Unix Contracts in Cheshire

Unix
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 50 34
Rank change year-on-year -2 -16 -6
Contract jobs citing Unix 7 9 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.46% 1.74% 4.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.72% 13.04% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 19
10th Percentile £357 - £322
25th Percentile - £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.44% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £419 £534 £541
90th Percentile £447 £563 £567
North West median daily rate £447 £523 £495
% change year-on-year -14.45% +5.56% -15.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - - £52.75
% change year-on-year - - +11.35%

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 72 69 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 15.06% 13.37% 17.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 39 66
10th Percentile £286 £126 £194
25th Percentile £350 £200 £216
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 £325 £375
Median % change year-on-year +19.77% -13.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £478 £448 £564
90th Percentile £516 £522 £594
North West median daily rate £391 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -8.00% -10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 6
10th Percentile - £14.00 £10.90
25th Percentile - £16.54 £11.94
Median hourly rate - £17.72 £16.41
Median % change year-on-year - +7.98% -24.66%
75th Percentile - - £21.51
90th Percentile - £17.73 £44.08
North West median hourly rate £13.70 £16.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year -14.38% -45.39% +46.50%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Unix in Cheshire

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Cheshire

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 22 May 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 -9 7 £358 +2.29% 1
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 3 (42.86%) CICS
1 3 (42.86%) WebSphere
2 2 (28.57%) JBoss
3 1 (14.29%) Camunda
3 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) DB2
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
3 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (14.29%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) Git
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) Selenium
3 2 (28.57%) SOAtest
3 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (28.57%) TeamCity
4 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (14.29%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Gradle
4 1 (14.29%) JUnit
4 1 (14.29%) Maven
4 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
4 1 (14.29%) Toad
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) General Ledger
2 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Test Architect
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Mainframe Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
1 3 (42.86%) Web Services
2 2 (28.57%) J2EE
2 2 (28.57%) JSON
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
2 2 (28.57%) XML
3 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) CSS3
3 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) HTML5
3 1 (14.29%) jBPM
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) React
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Mainframe
1 3 (42.86%) VSAM
2 2 (28.57%) Mobile Payment
3 1 (14.29%) Client/Server
3 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) API Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Impact Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Management
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Test Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
3 2 (28.57%) User Stories
4 1 (14.29%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) COBOL
2 3 (42.86%) JCL
2 3 (42.86%) REXX
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) Perl
4 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kibana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Ab Initio
2 2 (28.57%) Informatica
2 2 (28.57%) Parasoft
3 1 (14.29%) AppDynamics
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) TIBCO