Linux Contracts in Cheshire

Linux
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 43 22
Rank change year-on-year +7 -21 -5
Contract jobs citing Linux 22 15 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.90% 2.98% 8.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.93% 19.48% 40.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 34
10th Percentile £335 £190 £305
25th Percentile £365 £463 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £550 £499
Median % change year-on-year -28.55% +10.28% -5.00%
75th Percentile £520 £582 £565
90th Percentile £596 - £628
North West median daily rate £510 £450 £530
% change year-on-year +13.31% -15.09% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £80.59 £48.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +67.89% +20.00% -10.99%

All Operating Systems
Cheshire

Linux 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 58 77 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 12.92% 15.28% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 43 85
10th Percentile £258 £126 £200
25th Percentile £343 £200 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 £390 £326
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% +19.63% -18.50%
75th Percentile £469 £487 £563
90th Percentile £515 £582 £611
North West median daily rate £393 £438 £476
% change year-on-year -10.17% -7.99% +11.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 5
10th Percentile - £14.00 £12.35
25th Percentile - £16.54 £14.00
Median hourly rate - £17.72 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year - -5.84% -5.90%
75th Percentile - - £22.41
90th Percentile - £17.73 £48.41
North West median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year +9.00% -45.39% +62.78%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Cheshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Linux in Cheshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Cheshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Cheshire

Linux
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Knutsford 0 14 £393 -32.47% 2
Chester -2 5 - - 11
Warrington -5 1 £188 -42.31% 8
Linux
North West

Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (22.73%) JBoss
1 5 (22.73%) Mattermost
1 5 (22.73%) Skype for Business
2 3 (13.64%) Apache
2 3 (13.64%) nginx
2 3 (13.64%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) OpenShift
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
4 3 (13.64%) AWS KMS
5 2 (9.09%) SaaS
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) Skype
1 5 (22.73%) Softphone
1 5 (22.73%) Unified Communications
1 5 (22.73%) WebEx
2 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (22.73%) RDBMS
1 5 (22.73%) Relational Database
2 4 (18.18%) MongoDB
2 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) DB2
3 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 5 (22.73%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (22.73%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (22.73%) Git
2 5 (22.73%) JIRA
2 5 (22.73%) SonarQube
2 5 (22.73%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (22.73%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) AWS DevOps
1 6 (27.27%) Support Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Messaging Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Messaging Support
2 5 (22.73%) Messaging Support Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Operations Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Operations Support Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Messaging Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Messaging Support Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Operational Support Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Operations Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Operations Support Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Support Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (22.73%) Spring Boot
1 5 (22.73%) XMPP
2 3 (13.64%) .NET
2 3 (13.64%) OAuth
3 1 (4.55%) JSON
3 1 (4.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.64%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) CMDB
3 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Smartphone
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (40.91%) Windows
3 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
3 8 (36.36%) DevOps
4 6 (27.27%) ITIL
5 5 (22.73%) B2B
5 5 (22.73%) Build Automation
5 5 (22.73%) Code Quality
5 5 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (22.73%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (22.73%) Microservices
5 5 (22.73%) Migration
5 5 (22.73%) Problem Management
5 5 (22.73%) Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (13.64%) Analytics
7 3 (13.64%) Blue-Green Deployment
7 3 (13.64%) Change Management
7 3 (13.64%) Runbook
7 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) Perl
3 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
3 5 (22.73%) Ruby
4 4 (18.18%) Java
4 4 (18.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (18.18%) RHCE
3 1 (4.55%) A+ Certification
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 10 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 5 (22.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Kibana
2 7 (31.82%) Progress Chef
3 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 5 (22.73%) SCOM
4 3 (13.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (63.64%) Red Hat
2 13 (59.09%) Splunk
3 8 (36.36%) AppDynamics
4 5 (22.73%) Cisco
4 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
5 4 (18.18%) Cloudera
6 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.55%) IBM
6 1 (4.55%) Imperva
6 1 (4.55%) Oracle