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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 433 458
Rank change year-on-year -65 +25 +83
Contract jobs citing Solaris 37 59 92
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.91% 1.58% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 49
10th Percentile £450 £436 £395
25th Percentile £458 £481 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £558 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.75% +17.47% -13.64%
75th Percentile £537 £600 £550
90th Percentile £569 £650 £609
UK median daily rate £478 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.18% +10.00% -4.76%
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 - - +17.50%

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 4,045 3,745 5,515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.00% 13.90% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,692 2,364 3,819
10th Percentile £175 £200 £178
25th Percentile £263 £313 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -6.86%
75th Percentile £565 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 125 294
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.35 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.30 £17.73
Median hourly rate £25.04 £52.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.31% +75.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £61.25 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.90 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -26.03% +13.33% +20.00%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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
London -25 12 £500 -13.09% 1
North of England -42 12 £478 -16.96% 3
North West -27 10 £478 -16.96% 3
West Midlands -23 9 £450 -2.70%
Midlands -33 9 £450 -2.70%
Yorkshire -47 2 - -
South East -8 1 £525 +7.69% 2
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 3 (8.11%) CICS
2 2 (5.41%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) Tomcat
2 2 (5.41%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.70%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.03%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) AWS
3 6 (16.22%) GitHub
4 4 (10.81%) SaaS
5 3 (8.11%) GCP
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.70%) Google Ads
6 1 (2.70%) IaaS
6 1 (2.70%) Lucidchart
6 1 (2.70%) OCI
6 1 (2.70%) PaaS
6 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) SSH
2 5 (13.51%) DNS
2 5 (13.51%) Kerberos
3 4 (10.81%) TCP/IP
4 3 (8.11%) Firewall
5 2 (5.41%) NAS
5 2 (5.41%) SAN
6 1 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.70%) DHCP
6 1 (2.70%) FCoE
6 1 (2.70%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (2.70%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.70%) LAN
6 1 (2.70%) Multicast
6 1 (2.70%) SSL
6 1 (2.70%) VSAN
6 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle Database
2 4 (10.81%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (10.81%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Git
1 5 (13.51%) Subversion
2 4 (10.81%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (10.81%) TeamCity
3 3 (8.11%) GitLab
3 3 (8.11%) Gradle
3 3 (8.11%) Maven
4 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.41%) JIRA
General
1 9 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Finance
6 2 (5.41%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.70%) Banking
7 1 (2.70%) Legal
7 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Unix Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Administrator
2 7 (18.92%) Consultant
2 7 (18.92%) Linux Administrator
3 6 (16.22%) Management Consultant
4 4 (10.81%) Architect
5 3 (8.11%) DBA
5 3 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (5.41%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.41%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.41%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) Business Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Oracle Technical Architect
7 1 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.70%) Storage Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (24.32%) LDAP
2 5 (13.51%) OAuth
2 5 (13.51%) SAML
3 4 (10.81%) REST
4 3 (8.11%) ARM Templates
4 3 (8.11%) Middleware
5 1 (2.70%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Clustering
1 6 (16.22%) Data Protection Act
1 6 (16.22%) Replication
2 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.11%) Mainframe
3 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.41%) Hedge funds
3 2 (5.41%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.70%) HP Storage
4 1 (2.70%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (2.70%) PKI
4 1 (2.70%) PMI
4 1 (2.70%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 26 (70.27%) Linux
2 16 (43.24%) Unix
3 14 (37.84%) Windows
4 11 (29.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (27.03%) AIX
6 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
6 2 (5.41%) zOS
7 1 (2.70%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) High Availability
2 17 (45.95%) Migration
3 13 (35.14%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (32.43%) CI/CD
4 12 (32.43%) Project Delivery
5 10 (27.03%) DevOps
6 8 (21.62%) RBAC
7 7 (18.92%) Key Management
7 7 (18.92%) Privileged Access Management
7 7 (18.92%) Roadmaps
8 6 (16.22%) Data Protection
8 6 (16.22%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (16.22%) Security Hardening
9 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (10.81%) API Integration
10 4 (10.81%) Data Security
10 4 (10.81%) Kernel Tuning
10 4 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (10.81%) Strategic Planning
11 3 (8.11%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 22 (59.46%) Python
2 15 (40.54%) Bash
3 11 (29.73%) PowerShell
4 6 (16.22%) Perl
5 2 (5.41%) Java
5 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.41%) SQL
6 1 (2.70%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 12 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (29.73%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) CAPM
4 1 (2.70%) CBAP
4 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) GDPR
2 4 (10.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (10.81%) NIST
2 4 (10.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (10.81%) SOC 2
3 3 (8.11%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 10 (27.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (24.32%) Active Directory
3 8 (21.62%) NFS
4 6 (16.22%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (10.81%) Veritas File System
5 4 (10.81%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Hyper-V
6 2 (5.41%) KVM
7 1 (2.70%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (2.70%) SRDF
7 1 (2.70%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (2.70%) vSphere
7 1 (2.70%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (27.03%) Ansible
2 6 (16.22%) Red Hat Satellite
3 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
3 5 (13.51%) Terraform
4 4 (10.81%) QRadar
5 1 (2.70%) Data Guard
5 1 (2.70%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (2.70%) Puppet
5 1 (2.70%) SCCM
5 1 (2.70%) SCOM
5 1 (2.70%) SCOrch
5 1 (2.70%) SELinux
5 1 (2.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (45.95%) Oracle
2 11 (29.73%) CyberArk
2 11 (29.73%) Red Hat
2 11 (29.73%) VMware
3 7 (18.92%) BeyondTrust
4 6 (16.22%) Cisco
5 5 (13.51%) Qualys
6 4 (10.81%) NetApp
6 4 (10.81%) SaltStack
6 4 (10.81%) Splunk
7 3 (8.11%) EMC
8 2 (5.41%) F5
8 2 (5.41%) Google
8 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
8 2 (5.41%) Symantec
8 2 (5.41%) Veritas
9 1 (2.70%) Brocade
9 1 (2.70%) HP
9 1 (2.70%) IBM
9 1 (2.70%) Veeam