Solaris Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Oracle Solaris
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Solaris skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Solaris 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.29% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £372 - -
25th Percentile £398 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - -
75th Percentile £528 - -
90th Percentile £556 - -
North West median daily rate £465 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -19.13% +21.05% -6.86%

All Operating Systems
Cheshire

Solaris 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 90 64 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 12.88% 14.95% 19.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 45 53
10th Percentile £214 £255 £134
25th Percentile £311 £320 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £400 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -19.19% +41.43%
75th Percentile £450 £500 £553
90th Percentile £569 £583 £583
North West median daily rate £358 £400 £415
% change year-on-year -10.50% -3.61% -14.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 10
10th Percentile - £17.55 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £16.61
Median hourly rate £16.00 £22.09 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -27.57% +24.66% -57.30%
75th Percentile £17.13 £24.18 -
90th Percentile £18.25 - £18.30
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £24.18 £16.00
% change year-on-year +73.45% +51.13% -52.59%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Solaris job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Solaris.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Solaris

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solaris in Cheshire over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Solaris in Cheshire

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Solaris.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Solaris

Solaris
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 Solaris within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 15 March 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
Warrington - 2 £460 - 1
Solaris
North West

Solaris
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Solaris Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle ZFS
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
1 1 (50.00%) SCOrch
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Veeam
1 1 (50.00%) VMware