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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 55 34
Rank change year-on-year +3 -21 -10
Contract jobs citing Unix 21 15 19
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 2.72% 2.52% 3.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.59% 15.96% 26.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 15
10th Percentile £289 £321 £380
25th Percentile £401 £357 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £358 £510
Median % change year-on-year +27.79% -29.80% -0.78%
75th Percentile £499 £447 £548
90th Percentile £554 £564 £573
North West median daily rate £475 £447 £514
% change year-on-year +6.26% -12.99% -0.05%

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 94 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 13.23% 15.77% 15.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 75 53
10th Percentile £214 £209 £260
25th Percentile £350 £313 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £368 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.10% -18.22% -
75th Percentile £550 £476 £538
90th Percentile £621 £520 £605
North West median daily rate £435 £400 £445
% change year-on-year +8.75% -10.01% -1.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £16.59 - £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 £17.77 - £17.74
North West median hourly rate £19.84 £17.44 £14.88
% change year-on-year +13.76% +17.24% -45.91%

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 29 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 29 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 +2 14 £457 +27.65% 1
Warrington - 1 £550 -
Chester - 1 £450 -
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 4 (19.05%) Confluence
1 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) AWS KMS
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) DNS
1 4 (19.05%) SSH
2 3 (14.29%) FTP
3 2 (9.52%) SSL
4 1 (4.76%) Firewall
4 1 (4.76%) IPsec
4 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Sybase ASE
2 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.76%) Db2
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 10 (47.62%) Finance
3 6 (28.57%) Banking
4 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.76%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) DBA
1 5 (23.81%) Sybase DBA
2 4 (19.05%) Unix Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Information Security Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Optimisation Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Security Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Unix Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Solaris Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (23.81%) PKI
2 5 (23.81%) Replication
3 4 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (19.05%) Management Information System
4 3 (14.29%) Data Centre
4 3 (14.29%) Tandem
5 2 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (9.52%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (9.52%) Virtual Team
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (4.76%) FPGA
6 1 (4.76%) Grid Computing
6 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (76.19%) Linux
2 8 (38.10%) AIX
2 8 (38.10%) Windows
3 7 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (23.81%) Solaris
5 4 (19.05%) HPUX
5 4 (19.05%) Oracle Linux
5 4 (19.05%) SUSE
6 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) ITIL
2 8 (38.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (33.33%) Change Management
4 6 (28.57%) Storage Management
5 5 (23.81%) Cryptography
5 5 (23.81%) High Availability
5 5 (23.81%) Key Management
5 5 (23.81%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (23.81%) Task Automation
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (19.05%) Customer Experience
6 4 (19.05%) Incident Response
6 4 (19.05%) Information Security
6 4 (19.05%) Migration
6 4 (19.05%) Project Management
6 4 (19.05%) Release Management
6 4 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (19.05%) Service Management
6 4 (19.05%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (19.05%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) Bash
4 1 (4.76%) Perl
4 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Degree
2 4 (19.05%) CISSP
2 4 (19.05%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (14.29%) RHCE
4 1 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (4.76%) MCSA
4 1 (4.76%) MCSE
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) GRC
2 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) NFS
1 3 (14.29%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 3 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.76%) KVM
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (14.29%) PowerBroker
2 3 (14.29%) Progress Chef
2 3 (14.29%) Tivoli
2 3 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Terraform
4 1 (4.76%) CASB
4 1 (4.76%) IBM BigFix
4 1 (4.76%) Nessus
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Oracle
2 6 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 5 (23.81%) Sybase
4 4 (19.05%) Gemalto
4 4 (19.05%) HP
4 4 (19.05%) IBM
4 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
4 4 (19.05%) Thales
5 3 (14.29%) Veritas
6 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.76%) Mellanox
6 1 (4.76%) Remedy
6 1 (4.76%) Solarflare
6 1 (4.76%) Splunk
6 1 (4.76%) Tenable