Linux Contracts in Cheshire

Linux
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 20 21
Rank change year-on-year -28 +1 +6
Contract jobs citing Linux 11 36 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.02% 7.09% 8.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.29% 38.30% 35.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 27 23
10th Percentile £335 £317 £476
25th Percentile £472 £326 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -9.09% +53.20%
75th Percentile £533 £568 £630
90th Percentile £568 £620 £634
North West median daily rate £500 £520 £580
% change year-on-year -3.75% -10.43% +28.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £65.50 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year - +200.73% -
North West median hourly rate £48.00 £30.00 £37.14
% change year-on-year +60.00% -19.22% -18.37%

All Operating Systems
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 77 94 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.15% 18.50% 23.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 70 66
10th Percentile £188 £199 £160
25th Percentile £312 £221 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £413 £441
Median % change year-on-year +7.88% -6.52% +16.12%
75th Percentile £525 £565 £539
90th Percentile £587 £594 £630
North West median daily rate £438 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -7.89% - +24.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 3
10th Percentile £14.00 £10.83 £20.36
25th Percentile £15.40 £11.25 £20.89
Median hourly rate £17.72 £14.00 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year +26.57% -35.72% +14.63%
75th Percentile - £22.41 -
90th Percentile £17.74 £48.41 -
North West median hourly rate £14.00 £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -49.09% +37.50% +25.00%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Cheshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Linux in Cheshire

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux in Cheshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux in Cheshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Linux in Cheshire

Linux
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 Linux within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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 -14 6 £509 -9.15% 3
Chester +6 1 - - 3
Warrington +4 1 £450 -30.77% 2
Crewe - 1 £500 -
Ellesmere Port - 1 £130 -
Linux
North West

Linux
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 (27.27%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) SAP BW
1 1 (9.09%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Bitbucket
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
5 1 (9.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Audit Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) ETL Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Implementation Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) SAP Basis
1 1 (9.09%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) Unix
3 2 (18.18%) Mac OS
4 1 (9.09%) CentOS
4 1 (9.09%) Debian
4 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Computer Science
2 4 (36.36%) Change Management
2 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
5 1 (9.09%) ETL
5 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (9.09%) Logistics
5 1 (9.09%) Low Latency
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (9.09%) Problem Management
5 1 (9.09%) SAP Security
5 1 (9.09%) Software Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) C++
2 1 (9.09%) Go
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
1 1 (9.09%) systemd
1 1 (9.09%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Tanium
2 3 (27.27%) Atlassian
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
4 1 (9.09%) Apple
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle
4 1 (9.09%) SAP