Solarflare Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Solarflare
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring knowledge or experience of Solarflare products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Solarflare over the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Solarflare Communications, Inc.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Solarflare 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.13% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £425 - -

All Vendors
Cheshire

Solarflare falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 338 301 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 44.42% 51.63% 46.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 216 168
10th Percentile £313 £313 £274
25th Percentile £413 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £506
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -11.07% +1.20%
75th Percentile £597 £521 £589
90th Percentile £653 £636 £638
North West median daily rate £481 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% -5.00% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 11
10th Percentile £17.00 £12.82 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £14.37 £12.50
Median hourly rate £17.50 £50.00 £17.29
Median % change year-on-year -65.00% +189.27% -23.08%
75th Percentile £34.46 £85.81 £17.72
90th Percentile £83.80 £86.00 £17.78
North West median hourly rate £29.98 £29.27 £16.06
% change year-on-year +2.43% +82.25% -40.52%

Solarflare
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 Solarflare within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 9 July 2026. 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 - 1 £425 -
Solarflare
North West

Solarflare
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Corporate Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Unix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA
1 1 (100.00%) Grid Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Wealth Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Mellanox
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle