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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 485 453
Rank change year-on-year -45 -32 -14
Contract jobs citing Solaris 101 33 79
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.12% 0.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.27% 0.88% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 22 46
10th Percentile £415 £413 £372
25th Percentile £459 £443 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.92% +9.55%
75th Percentile £552 £625 £597
90th Percentile £583 £720 £641
UK median daily rate £494 £582 £525
% change year-on-year -15.08% +10.81% +5.00%
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 4,442 3,762 4,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.68% 13.63% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,858 2,483 3,105
10th Percentile £190 £192 £200
25th Percentile £313 £306 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £588
90th Percentile £673 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 243 283
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.51 £12.39
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.26 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.68 £24.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.48% -31.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £67.25 £58.75 £68.38
90th Percentile £74.00 £67.80 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.92 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +3.68% -9.09% -31.25%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -20 57 £488 -22.00% 2
North West +2 54 £488 -18.75% 2
London -68 19 £525 +14.75% 18
South West -29 14 - - 4
West Midlands -48 4 £500 +11.11% 1
Midlands -50 4 £500 +11.11% 1
Yorkshire -42 3 - -
South East -68 3 £700 +27.27% 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 7 (6.93%) nginx
1 7 (6.93%) Tomcat
2 4 (3.96%) WebLogic
3 3 (2.97%) CICS
4 2 (1.98%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.99%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.91%) AWS
2 2 (1.98%) Azure
2 2 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (1.98%) MinIO
3 1 (0.99%) GCP
3 1 (0.99%) GitHub
3 1 (0.99%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.95%) HTTP
2 3 (2.97%) Firewall
2 3 (2.97%) SAN
3 1 (0.99%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.89%) Oracle Database
2 8 (7.92%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.93%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.94%) MySQL
5 5 (4.95%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.97%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (2.97%) DataStage
6 3 (2.97%) GIS
6 3 (2.97%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (1.98%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (1.98%) Oracle Database 11g
7 2 (1.98%) SQLite
8 1 (0.99%) Db2
8 1 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.99%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.99%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.99%) Git
2 1 (0.99%) JIRA
General
1 33 (32.67%) Finance
2 15 (14.85%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.91%) Banking
5 3 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.97%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.98%) Aviation
6 2 (1.98%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.99%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.99%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (42.57%) Unix Engineer
2 21 (20.79%) Consultant
3 19 (18.81%) Solaris Consultant
4 11 (10.89%) Linux Engineer
4 11 (10.89%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 9 (8.91%) DBA
6 6 (5.94%) Solaris Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Architect
7 5 (4.95%) Database Manager
7 5 (4.95%) SQL DBA
8 4 (3.96%) Administrator
8 4 (3.96%) Oracle DBA
8 4 (3.96%) SC Cleared DBA
8 4 (3.96%) Support Engineer
9 3 (2.97%) Designer
9 3 (2.97%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.97%) Infrastructure Designer
9 3 (2.97%) Senior
10 2 (1.98%) Senior Unix Engineer
10 2 (1.98%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.96%) Middleware
2 3 (2.97%) EJB
2 3 (2.97%) Java SE
3 2 (1.98%) Jakarta EE
3 2 (1.98%) JSON
3 2 (1.98%) JSP
3 2 (1.98%) OpenLayers
3 2 (1.98%) Terraform
4 1 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.99%) JavaBeans
4 1 (0.99%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.88%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (8.91%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.94%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (3.96%) Clustering
4 4 (3.96%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.97%) BYOD
5 3 (2.97%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.97%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.97%) VSAM
6 2 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.98%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.99%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.99%) FPGA
7 1 (0.99%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.99%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 59 (58.42%) Unix
2 46 (45.54%) Linux
3 22 (21.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (15.84%) AIX
5 15 (14.85%) Windows
6 8 (7.92%) HPUX
7 7 (6.93%) Oracle Linux
7 7 (6.93%) SUSE
7 7 (6.93%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (4.95%) Windows 10
8 5 (4.95%) Windows Server
8 5 (4.95%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (3.96%) CentOS
9 4 (3.96%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (2.97%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.99%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (25.74%) Migration
2 21 (20.79%) Disaster Recovery
3 20 (19.80%) High Availability
4 13 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (9.90%) Change Management
6 9 (8.91%) Project Delivery
6 9 (8.91%) Runbook
7 8 (7.92%) DevOps
7 8 (7.92%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (6.93%) CI/CD
8 7 (6.93%) ITIL
8 7 (6.93%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (6.93%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 6 (5.94%) Configuration Management
9 6 (5.94%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (5.94%) Roadmaps
9 6 (5.94%) Security Hardening
9 6 (5.94%) Test Automation
10 5 (4.95%) Change Control
10 5 (4.95%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (16.83%) Python
2 15 (14.85%) SQL
3 9 (8.91%) Shell Script
4 7 (6.93%) Bash
5 6 (5.94%) Java
5 6 (5.94%) PL/SQL
6 4 (3.96%) C++
7 3 (2.97%) COBOL
7 3 (2.97%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.98%) Perl
9 1 (0.99%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.99%) Korn
9 1 (0.99%) VB
Qualifications
1 60 (59.41%) Security Cleared
2 56 (55.45%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (4.95%) CISSP
4 5 (4.95%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (4.95%) RHCE
5 4 (3.96%) Degree
6 3 (2.97%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.98%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.95%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (7.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (6.93%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (5.94%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (4.95%) Docker
5 1 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (6.93%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (5.94%) Ansible
3 5 (4.95%) Oracle ZFS
4 3 (2.97%) Data Guard
4 3 (2.97%) NetBackup
5 2 (1.98%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.99%) Kibana
6 1 (0.99%) logstash
6 1 (0.99%) Opsview
Vendors
1 54 (53.47%) Oracle
2 14 (13.86%) Red Hat
3 12 (11.88%) Microsoft
4 11 (10.89%) IBM
5 10 (9.90%) VMware
6 8 (7.92%) HP
7 3 (2.97%) Dell
7 3 (2.97%) SAP
8 2 (1.98%) Broadcom
8 2 (1.98%) NetApp
8 2 (1.98%) Veritas
9 1 (0.99%) Mellanox
9 1 (0.99%) Murex
9 1 (0.99%) Solarflare