Solaris Contract Job Trends in England

Oracle Solaris
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Solaris skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 474 448
Rank change year-on-year -57 -26 -5
Contract jobs citing Solaris 108 37 78
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.13% 0.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.38% 0.97% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 23 44
10th Percentile £418 £403 £396
25th Percentile £463 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% - +14.58%
75th Percentile £552 £625 £600
90th Percentile £575 £715 £643
UK median daily rate £500 £556 £531
% change year-on-year -10.11% +4.71% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £35.21 - -
25th Percentile £36.75 - -
Median hourly rate £39.75 - -
75th Percentile £41.66 - -
90th Percentile £41.71 - -
UK median hourly rate £39.75 - -

All Operating Systems
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,542 3,820 4,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.80% 13.73% 14.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,908 2,518 3,037
10th Percentile £190 £190 £200
25th Percentile £310 £303 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £469 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 247 240
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £15.12
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.66 £19.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -53.43% +17.70%
75th Percentile £67.84 £59.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.60 £67.00 -
UK median hourly rate £26.33 £25.15 £48.78
% change year-on-year +4.69% -48.44% +8.41%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Solaris job vacancy trend in England

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Solaris.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Solaris

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solaris in England over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Solaris in England

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Solaris.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Solaris

Solaris
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the England region over the 6 months to 12 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -22 61 £500 -20.00% 2
North West +8 58 £500 -16.67% 1
London -69 20 £525 +14.75% 12
South West -28 16 - - 3
West Midlands -50 4 £500 +11.11% 3
Midlands -51 4 £500 +11.11% 3
Yorkshire -48 3 - - 1
South East -57 3 £700 +27.27% 2
East of England - 1 £300 -
Solaris
UK

Solaris
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 7 (6.48%) nginx
1 7 (6.48%) Tomcat
2 5 (4.63%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.85%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (0.93%) CICS
4 1 (0.93%) Confluence
4 1 (0.93%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.33%) AWS
2 2 (1.85%) Azure
2 2 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (1.85%) MinIO
3 1 (0.93%) GCP
3 1 (0.93%) GitHub
3 1 (0.93%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.63%) HTTP
2 4 (3.70%) SAN
3 1 (0.93%) DNS
3 1 (0.93%) DSL
3 1 (0.93%) Firewall
3 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (12.96%) Oracle Database
2 14 (12.96%) SQL Server
3 13 (12.04%) MySQL
4 5 (4.63%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.78%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (2.78%) GIS
5 3 (2.78%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (1.85%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (1.85%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (1.85%) SQLite
7 1 (0.93%) DataStage
7 1 (0.93%) Db2
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.93%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.93%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Git
1 2 (1.85%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.85%) JIRA
General
1 31 (28.70%) Finance
2 16 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.33%) Banking
5 3 (2.78%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.85%) Aviation
6 2 (1.85%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (40.74%) Unix Engineer
2 21 (19.44%) Consultant
3 19 (17.59%) Solaris Consultant
4 17 (15.74%) DBA
5 12 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
5 12 (11.11%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 11 (10.19%) Administrator
7 8 (7.41%) SQL DBA
8 7 (6.48%) SC Cleared DBA
9 6 (5.56%) Database Manager
9 6 (5.56%) Oracle DBA
10 5 (4.63%) Architect
10 5 (4.63%) Solaris Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) Support Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) Unix Administrator
12 3 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
12 3 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
13 2 (1.85%) Junior Architect
13 2 (1.85%) Storage Architect
13 2 (1.85%) Storage Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.78%) EJB
1 3 (2.78%) Java SE
1 3 (2.78%) Middleware
2 2 (1.85%) Jakarta EE
2 2 (1.85%) JSON
2 2 (1.85%) JSP
2 2 (1.85%) OpenLayers
2 2 (1.85%) Terraform
3 1 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.93%) JavaBeans
3 1 (0.93%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (7.41%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (3.70%) Clustering
4 4 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.78%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.93%) BYOD
7 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.93%) FPGA
7 1 (0.93%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.93%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.93%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 61 (56.48%) Unix
2 47 (43.52%) Linux
3 25 (23.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (14.81%) AIX
4 16 (14.81%) Windows
5 8 (7.41%) HPUX
6 7 (6.48%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (6.48%) SUSE
6 7 (6.48%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (5.56%) Windows 10
7 6 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (4.63%) Windows Server
9 4 (3.70%) CentOS
9 4 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.93%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (25.00%) Migration
2 21 (19.44%) Disaster Recovery
3 20 (18.52%) High Availability
4 13 (12.04%) Change Management
4 13 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (9.26%) Project Delivery
6 9 (8.33%) Configuration Management
6 9 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (8.33%) Runbook
6 9 (8.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 8 (7.41%) DevOps
7 8 (7.41%) ITIL
7 8 (7.41%) Security Hardening
8 7 (6.48%) CI/CD
8 7 (6.48%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (5.56%) Change Control
9 6 (5.56%) Vulnerability Management
10 5 (4.63%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (4.63%) RBAC
10 5 (4.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (20.37%) SQL
2 16 (14.81%) Python
3 10 (9.26%) Shell Script
4 7 (6.48%) Bash
4 7 (6.48%) Java
5 6 (5.56%) PL/SQL
6 4 (3.70%) C++
7 3 (2.78%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.93%) COBOL
8 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.93%) Korn
8 1 (0.93%) Perl
8 1 (0.93%) VB
Qualifications
1 69 (63.89%) Security Cleared
2 63 (58.33%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (4.63%) CISSP
4 5 (4.63%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (4.63%) Oracle Certification
4 5 (4.63%) RHCE
5 4 (3.70%) Degree
6 3 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.85%) OCP
8 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (7.41%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (5.56%) Docker
3 6 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.93%) NFS
4 1 (0.93%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.93%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (7.41%) Ansible
2 7 (6.48%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (3.70%) NetBackup
3 4 (3.70%) Oracle ZFS
4 3 (2.78%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.85%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.93%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.93%) Kibana
6 1 (0.93%) logstash
6 1 (0.93%) Opsview
6 1 (0.93%) Puppet
6 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 64 (59.26%) Oracle
2 17 (15.74%) Microsoft
3 16 (14.81%) Red Hat
4 9 (8.33%) IBM
4 9 (8.33%) VMware
5 8 (7.41%) HP
6 3 (2.78%) Dell
6 3 (2.78%) SAP
6 3 (2.78%) Veritas
7 2 (1.85%) Broadcom
7 2 (1.85%) NetApp
8 1 (0.93%) Mellanox
8 1 (0.93%) Murex
8 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.93%) Solarflare