Solaris Contracts in England

Sun Microsystems Solaris
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 481 471
Rank change year-on-year +21 -10 +148
Contract jobs citing Solaris 32 64 183
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.17% 0.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.87% 1.23% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 34 106
10th Percentile £405 £370 £381
25th Percentile £425 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £539 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +7.75% -7.41%
75th Percentile £644 £588 £588
90th Percentile £731 £600 £623
UK median daily rate £580 £525 £504
% change year-on-year +10.43% +4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £40.71
25th Percentile - - £45.07
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 3,689 5,205 7,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.91% 13.97% 16.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,469 3,431 5,405
10th Percentile £200 £193 £193
25th Percentile £313 £313 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.16% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 396 366
10th Percentile £15.31 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.41 £16.18 £18.41
Median hourly rate £20.38 £25.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.50% -41.18% +93.18%
75th Percentile £45.19 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.55 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.78 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -8.88% -41.18% +88.89%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in England

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Solaris in England

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solaris in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solaris in England

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Solaris in England

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 5 July 2025. 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
London +43 12 £475 -3.16% 24
North of England +10 10 £600 +34.08% 10
Yorkshire +5 6 £525 +17.32% 4
South East +28 4 £550 +15.79% 11
North West - 4 £600 - 4
South West +32 2 £233 -55.62% 5
Solaris
UK

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 3 (9.38%) Confluence
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) AWS
3 6 (18.75%) Nutanix
4 5 (15.63%) GitHub
5 4 (12.50%) Azure AKS
5 4 (12.50%) GCP
6 3 (9.38%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (6.25%) IaaS
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.13%) PaaS
8 1 (3.13%) Rubrik
8 1 (3.13%) SaaS
8 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (28.13%) Firewall
1 9 (28.13%) TCP/IP
2 8 (25.00%) DNS
3 3 (9.38%) DHCP
3 3 (9.38%) Kerberos
4 2 (6.25%) SAN
5 1 (3.13%) HTTPS
5 1 (3.13%) NAS
5 1 (3.13%) SSH
5 1 (3.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle Database
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle Database 10g
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle Database 11g
2 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.25%) SQLite
4 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.13%) MySQL
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.13%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 9 (28.13%) Git
2 7 (21.88%) Subversion
3 6 (18.75%) TeamCity
4 4 (12.50%) Jenkins
5 3 (9.38%) GitLab
5 3 (9.38%) JIRA
5 3 (9.38%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (9.38%) Postman
5 3 (9.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (6.25%) Gradle
6 2 (6.25%) Maven
General
1 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (34.38%) Finance
3 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Banking
4 3 (9.38%) Military
5 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Administrator
2 8 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
3 5 (15.63%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Technical Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Applications Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Consultant
5 3 (9.38%) Developer
5 3 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Oracle Applications Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Senior
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Security Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Technical Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Solaris Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.13%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) REST
2 3 (9.38%) LDAP
2 3 (9.38%) Middleware
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Replication
2 8 (25.00%) Clustering
3 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 3 (9.38%) Mainframe
4 3 (9.38%) PKI
5 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 30 (93.75%) Linux
2 16 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (43.75%) Unix
4 13 (40.63%) Windows
5 8 (25.00%) AIX
6 6 (18.75%) HPUX
6 6 (18.75%) Windows Server
7 3 (9.38%) Oracle Linux
7 3 (9.38%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 3 (9.38%) Windows 10
7 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) DevOps
2 15 (46.88%) High Availability
3 12 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (31.25%) Agile
4 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
5 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (18.75%) API Integration
6 6 (18.75%) Migration
7 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (15.63%) Kernel Tuning
7 5 (15.63%) Security Hardening
8 4 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (12.50%) Incident Management
8 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (12.50%) Roadmaps
8 4 (12.50%) Storage Management
8 4 (12.50%) Task Automation
8 4 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) Python
2 11 (34.38%) Bash
3 9 (28.13%) Perl
4 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 6 (18.75%) SQL
5 4 (12.50%) Java
6 3 (9.38%) PL/SQL
7 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.13%) ActionScript
8 1 (3.13%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (3.13%) C#
8 1 (3.13%) Korn
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) CISM
4 2 (6.25%) CISSP
4 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.25%) Degree
5 1 (3.13%) IBM Certification
5 1 (3.13%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.00%) GDPR
2 4 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.25%) NIST
3 2 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (12.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 3 (9.38%) Active Directory
4 3 (9.38%) Hyper-V
5 2 (6.25%) Docker
5 2 (6.25%) NFS
5 2 (6.25%) Veritas File System
5 2 (6.25%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 2 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (43.75%) Ansible
2 7 (21.88%) Red Hat Satellite
3 6 (18.75%) Puppet
3 6 (18.75%) Tivoli
4 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
4 5 (15.63%) QRadar
5 4 (12.50%) EMC NetWorker
5 4 (12.50%) Terraform
5 4 (12.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 3 (9.38%) Netcool
7 2 (6.25%) Control-M
7 2 (6.25%) Progress Chef
7 2 (6.25%) SELinux
8 1 (3.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 19 (59.38%) Red Hat
2 16 (50.00%) VMware
3 12 (37.50%) IBM
3 12 (37.50%) Oracle
4 8 (25.00%) CyberArk
5 7 (21.88%) Splunk
6 6 (18.75%) Qualys
7 5 (15.63%) SaltStack
8 4 (12.50%) EMC
8 4 (12.50%) ServiceNow
8 4 (12.50%) Sun
9 3 (9.38%) MuleSoft
9 3 (9.38%) Unisys
9 3 (9.38%) Veritas
10 2 (6.25%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (6.25%) BMC
10 2 (6.25%) HP
10 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
10 2 (6.25%) SolarWinds
10 2 (6.25%) Symantec