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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 444 481
Rank change year-on-year -84 +37 +37
Contract jobs citing Solaris 32 44 77
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.096% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.76% 1.18% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 18 42
10th Percentile £372 £425 -
25th Percentile £456 £503 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.17% +21.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £498 £624 £538
90th Percentile £540 £722 £575
UK median daily rate £475 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +17.50%

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 4,192 3,731 5,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.56% 14.24% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,819 2,360 3,803
10th Percentile £178 £200 £179
25th Percentile £263 £313 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% +2.70% -11.06%
75th Percentile £565 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £699 £700
UK median daily rate £439 £475 £465
% change year-on-year -7.63% +2.15% -9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 121 373
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.26 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £22.69 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.57% +80.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £53.40 £67.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £70.52
UK median hourly rate £23.79 £31.08 £25.25
% change year-on-year -23.46% +23.09% -1.79%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 West -25 14 £465 -19.13% 3
North of England -65 14 £465 -19.13% 3
London -47 9 £475 -17.39% 3
Midlands - 5 £500 -
West Midlands - 5 £500 -
South East -28 1 £525 +7.69% 1
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 4 (12.50%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) AWS
3 3 (9.38%) SaaS
4 2 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) GCP
5 1 (3.13%) Google Ads
5 1 (3.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) Firewall
2 4 (12.50%) Kerberos
2 4 (12.50%) SSH
3 3 (9.38%) DNS
4 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.13%) DHCP
5 1 (3.13%) SAN
5 1 (3.13%) SSL
5 1 (3.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle Database
2 4 (12.50%) DataStage
3 3 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (9.38%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Git
1 3 (9.38%) GitLab
1 3 (9.38%) Gradle
1 3 (9.38%) Maven
1 3 (9.38%) Sonatype Nexus
1 3 (9.38%) Subversion
2 2 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Finance
4 4 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.25%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.13%) Advertising
7 1 (3.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Unix Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Administrator
2 5 (15.63%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (12.50%) Consultant
3 4 (12.50%) Designer
3 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Designer
3 4 (12.50%) Management Consultant
4 3 (9.38%) DBA
4 3 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (6.25%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Database Technical Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle Technical Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) Middleware
2 4 (12.50%) LDAP
2 4 (12.50%) OAuth
2 4 (12.50%) SAML
3 3 (9.38%) ARM Templates
4 2 (6.25%) REST
5 1 (3.13%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) BYOD
1 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 4 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (12.50%) Mainframe
1 4 (12.50%) VSAM
2 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.25%) Clustering
2 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.25%) Hedge funds
2 2 (6.25%) Replication
2 2 (6.25%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.13%) HP Storage
3 1 (3.13%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (65.63%) Linux
2 20 (62.50%) Unix
3 9 (28.13%) AIX
3 9 (28.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (21.88%) Windows
5 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Migration
2 15 (46.88%) High Availability
3 11 (34.38%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (34.38%) Project Delivery
4 9 (28.13%) Roadmaps
5 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (25.00%) DevOps
6 6 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (12.50%) Business Case
8 4 (12.50%) Data Protection
8 4 (12.50%) Design Patterns
8 4 (12.50%) Key Management
8 4 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
8 4 (12.50%) Process Improvement
8 4 (12.50%) RBAC
8 4 (12.50%) Security Hardening
9 3 (9.38%) Data Migration
9 3 (9.38%) Integration Patterns
9 3 (9.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (59.38%) Python
2 12 (37.50%) Bash
3 10 (31.25%) PowerShell
4 4 (12.50%) COBOL
4 4 (12.50%) Perl
5 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 11 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.25%) NIST
2 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 2 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (6.25%) SOC 2
3 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (15.63%) NFS
3 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (6.25%) Veritas File System
4 2 (6.25%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (3.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Ansible
2 4 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
3 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.38%) Terraform
4 2 (6.25%) QRadar
5 1 (3.13%) Data Guard
5 1 (3.13%) NetBackup
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (3.13%) SCCM
5 1 (3.13%) SCOM
5 1 (3.13%) SCOrch
5 1 (3.13%) SELinux
5 1 (3.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Oracle
2 11 (34.38%) VMware
3 9 (28.13%) Red Hat
4 6 (18.75%) CyberArk
5 4 (12.50%) BeyondTrust
5 4 (12.50%) Cisco
5 4 (12.50%) IBM
6 3 (9.38%) Qualys
7 2 (6.25%) SaltStack
7 2 (6.25%) Splunk
7 2 (6.25%) Symantec
7 2 (6.25%) Veritas
8 1 (3.13%) Brocade
8 1 (3.13%) EMC
8 1 (3.13%) Google
8 1 (3.13%) HP
8 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
8 1 (3.13%) NetApp
8 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds
8 1 (3.13%) Veeam