Solaris Contracts with Work from Home Options

Sun Microsystems Solaris
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 353 500
Rank change year-on-year +38 +147 -102
Contract jobs citing Solaris 26 115 115
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.46% 0.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.67% 3.34% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 78 75
10th Percentile £463 £400 £404
25th Percentile £472 £466 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +24.64%
75th Percentile £588 £558 £587
90th Percentile £633 £640 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% +21.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
75th Percentile - - £72.75
90th Percentile - - £78.60
UK median hourly rate - £40.59 £63.00
% change year-on-year - -35.57% +27.27%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,557 3,444 5,345
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.33% 13.73% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,092 2,428 3,777
10th Percentile £225 £250 £293
25th Percentile £350 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £604
90th Percentile £687 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £468 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 101 157
10th Percentile £12.80 £19.00 £14.80
25th Percentile £14.27 £38.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £17.69 £55.00 £43.34
Median % change year-on-year -67.84% +26.92% +17.12%
75th Percentile £65.00 £69.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.58%

Solaris
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Solaris as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Solaris trend for jobs with a WFH option

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Solaris.

Solaris daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Solaris over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Solaris daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Solaris.

Solaris hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (26.92%) Confluence
2 2 (7.69%) IIS
2 2 (7.69%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 15 (57.69%) Azure
2 11 (42.31%) IaaS
2 11 (42.31%) PaaS
2 11 (42.31%) SaaS
3 9 (34.62%) AWS
4 7 (26.92%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (26.92%) GCP
4 7 (26.92%) Nutanix
4 7 (26.92%) Rubrik
5 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) SAN
2 9 (34.62%) Firewall
3 8 (30.77%) DHCP
3 8 (30.77%) DNS
4 7 (26.92%) Kerberos
4 7 (26.92%) NAS
4 7 (26.92%) TCP/IP
4 7 (26.92%) VLAN
5 3 (11.54%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (3.85%) Internet
6 1 (3.85%) LAN
6 1 (3.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle Database
2 2 (7.69%) DB2
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Jenkins
2 8 (30.77%) Git
3 7 (26.92%) JIRA
3 7 (26.92%) TeamCity
4 4 (15.38%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (7.69%) Vagrant
6 1 (3.85%) Subversion
General
1 9 (34.62%) Finance
2 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Architect
2 4 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Applications Specialist
3 3 (11.54%) Storage Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Backup Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) EMC Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) EMC Storage Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Lead
5 1 (3.85%) Lead Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Network Communications Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Clustering
1 7 (26.92%) Replication
2 2 (7.69%) HP Storage
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 22 (84.62%) Linux
2 18 (69.23%) Windows
3 11 (42.31%) Oracle Linux
4 10 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (30.77%) Unix
5 8 (30.77%) Windows Server
6 7 (26.92%) VMS
7 6 (23.08%) AIX
8 2 (7.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) DevOps
2 10 (38.46%) High Availability
3 9 (34.62%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (34.62%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (34.62%) Performance Tuning
4 7 (26.92%) Agile
4 7 (26.92%) Cost Optimisation
4 7 (26.92%) Data Security
4 7 (26.92%) Deployment Automation
4 7 (26.92%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (26.92%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (26.92%) Security Hardening
4 7 (26.92%) Service Catalogue
4 7 (26.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 7 (26.92%) Storage Management
4 7 (26.92%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
6 4 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) Bash
2 10 (38.46%) Python
3 8 (30.77%) PowerShell
4 4 (15.38%) SQL
5 1 (3.85%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared
1 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (30.77%) GDPR
2 7 (26.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 12 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 7 (26.92%) Docker
3 4 (15.38%) KVM
4 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (42.31%) Ansible
1 11 (42.31%) EMC NetWorker
2 10 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 9 (34.62%) Tivoli
4 7 (26.92%) Netcool
4 7 (26.92%) Terraform
4 7 (26.92%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 3 (11.54%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (7.69%) HP Data Protector
6 2 (7.69%) NetBackup
6 2 (7.69%) SELinux
Vendors
1 20 (76.92%) Oracle
2 14 (53.85%) VMware
3 11 (42.31%) EMC
4 10 (38.46%) Cisco
5 9 (34.62%) HP
5 9 (34.62%) IBM
6 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
7 7 (26.92%) CyberArk
7 7 (26.92%) Dell
7 7 (26.92%) Isilon
7 7 (26.92%) Qualys
7 7 (26.92%) Serena
7 7 (26.92%) ServiceNow
7 7 (26.92%) Splunk
8 4 (15.38%) Red Hat
9 3 (11.54%) Brocade
9 3 (11.54%) SolarWinds
9 3 (11.54%) Symantec
10 2 (7.69%) AppDynamics
10 2 (7.69%) F5