Solaris Contracts in Scotland

Sun Microsystems Solaris
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 128 110 158
Rank change year-on-year -18 +48 -13
Contract jobs citing Solaris 3 54 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.14% 1.89% 0.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.83% 10.17% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 45 7
10th Percentile - £418 £277
25th Percentile - £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -33.66% +13.89% +12.50%
75th Percentile - £548 £480
90th Percentile - £575 £523
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +20.00%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 360 531 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.31% 18.61% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 372 346
10th Percentile £182 £160 £137
25th Percentile £325 £260 £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.28% +6.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £538
90th Percentile £744 £730 £600
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 24
10th Percentile £17.23 £17.72 £15.04
25th Percentile £18.27 £20.79 £17.03
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +162.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £60.75 £59.03 £49.85
90th Percentile £62.50 £65.36 £55.75
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in Scotland

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Solaris in Scotland

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Solaris in Scotland

Solaris
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +11 2 £340 -33.66% 3
West Lothian 0 1 - -
Solaris
UK

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Support
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Support
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Server Support
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Server Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Communications Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Server Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Compliance Management
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) RHCE
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
2 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) KVM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Avaya
2 1 (33.33%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle