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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 47 26
Rank change year-on-year +15 -21 -8
Contract jobs citing Linux 26 9 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 5.71% 1.81% 7.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.27% 13.04% 39.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 7 29
10th Percentile £342 £164 £290
25th Percentile £358 £308 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% +0.50% -9.55%
75th Percentile £520 £550 £566
90th Percentile £577 £582 £620
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -5.66%
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 - £48.00 £39.80
% change year-on-year - +20.60% -15.99%

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 63 69 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 13.85% 13.91% 18.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 39 74
10th Percentile £268 £126 £191
25th Percentile £343 £200 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £325 £350
Median % change year-on-year +16.23% -7.14% -26.32%
75th Percentile £469 £448 £551
90th Percentile £520 £522 £596
North West median daily rate £389 £438 £475
% change year-on-year -11.03% -7.89% +5.56%
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% -9.91%
75th Percentile - - £22.41
90th Percentile - £17.73 £48.41
North West median hourly rate £13.70 £16.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year -14.38% -45.39% +46.50%

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 14 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 14 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 +4 17 £393 -32.47% 5
Chester -1 6 - - 12
Warrington -6 1 £188 -42.31% 17
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 6 (23.08%) JBoss
1 6 (23.08%) Mattermost
1 6 (23.08%) Skype for Business
2 4 (15.38%) Tomcat
3 3 (11.54%) Apache
3 3 (11.54%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) AWS
2 6 (23.08%) OpenShift
3 5 (19.23%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (19.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
4 3 (11.54%) AWS KMS
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.69%) SaaS
5 2 (7.69%) Serverless
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) Skype
1 6 (23.08%) Softphone
1 6 (23.08%) Unified Communications
1 6 (23.08%) WebEx
2 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (19.23%) RDBMS
1 5 (19.23%) Relational Database
2 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.85%) DB2
3 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Jenkins
2 6 (23.08%) Git
2 6 (23.08%) JIRA
2 6 (23.08%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (19.23%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (19.23%) CA Release Automation
3 5 (19.23%) SonarQube
3 5 (19.23%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.85%) Gradle
4 1 (3.85%) JUnit
4 1 (3.85%) Maven
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Support Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) AWS DevOps
2 6 (23.08%) Messaging Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Messaging Support
2 6 (23.08%) Messaging Support Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Operations Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Operations Support Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Messaging Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Messaging Support Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Operational Support Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Operations Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Operations Support Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Support Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) Spring Boot
1 6 (23.08%) XMPP
2 5 (19.23%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (11.54%) .NET
3 3 (11.54%) OAuth
4 2 (7.69%) RESTful
5 1 (3.85%) JSON
5 1 (3.85%) REST
5 1 (3.85%) SOAP
5 1 (3.85%) Spring
5 1 (3.85%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Management Information System
2 3 (11.54%) Security Posture
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.85%) CMDB
4 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) Smartphone
4 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (34.62%) Windows
3 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 8 (30.77%) DevOps
4 7 (26.92%) ITIL
5 6 (23.08%) B2B
5 6 (23.08%) Microservices
5 6 (23.08%) Problem Management
5 6 (23.08%) Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (19.23%) Build Automation
6 5 (19.23%) Code Quality
6 5 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (19.23%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (19.23%) Migration
6 5 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (11.54%) Blue-Green Deployment
8 3 (11.54%) Observability
8 3 (11.54%) Runbook
8 3 (11.54%) Secrets Management
8 3 (11.54%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) Python
2 9 (34.62%) SQL
3 6 (23.08%) Java
3 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 6 (23.08%) Ruby
3 6 (23.08%) Shell Script
4 5 (19.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (19.23%) RHCE
3 1 (3.85%) A+ Certification
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 11 (42.31%) Active Directory
2 5 (19.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Kibana
1 8 (30.77%) Progress Chef
2 6 (23.08%) SCOM
3 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
4 3 (11.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (61.54%) Red Hat
2 14 (53.85%) Splunk
3 8 (30.77%) AppDynamics
4 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
5 6 (23.08%) Cisco
6 4 (15.38%) Cloudera
7 2 (7.69%) Oracle
8 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
8 1 (3.85%) IBM
8 1 (3.85%) Imperva