Solaris Contract Job Trends in the South East

Oracle Solaris
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Solaris skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 172 193
Rank change year-on-year -16 +21 +54
Contract jobs citing Solaris 1 3 18
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.024% 0.076% 0.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.14% 0.44% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 9
10th Percentile - £466 £308
25th Percentile £513 £472 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +21.88% -27.27%
75th Percentile £538 £497 -
90th Percentile - £499 £430
England median daily rate £488 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -11.36%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 715 682 1,005
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.86% 17.22% 19.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 456 665
10th Percentile £190 £200 £161
25th Percentile £231 £274 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £439 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.99% +9.69% -15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £606 £653 £638
England median daily rate £450 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 31 81
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.32 £17.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £41.50 £24.00
Median hourly rate £20.18 £60.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.64% +10.00% +193.33%
75th Percentile £25.15 £69.84 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £24.00 £57.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -58.26% +76.92% +30.00%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Solaris job vacancy trend in the South East

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Solaris.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Solaris

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Solaris.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Solaris

Solaris
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
West Sussex - 1 £525 -
Solaris
England

Solaris
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (100.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) VMware