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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 440 502
Rank change year-on-year -83 +62 +10
Contract jobs citing Solaris 39 42 62
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.92% 1.14% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 20 32
10th Percentile £394 £424 -
25th Percentile £458 £453 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £558 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% +17.47% -13.64%
75th Percentile £522 £616 £541
90th Percentile £574 £717 £575
UK median daily rate £476 £550 £494
% change year-on-year -13.41% +11.39% -5.95%
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 - - +23.14%

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 4,232 3,680 5,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.11% 14.23% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,820 2,382 3,688
10th Percentile £178 £200 £178
25th Percentile £263 £313 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £471 £454
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% +3.80% -12.69%
75th Percentile £574 £600 £590
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £447 £474 £465
% change year-on-year -5.65% +1.88% -9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 120 364
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.26 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.43 £17.16
Median hourly rate £22.50 £38.00 £25.22
Median % change year-on-year -40.79% +50.70% -8.31%
75th Percentile £52.51 £67.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.50 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £29.00 £25.25
% change year-on-year -20.69% +14.85% -4.68%

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 21 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 21 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 -28 16 £465 -19.13% 2
North of England -60 16 £465 -18.49% 2
London -49 13 £488 -15.95% 2
Midlands - 6 - -
West Midlands - 6 - -
South East -32 1 £525 +5.00% 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 6 (15.38%) CICS
2 4 (10.26%) nginx
2 4 (10.26%) Tomcat
3 2 (5.13%) Confluence
3 2 (5.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) AWS
1 7 (17.95%) Azure
2 3 (7.69%) SaaS
3 2 (5.13%) GitHub
3 2 (5.13%) Lucidchart
3 2 (5.13%) MinIO
4 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.56%) GCP
4 1 (2.56%) Google Ads
4 1 (2.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.95%) Firewall
2 4 (10.26%) Kerberos
2 4 (10.26%) SSH
3 3 (7.69%) DNS
4 2 (5.13%) HTTP
4 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.56%) DHCP
5 1 (2.56%) SSL
5 1 (2.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) Oracle Database
2 6 (15.38%) DataStage
3 3 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.13%) GIS
4 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Git
1 3 (7.69%) GitLab
1 3 (7.69%) Gradle
1 3 (7.69%) Maven
1 3 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
1 3 (7.69%) Subversion
2 2 (5.13%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Finance
2 7 (17.95%) Public Sector
3 6 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (12.82%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (10.26%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.56%) Advertising
7 1 (2.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Unix Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Designer
2 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Designer
3 5 (12.82%) Administrator
3 5 (12.82%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (10.26%) Consultant
4 4 (10.26%) Management Consultant
5 3 (7.69%) DBA
5 3 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Lead
6 2 (5.13%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.08%) Middleware
2 4 (10.26%) LDAP
2 4 (10.26%) OAuth
2 4 (10.26%) SAML
3 3 (7.69%) ARM Templates
4 2 (5.13%) EJB
4 2 (5.13%) Java EE
4 2 (5.13%) OpenLayers
4 2 (5.13%) REST
4 2 (5.13%) Spring
5 1 (2.56%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Data Centre
2 6 (15.38%) BYOD
2 6 (15.38%) Mainframe
2 6 (15.38%) VSAM
3 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.26%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.13%) Clustering
4 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.13%) Hedge funds
4 2 (5.13%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.13%) PMI
4 2 (5.13%) Replication
4 2 (5.13%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 28 (71.79%) Linux
2 22 (56.41%) Unix
3 13 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (30.77%) AIX
4 12 (30.77%) Windows
5 6 (15.38%) Windows Server
6 4 (10.26%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (10.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Migration
2 15 (38.46%) High Availability
3 11 (28.21%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (28.21%) Project Delivery
3 11 (28.21%) Roadmaps
4 10 (25.64%) CI/CD
4 10 (25.64%) DevOps
5 6 (15.38%) Business Case
5 6 (15.38%) Design Patterns
5 6 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (15.38%) Privileged Access Management
5 6 (15.38%) Process Improvement
5 6 (15.38%) RBAC
6 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (10.26%) ETL
7 4 (10.26%) Key Management
7 4 (10.26%) Master Data Management
7 4 (10.26%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (10.26%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 19 (48.72%) Python
2 12 (30.77%) Bash
3 10 (25.64%) PowerShell
4 6 (15.38%) COBOL
5 4 (10.26%) Perl
5 4 (10.26%) PL/SQL
5 4 (10.26%) SQL
6 2 (5.13%) Java
6 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (48.72%) Security Cleared
2 16 (41.03%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) Degree
4 2 (5.13%) CAPM
4 2 (5.13%) CBAP
4 2 (5.13%) PMI Certification
4 2 (5.13%) PMP
5 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) GDPR
1 4 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (10.26%) NIST
1 4 (10.26%) SOC 2
2 2 (5.13%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 10 (25.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (12.82%) NFS
4 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
5 3 (7.69%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (5.13%) Docker
6 2 (5.13%) Veritas File System
6 2 (5.13%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (2.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Ansible
2 4 (10.26%) Red Hat Satellite
3 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.69%) Terraform
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (5.13%) QRadar
5 1 (2.56%) Data Guard
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (2.56%) SCCM
5 1 (2.56%) SCOM
5 1 (2.56%) SCOrch
5 1 (2.56%) SELinux
5 1 (2.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 19 (48.72%) Oracle
2 15 (38.46%) VMware
3 13 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 10 (25.64%) IBM
5 6 (15.38%) CyberArk
6 4 (10.26%) BeyondTrust
6 4 (10.26%) Cisco
7 3 (7.69%) Qualys
8 2 (5.13%) SaltStack
8 2 (5.13%) Splunk
8 2 (5.13%) Symantec
9 1 (2.56%) Google
9 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
9 1 (2.56%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.56%) Tanium
9 1 (2.56%) Tenable
9 1 (2.56%) Veeam
9 1 (2.56%) Veritas