Solaris Contracts in London

Sun Microsystems Solaris
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 338 373 428
Rank change year-on-year +35 +55 +109
Contract jobs citing Solaris 15 18 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.10% 0.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.00% 0.85% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 34
10th Percentile £423 £530 £391
25th Percentile £425 £556 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £535
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +12.15% -2.73%
75th Percentile £670 £663 £588
90th Percentile £738 £700 £643
England median daily rate £550 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -4.55%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,502 2,117 3,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.97% 11.87% 14.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,043 1,510 2,826
10th Percentile £250 £200 £213
25th Percentile £375 £325 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £641 £629 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £764
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 69 61
10th Percentile £17.72 £15.30 £18.93
25th Percentile £21.89 £18.93 £22.63
Median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -41.08% +52.41%
75th Percentile £32.75 £33.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £53.80 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in London

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Solaris in London

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solaris in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solaris in London

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Solaris in London

Solaris
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +4 2 £670 -
Solaris
England

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Confluence
2 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Fidessa
1 1 (6.67%) iTrent
1 1 (6.67%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) GitHub
2 7 (46.67%) Nutanix
3 4 (26.67%) AWS
3 4 (26.67%) Azure
4 3 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (20.00%) GCP
5 2 (13.33%) IaaS
5 2 (13.33%) PaaS
5 2 (13.33%) Rubrik
5 2 (13.33%) SaaS
5 2 (13.33%) Snowflake
6 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) DNS
1 8 (53.33%) TCP/IP
2 3 (20.00%) Kerberos
3 1 (6.67%) DHCP
3 1 (6.67%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (6.67%) NAS
3 1 (6.67%) SAN
3 1 (6.67%) VLAN
3 1 (6.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
2 2 (13.33%) Sybase ASE
3 1 (6.67%) MySQL
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) TeamCity
2 8 (53.33%) Subversion
3 7 (46.67%) Git
4 3 (20.00%) JIRA
5 1 (6.67%) GitLab
5 1 (6.67%) Gradle
5 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (6.67%) Maven
5 1 (6.67%) Serena SBM
5 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Administrator
2 7 (46.67%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Security Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Support
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) DBA
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) FIX Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Linux Support
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (6.67%) Site Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Solaris Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Solaris Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Support Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) REST
2 3 (20.00%) LDAP
3 1 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Clustering
2 8 (53.33%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Equities
3 1 (6.67%) Eurex
3 1 (6.67%) Fixed Income
3 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (93.33%) Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Windows
3 5 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (20.00%) Unix
5 2 (13.33%) AIX
5 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
6 1 (6.67%) CentOS
6 1 (6.67%) Debian
6 1 (6.67%) Fedora
6 1 (6.67%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (6.67%) SUSE
6 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
6 1 (6.67%) Windows 8
6 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) High Availability
2 9 (60.00%) DevOps
2 9 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
4 7 (46.67%) API Integration
4 7 (46.67%) Kernel Tuning
4 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (40.00%) Storage Management
6 5 (33.33%) Data Security
6 5 (33.33%) Security Hardening
7 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (26.67%) Security Auditing
8 2 (13.33%) Cost Optimisation
8 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (13.33%) Database Security
8 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (13.33%) Privileged Access Management
8 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
8 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) Python
2 10 (66.67%) Bash
2 10 (66.67%) Perl
3 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) C#
4 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (6.67%) Java
5 1 (6.67%) Ruby
5 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) CISM
1 2 (13.33%) CISSP
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (66.67%) GDPR
2 8 (53.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (13.33%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
4 3 (20.00%) NFS
4 3 (20.00%) Veritas File System
4 3 (20.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Docker
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Ansible
2 8 (53.33%) QRadar
3 7 (46.67%) Red Hat Satellite
3 7 (46.67%) Tivoli
4 6 (40.00%) EMC NetWorker
4 6 (40.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (13.33%) Control-M
5 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
5 2 (13.33%) Netcool
6 1 (6.67%) Data Guard
6 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (6.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
6 1 (6.67%) Puppet
6 1 (6.67%) Rundeck
6 1 (6.67%) Terraform
6 1 (6.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) CyberArk
1 11 (73.33%) Red Hat
2 9 (60.00%) Qualys
2 9 (60.00%) Splunk
2 9 (60.00%) VMware
3 7 (46.67%) IBM
3 7 (46.67%) SaltStack
4 6 (40.00%) EMC
4 6 (40.00%) ServiceNow
5 5 (33.33%) Oracle
6 2 (13.33%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (13.33%) BMC
6 2 (13.33%) Serena
6 2 (13.33%) Sybase
7 1 (6.67%) Bloomberg
7 1 (6.67%) CQG
7 1 (6.67%) Remedy
7 1 (6.67%) Reuters
7 1 (6.67%) SAP
7 1 (6.67%) Sonatype