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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 479 457
Rank change year-on-year -48 -22 -20
Contract jobs citing Solaris 110 32 72
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.11% 0.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.44% 0.81% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 19 41
10th Percentile £418 £432 £378
25th Percentile £470 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -9.09% +14.58%
75th Percentile £539 £575 £600
90th Percentile £571 £655 £645
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.24% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £35.52 - -
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 4,515 3,937 4,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.76% 14.11% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,879 2,581 2,839
10th Percentile £193 £185 £202
25th Percentile £313 £275 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £585
90th Percentile £675 £668 £688
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £472
% change year-on-year +4.44% -4.56% -4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 284 214
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.15 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.41 £23.29
Median hourly rate £32.29 £24.00 £60.72
Median % change year-on-year +34.54% -60.47% +25.44%
75th Percentile £67.42 £50.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 -
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £25.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.08% -54.55% +19.88%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -2 67 £517 -1.57% 6
North West - 64 £517 - 5
South West -18 14 - - 4
London -91 14 £506 +6.58% 9
Midlands -34 8 £525 +16.67% 3
West Midlands -41 8 £525 +16.67% 3
Yorkshire -32 3 - - 1
South East -65 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 5 (4.55%) nginx
1 5 (4.55%) Tomcat
2 4 (3.64%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.82%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (0.91%) Confluence
4 1 (0.91%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 7 (6.36%) AWS
2 4 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (1.82%) Azure
3 2 (1.82%) MinIO
4 1 (0.91%) GCP
4 1 (0.91%) GitHub
4 1 (0.91%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.55%) SAN
2 3 (2.73%) HTTP
3 1 (0.91%) DNS
3 1 (0.91%) DSL
3 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.36%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (15.45%) SQL Server
3 16 (14.55%) MySQL
4 15 (13.64%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.73%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.73%) GIS
5 3 (2.73%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (1.82%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (1.82%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (1.82%) SQLite
7 1 (0.91%) Db2
7 1 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.91%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.91%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Git
1 2 (1.82%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.82%) JIRA
General
1 21 (19.09%) Finance
2 18 (16.36%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.45%) Banking
5 2 (1.82%) Aviation
5 2 (1.82%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.82%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.91%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (41.82%) Unix Engineer
2 20 (18.18%) DBA
3 15 (13.64%) Administrator
3 15 (13.64%) Consultant
4 13 (11.82%) Solaris Consultant
5 11 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
5 11 (10.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 9 (8.18%) Solaris Engineer
7 8 (7.27%) SQL DBA
8 7 (6.36%) Database Manager
8 7 (6.36%) SC Cleared DBA
9 6 (5.45%) Oracle DBA
10 4 (3.64%) Support Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) Unix Administrator
11 3 (2.73%) Architect
11 3 (2.73%) DevOps Engineer
12 2 (1.82%) Backup Engineer
12 2 (1.82%) Platform Engineer
12 2 (1.82%) Solaris Administrator
12 2 (1.82%) Storage Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.73%) EJB
1 3 (2.73%) Java SE
2 2 (1.82%) Jakarta EE
2 2 (1.82%) JSON
2 2 (1.82%) JSP
2 2 (1.82%) Middleware
2 2 (1.82%) OpenLayers
2 2 (1.82%) Terraform
3 1 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.91%) JavaBeans
3 1 (0.91%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (5.45%) Clustering
3 5 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.64%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (3.64%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.91%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.91%) FPGA
6 1 (0.91%) Grid Computing
6 1 (0.91%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.91%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 67 (60.91%) Unix
2 49 (44.55%) Linux
3 25 (22.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (17.27%) Windows
5 14 (12.73%) AIX
6 7 (6.36%) Windows 10
6 7 (6.36%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (5.45%) HPUX
8 5 (4.55%) SUSE
8 5 (4.55%) Windows Server
8 5 (4.55%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (3.64%) CentOS
9 4 (3.64%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (2.73%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 3 (2.73%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (30.91%) Migration
2 25 (22.73%) Disaster Recovery
2 25 (22.73%) High Availability
3 18 (16.36%) Project Delivery
4 15 (13.64%) Change Management
5 13 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (8.18%) Configuration Management
7 9 (8.18%) ITIL
8 8 (7.27%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 7 (6.36%) Change Control
9 7 (6.36%) Runbook
10 6 (5.45%) DevOps
11 5 (4.55%) CI/CD
11 5 (4.55%) Security Hardening
12 4 (3.64%) Performance Tuning
12 4 (3.64%) Root Cause Analysis
12 4 (3.64%) Technical Debt
12 4 (3.64%) Vulnerability Management
13 3 (2.73%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (20.91%) SQL
2 20 (18.18%) Python
3 12 (10.91%) Shell Script
4 6 (5.45%) Bash
4 6 (5.45%) Java
5 4 (3.64%) C++
5 4 (3.64%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.73%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.91%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.91%) Korn
7 1 (0.91%) Perl
7 1 (0.91%) VB
Qualifications
1 79 (71.82%) Security Cleared
2 70 (63.64%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (4.55%) Degree
4 5 (4.55%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.73%) CISSP
5 3 (2.73%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (2.73%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.73%) RHCE
6 2 (1.82%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.73%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (5.45%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (3.64%) Docker
3 4 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.91%) NFS
4 1 (0.91%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.91%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (6.36%) Ansible
1 7 (6.36%) NetBackup
2 5 (4.55%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (3.64%) Oracle ZFS
4 3 (2.73%) Data Guard
4 3 (2.73%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.91%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.91%) Kibana
5 1 (0.91%) logstash
5 1 (0.91%) Opsview
5 1 (0.91%) Puppet
5 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 69 (62.73%) Oracle
2 18 (16.36%) Microsoft
3 11 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 8 (7.27%) VMware
5 7 (6.36%) HP
6 6 (5.45%) IBM
6 6 (5.45%) Veritas
7 4 (3.64%) Dell
8 3 (2.73%) NetApp
8 3 (2.73%) SAP
9 2 (1.82%) Broadcom
10 1 (0.91%) Brocade
10 1 (0.91%) EMC
10 1 (0.91%) Fujitsu
10 1 (0.91%) Mellanox
10 1 (0.91%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.91%) Solarflare