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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 431 485
Rank change year-on-year -66 +54 -7
Contract jobs citing Solaris 92 38 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.27% 1.13% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 26 27
10th Percentile £413 £405 £425
25th Percentile £461 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £552 £644 £588
90th Percentile £588 £731 £600
UK median daily rate £488 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -15.14% +14.90% -0.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £34.91 - -
25th Percentile £36.75 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 - -
75th Percentile £41.71 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £41.00 - -

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 4,058 3,360 5,069
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.73% 14.04% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,633 2,290 3,437
10th Percentile £188 £200 £185
25th Percentile £313 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £467 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.47% -1.79% -5.94%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £690 £700
UK median daily rate £460 £465 £470
% change year-on-year -1.08% -1.06% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 162 374
10th Percentile £15.71 £15.12 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.27 £15.50
Median hourly rate £34.68 £19.64 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +76.60% -12.73% -47.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.75 £62.38
90th Percentile £72.60 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £22.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +47.73% -2.22% -47.06%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -37 51 £481 -19.79% 3
North West +7 48 £481 -19.79% 1
London -78 21 £525 +16.61% 6
South West -15 14 - - 2
Yorkshire -62 3 - - 2
Midlands - 3 - - 2
West Midlands - 3 - -
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 10 (10.87%) nginx
1 10 (10.87%) Tomcat
2 9 (9.78%) CICS
3 3 (3.26%) Confluence
3 3 (3.26%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.87%) AWS
2 3 (3.26%) MinIO
3 2 (2.17%) GCP
3 2 (2.17%) Lucidchart
4 1 (1.09%) Azure
4 1 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.09%) GitHub
4 1 (1.09%) Google Ads
4 1 (1.09%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (1.09%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.78%) Firewall
2 6 (6.52%) HTTP
3 1 (1.09%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.04%) Oracle Database
2 9 (9.78%) DataStage
3 6 (6.52%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.35%) GIS
4 4 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.26%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.09%) DB2
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.09%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.09%) QlikView
6 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.09%) Git
2 1 (1.09%) JIRA
General
1 36 (39.13%) Finance
2 16 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.78%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.61%) Banking
6 3 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Aviation
8 1 (1.09%) Advertising
8 1 (1.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (35.87%) Unix Engineer
2 21 (22.83%) Consultant
3 19 (20.65%) Solaris Consultant
4 9 (9.78%) Designer
4 9 (9.78%) Infrastructure Designer
5 5 (5.43%) Database Manager
6 4 (4.35%) Architect
6 4 (4.35%) Lead
6 4 (4.35%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.26%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.26%) Senior
7 3 (3.26%) Software Engineer
8 2 (2.17%) Analyst
8 2 (2.17%) Business Analyst
8 2 (2.17%) Developer
8 2 (2.17%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.17%) Junior
8 2 (2.17%) Junior Architect
8 2 (2.17%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.96%) Middleware
2 4 (4.35%) EJB
3 3 (3.26%) Java EE
3 3 (3.26%) OpenLayers
3 3 (3.26%) Spring
4 2 (2.17%) Java SE
4 2 (2.17%) JSON
5 1 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.09%) JavaBeans
5 1 (1.09%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.39%) Data Centre
2 9 (9.78%) BYOD
2 9 (9.78%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (9.78%) Mainframe
2 9 (9.78%) VSAM
3 7 (7.61%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.26%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.26%) Clustering
5 3 (3.26%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.17%) PMI
6 2 (2.17%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.09%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 52 (56.52%) Unix
2 41 (44.57%) Linux
3 19 (20.65%) AIX
4 18 (19.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (19.57%) Windows
5 10 (10.87%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (8.70%) Windows Server
7 7 (7.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (5.43%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (5.43%) Windows 10
8 5 (5.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (4.35%) HPUX
9 4 (4.35%) SUSE
9 4 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (1.09%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (36.96%) Migration
2 27 (29.35%) High Availability
3 25 (27.17%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (15.22%) Project Delivery
5 10 (10.87%) Roadmaps
6 9 (9.78%) Business Case
6 9 (9.78%) Change Management
6 9 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (9.78%) Design Patterns
6 9 (9.78%) DevOps
6 9 (9.78%) Process Improvement
7 8 (8.70%) CI/CD
7 8 (8.70%) ETL
7 8 (8.70%) Master Data Management
7 8 (8.70%) Runbook
8 7 (7.61%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (7.61%) Test Automation
9 6 (6.52%) Configuration Management
9 6 (6.52%) RBAC
9 6 (6.52%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 22 (23.91%) Python
2 10 (10.87%) SQL
3 9 (9.78%) COBOL
4 7 (7.61%) Java
4 7 (7.61%) PL/SQL
5 6 (6.52%) Bash
6 5 (5.43%) Shell Script
7 4 (4.35%) C++
8 3 (3.26%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.26%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.17%) Perl
10 1 (1.09%) VB
Qualifications
1 50 (54.35%) Security Cleared
2 46 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.35%) CISSP
3 4 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (4.35%) Degree
3 4 (4.35%) RHCE
4 2 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.17%) CAPM
4 2 (2.17%) CBAP
4 2 (2.17%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.35%) GRC
2 2 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.17%) NIST
2 2 (2.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (11.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (7.61%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (7.61%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (6.52%) Docker
4 1 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (6.52%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (4.35%) Ansible
3 2 (2.17%) Data Guard
3 2 (2.17%) Oracle ZFS
3 2 (2.17%) Terraform
4 1 (1.09%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.09%) Kibana
4 1 (1.09%) logstash
Vendors
1 53 (57.61%) Oracle
2 20 (21.74%) IBM
3 17 (18.48%) VMware
4 15 (16.30%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.43%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.35%) Cisco
6 4 (4.35%) HP
7 3 (3.26%) SAP
8 1 (1.09%) Dell
8 1 (1.09%) Google
8 1 (1.09%) Murex