Solaris Contracts in England

Sun Microsystems Solaris
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Solaris skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Solaris over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 505 594
Rank change year-on-year +29 +89 -75
Contract jobs citing Solaris 59 158 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.31% 0.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.17% 1.91% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 102 112
10th Percentile £425 £400 £406
25th Percentile £466 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £618
90th Percentile £600 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £21.48
25th Percentile £51.25 £37.80 £30.81
Median hourly rate £52.50 £40.59 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year +29.34% -14.99% -1.04%
75th Percentile £53.75 £43.39 £65.81
90th Percentile - - £75.83
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £40.59 £63.00
% change year-on-year +29.34% -35.57% +27.27%

All Operating Systems
England

Solaris is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,045 8,260 11,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.65% 16.34% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,433 5,890 7,674
10th Percentile £181 £190 £170
25th Percentile £285 £325 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 390 559
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.95 £17.73 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.75 £22.28
% change year-on-year -43.23% +73.92% +23.78%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Solaris as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in England

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solaris in England.

Daily rate trend for Solaris in England

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solaris in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solaris in England

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solaris in England.

Hourly rate trend for Solaris in England

Solaris
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +56 18 £600 +10.09% 2
South East +21 13 £475 -19.15% 2
East Midlands +23 9 £575 +9.52%
Midlands +22 9 £575 +9.52%
East of England +7 7 £550 +37.50% 4
North of England +20 5 £448 -10.50% 1
Yorkshire +19 5 £448 -10.50%
South West +19 2 £500 -28.57% 4
Solaris
UK

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (13.56%) Confluence
2 3 (5.08%) Apache
2 3 (5.08%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.39%) IIS
3 2 (3.39%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 18 (30.51%) Azure
2 13 (22.03%) AWS
3 11 (18.64%) IaaS
3 11 (18.64%) PaaS
3 11 (18.64%) SaaS
4 8 (13.56%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (13.56%) GCP
4 8 (13.56%) Nutanix
4 8 (13.56%) Rubrik
5 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.39%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (3.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (30.51%) SAN
2 11 (18.64%) Kerberos
3 10 (16.95%) Fibre Channel
3 10 (16.95%) Firewall
4 9 (15.25%) DHCP
4 9 (15.25%) DNS
4 9 (15.25%) TCP/IP
5 8 (13.56%) NAS
5 8 (13.56%) VLAN
6 1 (1.69%) 4G
6 1 (1.69%) 5G
6 1 (1.69%) HTTP
6 1 (1.69%) SIGTRAN
6 1 (1.69%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.95%) Oracle Database
2 3 (5.08%) DB2
3 2 (3.39%) Informix
4 1 (1.69%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (16.95%) Git
1 10 (16.95%) Jenkins
1 10 (16.95%) JIRA
2 8 (13.56%) TeamCity
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (3.39%) Subversion
4 2 (3.39%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.69%) GitLab
General
1 12 (20.34%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.25%) Finance
3 5 (8.47%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Advertising
5 1 (1.69%) Banking
5 1 (1.69%) Legal
5 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (22.03%) Architect
2 12 (20.34%) Linux Engineer
3 10 (16.95%) Oracle Architect
4 8 (13.56%) Storage Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Administrator
6 5 (8.47%) Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (8.47%) Unix Administrator
7 4 (6.78%) Backup Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Senior
7 4 (6.78%) Unix Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Unix Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Applications Specialist
8 2 (3.39%) Consultant
8 2 (3.39%) DBA
8 2 (3.39%) Deployment Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Informix DBA
8 2 (3.39%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Senior Unix Administrator
8 2 (3.39%) Systems Administrator
9 1 (1.69%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.95%) LDAP
2 3 (5.08%) Middleware
3 1 (1.69%) SPML
3 1 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.64%) Replication
2 8 (13.56%) Clustering
3 6 (10.17%) HP Storage
4 4 (6.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (6.78%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.08%) EMC VNX
6 1 (1.69%) PKI
6 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (81.36%) Linux
2 29 (49.15%) Windows
3 19 (32.20%) Oracle Linux
3 19 (32.20%) Unix
4 17 (28.81%) AIX
5 16 (27.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (20.34%) VMS
7 10 (16.95%) Windows Server
8 2 (3.39%) HPUX
8 2 (3.39%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.69%) OS/390
9 1 (1.69%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (28.81%) Performance Tuning
2 16 (27.12%) Disaster Recovery
3 15 (25.42%) Migration
4 14 (23.73%) DevOps
4 14 (23.73%) High Availability
4 14 (23.73%) ITIL
5 12 (20.34%) Database Migration
6 11 (18.64%) Change Management
6 11 (18.64%) Computer Science
6 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (16.95%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (16.95%) Storage Management
8 8 (13.56%) Agile
8 8 (13.56%) Data Security
8 8 (13.56%) Deployment Automation
8 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (13.56%) Security Hardening
8 8 (13.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (11.86%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 17 (28.81%) Bash
2 13 (22.03%) PowerShell
2 13 (22.03%) Python
3 11 (18.64%) SQL
4 4 (6.78%) Perl
5 3 (5.08%) Korn
6 2 (3.39%) AWK
6 2 (3.39%) Bourne shell
6 2 (3.39%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (30.51%) Security Cleared
2 12 (20.34%) Degree
3 9 (15.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (11.86%) DV Cleared
4 7 (11.86%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.39%) RHCE
5 2 (3.39%) RHCSA
6 1 (1.69%) HNC
6 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.95%) GDPR
2 8 (13.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 27 (45.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (18.64%) Active Directory
3 10 (16.95%) KVM
4 8 (13.56%) Docker
5 6 (10.17%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (8.47%) Hyper-V
6 5 (8.47%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (5.08%) SRDF
8 2 (3.39%) vSphere
9 1 (1.69%) NFS
9 1 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 21 (35.59%) Ansible
2 17 (28.81%) EMC NetWorker
3 16 (27.12%) Kubernetes
4 10 (16.95%) Red Hat Satellite
4 10 (16.95%) Tivoli
5 8 (13.56%) NetBackup
5 8 (13.56%) Netcool
5 8 (13.56%) Terraform
5 8 (13.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 6 (10.17%) HP Data Protector
7 4 (6.78%) Rancher
7 4 (6.78%) SCOM
7 4 (6.78%) SELinux
7 4 (6.78%) Tivoli Identity Manager
8 3 (5.08%) EMC TimeFinder
9 2 (3.39%) Oracle ZFS
9 2 (3.39%) yum
Vendors
1 32 (54.24%) Oracle
2 31 (52.54%) VMware
3 22 (37.29%) EMC
4 19 (32.20%) Cisco
5 18 (30.51%) HP
6 16 (27.12%) IBM
7 15 (25.42%) Dell
7 15 (25.42%) Red Hat
8 11 (18.64%) Brocade
8 11 (18.64%) Isilon
9 9 (15.25%) Microsoft
9 9 (15.25%) Qualys
10 8 (13.56%) CyberArk
10 8 (13.56%) Serena
10 8 (13.56%) ServiceNow
10 8 (13.56%) Splunk
11 7 (11.86%) Symantec
12 4 (6.78%) SolarWinds
12 4 (6.78%) Veritas
13 3 (5.08%) EqualLogic