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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 18 12
Rank change year-on-year -16 -6 +11
Contract jobs citing Unix 15 16 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 5.93% 8.74% 13.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.86% 43.24% 57.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 13
10th Percentile £321 £363 £359
25th Percentile £357 £487 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £514 £570
Median % change year-on-year -30.32% -9.87% +16.33%
75th Percentile £419 £555 £593
90th Percentile £548 £575 -
Cheshire median daily rate £358 £510 £514
% change year-on-year -29.80% -0.78% +2.80%

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 58 37 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 22.92% 20.22% 22.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 32 21
10th Percentile £313 £321 £322
25th Percentile £358 £388 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £501 £565
Median % change year-on-year -25.19% -11.28% +14.14%
75th Percentile £492 £547 £593
90th Percentile £520 £576 -
Cheshire median daily rate £373 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -17.22% +5.88% +1.19%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Knutsford over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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

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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 7 (46.67%) JBoss
2 6 (40.00%) Tomcat
3 3 (20.00%) CICS
3 3 (20.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (6.67%) Camunda
4 1 (6.67%) Confluence
4 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
1 9 (60.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) SSL
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) DB2
2 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (13.33%) Hadoop
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 8 (53.33%) Git
2 8 (53.33%) JIRA
3 7 (46.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (40.00%) Gradle
4 6 (40.00%) JUnit
4 6 (40.00%) Maven
5 2 (13.33%) Selenium
5 2 (13.33%) SOAtest
5 2 (13.33%) TeamCity
6 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (6.67%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
6 1 (6.67%) Toad
General
1 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) General Ledger
4 2 (13.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Test Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Developer in Test
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Mainframe Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) Spring Boot
2 7 (46.67%) Spring
3 6 (40.00%) REST
3 6 (40.00%) SOAP
4 5 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
5 3 (20.00%) Web Services
6 2 (13.33%) J2EE
6 2 (13.33%) JSON
6 2 (13.33%) LDAP
6 2 (13.33%) Spring MVC
6 2 (13.33%) XML
7 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
7 1 (6.67%) CSS
7 1 (6.67%) CSS3
7 1 (6.67%) HTML5
7 1 (6.67%) Kafka
7 1 (6.67%) Middleware
7 1 (6.67%) Node.js
7 1 (6.67%) React
7 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (20.00%) VSAM
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (13.33%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Client/Server
3 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Microservices
2 6 (40.00%) Design Patterns
3 5 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (20.00%) ITIL
5 3 (20.00%) Migration
5 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
6 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
6 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
6 2 (13.33%) Identity Management
6 2 (13.33%) Impact Analysis
6 2 (13.33%) Log Correlation
6 2 (13.33%) MVC
6 2 (13.33%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (20.00%) COBOL
3 3 (20.00%) JCL
3 3 (20.00%) REXX
4 2 (13.33%) SQL
5 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.67%) Perl
5 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
5 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) CISSP
1 2 (13.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (13.33%) MCSA
1 2 (13.33%) MCSE
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) CASB
1 2 (13.33%) Nessus
2 1 (6.67%) Kibana
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Splunk
3 2 (13.33%) Ab Initio
3 2 (13.33%) CyberArk
3 2 (13.33%) Informatica
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Parasoft
3 2 (13.33%) Remedy
3 2 (13.33%) Tenable
4 1 (6.67%) AppDynamics
4 1 (6.67%) IBM
4 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.67%) TIBCO