Solaris Contracts in the South East

Sun Microsystems Solaris
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 153 192 204
Rank change year-on-year +39 +12 +28
Contract jobs citing Solaris 6 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% 0.23% 0.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.17% 1.33% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 14
10th Percentile £481 - £428
25th Percentile £506 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £588
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -19.15% +6.82%
75th Percentile £569 £481 £623
90th Percentile £575 £488 £624
England median daily rate £550 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -4.55%

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 511 981 1,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.98% 17.65% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 650 830
10th Percentile £205 £200 £197
25th Percentile £339 £268 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £669
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 59 70
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.98 £18.08
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.69 £18.88
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%
75th Percentile £59.44 £62.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £63.25 £70.75 £75.00
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 South East

Job postings citing Solaris as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in the South East

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solaris in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Solaris in the South East

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solaris in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Solaris in the South East

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 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
Thames Valley +42 2 £488 -
Hampshire +25 2 £550 - 1
West Sussex +10 2 £550 +15.79%
Oxfordshire +6 2 £488 -
Solaris
England

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Administrator
2 3 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Unix Administrator
4 1 (16.67%) DBA
4 1 (16.67%) Solaris Administrator
4 1 (16.67%) Unix DBA
4 1 (16.67%) Unix Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Unix
3 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (33.33%) AIX
4 2 (33.33%) CentOS
4 2 (33.33%) HPUX
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (33.33%) Ubuntu
4 2 (33.33%) Windows
4 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (33.33%) High Availability
1 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
1 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
1 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 2 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 2 (33.33%) Runbook
1 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) Server Management
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Perl
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Korn
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle ZFS
2 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 2 (33.33%) Puppet
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (33.33%) SELinux
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 2 (33.33%) Symantec
3 2 (33.33%) Veritas
4 1 (16.67%) HP