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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 483 495
Rank change year-on-year +35 +12 +101
Contract jobs citing Solaris 37 59 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.16% 0.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.08% 1.16% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 27 101
10th Percentile £411 £425 £400
25th Percentile £425 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £588 £613
90th Percentile £734 £600 £645
UK median daily rate £550 £531 £525
% change year-on-year +3.53% +1.19% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £37.80
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year - +29.34% -14.99%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £43.39
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £52.50 £40.59
% change year-on-year - +29.34% -35.57%

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 3,414 5,072 8,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.02% 13.64% 16.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,320 3,461 5,863
10th Percentile £200 £181 £193
25th Percentile £313 £289 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 369 384
10th Percentile £15.26 £12.75 £13.97
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.17 £17.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%
75th Percentile £64.38 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +35 15 £450 -25.00% 10
North of England +23 9 £600 +34.08% 1
South East +39 6 £550 +15.79% 3
North West - 6 £600 - 1
Yorkshire +6 3 £525 +17.32%
South West +45 1 £233 -53.40%
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 (10.81%) Confluence
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (8.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.11%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.70%) Fidessa
3 1 (2.70%) iTrent
3 1 (2.70%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 11 (29.73%) AWS
2 10 (27.03%) Azure
3 9 (24.32%) GitHub
4 8 (21.62%) Nutanix
5 5 (13.51%) GCP
6 4 (10.81%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (8.11%) IaaS
8 2 (5.41%) Azure AKS
8 2 (5.41%) PaaS
8 2 (5.41%) Rubrik
8 2 (5.41%) SaaS
8 2 (5.41%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (29.73%) DNS
2 9 (24.32%) TCP/IP
3 5 (13.51%) Firewall
4 4 (10.81%) Kerberos
4 4 (10.81%) SAN
5 3 (8.11%) DHCP
5 3 (8.11%) NAS
6 1 (2.70%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (2.70%) HTTPS
6 1 (2.70%) SSH
6 1 (2.70%) VLAN
6 1 (2.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) Oracle Database
2 4 (10.81%) Oracle Database 11g
3 3 (8.11%) Oracle Database 10g
3 3 (8.11%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.41%) SQLite
4 2 (5.41%) Sybase ASE
5 1 (2.70%) MySQL
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 11 (29.73%) Git
1 11 (29.73%) Subversion
2 10 (27.03%) TeamCity
3 4 (10.81%) JIRA
4 3 (8.11%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (2.70%) GitLab
5 1 (2.70%) Gradle
5 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.70%) Maven
5 1 (2.70%) Serena SBM
5 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (48.65%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.03%) Finance
3 7 (18.92%) Banking
4 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Military
5 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) Administrator
2 12 (32.43%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (10.81%) Architect
3 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (10.81%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Unix Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Applications Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Oracle Applications Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Oracle Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Unix Administrator
5 2 (5.41%) Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) DBA
5 2 (5.41%) Security Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Solaris Administrator
6 1 (2.70%) Applications Support
6 1 (2.70%) Support Analyst
6 1 (2.70%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.62%) REST
2 4 (10.81%) LDAP
3 3 (8.11%) Middleware
3 3 (8.11%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.70%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 12 (32.43%) Clustering
1 12 (32.43%) Replication
2 4 (10.81%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.11%) Mainframe
4 2 (5.41%) PKI
5 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.70%) Equities
5 1 (2.70%) Eurex
5 1 (2.70%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (97.30%) Linux
2 17 (45.95%) Unix
3 16 (43.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (35.14%) Windows
5 11 (29.73%) HPUX
6 10 (27.03%) AIX
7 7 (18.92%) Windows Server
8 6 (16.22%) Ubuntu
9 5 (13.51%) CentOS
10 3 (8.11%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (8.11%) Windows 10
10 3 (8.11%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (8.11%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (2.70%) Debian
11 1 (2.70%) Fedora
11 1 (2.70%) SUSE
11 1 (2.70%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) High Availability
2 18 (48.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (37.84%) DevOps
4 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
5 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (21.62%) API Integration
6 8 (21.62%) Kernel Tuning
7 7 (18.92%) Agile
8 6 (16.22%) Capacity Planning
8 6 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (16.22%) Data Security
8 6 (16.22%) Security Hardening
8 6 (16.22%) Storage Management
8 6 (16.22%) Task Automation
9 5 (13.51%) Patch Management
10 4 (10.81%) Configuration Management
10 4 (10.81%) Migration
10 4 (10.81%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (10.81%) Project Delivery
10 4 (10.81%) Security Auditing
Programming Languages
1 19 (51.35%) Bash
1 19 (51.35%) Python
2 16 (43.24%) Perl
3 8 (21.62%) SQL
4 5 (13.51%) PL/SQL
4 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
4 5 (13.51%) Shell Script
5 4 (10.81%) Java
6 2 (5.41%) C#
6 2 (5.41%) Korn
7 1 (2.70%) ActionScript
7 1 (2.70%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (2.70%) Ruby
7 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 9 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) CISM
4 2 (5.41%) CISSP
4 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.41%) Degree
5 1 (2.70%) IBM Certification
5 1 (2.70%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (32.43%) GDPR
2 8 (21.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.41%) NIST
3 2 (5.41%) QA
System Software
1 12 (32.43%) VMware ESXi
1 12 (32.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (13.51%) Active Directory
3 4 (10.81%) NFS
3 4 (10.81%) Veritas File System
3 4 (10.81%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Docker
4 2 (5.41%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.41%) KVM
4 2 (5.41%) vSphere
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (2.70%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 18 (48.65%) Ansible
2 10 (27.03%) Red Hat Satellite
3 9 (24.32%) QRadar
4 8 (21.62%) Tivoli
5 7 (18.92%) Puppet
6 6 (16.22%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (16.22%) Progress Chef
6 6 (16.22%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 3 (8.11%) Control-M
7 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
7 3 (8.11%) Netcool
8 2 (5.41%) Oracle ZFS
8 2 (5.41%) SELinux
8 2 (5.41%) Terraform
9 1 (2.70%) Data Guard
9 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 1 (2.70%) Nagios
9 1 (2.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (2.70%) Rundeck
9 1 (2.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (62.16%) Red Hat
2 18 (48.65%) VMware
3 14 (37.84%) IBM
4 12 (32.43%) CyberArk
4 12 (32.43%) Oracle
5 11 (29.73%) Splunk
6 10 (27.03%) Qualys
7 8 (21.62%) SaltStack
8 6 (16.22%) EMC
8 6 (16.22%) ServiceNow
9 5 (13.51%) HP
10 4 (10.81%) Sun
11 3 (8.11%) BMC
11 3 (8.11%) Unisys
11 3 (8.11%) Veritas
12 2 (5.41%) BeyondTrust
12 2 (5.41%) Serena
12 2 (5.41%) SolarWinds
12 2 (5.41%) Sybase
12 2 (5.41%) Symantec