Solaris Contracts in the UK excluding London

Sun Microsystems Solaris
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 309 359 342
Rank change year-on-year +50 -17 +55
Contract jobs citing Solaris 27 40 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.19% 0.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.23% 1.22% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 25 96
10th Percentile £463 £349 £400
25th Percentile £522 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.90% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £558
90th Percentile £725 £588 £618
UK median daily rate £550 £531 £525
% change year-on-year +3.53% +1.19% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £37.80
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year - +29.34% -14.99%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £43.39
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £52.50 £40.59
% change year-on-year - +29.34% -35.57%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,195 3,275 4,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.19% 15.77% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 2,176 3,246
10th Percentile £178 £173 £163
25th Percentile £241 £256 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 320 334
10th Percentile £15.72 £12.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.16 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.94 £22.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% -29.60% +56.25%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.74
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Solaris as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in the UK excluding London

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solaris in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Solaris in the UK excluding London

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solaris in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solaris in the UK excluding London

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solaris in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Solaris in the UK excluding London

Solaris
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +21 11 £589 +73.24% 1
North of England +23 9 £600 +34.08% 1
South East +39 6 £550 +15.79% 3
North West - 6 £600 - 1
Yorkshire +6 3 £525 +17.32%
South West +45 1 £233 -53.40%
Solaris
UK

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (7.41%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) AWS
3 4 (14.81%) OCI
4 2 (7.41%) IaaS
4 2 (7.41%) PaaS
5 1 (3.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) Firewall
2 2 (7.41%) DHCP
2 2 (7.41%) DNS
2 2 (7.41%) NAS
2 2 (7.41%) SAN
3 1 (3.70%) HTTPS
3 1 (3.70%) Internet
3 1 (3.70%) LAN
3 1 (3.70%) SSH
3 1 (3.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle Exadata
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle Database
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle Database 10g
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.70%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (7.41%) Subversion
General
1 14 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 13 (48.15%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (25.93%) Finance
4 4 (14.81%) Banking
5 2 (7.41%) Military
5 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Architect
1 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Architect
2 6 (22.22%) Administrator
2 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 6 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (18.52%) Database Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (11.11%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Database Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Unix Administrator
6 2 (7.41%) Applications Developer
6 2 (7.41%) DBA
6 2 (7.41%) Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Oracle Applications Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Unix Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Business Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Middleware
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 12 (44.44%) Replication
2 8 (29.63%) Data Centre
3 7 (25.93%) Mainframe
4 5 (18.52%) Clustering
5 2 (7.41%) PKI
6 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (96.30%) Linux
2 17 (62.96%) Windows
3 16 (59.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (44.44%) HPUX
5 10 (37.04%) AIX
5 10 (37.04%) Unix
6 4 (14.81%) CentOS
6 4 (14.81%) Ubuntu
7 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
8 2 (7.41%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (7.41%) Windows 10
8 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) High Availability
2 18 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (37.04%) Service Management
4 9 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
5 8 (29.63%) Agile
5 8 (29.63%) DevOps
6 7 (25.93%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (22.22%) Analytical Thinking
7 6 (22.22%) DevSecOps
7 6 (22.22%) ITSM
7 6 (22.22%) Planning and Forecasting
7 6 (22.22%) Problem Management
7 6 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 6 (22.22%) Systems Thinking
8 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (18.52%) ITIL
9 4 (14.81%) Configuration Management
9 4 (14.81%) Database Tuning
9 4 (14.81%) Incident Management
9 4 (14.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) SQL
2 7 (25.93%) Bash
3 5 (18.52%) Perl
3 5 (18.52%) Python
4 4 (14.81%) Shell Script
5 2 (7.41%) Java
5 2 (7.41%) Korn
5 2 (7.41%) PL/SQL
5 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.70%) ActionScript
6 1 (3.70%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (3.70%) JCL
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) IBM Certification
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) GDPR
1 2 (7.41%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
3 2 (7.41%) KVM
3 2 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (7.41%) vSphere
4 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Ansible
2 6 (22.22%) Data Guard
2 6 (22.22%) Puppet
3 5 (18.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 5 (18.52%) Progress Chef
4 4 (14.81%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (14.81%) Oracle Flashback
5 2 (7.41%) Oracle ZFS
5 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (7.41%) SELinux
6 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
6 1 (3.70%) Nagios
6 1 (3.70%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) Red Hat
2 12 (44.44%) Oracle
3 9 (33.33%) IBM
4 8 (29.63%) Sun
5 7 (25.93%) Unisys
6 6 (22.22%) VMware
7 4 (14.81%) Dell
7 4 (14.81%) Dynatrace
7 4 (14.81%) HP
8 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
9 2 (7.41%) SolarWinds
9 2 (7.41%) Symantec
9 2 (7.41%) Veritas
10 1 (3.70%) Avaya
10 1 (3.70%) Commvault
10 1 (3.70%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
10 1 (3.70%) IBM Sterling
10 1 (3.70%) Splunk