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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 54 41
Rank change year-on-year 0 -13 -11
Contract jobs citing Unix 25 13 20
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 3.29% 2.23% 3.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.51% 14.44% 24.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 14
10th Percentile £242 £317 £373
25th Percentile £364 £356 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £358 £509
Median % change year-on-year +25.70% -29.60% +2.83%
75th Percentile £500 £370 £543
90th Percentile £602 £436 £573
North West median daily rate £475 £422 £528
% change year-on-year +12.56% -20.08% +4.50%

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 102 90 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 13.40% 15.44% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 70 55
10th Percentile £213 £247 £270
25th Percentile £320 £334 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £371 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -17.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £542 £471 £529
90th Percentile £615 £520 £598
North West median daily rate £425 £393 £448
% change year-on-year +8.14% -12.18% -0.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 7
10th Percentile £16.46 - £14.00
25th Percentile £17.25 - £15.40
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.57%
75th Percentile £17.75 - -
90th Percentile £17.78 - £17.74
North West median hourly rate £47.05 £17.44 £16.00
% change year-on-year +169.78% +9.00% -39.62%

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 9 July 2026.

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 9 July 2026. 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 £449 +25.42% 4
Warrington - 1 £550 -
Chester - 1 £450 - 2
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 5 (20.00%) Confluence
1 5 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) Azure
3 1 (4.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) DNS
1 4 (16.00%) SSH
2 3 (12.00%) FTP
3 2 (8.00%) SSL
4 1 (4.00%) Firewall
4 1 (4.00%) IPsec
4 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) Sybase ASE
2 4 (16.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.00%) Db2
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (40.00%) Finance
3 6 (24.00%) Banking
4 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (8.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) DBA
1 5 (20.00%) Sybase DBA
2 4 (16.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Unix Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Information Security Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Optimisation Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Security Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Unix Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Solaris Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (20.00%) PKI
2 5 (20.00%) Replication
3 4 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (16.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
4 3 (12.00%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (12.00%) Tandem
5 2 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (8.00%) Virtual Team
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (4.00%) FPGA
6 1 (4.00%) Grid Computing
6 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (76.00%) Linux
2 12 (48.00%) Windows
3 9 (36.00%) AIX
4 7 (28.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (24.00%) Windows Server
6 5 (20.00%) Solaris
7 4 (16.00%) HPUX
7 4 (16.00%) Oracle Linux
7 4 (16.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) ITIL
2 9 (36.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (32.00%) Change Management
4 6 (24.00%) Cryptography
4 6 (24.00%) Key Management
4 6 (24.00%) Storage Management
5 5 (20.00%) High Availability
5 5 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 5 (20.00%) Information Security
5 5 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (20.00%) Project Management
5 5 (20.00%) Task Automation
6 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (16.00%) Customer Experience
6 4 (16.00%) Data Protection
6 4 (16.00%) Release Management
6 4 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (16.00%) Service Management
6 4 (16.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (16.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) Python
2 7 (28.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.00%) Java
4 2 (8.00%) Bash
4 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.00%) Perl
5 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) CISSP
2 4 (16.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (12.00%) RHCE
4 2 (8.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (4.00%) MCSA
5 1 (4.00%) MCSE
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) GRC
2 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (12.00%) NFS
2 3 (12.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (8.00%) KVM
4 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) Ansible
2 4 (16.00%) Terraform
3 3 (12.00%) PowerBroker
3 3 (12.00%) Progress Chef
3 3 (12.00%) Tivoli
3 3 (12.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (8.00%) IBM BigFix
4 2 (8.00%) vCenter Server
5 1 (4.00%) CASB
5 1 (4.00%) Nessus
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Oracle
2 6 (24.00%) Red Hat
3 5 (20.00%) IBM
3 5 (20.00%) Sybase
4 4 (16.00%) Gemalto
4 4 (16.00%) HP
4 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (16.00%) Thales
5 3 (12.00%) Veritas
6 1 (4.00%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.00%) Mellanox
6 1 (4.00%) Remedy
6 1 (4.00%) Solarflare
6 1 (4.00%) Splunk
6 1 (4.00%) Tenable