Solaris Contracts in the North West

Sun Microsystems Solaris
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 114 - 146
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Solaris 6 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.30% - 0.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.03% - 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 10
10th Percentile - - £448
25th Percentile £575 - £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £700 - £540
90th Percentile £745 - £551
England median daily rate £550 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -4.55%
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 - £52.50 £40.59
% change year-on-year - +29.34% -14.99%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 295 355 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.99% 12.89% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 226 368
10th Percentile £156 £174 £173
25th Percentile £208 £284 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £438 £476
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% -7.99% +11.88%
75th Percentile £510 £582 £575
90th Percentile £593 £825 £650
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 65 47
10th Percentile £13.00 - £15.53
25th Percentile £13.60 £10.95 £21.83
Median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -45.39% +62.78%
75th Percentile £23.22 £18.75 £45.38
90th Percentile £80.59 £40.30 £49.52
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 the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in the North West

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Solaris in the North West

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Solaris in the North West

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Solaris in the North West

Solaris
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester - 2 £750 -
Cumbria - 2 - -
Merseyside - 2 £600 -
Solaris
England

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (33.33%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) NAS
1 2 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database 10g
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database 11g
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (16.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Applications Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Applications Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Business Developer
2 1 (16.67%) E-Business Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Middleware
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) HPUX
2 4 (66.67%) Unix
3 2 (33.33%) AIX
3 2 (33.33%) CentOS
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Thinking
2 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Planning and Forecasting
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Perl
1 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) KVM
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 2 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) IBM
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 2 (33.33%) Sun
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Unisys