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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 574 459 509
Rank change year-on-year -115 +50 -27
Contract jobs citing Solaris 55 50 68
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.15% 1.22% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 32 32
10th Percentile £378 £413 £425
25th Percentile £458 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £575 £531
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% +8.19% +1.19%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £588
90th Percentile £583 £736 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £589 £488
% change year-on-year -21.05% +20.82% -6.47%
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 - - +29.34%

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 4,781 4,092 5,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.42% 14.01% 13.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,130 2,732 4,011
10th Percentile £181 £200 £181
25th Percentile £303 £325 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -9.76%
75th Percentile £572 £600 £594
90th Percentile £658 £699 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 170 410
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.61 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.06 £18.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.89 £24.66 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.97% +12.09% -25.80%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.08 £68.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.52 £24.18 £20.00
% change year-on-year +5.52% +20.90% -24.53%

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 10 April 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 11 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 10 April 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 -93 44 £481 -12.50% 14
UK excluding London -100 35 £465 -21.05% 11
North West -15 22 £467 -22.17% 2
North of England -64 22 £467 -22.17% 2
Work from Home -32 15 £506 +6.58% 11
London -68 13 £533 -3.18% 6
Midlands - 6 - - 5
West Midlands - 6 - - 2
Scotland +2 5 £158 -73.26% 2
South West -28 1 - - 1
South East -53 1 £525 - 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 10 (18.18%) CICS
2 9 (16.36%) nginx
2 9 (16.36%) Tomcat
3 4 (7.27%) WebLogic
4 2 (3.64%) Apache
4 2 (3.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.64%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.91%) AWS
2 3 (5.45%) Azure
2 3 (5.45%) MinIO
3 2 (3.64%) Lucidchart
4 1 (1.82%) GCP
4 1 (1.82%) Google Ads
4 1 (1.82%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.82%) Firewall
2 7 (12.73%) HTTP
3 4 (7.27%) Kerberos
3 4 (7.27%) SSH
4 1 (1.82%) DHCP
4 1 (1.82%) DNS
4 1 (1.82%) Internet
4 1 (1.82%) LAN
4 1 (1.82%) SAN
4 1 (1.82%) SSL
4 1 (1.82%) VSAN
4 1 (1.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.18%) DataStage
2 7 (12.73%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (9.09%) GIS
4 4 (7.27%) Oracle Database
5 3 (5.45%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (1.82%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Git
1 1 (1.82%) Subversion
General
1 18 (32.73%) Social Skills
2 16 (29.09%) Finance
3 12 (21.82%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
4 10 (18.18%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (7.27%) Banking
6 4 (7.27%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Advertising
7 1 (1.82%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (23.64%) Unix Engineer
2 10 (18.18%) Designer
2 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure Designer
3 8 (14.55%) Consultant
4 6 (10.91%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Management Consultant
5 4 (7.27%) Senior
5 4 (7.27%) Solaris Consultant
6 3 (5.45%) Architect
6 3 (5.45%) IT Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Lead
6 3 (5.45%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Senior Unix Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Junior
7 2 (3.64%) Junior Architect
7 2 (3.64%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.45%) Middleware
2 5 (9.09%) EJB
2 5 (9.09%) OpenLayers
3 4 (7.27%) LDAP
3 4 (7.27%) OAuth
3 4 (7.27%) SAML
4 3 (5.45%) Java EE
4 3 (5.45%) Java SE
4 3 (5.45%) JSP
5 2 (3.64%) Regular Expression
5 2 (3.64%) Spring
6 1 (1.82%) JDBC
6 1 (1.82%) ODBC
6 1 (1.82%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.45%) Data Centre
2 10 (18.18%) BYOD
2 10 (18.18%) Mainframe
2 10 (18.18%) VSAM
3 7 (12.73%) Legacy Applications
3 7 (12.73%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.64%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.64%) PMI
5 2 (3.64%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.82%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.82%) PKI
6 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (69.09%) Linux
2 31 (56.36%) Unix
3 21 (38.18%) Windows
4 20 (36.36%) AIX
5 16 (29.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (23.64%) Windows Server
7 9 (16.36%) Windows Server 2008
8 8 (14.55%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (10.91%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (5.45%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (3.64%) HPUX
11 2 (3.64%) SUSE
12 1 (1.82%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (29.09%) Migration
1 16 (29.09%) Roadmaps
2 14 (25.45%) High Availability
3 12 (21.82%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (18.18%) Business Case
4 10 (18.18%) Design Patterns
4 10 (18.18%) Process Improvement
4 10 (18.18%) Project Delivery
5 9 (16.36%) ETL
5 9 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (14.55%) RBAC
6 8 (14.55%) Test Automation
7 7 (12.73%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (12.73%) Refactoring
8 6 (10.91%) CI/CD
8 6 (10.91%) ITIL
8 6 (10.91%) Mentoring
8 6 (10.91%) Privileged Access Management
9 5 (9.09%) Data Protection
9 5 (9.09%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 18 (32.73%) Python
2 10 (18.18%) COBOL
3 9 (16.36%) PL/SQL
3 9 (16.36%) SQL
4 7 (12.73%) Bash
5 6 (10.91%) Java
6 5 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.45%) Perl
8 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.82%) JCL
9 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 23 (41.82%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.45%) Degree
4 2 (3.64%) CAPM
4 2 (3.64%) CBAP
4 2 (3.64%) CISSP
4 2 (3.64%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (3.64%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.64%) PMP
4 2 (3.64%) RHCE
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.82%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (7.27%) NIST
1 4 (7.27%) SOC 2
2 3 (5.45%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (3.64%) GDPR
3 2 (3.64%) GRC
3 2 (3.64%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.64%) QA
4 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (23.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (16.36%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (14.55%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (12.73%) Docker
5 4 (7.27%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.82%) VMware Server
6 1 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (12.73%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (5.45%) Ansible
3 2 (3.64%) Data Guard
3 2 (3.64%) Oracle ZFS
3 2 (3.64%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (1.82%) SCCM
4 1 (1.82%) SCOM
4 1 (1.82%) SCOrch
4 1 (1.82%) SELinux
4 1 (1.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (47.27%) Oracle
2 21 (38.18%) VMware
3 19 (34.55%) IBM
4 14 (25.45%) Red Hat
5 4 (7.27%) BeyondTrust
5 4 (7.27%) Cisco
5 4 (7.27%) CyberArk
5 4 (7.27%) Microsoft
6 3 (5.45%) Symantec
7 2 (3.64%) HP
7 2 (3.64%) Qualys
7 2 (3.64%) Tanium
7 2 (3.64%) Tenable
8 1 (1.82%) Avaya
8 1 (1.82%) Commvault
8 1 (1.82%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (1.82%) Google
8 1 (1.82%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.82%) Veeam
8 1 (1.82%) Veritas