Unix Contracts in Glasgow

Unix
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 24 45
Rank change year-on-year -2 +21 +12
Contract jobs citing Unix 49 70 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 6.38% 7.88% 3.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.33% 34.83% 20.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 33 16
10th Percentile £322 £385 £413
25th Percentile £330 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -32.91% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £472 £626 £574
90th Percentile £613 £727 £631
Scotland median daily rate £383 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -29.82% +9.00% +11.11%
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 falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 147 201 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 19.14% 22.64% 18.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 121 126
10th Percentile £200 £250 £169
25th Percentile £313 £400 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £540 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +20.00% +5.88%
75th Percentile £533 £650 £558
90th Percentile £738 £745 £644
Scotland median daily rate £400 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 2
10th Percentile £53.13 £14.23 £15.79
25th Percentile £55.94 £17.72 £16.91
Median hourly rate £60.00 £47.73 £20.43
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% +133.63% -65.95%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.55 £24.80
90th Percentile - £67.00 £26.42
Scotland median hourly rate £26.00 £23.86 £17.61
% change year-on-year +8.97% +35.49% +11.03%

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 27 June 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 4 (8.16%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.12%) Confluence
3 2 (4.08%) StreamWeaver
4 1 (2.04%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) EngageOne
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.53%) AWS
2 9 (18.37%) Azure
3 6 (12.24%) Amazon S3
4 4 (8.16%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.04%) Serverless
5 1 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) SMS
2 1 (2.04%) DNS
2 1 (2.04%) Firewall
2 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.45%) Oracle Database
2 6 (12.24%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (10.20%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (10.20%) Oracle Database 12c
3 5 (10.20%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (10.20%) Oracle8/8i Database
4 4 (8.16%) Apache Hive
4 4 (8.16%) Big Data
4 4 (8.16%) Impala
4 4 (8.16%) Metadata
4 4 (8.16%) MySQL
4 4 (8.16%) NoSQL
4 4 (8.16%) Spark SQL
5 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) JIRA
2 5 (10.20%) Git
2 5 (10.20%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.04%) JUnit
General
1 16 (32.65%) Finance
2 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
3 9 (18.37%) Banking
4 6 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.20%) Public Sector
6 4 (8.16%) Investment Banking
7 3 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (53.06%) Developer
2 7 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
2 7 (14.29%) Unix Engineer
2 7 (14.29%) Unix Linux Engineer
2 7 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
3 6 (12.24%) Database Developer
3 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (12.24%) Network Engineer
3 6 (12.24%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (12.24%) Security Engineer
3 6 (12.24%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Java Developer
4 5 (10.20%) Linux Scripter
4 5 (10.20%) Oracle Developer
4 5 (10.20%) PL/SQL Developer
4 5 (10.20%) SQL Developer
5 4 (8.16%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.20%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 5 (10.20%) RESTful
2 3 (6.12%) HTML
3 2 (4.08%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.08%) REST
3 2 (4.08%) Spring
3 2 (4.08%) XML
4 1 (2.04%) .NET
4 1 (2.04%) Apache Beam
4 1 (2.04%) CSS
4 1 (2.04%) React
4 1 (2.04%) Redfish
4 1 (2.04%) Spring Batch
4 1 (2.04%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Virtual Team
2 4 (8.16%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.08%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (32.65%) Linux
2 8 (16.33%) Windows
3 5 (10.20%) Mac OS
4 4 (8.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.86%) Agile
2 12 (24.49%) DevOps
3 9 (18.37%) SDLC
4 8 (16.33%) Migration
4 8 (16.33%) OO
4 8 (16.33%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (12.24%) Data Modelling
6 6 (12.24%) Disk Encryption
6 6 (12.24%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (12.24%) Refactoring
6 6 (12.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (12.24%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (10.20%) Database Optimisation
8 4 (8.16%) CI/CD
8 4 (8.16%) Data Migration
8 4 (8.16%) Release Management
8 4 (8.16%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (53.06%) SQL
2 19 (38.78%) Shell Script
3 15 (30.61%) PL/SQL
4 14 (28.57%) Python
5 10 (20.41%) Perl
6 6 (12.24%) PowerShell
7 5 (10.20%) Java
8 3 (6.12%) Scala
9 1 (2.04%) C
9 1 (2.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (8.16%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.04%) Degree
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (8.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (12.24%) SCCM
2 5 (10.20%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (8.16%) Data Guard
4 3 (6.12%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.04%) Nessus
Vendors
1 25 (51.02%) Oracle
2 7 (14.29%) Splunk
3 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
4 5 (10.20%) Google
5 4 (8.16%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (6.12%) BMC
7 2 (4.08%) Atlassian
7 2 (4.08%) MuleSoft
8 1 (2.04%) CyberArk
8 1 (2.04%) Databricks
8 1 (2.04%) Dell
8 1 (2.04%) HP
8 1 (2.04%) Sybase