Unix Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Unix
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 38 20
Rank change year-on-year -14 -18 +15
Contract jobs citing Unix 24 19 39
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 3.40% 3.74% 9.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.69% 24.05% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 27
10th Percentile £307 £467 £477
25th Percentile £323 £498 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% +1.71% +50.00%
75th Percentile £488 £576 £588
90th Percentile £592 £680 £593
North West median daily rate £453 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -15.80% +2.48% -12.50%

All Operating Systems
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 116 79 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 16.45% 15.55% 26.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 55 67
10th Percentile £200 £327 £200
25th Percentile £305 £400 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £361 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% -3.81% +42.86%
75th Percentile £450 £575 £586
90th Percentile £500 £661 £603
North West median daily rate £361 £425 £438
% change year-on-year -15.00% -2.86% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 3
10th Percentile - £17.55 £11.89
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £13.90
Median hourly rate £16.00 £22.09 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.57% +26.23% -19.65%
75th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £20.38
90th Percentile £18.90 - £21.95
North West median hourly rate £18.87 £19.86 £22.00
% change year-on-year -4.98% -9.73% +5.31%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Unix job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Unix

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Cheshire over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Cheshire

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Unix

Unix
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 Unix within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 12 November 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 -12 22 £423 -20.28% 2
Chester -8 1 £675 -3.57%
Unix
North West

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (50.00%) JBoss
2 9 (37.50%) Confluence
2 9 (37.50%) SharePoint
3 7 (29.17%) Apache
3 7 (29.17%) IIS
3 7 (29.17%) iPlanet
3 7 (29.17%) WebSphere
3 7 (29.17%) WebSphere Application Server
4 6 (25.00%) Tomcat
5 1 (4.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) OpenShift
2 12 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (37.50%) SSH
2 7 (29.17%) Kerberos
3 3 (12.50%) Firewall
3 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.33%) DNS
4 2 (8.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (58.33%) JIRA
2 13 (54.17%) Jenkins
3 12 (50.00%) Git
3 12 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (29.17%) Bitbucket Server
4 7 (29.17%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (20.83%) Gradle
5 5 (20.83%) JUnit
5 5 (20.83%) Maven
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Developer in Test
6 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (37.50%) LDAP
2 7 (29.17%) OAuth
2 7 (29.17%) OpenID
2 7 (29.17%) SAML
3 5 (20.83%) REST
3 5 (20.83%) SOAP
3 5 (20.83%) Spring
3 5 (20.83%) Spring Boot
4 4 (16.67%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (8.33%) RESTful
6 1 (4.17%) Node.js
6 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (4.17%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Tandem
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (75.00%) Windows
2 15 (62.50%) Linux
3 6 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) ITIL
2 9 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 9 (37.50%) Cryptography
2 9 (37.50%) Information Security
2 9 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 8 (33.33%) DevOps
3 8 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 7 (29.17%) Change Management
4 7 (29.17%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (29.17%) Release Management
5 6 (25.00%) Key Management
5 6 (25.00%) Microservices
5 6 (25.00%) Problem Management
6 5 (20.83%) Data Protection
6 5 (20.83%) Design Patterns
6 5 (20.83%) Project Management
7 4 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (16.67%) Incident Management
7 4 (16.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 7 (29.17%) Groovy
2 7 (29.17%) Python
3 5 (20.83%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (37.50%) Degree
2 5 (20.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 3 (12.50%) CISSP
4 2 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (8.33%) MCSA
4 2 (8.33%) MCSE
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) CISM
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 7 (29.17%) Docker
2 7 (29.17%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) CA Single Sign-On
1 7 (29.17%) CA Wily
1 7 (29.17%) Progress Chef
1 7 (29.17%) Tivoli
2 4 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (8.33%) CASB
3 2 (8.33%) Nessus
4 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (66.67%) IBM
2 13 (54.17%) Oracle
3 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
4 10 (41.67%) Splunk
5 8 (33.33%) AppDynamics
6 7 (29.17%) Broadcom
7 6 (25.00%) Gemalto
7 6 (25.00%) Thales
8 2 (8.33%) CyberArk
8 2 (8.33%) Remedy
8 2 (8.33%) Tenable
9 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace