Solaris Contracts in Edinburgh

Sun Microsystems Solaris
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 60 70 79
Rank change year-on-year +10 +9 +48
Contract jobs citing Solaris 7 2 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.12% 0.25% 2.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.54% 2.33% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 31
10th Percentile £539 - £425
25th Percentile £589 - £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £340 £513
Median % change year-on-year +91.18% -33.66% -10.87%
75th Percentile £675 - £547
90th Percentile £735 - £564
Scotland median daily rate £589 £340 £513
% change year-on-year +73.24% -33.66% +13.89%

All Operating Systems
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 82 86 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.12% 10.55% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 54 152
10th Percentile £170 £202 £160
25th Percentile £197 £340 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £454
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% +10.19% +4.61%
75th Percentile £557 £625 £538
90th Percentile £675 £731 £622
Scotland median daily rate £465 £500 £479
% change year-on-year -7.10% +4.38% +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 4
10th Percentile £20.02 £18.22 -
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.27 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.88 £26.00 £35.11
Median % change year-on-year -12.02% -25.95% +75.55%
75th Percentile £23.53 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £26.59 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -58.10% - +162.50%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in Edinburgh

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Solaris in Edinburgh

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solaris in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solaris in Edinburgh

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Solaris in Edinburgh

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) OCI
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Finance
4 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Database Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DBA
3 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Database Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Replication
2 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 4 (57.14%) Mainframe
3 1 (14.29%) Clustering
3 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Linux
3 5 (71.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (57.14%) HPUX
5 1 (14.29%) AIX
5 1 (14.29%) Unix
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (85.71%) High Availability
2 5 (71.43%) Service Management
3 4 (57.14%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) ITSM
4 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 3 (42.86%) Analytical Thinking
4 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
4 3 (42.86%) Planning and Forecasting
4 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Systems Thinking
5 2 (28.57%) ITIL
6 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
6 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
6 1 (14.29%) Project Management
6 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
6 1 (14.29%) Systems Analysis
6 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) JCL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Data Guard
2 1 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) IBM
1 4 (57.14%) Sun
1 4 (57.14%) Unisys
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) HP
4 1 (14.29%) Avaya
4 1 (14.29%) Commvault
4 1 (14.29%) Dell
4 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
4 1 (14.29%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat