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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	59	49	36
Rank change year-on-year	-10	-13	-14
Contract jobs citing Unix	17	28	21
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire	2.20%	4.05%	3.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category	14.66%	22.58%	23.33%
Number of daily rates quoted	8	27	18
10^th Percentile	£321	£310	£354
25^th Percentile	£389	£345	£458
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£445	£438	£514
Median % change year-on-year	+1.71%	-14.84%	+3.79%
75^th Percentile	£486	£484	£563
90^th Percentile	£567	£546	£606
North West median daily rate	£485	£450	£514
% change year-on-year	+7.83%	-12.41%	+3.27%

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.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills	116	124	90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire	15.01%	17.92%	16.82%
Number of daily rates quoted	69	94	66
10^th Percentile	£165	£205	£300
25^th Percentile	£300	£313	£356
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£415	£370	£468
Median % change year-on-year	+12.16%	-20.86%	-5.56%
75^th Percentile	£550	£450	£550
90^th Percentile	£630	£516	£613
North West median daily rate	£445	£368	£409
% change year-on-year	+20.92%	-10.02%	-6.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted	6	9	5
10^th Percentile	£16.59	-	£17.55
25^th Percentile	£17.25	£15.50	£21.05
Median hourly rate	£17.50	£16.00	£22.09
Median % change year-on-year	+9.38%	-27.57%	+26.23%
75^th Percentile	£17.75	£18.87	£24.18
90^th Percentile	£17.77	£18.90	-
North West median hourly rate	£47.12	£16.88	£20.39
% change year-on-year	+179.23%	-17.22%	-9.40%

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 Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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 16 October 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.

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 16 October 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	-2	9	£425	+0.59%	2
Chester	-1	3	-	-	5
Unix North West

Unix Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 16 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Unix also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region with a requirement for Unix.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Linux	64.7%	11
1	Stakeholder Management	64.7%	11
3	Python	58.8%	10
4	AWS	41.2%	7
4	Windows	41.2%	7
6	Ansible	35.3%	6
6	Change Management	35.3%	6
6	Cryptography	35.3%	6
6	ITIL	35.3%	6
6	Key Management	35.3%	6
11	AIX	29.4%	5
11	Azure	29.4%	5
11	Degree	29.4%	5
11	Incident Management	29.4%	5
11	Incident Response	29.4%	5
11	Information Security	29.4%	5
11	Service Management	29.4%	5
11	SQL	29.4%	5
11	Task Automation	29.4%	5
20	Confluence	23.5%	4
20	Continuous Improvement	23.5%	4
20	Customer Experience	23.5%	4
20	Data Protection	23.5%	4
20	Gemalto	23.5%	4
20	High Availability	23.5%	4
20	IBM	23.5%	4
20	JIRA	23.5%	4
20	Microsoft Office	23.5%	4
20	Oracle	23.5%	4
20	Performance Optimisation	23.5%	4

Unix Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Operating Systems

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Linux	64.7%	11
2	Windows	41.2%	7
3	AIX	29.4%	5
4	Red Hat Enterprise Linux	23.5%	4
5	Solaris	17.6%	3
6	HPUX	11.8%	2
6	Oracle Linux	11.8%	2
6	SUSE	11.8%	2
6	Windows Server	11.8%	2