Solaris Contracts in Glasgow

Sun Microsystems Solaris
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Solaris skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Solaris over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 - 72
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing Solaris 4 0 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.50% - 1.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.73% - 5.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £536 - £438
25th Percentile £556 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.89%
75th Percentile £589 - £575
90th Percentile - - £606
Scotland median daily rate £589 £340 £513
% change year-on-year +73.24% -33.66% +13.89%

All Operating Systems
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 231 189 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 28.95% 21.55% 25.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 121 162
10th Percentile £393 £200 £250
25th Percentile £413 £325 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £550 £629 £676
90th Percentile £576 £750 £750
Scotland median daily rate £465 £500 £479
% change year-on-year -7.10% +4.38% +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - £30.10 £51.14
25th Percentile - £51.25 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year - -0.91% +142.20%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £66.56
90th Percentile - - £67.88
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -58.10% - +162.50%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Solaris as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in Glasgow

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solaris in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Solaris in Glasgow

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solaris in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Solaris in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) OCI
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle Exadata
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Database Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 2 (50.00%) Senior
3 2 (50.00%) Senior Database Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Clustering
1 3 (75.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) AIX
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (75.00%) Database Tuning
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Service Management
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Data Guard
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (75.00%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (75.00%) Dell
2 3 (75.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft