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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 36 22
Rank change year-on-year -11 -14 +19
Contract jobs citing Unix 28 21 32
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 4.05% 3.88% 7.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.40% 23.33% 34.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 18 21
10th Percentile £310 £354 £400
25th Percentile £345 £458 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £514 £495
Median % change year-on-year -14.84% +3.79% +1.54%
75th Percentile £484 £563 £593
90th Percentile £546 £606 -
North West median daily rate £450 £514 £495
% change year-on-year -12.41% +3.79% -16.46%

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 125 90 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.09% 16.64% 22.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 66 61
10th Percentile £206 £300 £200
25th Percentile £313 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.69% -5.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £450 £551 £588
90th Percentile £514 £638 £611
North West median daily rate £370 £425 £438
% change year-on-year -12.94% -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 £17.75 £20.39 £22.50
% change year-on-year -12.93% -9.40% -44.55%

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 18 October 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 18 October 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 -3 26 £423 -17.76% 4
Chester -9 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 13 (46.43%) JBoss
2 10 (35.71%) WebSphere
3 9 (32.14%) Confluence
3 9 (32.14%) SharePoint
4 7 (25.00%) Apache
4 7 (25.00%) IIS
4 7 (25.00%) iPlanet
4 7 (25.00%) Tomcat
4 7 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (10.71%) CICS
6 1 (3.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 15 (53.57%) OpenShift
2 14 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (32.14%) SSH
2 7 (25.00%) Kerberos
3 3 (10.71%) Firewall
3 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
4 2 (7.14%) DNS
4 2 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) Oracle Database
2 3 (10.71%) DB2
3 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (60.71%) Jenkins
2 15 (53.57%) JIRA
3 13 (46.43%) Git
3 13 (46.43%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 7 (25.00%) CA Release Automation
5 6 (21.43%) Gradle
5 6 (21.43%) JUnit
5 6 (21.43%) Maven
6 2 (7.14%) Selenium
6 2 (7.14%) SOAtest
General
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 9 (32.14%) Finance
3 7 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (25.00%) Banking
4 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.14%) General Ledger
4 2 (7.14%) Retail Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Analyst
2 6 (21.43%) Developer
3 5 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Java Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (10.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Test Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Developer in Test
7 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 1 (3.57%) Mainframe Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) LDAP
2 7 (25.00%) OAuth
2 7 (25.00%) OpenID
2 7 (25.00%) SAML
3 6 (21.43%) REST
3 6 (21.43%) SOAP
3 6 (21.43%) Spring
3 6 (21.43%) Spring Boot
4 5 (17.86%) Spring Cloud
5 3 (10.71%) Web Services
6 2 (7.14%) J2EE
6 2 (7.14%) JSON
6 2 (7.14%) RESTful
6 2 (7.14%) Spring MVC
6 2 (7.14%) XML
7 1 (3.57%) Node.js
7 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Tandem
2 3 (10.71%) Mainframe
2 3 (10.71%) VSAM
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.14%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (64.29%) Windows
2 16 (57.14%) Linux
3 6 (21.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) ITIL
1 11 (39.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (32.14%) CI/CD
2 9 (32.14%) Computer Science
2 9 (32.14%) Cryptography
2 9 (32.14%) DevOps
2 9 (32.14%) Information Security
3 8 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 7 (25.00%) Change Management
4 7 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (25.00%) Microservices
4 7 (25.00%) Release Management
5 6 (21.43%) Design Patterns
5 6 (21.43%) Key Management
5 6 (21.43%) Problem Management
6 5 (17.86%) Architectural Patterns
6 5 (17.86%) Data Protection
6 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (17.86%) Project Management
7 4 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) Shell Script
2 9 (32.14%) Java
3 7 (25.00%) Groovy
3 7 (25.00%) Python
4 3 (10.71%) COBOL
4 3 (10.71%) JCL
4 3 (10.71%) REXX
5 1 (3.57%) Bash
5 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (32.14%) Degree
2 5 (17.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Certification
3 3 (10.71%) CISSP
4 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (7.14%) MCSA
4 2 (7.14%) MCSE
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) Active Directory
2 7 (25.00%) Docker
2 7 (25.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) CA Single Sign-On
1 7 (25.00%) CA Wily
1 7 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 7 (25.00%) Tivoli
2 4 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (7.14%) CASB
3 2 (7.14%) Nessus
4 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (57.14%) IBM
1 16 (57.14%) Oracle
2 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
3 10 (35.71%) Splunk
4 8 (28.57%) AppDynamics
5 7 (25.00%) Broadcom
6 6 (21.43%) Gemalto
6 6 (21.43%) Thales
7 2 (7.14%) Ab Initio
7 2 (7.14%) CyberArk
7 2 (7.14%) Informatica
7 2 (7.14%) Parasoft
7 2 (7.14%) Remedy
7 2 (7.14%) Tenable
8 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace