Solaris Contracts in the City of London

Sun Microsystems Solaris
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Solaris skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Solaris over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 128 154
Rank change year-on-year +7 +26 +39
Contract jobs citing Solaris 1 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.055% 0.094% 0.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.43% 0.69% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £358
25th Percentile - - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 - £465
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.42%
75th Percentile - - £614
90th Percentile - - £694
Central London median daily rate £670 - £465
% change year-on-year - - -18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £50.00

All Operating Systems
City of London

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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 235 289 495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.93% 13.51% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 202 349
10th Percentile £256 £226 £153
25th Percentile £350 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £496 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.28% -5.48% +3.19%
75th Percentile £664 £650 £650
90th Percentile £721 £725 £726
Central London median daily rate £518 £450 £501
% change year-on-year +15.00% -10.09% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £24.35 £21.81 £26.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.66 £34.38
Median hourly rate £28.50 £26.63 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.04% -46.75% +194.12%
75th Percentile £108.88 £27.59 £68.13
90th Percentile £156.05 £28.66 £77.50
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £26.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year +8.57% -30.00% +87.50%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Solaris as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in the City of London

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solaris in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Solaris in the City of London

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solaris in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Solaris in the City of London

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Kernel Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas File System
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Control-M
1 1 (100.00%) Netcool
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BMC
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) SaltStack
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) VMware