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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 475 440
Rank change year-on-year -48 -35 +8
Contract jobs citing Solaris 103 31 79
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.11% 0.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.30% 0.83% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 21 49
10th Percentile £415 £413 £376
25th Percentile £460 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £552 £625 £588
90th Percentile £588 £725 £639
UK median daily rate £497 £589 £525
% change year-on-year -15.62% +12.19% +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 4,473 3,718 4,728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.75% 13.38% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,872 2,459 3,149
10th Percentile £190 £190 £200
25th Percentile £313 £306 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -9.09% -1.00%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £588
90th Percentile £669 £681 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 236 293
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.43
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.68 £23.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.76% -32.35% -14.14%
75th Percentile £67.25 £59.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.92 £24.58 £27.50
% change year-on-year +5.45% -10.62% -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 16 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 16 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 -29 57 £488 -22.00% 4
North West +9 54 £488 -18.75% 3
London -62 20 £525 +14.75% 4
South West -37 14 - - 3
Midlands -45 5 £500 +11.11% 1
West Midlands -50 5 £500 +11.11% 1
Yorkshire -47 3 - - 1
South East -73 3 £700 +27.27% 2
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 8 (7.77%) nginx
1 8 (7.77%) Tomcat
2 4 (3.88%) WebLogic
3 3 (2.91%) CICS
4 2 (1.94%) Confluence
4 2 (1.94%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.91%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.71%) AWS
2 2 (1.94%) Azure
2 2 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (1.94%) MinIO
3 1 (0.97%) GCP
3 1 (0.97%) GitHub
3 1 (0.97%) IBM Cloud
3 1 (0.97%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.85%) HTTP
2 3 (2.91%) Firewall
2 3 (2.91%) SAN
3 1 (0.97%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.65%) Oracle Database
2 9 (8.74%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.80%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.83%) MySQL
5 5 (4.85%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.91%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (2.91%) DataStage
6 3 (2.91%) GIS
6 3 (2.91%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (1.94%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (1.94%) Oracle Database 11g
7 2 (1.94%) SQLite
8 1 (0.97%) Db2
8 1 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.97%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.97%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.97%) Git
2 1 (0.97%) JIRA
General
1 33 (32.04%) Finance
2 16 (15.53%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.74%) Banking
5 5 (4.85%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.94%) Aviation
7 2 (1.94%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.97%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (41.75%) Unix Engineer
2 21 (20.39%) Consultant
3 19 (18.45%) Solaris Consultant
4 11 (10.68%) Linux Engineer
4 11 (10.68%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 9 (8.74%) DBA
6 6 (5.83%) Solaris Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Architect
7 5 (4.85%) Database Manager
7 5 (4.85%) SQL DBA
8 4 (3.88%) Administrator
8 4 (3.88%) Oracle DBA
8 4 (3.88%) SC Cleared DBA
8 4 (3.88%) Support Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) Designer
9 3 (2.91%) Infrastructure Designer
9 3 (2.91%) Lead
9 3 (2.91%) Senior
10 2 (1.94%) Junior Architect
10 2 (1.94%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.88%) Middleware
2 3 (2.91%) EJB
3 2 (1.94%) Jakarta EE
3 2 (1.94%) Java SE
3 2 (1.94%) JSON
3 2 (1.94%) OpenLayers
3 2 (1.94%) Spring
4 1 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.97%) JavaBeans
4 1 (0.97%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.62%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (9.71%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.83%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (3.88%) Clustering
4 4 (3.88%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.91%) BYOD
5 3 (2.91%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.91%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.91%) VSAM
6 2 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.94%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.94%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.97%) FPGA
7 1 (0.97%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.97%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.97%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 59 (57.28%) Unix
2 48 (46.60%) Linux
3 23 (22.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (16.50%) AIX
4 17 (16.50%) Windows
5 8 (7.77%) HPUX
5 8 (7.77%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (6.80%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (6.80%) SUSE
7 6 (5.83%) Windows Server
8 5 (4.85%) Windows 10
8 5 (4.85%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (4.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (3.88%) CentOS
10 3 (2.91%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.97%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (26.21%) Migration
2 21 (20.39%) Disaster Recovery
3 20 (19.42%) High Availability
4 13 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (9.71%) Change Management
6 9 (8.74%) Project Delivery
6 9 (8.74%) Runbook
7 8 (7.77%) DevOps
7 8 (7.77%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (6.80%) CI/CD
8 7 (6.80%) ITIL
8 7 (6.80%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (6.80%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 6 (5.83%) Configuration Management
9 6 (5.83%) ETL
9 6 (5.83%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (5.83%) RBAC
9 6 (5.83%) Roadmaps
9 6 (5.83%) Security Hardening
9 6 (5.83%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (15.53%) Python
1 16 (15.53%) SQL
2 9 (8.74%) Shell Script
3 7 (6.80%) Bash
3 7 (6.80%) PL/SQL
4 6 (5.83%) Java
5 4 (3.88%) C++
6 3 (2.91%) COBOL
6 3 (2.91%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.94%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.94%) Perl
8 1 (0.97%) Korn
8 1 (0.97%) VB
Qualifications
1 62 (60.19%) Security Cleared
2 58 (56.31%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (4.85%) CISSP
4 5 (4.85%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (4.85%) Degree
4 5 (4.85%) RHCE
5 3 (2.91%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.94%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.97%) CAPM
7 1 (0.97%) CBAP
7 1 (0.97%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.97%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.85%) GRC
2 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.97%) NIST
2 1 (0.97%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (7.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (6.80%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (5.83%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (4.85%) Docker
5 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (6.80%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (5.83%) Ansible
3 5 (4.85%) Oracle ZFS
4 3 (2.91%) Data Guard
4 3 (2.91%) NetBackup
5 2 (1.94%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (1.94%) Terraform
6 1 (0.97%) Kibana
6 1 (0.97%) logstash
6 1 (0.97%) Opsview
Vendors
1 55 (53.40%) Oracle
2 15 (14.56%) Red Hat
3 12 (11.65%) IBM
3 12 (11.65%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.71%) VMware
5 8 (7.77%) HP
6 3 (2.91%) Dell
6 3 (2.91%) SAP
7 2 (1.94%) Broadcom
7 2 (1.94%) NetApp
7 2 (1.94%) Veritas
8 1 (0.97%) Mellanox
8 1 (0.97%) Murex
8 1 (0.97%) Solarflare