Unix Contracts in Cheshire

Unix
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 41 31
Rank change year-on-year -13 -10 -2
Contract jobs citing Unix 13 19 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.27% 3.47% 5.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.61% 24.36% 31.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 24
10th Percentile £317 £365 £323
25th Percentile £356 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £507 £495
Median % change year-on-year -29.39% +2.53% -1.10%
75th Percentile £370 £545 £593
90th Percentile £436 £574 £593
North West median daily rate £422 £530 £505
% change year-on-year -20.38% +4.90% -14.36%
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 - - £65.50

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 89 78 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 15.56% 14.23% 18.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 53 69
10th Percentile £247 £210 £200
25th Percentile £334 £321 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £371 £445 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.57% +4.71% -1.16%
75th Percentile £471 £534 £566
90th Percentile £520 £605 £595
North West median daily rate £397 £445 £463
% change year-on-year -10.90% -3.78% -5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 5
10th Percentile - £14.00 £10.83
25th Percentile - £15.40 £11.25
Median hourly rate - £17.72 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - +26.57% -35.72%
75th Percentile - - £22.41
90th Percentile - £17.74 £48.41
North West median hourly rate £17.44 £14.88 £26.50
% change year-on-year +17.24% -43.87% +32.50%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Cheshire over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 5 July 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 -17 13 £358 -30.95% 2
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 7 (53.85%) JBoss
2 6 (46.15%) Tomcat
3 3 (23.08%) CICS
3 3 (23.08%) WebSphere
4 1 (7.69%) Camunda
4 1 (7.69%) Confluence
4 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
1 9 (69.23%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) DB2
2 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) Jenkins
2 8 (61.54%) Git
2 8 (61.54%) JIRA
3 7 (53.85%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (46.15%) Gradle
4 6 (46.15%) JUnit
4 6 (46.15%) Maven
5 2 (15.38%) Selenium
5 2 (15.38%) SOAtest
5 2 (15.38%) TeamCity
6 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (7.69%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
6 1 (7.69%) Toad
General
1 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) General Ledger
3 2 (15.38%) Retail Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Java Developer
3 3 (23.08%) AWS Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Test Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Developer in Test
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Mainframe Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) Spring Boot
2 7 (53.85%) Spring
3 6 (46.15%) REST
3 6 (46.15%) SOAP
4 5 (38.46%) Spring Cloud
5 3 (23.08%) Web Services
6 2 (15.38%) J2EE
6 2 (15.38%) JSON
6 2 (15.38%) Spring MVC
6 2 (15.38%) XML
7 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
7 1 (7.69%) CSS
7 1 (7.69%) CSS3
7 1 (7.69%) HTML5
7 1 (7.69%) jBPM
7 1 (7.69%) Kafka
7 1 (7.69%) Middleware
7 1 (7.69%) Node.js
7 1 (7.69%) React
7 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Mainframe
1 3 (23.08%) VSAM
2 2 (15.38%) Mobile Payment
3 1 (7.69%) Client/Server
3 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Microservices
2 6 (46.15%) Design Patterns
3 5 (38.46%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
5 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 3 (23.08%) Test Strategy
6 2 (15.38%) API Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Code Quality
6 2 (15.38%) Impact Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 2 (15.38%) MVC
6 2 (15.38%) Performance Management
6 2 (15.38%) Test Planning
6 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
6 2 (15.38%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Java
2 6 (46.15%) Shell Script
3 3 (23.08%) COBOL
3 3 (23.08%) JCL
3 3 (23.08%) REXX
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.69%) Perl
5 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kibana
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Ab Initio
2 2 (15.38%) Informatica
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Parasoft
3 1 (7.69%) AppDynamics
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) TIBCO