Solaris Contract Job Trends in London

Oracle Solaris
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Solaris skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 358 354
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +161
Contract jobs citing Solaris 15 24 82
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.11% 0.15% 0.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.97% 1.18% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 41
10th Percentile £412 £361 £375
25th Percentile £440 £378 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £495
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +16.16% -7.39%
75th Percentile £540 £645 £544
90th Percentile £695 £680 £638
England median daily rate £488 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -11.36% +15.79% -10.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.45
25th Percentile - - £52.38
Median hourly rate - - £58.50
75th Percentile - - £63.38
90th Percentile - - £65.55
England median hourly rate - - £68.50
% change year-on-year - - +53.31%

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 1,553 2,026 3,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.61% 12.60% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 1,324 2,194
10th Percentile £214 £225 £208
25th Percentile £359 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 28 53
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.20 £18.19
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.63 £22.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £27.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% -38.41% +82.67%
75th Percentile £25.20 £62.20 £64.50
90th Percentile £58.90 £86.83 £84.45
England median hourly rate £24.00 £61.43 £48.40
% change year-on-year -60.93% +26.92% +93.60%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Solaris relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Solaris job vacancy trend in London

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Solaris.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Solaris

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solaris in London over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solaris in London

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Solaris.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Solaris

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 15 October 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 +7 2 £645 -9.15% 1
Solaris
England

Solaris
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (6.67%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) GitHub
3 3 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.67%) IaaS
4 1 (6.67%) PaaS
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) DNS
1 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.67%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) GitLab
1 6 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (33.33%) Gradle
2 5 (33.33%) Maven
3 4 (26.67%) Git
3 4 (26.67%) Subversion
3 4 (26.67%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Administrator
1 6 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (40.00%) Linux Administrator
2 5 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) ARM Templates
1 4 (26.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Replication
2 4 (26.67%) Clustering
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (20.00%) Security Posture
4 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (13.33%) Hedge funds
5 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
5 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
5 1 (6.67%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (86.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (53.33%) Unix
4 4 (26.67%) Windows
5 2 (13.33%) AIX
6 1 (6.67%) HPUX
6 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 10 (66.67%) DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) High Availability
2 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (40.00%) Security Hardening
3 5 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (33.33%) Migration
4 4 (26.67%) API Integration
4 4 (26.67%) Data Security
4 4 (26.67%) Kernel Tuning
4 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
5 3 (20.00%) Build Automation
5 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (13.33%) Analytical Thinking
6 2 (13.33%) Patch Management
6 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Python
2 12 (80.00%) Bash
3 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (26.67%) Perl
5 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (6.67%) COBOL
6 1 (6.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) GDPR
1 4 (26.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (26.67%) NFS
2 4 (26.67%) Veritas File System
2 4 (26.67%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 4 (26.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Ansible
1 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (33.33%) Terraform
3 4 (26.67%) QRadar
3 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (46.67%) VMware
3 5 (33.33%) Qualys
4 4 (26.67%) CyberArk
4 4 (26.67%) SaltStack
4 4 (26.67%) Splunk
5 3 (20.00%) Oracle
6 1 (6.67%) NetApp
6 1 (6.67%) Remedy
6 1 (6.67%) Sonatype
6 1 (6.67%) Symantec
6 1 (6.67%) Tanium
6 1 (6.67%) Tenable