Solaris Contracts in the North of England

Sun Microsystems Solaris
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 175 187
Rank change year-on-year +18 +12 +48
Contract jobs citing Solaris 10 5 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.28% 0.10% 0.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.76% 0.74% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 16
10th Percentile £380 £344 £463
25th Percentile £488 £381 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £448 £500
Median % change year-on-year +34.08% -10.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £688 £521 £528
90th Percentile £745 £561 £545
England median daily rate £550 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.80
Median hourly rate - - £40.59
75th Percentile - - £43.39
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +25.65%

All Operating Systems
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 569 680 861
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.99% 14.10% 15.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 452 585
10th Percentile £181 £178 £169
25th Percentile £279 £275 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £538 £555 £588
90th Percentile £622 £686 £683
England median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 81 67
10th Percentile £13.00 - £13.16
25th Percentile £14.20 £10.95 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -28.89% +25.00%
75th Percentile £18.87 £20.00 £39.18
90th Percentile £19.75 £48.00 £48.30
England median hourly rate £19.32 £24.86 £43.75
% change year-on-year -22.29% -43.19% +98.86%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Solaris as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in the North of England

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solaris in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Solaris in the North of England

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solaris in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solaris in the North of England

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solaris in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Solaris in the North of England

Solaris
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 28 June 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
Yorkshire +6 6 £525 +17.32% 1
North West - 4 £600 - 1
Solaris
England

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (20.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (10.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database 10g
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database 11g
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (10.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (30.00%) Postman
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Applications Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Applications Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Business Developer
4 1 (10.00%) E-Business Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (40.00%) Replication
2 3 (30.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (70.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (60.00%) Unix
4 4 (40.00%) AIX
4 4 (40.00%) HPUX
4 4 (40.00%) Windows
5 3 (30.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (50.00%) High Availability
4 4 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (30.00%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
5 3 (30.00%) Data Management
5 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (30.00%) Migration
5 3 (30.00%) Planning and Forecasting
5 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Systems Thinking
6 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (20.00%) ITSM
6 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
6 2 (20.00%) Scrum
6 2 (20.00%) Service Management
6 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) ActionScript
3 1 (10.00%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Korn
3 1 (10.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
1 4 (40.00%) Puppet
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Nagios
2 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) IBM
2 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (40.00%) Sun
3 3 (30.00%) MuleSoft
3 3 (30.00%) Unisys
3 3 (30.00%) VMware
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle
5 1 (10.00%) HP
5 1 (10.00%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (10.00%) Splunk