Solaris Contract Job Trends in the North West

Oracle Solaris
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Solaris skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 111 137
Rank change year-on-year -34 +26 +32
Contract jobs citing Solaris 4 12 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.16% 0.55% 0.076%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.16% 4.17% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £375 £540 £464
25th Percentile £406 £563 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £575 £488
Median % change year-on-year -20.70% +17.95% -18.75%
75th Percentile £458 £588 £516
90th Percentile £459 £595 £521
England median daily rate £475 £538 £480
% change year-on-year -11.63% +11.98% -12.73%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 345 288 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.78% 13.29% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 164 225
10th Percentile £150 £156 £186
25th Percentile £181 £245 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £400 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -8.57% -2.78%
75th Percentile £480 £538 £538
90th Percentile £624 £588 £600
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 25 34
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.33 £17.08
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £20.73 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +2.33% -18.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £24.18 £46.88
90th Percentile £69.35 £61.31 £76.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year -56.07% +76.15% +30.00%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Solaris job vacancy trend in the North West

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Solaris.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Solaris

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Solaris.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Solaris

Solaris
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. 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
Cumbria +6 3 £458 - 4
Cheshire - 1 £370 - 1
Solaris
England

Solaris
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (25.00%) SSL
1 1 (25.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
1 1 (25.00%) SCOrch
1 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Veeam
2 1 (25.00%) VMware