Solaris Contract Job Trends

Oracle Solaris
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Solaris skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 487 509
Rank change year-on-year -60 +22 -22
Contract jobs citing Solaris 46 47 89
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.96% 1.06% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 21 52
10th Percentile £344 £425 £400
25th Percentile £456 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £494
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +11.39% -5.95%
75th Percentile £506 £613 £550
90th Percentile £554 £715 £586
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £550 £468
% change year-on-year -15.45% +17.65% -9.22%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +17.50%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,801 4,417 6,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.02% 14.29% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,182 2,769 4,201
10th Percentile £176 £200 £181
25th Percentile £263 £313 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +2.15% -9.71%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £594
90th Percentile £675 £689 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £403 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -5.29% - -10.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 153 387
10th Percentile £14.70 £16.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.76 £20.30 £16.96
Median hourly rate £23.25 £28.41 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -18.16% +12.51% -1.79%
75th Percentile £53.75 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.12 £69.75 £72.14
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £25.22
% change year-on-year -10.00% -0.85% -1.20%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Solaris job vacancy trend in the UK

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solaris over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Solaris
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 February 2026. 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
England -88 37 £476 -14.65% 8
UK excluding London -66 26 £465 -15.45% 7
North West -26 16 £465 -19.13% 3
North of England -62 16 £465 -18.49% 3
London -31 11 £488 -15.95%
Work from Home -17 8 £533 +12.11% 2
Midlands - 6 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 6 £500 - 2
Scotland +6 3 £158 -69.27%
South East -33 1 £525 +5.00% 1

Solaris
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (13.04%) CICS
2 5 (10.87%) nginx
2 5 (10.87%) Tomcat
3 2 (4.35%) Apache
3 2 (4.35%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.39%) Azure
2 6 (13.04%) AWS
3 3 (6.52%) SaaS
4 2 (4.35%) GitHub
4 2 (4.35%) MinIO
5 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.17%) GCP
5 1 (2.17%) Google Ads
5 1 (2.17%) Lucidchart
5 1 (2.17%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) Firewall
2 4 (8.70%) HTTP
2 4 (8.70%) Kerberos
2 4 (8.70%) SSH
3 3 (6.52%) DNS
4 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.17%) DHCP
5 1 (2.17%) SAN
5 1 (2.17%) SSL
5 1 (2.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) Oracle Database
2 6 (13.04%) DataStage
3 4 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (8.70%) GIS
4 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Git
1 3 (6.52%) GitLab
1 3 (6.52%) Gradle
1 3 (6.52%) Maven
1 3 (6.52%) Sonatype Nexus
1 3 (6.52%) Subversion
2 2 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (32.61%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (19.57%) Finance
4 8 (17.39%) Public Sector
5 6 (13.04%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.35%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.17%) Advertising
8 1 (2.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Unix Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) Designer
2 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Designer
3 5 (10.87%) Administrator
3 5 (10.87%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (8.70%) Consultant
4 4 (8.70%) DBA
4 4 (8.70%) Management Consultant
4 4 (8.70%) Oracle DBA
4 4 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) IT Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (4.35%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (4.35%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Developer
7 1 (2.17%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.91%) Middleware
2 4 (8.70%) EJB
2 4 (8.70%) LDAP
2 4 (8.70%) OAuth
2 4 (8.70%) OpenLayers
2 4 (8.70%) Regular Expression
2 4 (8.70%) SAML
3 3 (6.52%) ARM Templates
3 3 (6.52%) Java SE
3 3 (6.52%) JSP
4 2 (4.35%) Java EE
4 2 (4.35%) REST
5 1 (2.17%) JDBC
5 1 (2.17%) ODBC
5 1 (2.17%) Servlets
5 1 (2.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Data Centre
2 6 (13.04%) BYOD
2 6 (13.04%) Mainframe
2 6 (13.04%) VSAM
3 4 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (8.70%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.35%) Clustering
5 2 (4.35%) Hedge funds
5 2 (4.35%) Replication
5 2 (4.35%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.17%) HP Storage
6 1 (2.17%) PKI
6 1 (2.17%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 34 (73.91%) Linux
2 27 (58.70%) Unix
3 18 (39.13%) Windows
4 17 (36.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (26.09%) AIX
6 9 (19.57%) Windows Server
7 5 (10.87%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (10.87%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (8.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) Migration
2 16 (34.78%) High Availability
3 12 (26.09%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (23.91%) CI/CD
4 11 (23.91%) Project Delivery
4 11 (23.91%) Roadmaps
5 10 (21.74%) DevOps
6 7 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (13.04%) Business Case
7 6 (13.04%) Design Patterns
7 6 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (13.04%) Process Improvement
8 5 (10.87%) ETL
8 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (10.87%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (10.87%) Privileged Access Management
8 5 (10.87%) RBAC
9 4 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (8.70%) Data Protection
9 4 (8.70%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 25 (54.35%) Python
2 15 (32.61%) Bash
3 13 (28.26%) PowerShell
4 6 (13.04%) COBOL
5 5 (10.87%) PL/SQL
5 5 (10.87%) SQL
6 4 (8.70%) Java
6 4 (8.70%) Perl
7 2 (4.35%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.17%) JCL
Qualifications
1 20 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 17 (36.96%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.17%) CAPM
4 1 (2.17%) CBAP
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (2.17%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.17%) PMP
4 1 (2.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) GDPR
2 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.52%) NIST
2 3 (6.52%) SOC 2
3 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.35%) QA
3 2 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 12 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (17.39%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (10.87%) NFS
3 5 (10.87%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (8.70%) Active Directory
4 4 (8.70%) Docker
5 2 (4.35%) Veritas File System
5 2 (4.35%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (2.17%) VMware Server
6 1 (2.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) Ansible
2 4 (8.70%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (8.70%) Red Hat Satellite
3 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.52%) Terraform
4 2 (4.35%) Data Guard
4 2 (4.35%) QRadar
5 1 (2.17%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (2.17%) SCCM
5 1 (2.17%) SCOM
5 1 (2.17%) SCOrch
5 1 (2.17%) SELinux
5 1 (2.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (47.83%) Oracle
2 20 (43.48%) VMware
3 13 (28.26%) Red Hat
4 11 (23.91%) IBM
5 6 (13.04%) CyberArk
5 6 (13.04%) Qualys
6 5 (10.87%) Symantec
7 4 (8.70%) BeyondTrust
7 4 (8.70%) Cisco
7 4 (8.70%) Tanium
7 4 (8.70%) Tenable
8 2 (4.35%) SaltStack
8 2 (4.35%) Splunk
8 2 (4.35%) Veritas
9 1 (2.17%) Brocade
9 1 (2.17%) Google
9 1 (2.17%) HP
9 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
9 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.17%) Veeam