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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 52 33
Rank change year-on-year -6 -19 -5
Contract jobs citing Unix 15 4 22
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 2.14% 0.94% 4.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.75% 7.84% 26.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 15
10th Percentile £260 £357 £472
25th Percentile £358 £358 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.16% -31.91% +22.22%
75th Percentile £506 £465 £582
90th Percentile £629 £597 -
North West median daily rate £469 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -10.67% -4.55% +4.76%

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 80 51 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 11.43% 12.03% 16.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 41 43
10th Percentile £198 £250 £126
25th Percentile £303 £320 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £388 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% -18.42% +35.71%
75th Percentile £487 £473 £544
90th Percentile £583 £565 £582
North West median daily rate £377 £393 £438
% change year-on-year -4.07% -10.17% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 9
10th Percentile - £21.36 £14.00
25th Percentile - £21.83 £16.54
Median hourly rate - £23.14 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +30.56% -5.84%
75th Percentile - £23.92 -
90th Percentile - £24.08 £17.73
North West median hourly rate £61.00 £23.14 £16.00
% change year-on-year +163.67% +44.59% -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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -20 11 £449 +19.89% 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 1 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) JBoss
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
1 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) FTP
2 1 (6.67%) HTTP
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) SSL
2 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (13.33%) DB2
4 1 (6.67%) Big Data
4 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.67%) DataStage
4 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (6.67%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Gradle
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) JUnit
2 1 (6.67%) Maven
2 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Ab Initio Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) DBA
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Unix Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Solaris Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Sybase DBA
3 1 (6.67%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) LDAP
1 1 (6.67%) REST
1 1 (6.67%) RESTful
1 1 (6.67%) SOAP
1 1 (6.67%) Spring
1 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
1 1 (6.67%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (80.00%) Linux
2 7 (46.67%) Windows
3 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (26.67%) AIX
5 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (13.33%) Solaris
6 1 (6.67%) HPUX
6 1 (6.67%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (6.67%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (13.33%) Asset Management
3 2 (13.33%) Change Management
3 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (13.33%) Microservices
3 2 (13.33%) Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (13.33%) Storage Management
3 2 (13.33%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (6.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (6.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (6.67%) Database Migration
4 1 (6.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (6.67%) Generative AI
4 1 (6.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (6.67%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) Bash
4 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.67%) Perl
5 1 (6.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) CISSP
1 2 (13.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (6.67%) MCSA
2 1 (6.67%) MCSE
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.67%) RHCE
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (13.33%) KVM
3 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.67%) Docker
3 1 (6.67%) NFS
3 1 (6.67%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Ansible
2 3 (20.00%) Terraform
3 2 (13.33%) IBM BigFix
3 2 (13.33%) Tivoli
3 2 (13.33%) vCenter Server
4 1 (6.67%) CASB
4 1 (6.67%) Grafana
4 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.67%) Nessus
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (6.67%) PowerBroker
4 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
4 1 (6.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) IBM
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) Ab Initio
3 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
3 1 (6.67%) HP
3 1 (6.67%) Informatica
3 1 (6.67%) Remedy
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) Sybase
3 1 (6.67%) Tenable
3 1 (6.67%) Veritas