Unix Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Unix
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Unix 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 1.01% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £638 - £668
% change year-on-year - - +90.71%

All Operating Systems
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 18 39 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 18.18% 21.67% 23.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 18
10th Percentile £436 £514 £327
25th Percentile £463 £553 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £563
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +8.89% -2.17%
75th Percentile £575 £706 £694
90th Percentile £636 £736 £738
Gloucestershire median daily rate £425 £531 £575
% change year-on-year -20.00% -7.61% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +53.80%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unix relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Unix job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Unix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Unix

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Unix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Unix

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Dell DRAC
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk