Solaris Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Oracle Solaris
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Solaris skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 119 133
Rank change year-on-year -2 +14 +62
Contract jobs citing Solaris 2 2 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.12% 0.094% 0.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.15% 0.75% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 11
10th Percentile £559 - £375
25th Percentile £586 £705 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £710 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.15% +47.92% -23.32%
75th Percentile £716 £715 £553
90th Percentile £752 - £638
Central London median daily rate £645 £710 £480
% change year-on-year -9.15% +47.92% -23.32%
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 174 268 398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.11% 12.65% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 177 264
10th Percentile £225 £238 £196
25th Percentile £365 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £508
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +0.34% -3.19%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £638
90th Percentile £735 £725 £721
Central London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £24.25 £24.29 £23.88
25th Percentile £25.00 £26.03 £27.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £69.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -60.43% +91.72% +81.25%
75th Percentile £29.50 £112.00 £45.31
90th Percentile £29.95 - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £26.00 £69.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -62.59% +91.72% +79.01%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Solaris relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Solaris job vacancy trend in the City of London

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Solaris.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Solaris

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solaris in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solaris in the City of London

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Solaris.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Solaris

Solaris
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (50.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) AIX
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) NetApp
1 1 (50.00%) Qualys
1 1 (50.00%) Symantec
1 1 (50.00%) Tanium
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable
1 1 (50.00%) VMware