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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 86 169
Rank change year-on-year -31 +83 -53
Permanent jobs citing Unix 197 143 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.88% 3.29% 1.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.22% 19.51% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 26 47 64
10th Percentile £24,000 £40,321 £32,875
25th Percentile £27,500 £43,750 £43,779
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £60,000 £58,966
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +1.75% +31.03%
75th Percentile £55,893 £80,000 £69,063
90th Percentile £82,548 - £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +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 781 733 979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.42% 16.85% 16.10%
Number of salaries quoted 412 406 551
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £33,750 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £73,750
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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -24 149 £42,000 -23.64% 5
Edinburgh +4 46 £29,000 -61.33% 6
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 98 (49.75%) Apache Spark
2 14 (7.11%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (4.57%) WebSphere
4 5 (2.54%) Tomcat
5 4 (2.03%) Captiva
5 4 (2.03%) FileNet
6 1 (0.51%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (5.58%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 128 (64.97%) AWS
2 22 (11.17%) Azure
3 18 (9.14%) Amazon EKS
3 18 (9.14%) SaaS
4 7 (3.55%) GCP
4 7 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.03%) GitHub
5 4 (2.03%) Google Docs
6 3 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (1.52%) IaaS
6 3 (1.52%) PaaS
7 1 (0.51%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.02%) Network Security
2 1 (0.51%) Firewall
2 1 (0.51%) SAN
2 1 (0.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (49.75%) Apache Hive
1 98 (49.75%) HBase
2 90 (45.69%) NoSQL
3 68 (34.52%) Hadoop
4 35 (17.77%) Big Data
5 11 (5.58%) DB2
6 5 (2.54%) Pentaho
7 4 (2.03%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.52%) Ingres
8 3 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.52%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.02%) MySQL
9 2 (1.02%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 96 (48.73%) Jenkins
2 85 (43.15%) Git
3 84 (42.64%) Bitbucket Server
4 11 (5.58%) CircleCI
4 11 (5.58%) GitLab
5 10 (5.08%) JIRA
6 5 (2.54%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.03%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.51%) Gradle
8 1 (0.51%) Maven
General
1 154 (78.17%) Finance
2 149 (75.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 137 (69.54%) Law
4 106 (53.81%) Legal
5 30 (15.23%) Social Skills
6 20 (10.15%) Marketing
7 14 (7.11%) Military
8 12 (6.09%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.54%) Banking
10 4 (2.03%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (1.02%) Games
11 2 (1.02%) Retail
12 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.51%) Local Government
12 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 131 (66.50%) Software Engineer
2 69 (35.03%) Developer
3 67 (34.01%) AWS Engineer
3 67 (34.01%) AWS Software Engineer
4 57 (28.93%) Database Engineer
5 54 (27.41%) Database Developer
5 54 (27.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 37 (18.78%) AWS Database Engineer
6 37 (18.78%) AWS Developer
6 37 (18.78%) Java Engineer
6 37 (18.78%) Java Software Engineer
7 31 (15.74%) Python Engineer
7 31 (15.74%) Python Software Engineer
8 30 (15.23%) Big Data Engineer
8 30 (15.23%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 30 (15.23%) Data Engineer
9 16 (8.12%) Analyst
10 14 (7.11%) Support Analyst
10 14 (7.11%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
11 12 (6.09%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (14.72%) Spring
2 17 (8.63%) JPA
3 16 (8.12%) React
4 15 (7.61%) REST
5 8 (4.06%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.54%) Kafka
7 4 (2.03%) LDAP
8 3 (1.52%) Hibernate
8 3 (1.52%) RESTful
9 2 (1.02%) Node.js
9 2 (1.02%) Redux
9 2 (1.02%) Ruby on Rails
10 1 (0.51%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.51%) CSS
10 1 (0.51%) HTML
10 1 (0.51%) Java EE
10 1 (0.51%) OpenID
10 1 (0.51%) OpenJDK
10 1 (0.51%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 104 (52.79%) Algorithms
2 8 (4.06%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.54%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.54%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.54%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.03%) DataPower
4 4 (2.03%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.02%) Life Science
5 2 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.51%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.51%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.51%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 52 (26.40%) Linux
2 47 (23.86%) Windows
3 14 (7.11%) Mac OS X
4 11 (5.58%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.02%) VMS
6 1 (0.51%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (79.19%) Agile
2 133 (67.51%) Software Engineering
3 132 (67.01%) CI/CD
4 127 (64.47%) SDLC
5 124 (62.94%) Artificial Intelligence
6 122 (61.93%) Machine Learning
7 121 (61.42%) Operational Stability
8 111 (56.35%) Risk Management
9 107 (54.31%) Community of Practice
10 105 (53.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 104 (52.79%) Visualisation
12 99 (50.25%) Open Source
13 97 (49.24%) TDD
14 87 (44.16%) Test Automation
15 84 (42.64%) Batch Processing
16 72 (36.55%) Microservices
17 34 (17.26%) Wealth Management
18 26 (13.20%) DevOps
19 24 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
20 22 (11.17%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 151 (76.65%) SQL
2 133 (67.51%) Python
3 116 (58.88%) Java
4 85 (43.15%) PL/SQL
5 18 (9.14%) Shell Script
6 6 (3.05%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.54%) Bash
7 5 (2.54%) Ruby
8 4 (2.03%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.52%) Perl
10 2 (1.02%) C#
10 2 (1.02%) Elixir
10 2 (1.02%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.02%) PHP
11 1 (0.51%) C++
11 1 (0.51%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 31 (15.74%) Degree
2 14 (7.11%) CISM
2 14 (7.11%) CISSP
2 14 (7.11%) GCIA
2 14 (7.11%) GCIH
2 14 (7.11%) GREM
3 11 (5.58%) CISA
4 4 (2.03%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.03%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.52%) HND
6 2 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.58%) ITGC
1 11 (5.58%) PMO
2 4 (2.03%) GDPR
3 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
System Software
1 98 (49.75%) HDFS
2 4 (2.03%) Docker
3 3 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 86 (43.65%) Terraform
2 5 (2.54%) Grafana
2 5 (2.54%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (2.54%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.02%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.02%) Puppet
3 2 (1.02%) SCCM
3 2 (1.02%) WSUS
4 1 (0.51%) Ansible
4 1 (0.51%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 118 (59.90%) Databricks
2 84 (42.64%) Informatica
3 68 (34.52%) Cloudera
4 47 (23.86%) Oracle
5 18 (9.14%) Microsoft
6 15 (7.61%) SAP
7 14 (7.11%) Dell
8 11 (5.58%) Sage
9 8 (4.06%) Splunk
10 6 (3.05%) Sybase
10 6 (3.05%) VMware
11 5 (2.54%) AppDynamics
11 5 (2.54%) CA
12 4 (2.03%) BeyondTrust
12 4 (2.03%) CyberArk
12 4 (2.03%) Google
12 4 (2.03%) IBM
12 4 (2.03%) Kofax
12 4 (2.03%) Pega
12 4 (2.03%) ServiceNow