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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 438 479
Rank change year-on-year -81 +41 +12
Contract jobs citing Solaris 62 37 59
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.56% 1.08% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 24 28
10th Percentile £409 £411 £425
25th Percentile £460 £425 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +0.92% +3.81%
75th Percentile £531 £626 £588
90th Percentile £578 £734 £600
UK median daily rate £481 £550 £531
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.53% +1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £34.36 - -
25th Percentile £35.38 - -
Median hourly rate £38.68 - -
75th Percentile £40.88 - -
90th Percentile £41.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £38.68 - -

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 3,986 3,434 5,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.89% 14.09% 13.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,637 2,334 3,443
10th Percentile £185 £200 £183
25th Percentile £310 £313 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% -9.27%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £470
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% -6.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 156 368
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.24 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.44 £15.23
Median hourly rate £47.50 £24.09 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +97.18% +9.50% -41.33%
75th Percentile £67.84 £64.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.81 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.10 £24.09 £22.08
% change year-on-year +87.22% +9.13% -43.40%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 West -8 35 £475 -20.92% 8
North of England -35 35 £475 -20.92% 8
London -51 14 £525 +16.67% 5
South West -26 9 - - 12
West Midlands - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - - 5
East of England - 1 £300 - 1
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 9 (14.52%) CICS
2 7 (11.29%) nginx
2 7 (11.29%) Tomcat
3 3 (4.84%) WebLogic
4 2 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.06%) AWS
2 2 (3.23%) Lucidchart
2 2 (3.23%) MinIO
3 1 (1.61%) Azure
3 1 (1.61%) GCP
3 1 (1.61%) Google Ads
3 1 (1.61%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.52%) Firewall
2 5 (8.06%) HTTP
3 1 (1.61%) DSL
3 1 (1.61%) SSL
3 1 (1.61%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.52%) DataStage
2 5 (8.06%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (8.06%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.23%) GIS
3 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle Exadata
General
1 27 (43.55%) Finance
2 14 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.52%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (11.29%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.68%) Banking
6 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Advertising
8 1 (1.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (35.48%) Unix Engineer
2 14 (22.58%) Consultant
2 14 (22.58%) Solaris Consultant
3 9 (14.52%) Designer
3 9 (14.52%) Infrastructure Designer
4 4 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) Architect
5 3 (4.84%) Lead
5 3 (4.84%) Senior
6 2 (3.23%) Analyst
6 2 (3.23%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.23%) Database Manager
6 2 (3.23%) Junior
6 2 (3.23%) Junior Architect
6 2 (3.23%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
6 2 (3.23%) Senior Unix Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Software Engineer
7 1 (1.61%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (1.61%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.74%) Middleware
2 3 (4.84%) EJB
3 2 (3.23%) Java EE
3 2 (3.23%) OpenLayers
3 2 (3.23%) Spring
4 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.61%) JavaBeans
4 1 (1.61%) JSON
4 1 (1.61%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.19%) Data Centre
2 9 (14.52%) BYOD
2 9 (14.52%) Mainframe
2 9 (14.52%) VSAM
3 6 (9.68%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (8.06%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.23%) PMI
5 2 (3.23%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.23%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.61%) Clustering
6 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.61%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 33 (53.23%) Unix
2 28 (45.16%) Linux
3 17 (27.42%) AIX
4 14 (22.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (19.35%) Windows
6 7 (11.29%) Windows Server
6 7 (11.29%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (9.68%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (8.06%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (6.45%) HPUX
9 4 (6.45%) SUSE
9 4 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (3.23%) Windows 10
10 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (1.61%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (40.32%) Migration
2 20 (32.26%) High Availability
3 18 (29.03%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (22.58%) Project Delivery
5 10 (16.13%) Roadmaps
6 9 (14.52%) Business Case
6 9 (14.52%) Design Patterns
6 9 (14.52%) Process Improvement
7 6 (9.68%) Change Management
7 6 (9.68%) ETL
7 6 (9.68%) Master Data Management
7 6 (9.68%) RBAC
7 6 (9.68%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (8.06%) DevOps
8 5 (8.06%) ITIL
8 5 (8.06%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (8.06%) Security Hardening
8 5 (8.06%) Test Automation
9 4 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (6.45%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (27.42%) Python
2 9 (14.52%) COBOL
3 6 (9.68%) PL/SQL
3 6 (9.68%) SQL
4 4 (6.45%) Java
5 2 (3.23%) Bash
5 2 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.23%) Perl
5 2 (3.23%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (53.23%) Security Cleared
2 30 (48.39%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) CISSP
3 4 (6.45%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (6.45%) RHCE
4 3 (4.84%) Degree
5 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.23%) CAPM
5 2 (3.23%) CBAP
5 2 (3.23%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) GRC
2 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.23%) NIST
2 2 (3.23%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (9.68%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (8.06%) Docker
3 5 (8.06%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (6.45%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (4.84%) Ansible
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (1.61%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.61%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.61%) Kibana
4 1 (1.61%) logstash
4 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (1.61%) SCCM
4 1 (1.61%) SCOM
4 1 (1.61%) SCOrch
4 1 (1.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (51.61%) Oracle
2 16 (25.81%) IBM
2 16 (25.81%) VMware
3 14 (22.58%) Red Hat
4 5 (8.06%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.45%) Cisco
5 4 (6.45%) HP
6 1 (1.61%) Dell
6 1 (1.61%) Google
6 1 (1.61%) Murex
6 1 (1.61%) Veeam