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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 171 186
Rank change year-on-year +4 +15 +67
Contract jobs citing Solaris 2 5 19
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.056% 0.12% 0.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.31% 0.65% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.47%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £479
England median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -9.52%

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 640 764 1,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.86% 17.92% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 504 707
10th Percentile £190 £200 £170
25th Percentile £219 £325 £211
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £583 £566
90th Percentile £602 £650 £644
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 33 83
10th Percentile £12.50 £23.05 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £35.58 £35.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £58.49 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -67.74% +1.72% +238.24%
75th Percentile £25.15 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.18 - £76.53
England median hourly rate £24.00 £61.97 £48.40
% change year-on-year -61.27% +28.03% +93.60%

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 14 October 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
Hampshire +3 2 £550 - 2
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) VMware