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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 448 439
Rank change year-on-year -67 -9 +125
Contract jobs citing Solaris 29 59 132
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.094% 0.19% 0.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.69% 1.38% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 34 63
10th Percentile £384 £443 £375
25th Percentile £456 £481 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -11.36%
75th Percentile £562 £600 £548
90th Percentile £592 £635 £598
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -4.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £54.40
25th Percentile - - £59.13
Median hourly rate - - £67.00
75th Percentile - - £68.50
90th Percentile - - £69.40
UK median hourly rate - - £67.00
% change year-on-year - - +49.96%

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 4,191 4,284 5,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.53% 14.13% 15.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,747 2,655 4,080
10th Percentile £180 £200 £182
25th Percentile £263 £321 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -6.34%
75th Percentile £565 £588 £613
90th Percentile £675 £699 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 161 319
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.49 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £57.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.26% +76.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £58.88 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £70.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -50.00% +56.25% +28.00%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 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 -16 12 £475 -15.56% 2
West Midlands -21 9 £450 -2.70% 8
Midlands -27 9 £450 -2.70% 13
North of England -50 3 £370 -35.65% 14
Yorkshire -41 2 - - 6
South East -16 1 £525 +7.69% 15
North West -24 1 £370 -35.65% 7
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 (10.34%) CICS
2 2 (6.90%) Confluence
2 2 (6.90%) Tomcat
2 2 (6.90%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) AWS
3 6 (20.69%) GitHub
4 4 (13.79%) SaaS
5 3 (10.34%) GCP
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.45%) IaaS
6 1 (3.45%) Lucidchart
6 1 (3.45%) PaaS
6 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) SSH
2 5 (17.24%) DNS
2 5 (17.24%) Kerberos
3 4 (13.79%) TCP/IP
4 3 (10.34%) Firewall
5 2 (6.90%) NAS
5 2 (6.90%) SAN
6 1 (3.45%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (3.45%) DHCP
6 1 (3.45%) FCoE
6 1 (3.45%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (3.45%) iSCSI
6 1 (3.45%) LAN
6 1 (3.45%) Multicast
6 1 (3.45%) SSL
6 1 (3.45%) VSAN
6 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Oracle Database
2 4 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (13.79%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Git
1 5 (17.24%) GitLab
1 5 (17.24%) Sonatype Nexus
1 5 (17.24%) Subversion
2 4 (13.79%) TeamCity
3 3 (10.34%) Gradle
3 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.34%) Maven
4 2 (6.90%) JIRA
General
1 9 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Finance
5 2 (6.90%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.45%) Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Legal
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Administrator
1 7 (24.14%) Consultant
1 7 (24.14%) Linux Administrator
2 6 (20.69%) Management Consultant
3 4 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Architect
4 3 (10.34%) DBA
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Oracle DBA
4 3 (10.34%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.90%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.45%) Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) LDAP
2 5 (17.24%) OAuth
2 5 (17.24%) SAML
3 4 (13.79%) REST
4 3 (10.34%) ARM Templates
4 3 (10.34%) Middleware
5 1 (3.45%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Clustering
1 6 (20.69%) Data Protection Act
1 6 (20.69%) Replication
2 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.34%) Mainframe
3 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.90%) Hedge funds
3 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.45%) HP Storage
4 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) PKI
4 1 (3.45%) PMI
4 1 (3.45%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 25 (86.21%) Linux
2 14 (48.28%) Windows
3 12 (41.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (34.48%) AIX
5 7 (24.14%) Unix
6 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
6 2 (6.90%) zOS
7 1 (3.45%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) CI/CD
2 12 (41.38%) DevOps
3 8 (27.59%) High Availability
3 8 (27.59%) Migration
3 8 (27.59%) RBAC
3 8 (27.59%) Roadmaps
4 7 (24.14%) Key Management
4 7 (24.14%) Privileged Access Management
5 6 (20.69%) Data Protection
5 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (20.69%) Project Delivery
5 6 (20.69%) Security Hardening
6 5 (17.24%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (13.79%) API Integration
7 4 (13.79%) Data Security
7 4 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (13.79%) Kernel Tuning
7 4 (13.79%) Strategic Planning
8 3 (10.34%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Bash
1 15 (51.72%) Python
2 12 (41.38%) PowerShell
3 6 (20.69%) Perl
4 2 (6.90%) Java
4 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.90%) SQL
5 1 (3.45%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) Degree
1 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.45%) CAPM
2 1 (3.45%) CBAP
2 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.45%) PMP
2 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) GDPR
2 4 (13.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (13.79%) NIST
2 4 (13.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (13.79%) SOC 2
3 3 (10.34%) PCI DSS
4 2 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 10 (34.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (31.03%) Active Directory
3 8 (27.59%) NFS
4 6 (20.69%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (13.79%) Veritas File System
5 4 (13.79%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 2 (6.90%) Hyper-V
6 2 (6.90%) KVM
7 1 (3.45%) SRDF
7 1 (3.45%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (3.45%) vSphere
7 1 (3.45%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (37.93%) Ansible
2 7 (24.14%) Terraform
3 6 (20.69%) Kubernetes
3 6 (20.69%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (13.79%) QRadar
5 1 (3.45%) NetBackup
5 1 (3.45%) Puppet
5 1 (3.45%) SCCM
5 1 (3.45%) SCOM
5 1 (3.45%) SCOrch
5 1 (3.45%) SELinux
5 1 (3.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) Red Hat
1 12 (41.38%) VMware
2 11 (37.93%) CyberArk
3 7 (24.14%) BeyondTrust
3 7 (24.14%) Oracle
4 5 (17.24%) Qualys
5 4 (13.79%) NetApp
5 4 (13.79%) SaltStack
5 4 (13.79%) Splunk
6 3 (10.34%) EMC
7 2 (6.90%) Cisco
7 2 (6.90%) F5
7 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
7 2 (6.90%) Symantec
7 2 (6.90%) Veritas
8 1 (3.45%) HP
8 1 (3.45%) IBM
8 1 (3.45%) Pure Storage
8 1 (3.45%) Tanium
8 1 (3.45%) Tenable