Solaris Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Oracle Solaris
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Solaris skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 24 7
Rank change year-on-year -31 -17 +87
Contract jobs citing Solaris 8 3 9
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 2.63% 2.63% 18.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.00% 10.71% 47.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile - £441 £475
25th Percentile - £447 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £528
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -12.32% -
75th Percentile £475 £469 £564
90th Percentile £490 - £578
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £463 £400
% change year-on-year -2.70% +15.63% -23.08%

All Operating Systems
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 50 28 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 16.45% 24.56% 38.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 21 9
10th Percentile £356 £210 -
25th Percentile £400 £420 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £435 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% -9.38% -10.78%
75th Percentile £536 £469 £495
90th Percentile £550 £490 £514
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £463 £375
% change year-on-year -2.70% +23.33% -24.24%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Solaris relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Solaris job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Solaris.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Solaris

Solaris
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 18 November 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
Telford -33 6 £450 -2.70% 1
Solaris
West Midlands

Solaris
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) SSH
2 4 (50.00%) Kerberos
3 1 (12.50%) SAN
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Consultant
2 5 (62.50%) Management Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) LDAP
2 4 (50.00%) OAuth
2 4 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) HP Storage
2 1 (12.50%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) AIX
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) RBAC
2 6 (75.00%) Key Management
3 5 (62.50%) Privileged Access Management
3 5 (62.50%) Roadmaps
4 4 (50.00%) Data Protection
4 4 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
5 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Change Management
5 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Project Management
5 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Service Management
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Bash
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
1 3 (37.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CAPM
1 1 (12.50%) CBAP
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 1 (12.50%) PMP
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (50.00%) NIST
1 4 (50.00%) SOC 2
2 3 (37.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) BeyondTrust
1 6 (75.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (12.50%) Brocade
2 1 (12.50%) EMC
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) NetApp
2 1 (12.50%) Veritas