Linux Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Linux
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 22 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 -17 +4
Contract jobs citing Linux 32 10 33
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 12.50% 6.58% 38.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 62.75% 40.00% 62.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 9 26
10th Percentile £305 £356 £485
25th Percentile £313 £488 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £505 £560
Median % change year-on-year -28.71% -9.82% +13.13%
75th Percentile £460 £525 £585
90th Percentile £492 £589 £606
Cheshire median daily rate £365 £508 £550
% change year-on-year -28.08% -7.73% +12.24%

All Operating Systems
Knutsford

Linux 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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 51 25 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 19.92% 16.45% 61.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 22 39
10th Percentile £305 £332 £473
25th Percentile £313 £447 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £509 £550
Median % change year-on-year -28.22% -7.55% +29.41%
75th Percentile £434 £570 £585
90th Percentile £488 £634 £594
Cheshire median daily rate £360 £500 £498
% change year-on-year -28.00% +0.50% +32.67%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Linux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Linux job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Linux

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Knutsford over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Knutsford

Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 16 (50.00%) JBoss
2 13 (40.63%) Apache
3 9 (28.13%) IIS
3 9 (28.13%) WebSphere
4 8 (25.00%) iPlanet
4 8 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 21 (65.63%) OpenShift
2 16 (50.00%) AWS
3 9 (28.13%) IaaS
3 9 (28.13%) PaaS
3 9 (28.13%) SaaS
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.25%) Serverless
4 2 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.00%) Firewall
1 8 (25.00%) Kerberos
2 5 (15.63%) SSL
3 2 (6.25%) DNS
3 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.13%) HTTP
4 1 (3.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (43.75%) Relational Database
2 8 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 3 (9.38%) RDBMS
3 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 15 (46.88%) Git
1 15 (46.88%) Jenkins
2 13 (40.63%) Sonatype Nexus
3 11 (34.38%) Bitbucket Server
3 11 (34.38%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (15.63%) JIRA
5 3 (9.38%) Bitbucket
5 3 (9.38%) SonarQube
5 3 (9.38%) TeamCity
6 2 (6.25%) GitLab
7 1 (3.13%) Gradle
7 1 (3.13%) JUnit
7 1 (3.13%) Maven
General
1 14 (43.75%) Finance
2 2 (6.25%) Banking
2 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Lead
3 4 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) DevOps Specialist
4 3 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (9.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Applications Support
6 1 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Developer in Test
6 1 (3.13%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) Platform Specialist
6 1 (3.13%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (34.38%) Node.js
2 10 (31.25%) LDAP
3 9 (28.13%) AngularJS
3 9 (28.13%) OAuth
3 9 (28.13%) OpenID
3 9 (28.13%) SAML
4 4 (12.50%) Spring Boot
5 3 (9.38%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (9.38%) Kafka
6 1 (3.13%) Middleware
6 1 (3.13%) REST
6 1 (3.13%) SOAP
6 1 (3.13%) Spring
6 1 (3.13%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) PKI
2 2 (6.25%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (81.25%) Windows
2 12 (37.50%) Unix
3 8 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) DevOps
2 13 (40.63%) Observability
3 11 (34.38%) Containerisation
4 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
5 9 (28.13%) ETL
6 7 (21.88%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (18.75%) Microservices
8 4 (12.50%) Task Automation
9 3 (9.38%) Analytics
9 3 (9.38%) Change Management
9 3 (9.38%) Code Quality
9 3 (9.38%) High Availability
9 3 (9.38%) Performance Monitoring
9 3 (9.38%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (9.38%) Problem Management
9 3 (9.38%) Runbook
9 3 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (9.38%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 2 (6.25%) Log Correlation
Programming Languages
1 15 (46.88%) Python
2 10 (31.25%) PHP
3 9 (28.13%) Groovy
4 8 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 5 (15.63%) Java
5 5 (15.63%) Perl
6 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) AWS Certification
2 3 (9.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) CISSP
3 2 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (6.25%) MCSA
3 2 (6.25%) MCSE
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 23 (71.88%) Docker
2 13 (40.63%) Active Directory
3 7 (21.88%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 2 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (40.63%) Progress Chef
3 10 (31.25%) Grafana
4 9 (28.13%) CA Single Sign-On
5 8 (25.00%) CA Wily
6 7 (21.88%) Tivoli
7 4 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (9.38%) Ansible
8 3 (9.38%) Kibana
9 2 (6.25%) CASB
9 2 (6.25%) Nessus
Vendors
1 23 (71.88%) Oracle
2 20 (62.50%) AppDynamics
3 13 (40.63%) Splunk
4 11 (34.38%) IBM
4 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
5 9 (28.13%) Broadcom
6 4 (12.50%) Cloudera
7 3 (9.38%) Red Hat
8 2 (6.25%) CyberArk
8 2 (6.25%) Remedy
8 2 (6.25%) Tenable