Solaris Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Oracle Solaris
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Solaris skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 319 340
Rank change year-on-year -58 +21 +42
Contract jobs citing Solaris 22 29 67
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.20% 0.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.76% 1.17% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 41
10th Percentile £203 £456 -
25th Percentile £450 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +5.00% -2.49%
75th Percentile £481 £594 £538
90th Percentile £498 £600 £569
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £59.75
% change year-on-year - - +33.73%

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 2,882 2,481 3,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.75% 16.88% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,904 1,484 2,202
10th Percentile £163 £180 £160
25th Percentile £213 £237 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -1.16% -4.44%
75th Percentile £537 £550 £575
90th Percentile £619 £648 £657
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 150 263
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.95 £14.03
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.64 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year -20.51% +25.66% +14.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £69.99 £70.00 £75.97
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £32.25
% change year-on-year -32.48% +15.50% +32.99%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Solaris job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Solaris.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Solaris

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 28 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solaris in the UK excluding London

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Solaris.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Solaris

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 28 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
North of England -45 10 £465 -19.13% 2
West Midlands -20 9 £450 -2.70%
Midlands -34 9 £450 -2.70%
North West -27 8 £465 -19.13% 2
Scotland +6 2 £158 -68.89%
Yorkshire -46 2 - -
South East -15 1 £525 +7.69% 1
Solaris
UK

Solaris
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (9.09%) CICS
1 2 (9.09%) Confluence
1 2 (9.09%) Tomcat
1 2 (9.09%) WebSphere
2 1 (4.55%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) AWS
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) GCP
2 2 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (4.55%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) SSH
2 5 (22.73%) Kerberos
3 3 (13.64%) Firewall
4 2 (9.09%) SAN
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (4.55%) DHCP
5 1 (4.55%) DNS
5 1 (4.55%) FCoE
5 1 (4.55%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (4.55%) iSCSI
5 1 (4.55%) LAN
5 1 (4.55%) Multicast
5 1 (4.55%) NAS
5 1 (4.55%) SSL
5 1 (4.55%) VSAN
5 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (4.55%) Subversion
General
1 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Legal
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Consultant
1 7 (31.82%) Unix Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Management Consultant
3 2 (9.09%) Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (9.09%) IT Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) LDAP
2 5 (22.73%) OAuth
2 5 (22.73%) SAML
3 2 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.09%) Clustering
2 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Mainframe
2 2 (9.09%) Replication
3 1 (4.55%) HP Storage
3 1 (4.55%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (4.55%) PKI
3 1 (4.55%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 16 (72.73%) Linux
2 13 (59.09%) Windows
3 10 (45.45%) Unix
4 9 (40.91%) AIX
5 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
5 2 (9.09%) zOS
6 1 (4.55%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) High Availability
2 8 (36.36%) Migration
2 8 (36.36%) RBAC
3 7 (31.82%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (31.82%) Key Management
3 7 (31.82%) Privileged Access Management
3 7 (31.82%) Roadmaps
4 6 (27.27%) Data Protection
4 6 (27.27%) Project Delivery
5 4 (18.18%) Strategic Planning
6 3 (13.64%) ITIL
6 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (4.55%) IT Strategy
8 1 (4.55%) Model Validation
8 1 (4.55%) Product Roadmap
8 1 (4.55%) Runbook
8 1 (4.55%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 5 (22.73%) Bash
3 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.09%) Java
4 2 (9.09%) Perl
5 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) CAPM
3 1 (4.55%) CBAP
3 1 (4.55%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.55%) PMP
3 1 (4.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (18.18%) NIST
1 4 (18.18%) SOC 2
2 3 (13.64%) PCI DSS
3 2 (9.09%) GDPR
4 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Active Directory
2 4 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 2 (9.09%) KVM
3 2 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.55%) NFS
4 1 (4.55%) SRDF
4 1 (4.55%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (4.55%) vSphere
4 1 (4.55%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Ansible
2 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (9.09%) Terraform
3 1 (4.55%) NetBackup
3 1 (4.55%) Puppet
3 1 (4.55%) SCCM
3 1 (4.55%) SCOM
3 1 (4.55%) SCOrch
3 1 (4.55%) SELinux
3 1 (4.55%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Oracle
2 7 (31.82%) BeyondTrust
2 7 (31.82%) CyberArk
3 4 (18.18%) Cisco
3 4 (18.18%) VMware
4 3 (13.64%) EMC
4 3 (13.64%) NetApp
5 2 (9.09%) F5
5 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 2 (9.09%) Veritas
6 1 (4.55%) Brocade
6 1 (4.55%) Google
6 1 (4.55%) HP
6 1 (4.55%) IBM
6 1 (4.55%) Pure Storage
6 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.55%) Symantec
6 1 (4.55%) Veeam