26%) Python Engineer
8 33 (16.26%) Python Software Engineer
9 30 (14.78%) Big Data Engineer
9 30 (14.78%) Big Data Software Engineer
9 30 (14.78%) Data Engineer
10 16 (7.88%) Analyst
11 14 (6.90%) Support Analyst
11 14 (6.90%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
12 11 (5.42%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.78%) Spring
2 19 (9.36%) JPA
3 17 (8.37%) React
4 16 (7.88%) REST
5 7 (3.45%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.46%) Kafka
7 4 (1.97%) LDAP
7 4 (1.97%) OpenID
8 3 (1.48%) Hibernate
8 3 (1.48%) RESTful
9 1 (0.49%) Node.js
9 1 (0.49%) Redux
9 1 (0.49%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 106 (52.22%) Algorithms
2 8 (3.94%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.45%) DataPower
3 7 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.45%) Private Cloud
4 5 (2.46%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.46%) Reference Data
5 4 (1.97%) Blockchain
5 4 (1.97%) Mainframe
6 2 (0.99%) Life Science
6 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.49%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 52 (25.62%) Linux
2 47 (23.15%) Windows
3 14 (6.90%) Mac OS X
4 11 (5.42%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.99%) VMS
6 1 (0.49%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (81.28%) Agile
2 139 (68.47%) Software Engineering
3 136 (67.00%) CI/CD
4 131 (64.53%) Artificial Intelligence
5 130 (64.04%) SDLC
6 129 (63.55%) Machine Learning
7 125 (61.58%) Operational Stability
8 115 (56.65%) Risk Management
9 109 (53.69%) Community of Practice
10 106 (52.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 106 (52.22%) Visualisation
11 101 (49.75%) Open Source
12 98 (48.28%) TDD
13 89 (43.84%) Test Automation
14 86 (42.36%) Batch Processing
15 79 (38.92%) Microservices
16 36 (17.73%) Wealth Management
17 28 (13.79%) DevOps
18 25 (12.32%) Cybersecurity
19 22 (10.84%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 156 (76.85%) SQL
2 135 (66.50%) Python
3 121 (59.61%) Java
4 87 (42.86%) PL/SQL
5 18 (8.87%) Shell Script
6 6 (2.96%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.46%) Bash
8 4 (1.97%) Ruby
8 4 (1.97%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.99%) C#
9 2 (0.99%) PHP
10 1 (0.49%) Elixir
10 1 (0.49%) Groovy
10 1 (0.49%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 30 (14.78%) Degree
2 14 (6.90%) CISM
2 14 (6.90%) CISSP
2 14 (6.90%) GCIA
2 14 (6.90%) GCIH
2 14 (6.90%) GREM
3 11 (5.42%) CISA
4 4 (1.97%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.97%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.48%) HND
6 2 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.42%) ITGC
1 11 (5.42%) PMO
2 7 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
System Software
1 102 (50.25%) HDFS
2 3 (1.48%) Docker
2 3 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 87 (42.86%) Terraform
2 5 (2.46%) Grafana
2 5 (2.46%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (1.97%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.99%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.99%) Puppet
4 2 (0.99%) SCCM
4 2 (0.99%) WSUS
5 1 (0.49%) Ansible
5 1 (0.49%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 122 (60.10%) Databricks
2 86 (42.36%) Informatica
3 72 (35.47%) Cloudera
4 50 (24.63%) Oracle
5 18 (8.87%) Microsoft
5 18 (8.87%) SAP
6 14 (6.90%) Dell
7 11 (5.42%) Sage
8 8 (3.94%) Splunk
9 7 (3.45%) IBM
9 7 (3.45%) Kofax
9 7 (3.45%) Pega
9 7 (3.45%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.96%) VMware
11 5 (2.46%) AppDynamics
11 5 (2.46%) CA
11 5 (2.46%) Sybase
12 4 (1.97%) BeyondTrust
12 4 (1.97%) CyberArk
12 4 (1.97%) Google