Solaris Contracts in Scotland

Sun Microsystems Solaris
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 105 126 109
Rank change year-on-year +21 -17 +50
Contract jobs citing Solaris 11 3 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.68% 0.14% 1.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.23% 0.84% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 45
10th Percentile £519 - £418
25th Percentile £567 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £340 £513
Median % change year-on-year +73.24% -33.66% +13.89%
75th Percentile £675 - £548
90th Percentile £695 - £575
UK median daily rate £550 £531 £525
% change year-on-year +3.53% +1.19% -2.78%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 341 359 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.98% 16.19% 18.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 235 377
10th Percentile £191 £184 £160
25th Percentile £407 £324 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% +4.38% +6.44%
75th Percentile £550 £626 £600
90th Percentile £581 £745 £727
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 13
10th Percentile £16.33 £17.23 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.94 £18.27 £20.79
Median hourly rate £22.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.10% - +162.50%
75th Percentile £23.50 £60.75 £59.03
90th Percentile £24.43 £62.50 £65.36
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in Scotland

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Solaris in Scotland

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Solaris in Scotland

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Solaris in Scotland

Solaris
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +10 7 £650 +91.18%
Glasgow - 4 £582 -
Solaris
UK

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) OCI
3 2 (18.18%) IaaS
3 2 (18.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) Internet
1 1 (9.09%) LAN
1 1 (9.09%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 4 (36.36%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database 10g
General
1 9 (81.82%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Finance
4 2 (18.18%) Banking
4 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Database Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Database Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) DBA
4 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Replication
2 4 (36.36%) Clustering
2 4 (36.36%) Data Centre
2 4 (36.36%) Mainframe
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (90.91%) Linux
3 9 (81.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (45.45%) AIX
5 4 (36.36%) HPUX
6 1 (9.09%) Unix
6 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Disaster Recovery
1 10 (90.91%) High Availability
2 7 (63.64%) Service Management
3 5 (45.45%) ITIL
3 5 (45.45%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (36.36%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (36.36%) Database Tuning
4 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) ITSM
4 4 (36.36%) Problem Management
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
5 3 (27.27%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
5 3 (27.27%) Planning and Forecasting
5 3 (27.27%) Proactive Maintenance
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) SDLC
5 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Data Guard
2 5 (45.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (36.36%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (36.36%) Oracle Flashback
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Oracle
2 5 (45.45%) Red Hat
3 4 (36.36%) Dell
3 4 (36.36%) Dynatrace
3 4 (36.36%) IBM
3 4 (36.36%) Sun
3 4 (36.36%) Unisys
4 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
5 2 (18.18%) HP
6 1 (9.09%) Avaya
6 1 (9.09%) Commvault
6 1 (9.09%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (9.09%) Fortinet