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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 34 26
Rank change year-on-year -18 -8 +20
Contract jobs citing Unix 21 21 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.33% 4.09% 5.54%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.42% 29.17% 28.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 18 16
10th Percentile £305 £403 £388
25th Percentile £358 £485 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £520 £498
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% +4.52% -0.50%
75th Percentile £480 £563 £593
90th Percentile £615 £606 £602
North West median daily rate £453 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -12.46% +3.50% -15.25%

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 114 72 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.10% 14.04% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 56 51
10th Percentile £205 £275 £200
25th Percentile £311 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £459 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.56% -3.42% +13.10%
75th Percentile £450 £547 £587
90th Percentile £520 £638 £593
North West median daily rate £375 £445 £420
% change year-on-year -15.73% +5.95% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - £10.76
25th Percentile £15.50 - £11.08
Median hourly rate £17.75 - £13.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.57%
75th Percentile £18.87 - £14.94
90th Percentile - - £16.63
North West median hourly rate £17.44 £18.10 £22.50
% change year-on-year -3.63% -19.57% -3.81%

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
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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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 -12 19 £370 -28.50% 2
Chester -8 1 £675 -3.57% 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 13 (61.90%) JBoss
2 10 (47.62%) WebSphere
3 7 (33.33%) Apache
3 7 (33.33%) IIS
3 7 (33.33%) iPlanet
3 7 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 7 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (14.29%) CICS
5 2 (9.52%) Confluence
5 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
6 1 (4.76%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) OpenShift
2 14 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) Kerberos
2 3 (14.29%) Firewall
2 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 2 (9.52%) DNS
3 2 (9.52%) SSH
3 2 (9.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) Oracle Database
2 3 (14.29%) DB2
3 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (9.52%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (80.95%) Jenkins
2 13 (61.90%) Git
2 13 (61.90%) Sonatype Nexus
3 8 (38.10%) JIRA
4 7 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
4 7 (33.33%) CA Release Automation
5 6 (28.57%) Gradle
5 6 (28.57%) JUnit
5 6 (28.57%) Maven
6 2 (9.52%) Selenium
6 2 (9.52%) SOAtest
General
1 7 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) General Ledger
4 2 (9.52%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Developer
2 5 (23.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Java Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior
4 3 (14.29%) AWS Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Test Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Developer in Test
6 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) Mainframe Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) LDAP
2 7 (33.33%) OAuth
2 7 (33.33%) OpenID
2 7 (33.33%) SAML
3 6 (28.57%) REST
3 6 (28.57%) SOAP
3 6 (28.57%) Spring
3 6 (28.57%) Spring Boot
4 5 (23.81%) Spring Cloud
5 3 (14.29%) Web Services
6 2 (9.52%) J2EE
6 2 (9.52%) JSON
6 2 (9.52%) RESTful
6 2 (9.52%) Spring MVC
6 2 (9.52%) XML
7 1 (4.76%) Node.js
7 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Mainframe
1 3 (14.29%) VSAM
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (9.52%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
2 2 (9.52%) Tandem
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (76.19%) Linux
2 11 (52.38%) Windows
3 6 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 9 (42.86%) DevOps
2 7 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 7 (33.33%) Microservices
3 6 (28.57%) Design Patterns
4 5 (23.81%) Architectural Patterns
4 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
5 4 (19.05%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (19.05%) ITIL
5 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (19.05%) Task Automation
6 3 (14.29%) Agile
6 3 (14.29%) Problem Management
6 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 3 (14.29%) Test Strategy
7 2 (9.52%) Incident Management
7 2 (9.52%) Performance Management
7 2 (9.52%) User Stories
7 2 (9.52%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) Shell Script
2 9 (42.86%) Java
3 7 (33.33%) Groovy
4 3 (14.29%) COBOL
4 3 (14.29%) JCL
4 3 (14.29%) REXX
5 1 (4.76%) Bash
5 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.76%) Python
5 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 2 (9.52%) CISSP
2 2 (9.52%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) MCSA
2 2 (9.52%) MCSE
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 7 (33.33%) Docker
2 7 (33.33%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) CA Single Sign-On
1 7 (33.33%) CA Wily
1 7 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 7 (33.33%) Tivoli
2 4 (19.05%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (9.52%) CASB
3 2 (9.52%) Nessus
4 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (76.19%) Oracle
2 10 (47.62%) Splunk
3 9 (42.86%) IBM
3 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
4 8 (38.10%) AppDynamics
5 7 (33.33%) Broadcom
6 2 (9.52%) Ab Initio
6 2 (9.52%) CyberArk
6 2 (9.52%) Informatica
6 2 (9.52%) Parasoft
6 2 (9.52%) Remedy
6 2 (9.52%) Tenable
7 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace