Solaris Contracts in Manchester

Sun Microsystems Solaris
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 77 - 114
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing Solaris 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.22% - 0.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.43% - 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £358
25th Percentile £725 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £775 - £525
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £600 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Operating Systems
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 140 184 281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.12% 12.13% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 134 203
10th Percentile £174 £300 £196
25th Percentile £212 £350 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £513 £663 £619
90th Percentile £611 £850 £673
North West median daily rate £393 £438 £476
% change year-on-year -10.17% -7.99% +11.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 11
10th Percentile - £17.14 £13.96
25th Percentile - £17.72 £26.00
Median hourly rate £13.00 £25.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.51% -8.18% +50.68%
75th Percentile £14.60 - £39.80
90th Percentile £23.24 £61.60 £47.50
North West median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year +9.00% -45.39% +62.78%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in Manchester

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Solaris in Manchester

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Solaris in Manchester

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) HPUX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Sun
2 1 (50.00%) Unisys