Unix Contracts in Knutsford

Unix
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 11 21
Rank change year-on-year -12 +10 -5
Contract jobs citing Unix 6 14 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 4.11% 12.96% 10.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.08% 60.87% 43.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 14
10th Percentile £357 £461 £323
25th Percentile £358 £487 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £566 £537
Median % change year-on-year -33.83% +5.40% +30.02%
75th Percentile £433 £582 £569
90th Percentile £447 £582 £667
Cheshire median daily rate £375 £536 £450
% change year-on-year -30.16% +19.17% -10.00%

All Operating Systems
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 26 23 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 17.81% 21.30% 24.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 18 31
10th Percentile £357 £321 £322
25th Percentile £358 £445 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £481 £515
Median % change year-on-year -18.30% -6.60% +4.25%
75th Percentile £492 £574 £566
90th Percentile £520 £582 £630
Cheshire median daily rate £389 £390 £326
% change year-on-year -0.19% +19.63% -18.50%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Knutsford

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Knutsford

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Knutsford

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 (50.00%) CICS
1 3 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (16.67%) Camunda
2 1 (16.67%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) DB2
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Selenium
2 2 (33.33%) SOAtest
2 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
3 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (16.67%) CA Release Automation
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (16.67%) Toad
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) General Ledger
2 2 (33.33%) Retail Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Test Architect
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) J2EE
2 2 (33.33%) JSON
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 2 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) CSS3
3 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) jBPM
3 1 (16.67%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) Middleware
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (50.00%) VSAM
2 2 (33.33%) Mobile Payment
3 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
3 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) API Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 2 (33.33%) User Stories
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) COBOL
2 3 (50.00%) JCL
2 3 (50.00%) REXX
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) Perl
4 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (16.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kibana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Ab Initio
2 2 (33.33%) Informatica
2 2 (33.33%) Parasoft
3 1 (16.67%) AppDynamics
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) TIBCO