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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 51 32
Rank change year-on-year -4 -19 -9
Contract jobs citing Unix 20 5 28
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 2.84% 1.20% 5.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.73% 8.62% 29.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 18
10th Percentile £267 - £480
25th Percentile £313 £356 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £358 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.21% -31.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £492 £391 £582
90th Percentile £602 £567 £582
North West median daily rate £465 £525 £527
% change year-on-year -11.43% -0.28% +0.29%

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 88 58 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 12.48% 13.91% 18.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 43 49
10th Percentile £215 £253 £131
25th Percentile £312 £350 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £393 £487
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% -19.30% +24.87%
75th Percentile £450 £494 £538
90th Percentile £566 £583 £582
North West median daily rate £363 £400 £438
% change year-on-year -9.38% -8.57% -9.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 10
10th Percentile £15.85 £17.55 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.38 £21.05 £16.61
Median hourly rate £17.50 £22.09 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +24.66% -14.04%
75th Percentile £18.38 £24.18 -
90th Percentile £18.75 - £18.30
North West median hourly rate £49.72 £24.18 £16.00
% change year-on-year +105.62% +51.13% -45.39%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -16 16 £423 +18.02% 1
Warrington - 1 £550 - 1
Chester - 1 £450 - 1
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 8 (40.00%) Confluence
1 8 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) JBoss
2 1 (5.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) SSH
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (5.00%) DNS
3 1 (5.00%) HTTP
3 1 (5.00%) Network Security
3 1 (5.00%) SSL
3 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.00%) DB2
4 1 (5.00%) Big Data
4 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.00%) DataStage
4 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 10 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Gradle
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) JUnit
2 1 (5.00%) Maven
2 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Ab Initio Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) DBA
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Solaris Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Sybase DBA
4 1 (5.00%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) LDAP
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) RESTful
1 1 (5.00%) SOAP
1 1 (5.00%) Spring
1 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (5.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Tandem
2 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (5.00%) PKI
4 1 (5.00%) Replication
4 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (70.00%) Windows
2 10 (50.00%) Linux
3 5 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (10.00%) AIX
5 1 (5.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) ITIL
2 8 (40.00%) Cryptography
2 8 (40.00%) Information Security
2 8 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (35.00%) Computer Science
3 7 (35.00%) Incident Response
4 6 (30.00%) Change Management
5 5 (25.00%) Key Management
5 5 (25.00%) Release Management
6 4 (20.00%) Data Protection
6 4 (20.00%) Project Management
7 3 (15.00%) Problem Management
7 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (10.00%) Attestation
8 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
8 2 (10.00%) Customer Experience
8 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
8 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
8 2 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) Bash
4 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.00%) Perl
5 1 (5.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Degree
2 7 (35.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (30.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (10.00%) CISSP
6 1 (5.00%) CISM
6 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (5.00%) MCSA
6 1 (5.00%) MCSE
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (10.00%) KVM
1 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Ansible
2 3 (15.00%) Terraform
3 2 (10.00%) IBM BigFix
3 2 (10.00%) vCenter Server
4 1 (5.00%) CASB
4 1 (5.00%) Grafana
4 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.00%) Nessus
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (5.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) IBM
2 6 (30.00%) Gemalto
2 6 (30.00%) Thales
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Ab Initio
4 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.00%) Informatica
4 1 (5.00%) Remedy
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk
4 1 (5.00%) Sybase
4 1 (5.00%) Tenable