Solaris Contracts in Sheffield

Sun Microsystems Solaris
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 49 52 54
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -8
Contract jobs citing Solaris 1 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.31% 0.79% 0.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.61% 2.80% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% +15.00% +11.11%
South Yorkshire median daily rate £350 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -39.13% +15.00% +11.11%

All Operating Systems
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 62 107 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 19.44% 28.23% 13.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 64 43
10th Percentile £150 £233 £340
25th Percentile £284 £412 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.55% -14.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £538 £641
90th Percentile £746 £588 £698
South Yorkshire median daily rate £538 £430 £500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 2
10th Percentile - - £11.65
25th Percentile £18.10 £21.25 £12.63
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% +45.16% +5.08%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £19.63
90th Percentile £18.47 - £21.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £22.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year -19.09% +45.16% -11.07%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in Sheffield

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Solaris in Sheffield

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Solaris in Sheffield

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Unix Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript 2.0
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Korn
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Sterling
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk