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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 125 171
Rank change year-on-year +8 +46 +15
Contract jobs citing Solaris 2 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% 0.091% 0.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.83% 0.71% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £351
25th Percentile - - £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.20%
75th Percentile - - £666
90th Percentile - - £716
Central London median daily rate £670 - £513
% change year-on-year - - -1.20%

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 241 282 505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 13.72% 12.84% 13.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 198 362
10th Percentile £260 £195 £158
25th Percentile £364 £322 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -6.98% +2.38%
75th Percentile £664 £655 £663
90th Percentile £711 £729 £737
Central London median daily rate £513 £450 £523
% change year-on-year +13.89% -13.88% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £162.50 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £175.00 £22.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +677.78% -35.71% +42.86%
75th Percentile £187.50 £25.38 £59.38
90th Percentile - £26.35 £74.00
Central London median hourly rate £98.75 £22.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +338.89% -35.71% +42.86%

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 2 (100.00%) Confluence
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Rubrik
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database 11g
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (50.00%) Serena SBM
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Database Security
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Kernel Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) NFS
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (50.00%) Veritas File System
2 1 (50.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Control-M
1 2 (100.00%) QRadar
1 2 (100.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (50.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (50.00%) Netcool
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) BMC
1 2 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Qualys
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (50.00%) SaltStack
2 1 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) Serena
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) Sybase