Unix Contracts in Cheshire

Unix
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Unix skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unix over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 30 22
Rank change year-on-year -10 -8 +15
Contract jobs citing Unix 17 33 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.39% 6.12% 6.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.61% 28.45% 28.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 25 23
10th Percentile £451 £323 £324
25th Percentile £481 £325 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.17% -10.00% +55.76%
75th Percentile £582 £563 £622
90th Percentile - £611 £632
North West median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +9.95% -9.05% +37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
North West median hourly rate - £42.50 £47.38
% change year-on-year - -10.29% +7.67%

All Operating Systems
Cheshire

Unix is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 72 116 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.37% 21.52% 24.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 88 73
10th Percentile £126 £200 £163
25th Percentile £200 £214 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £350 £406
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -13.92% +8.27%
75th Percentile £497 £561 £538
90th Percentile £582 £606 £630
North West median daily rate £438 £476 £425
% change year-on-year -7.99% +11.88% +16.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 1
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.35 -
25th Percentile £16.54 £14.00 -
Median hourly rate £17.72 £18.82 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% -5.90% +15.47%
75th Percentile - £22.41 -
90th Percentile £17.73 £48.41 -
North West median hourly rate £16.00 £29.30 £18.00
% change year-on-year -45.39% +62.78% +5.88%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Cheshire

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Cheshire

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Cheshire

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 27 April 2024. 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 +7 14 £566 +10.12% 1
Warrington +7 1 £450 -
Macclesfield -16 1 - -
Unix
North West

Unix
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 1 (5.88%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) dbt
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.88%) Metadata
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.88%) SAP BW
1 1 (5.88%) SAP HANA
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Jenkins
2 7 (41.18%) JIRA
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.76%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
2 7 (41.18%) Windows Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Automation Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Build Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) ETL Developer
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Build Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Django
1 4 (23.53%) FastAPI
1 4 (23.53%) Flask
2 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) CSS
2 2 (11.76%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) SAP Basis
3 1 (5.88%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Public Cloud
2 7 (41.18%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) Windows
2 9 (52.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
1 8 (47.06%) DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) Knowledge Transfer
2 7 (41.18%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (41.18%) Project Delivery
2 7 (41.18%) Server Building
3 6 (35.29%) API Development
4 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (29.41%) Observability
5 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) ETL
7 1 (5.88%) Agile
7 1 (5.88%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (5.88%) Data Modelling
7 1 (5.88%) Microservices
7 1 (5.88%) Migration
7 1 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (5.88%) SAP Security
7 1 (5.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Ruby
2 6 (35.29%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) Perl
3 2 (11.76%) PHP
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) Ansible
1 12 (70.59%) Progress Chef
2 7 (41.18%) CFEngine
2 7 (41.18%) PowerBroker
2 7 (41.18%) Puppet
3 5 (29.41%) Terraform
4 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) VMware