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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 509 478
Rank change year-on-year -54 -31 -47
Contract jobs citing Solaris 115 45 91
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.14% 0.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.17% 1.02% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 25 54
10th Percentile £363 £405 £340
25th Percentile £444 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.53% +6.25%
75th Percentile £551 £675 £588
90th Percentile £575 £755 £626
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £531
% change year-on-year -16.67% +12.94% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £34.91 - -
25th Percentile £36.75 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 - -
75th Percentile £41.71 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 - -

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 5,290 4,411 5,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.77% 13.48% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,344 2,812 3,533
10th Percentile £190 £190 £200
25th Percentile £313 £306 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £451 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.33% -5.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £675 £675 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 378 266 294
10th Percentile £14.49 £15.53 £14.26
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.59 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% -44.11% +2.02%
75th Percentile £65.22 £58.73 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.43 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.92 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +3.06% -49.70% +20.74%

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 7 September 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 13 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 7 September 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 -36 103 £500 -4.76% 41
UK excluding London -37 85 £500 -16.67% 20
North of England -21 58 £500 -20.00% 7
North West -2 55 £500 -16.67% 4
Work from Home -23 38 £500 -15.97% 12
London -68 19 £525 +14.75% 23
South West -31 15 - - 3
Scotland -31 4 £488 -24.92% 1
West Midlands -48 4 £500 +11.11% 4
Midlands -57 4 £500 +11.11% 4
Yorkshire -44 3 - - 2
South East -71 3 £700 +27.27% 5
East of England - 1 £300 -

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 8 (6.96%) nginx
1 8 (6.96%) Tomcat
2 5 (4.35%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.74%) CICS
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (0.87%) Apache
4 1 (0.87%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 9 (7.83%) AWS
2 2 (1.74%) Azure
2 2 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (1.74%) MinIO
3 1 (0.87%) GCP
3 1 (0.87%) GitHub
3 1 (0.87%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.22%) HTTP
2 5 (4.35%) SAN
3 3 (2.61%) Firewall
4 1 (0.87%) DNS
4 1 (0.87%) DSL
4 1 (0.87%) Internet
4 1 (0.87%) LAN
4 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.87%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.57%) Oracle Database
1 11 (9.57%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 9 (7.83%) MySQL
4 6 (5.22%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.61%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (2.61%) GIS
5 3 (2.61%) Oracle Database 12c
5 3 (2.61%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.74%) DataStage
6 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (1.74%) SQLite
7 1 (0.87%) Db2
7 1 (0.87%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.87%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Git
1 3 (2.61%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.74%) JIRA
General
1 34 (29.57%) Finance
2 16 (13.91%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.96%) Banking
5 4 (3.48%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.74%) Aviation
6 2 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.74%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.87%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (42.61%) Unix Engineer
2 21 (18.26%) Consultant
3 19 (16.52%) Solaris Consultant
4 14 (12.17%) Linux Engineer
5 12 (10.43%) DBA
5 12 (10.43%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 11 (9.57%) Solaris Engineer
7 7 (6.09%) Administrator
8 6 (5.22%) Senior
8 6 (5.22%) SQL DBA
9 5 (4.35%) Architect
9 5 (4.35%) Database Manager
9 5 (4.35%) SC Cleared DBA
10 4 (3.48%) Oracle DBA
10 4 (3.48%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Support Engineer
11 3 (2.61%) Developer
11 3 (2.61%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.61%) Senior Unix Engineer
12 2 (1.74%) Infrastructure Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.48%) EJB
1 4 (3.48%) Java SE
2 3 (2.61%) JSP
2 3 (2.61%) Middleware
3 2 (1.74%) Jakarta EE
3 2 (1.74%) JSON
3 2 (1.74%) OpenLayers
3 2 (1.74%) Spring
3 2 (1.74%) Terraform
4 1 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.87%) JavaBeans
4 1 (0.87%) JDBC
4 1 (0.87%) ODBC
4 1 (0.87%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.43%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (8.70%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.09%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (3.48%) Clustering
4 4 (3.48%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.61%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.74%) BYOD
6 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.74%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.74%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.74%) VSAM
7 1 (0.87%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.87%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.87%) FPGA
7 1 (0.87%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.87%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 69 (60.00%) Unix
2 52 (45.22%) Linux
3 26 (22.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (15.65%) AIX
4 18 (15.65%) Windows
5 8 (6.96%) HPUX
5 8 (6.96%) Windows Server
6 7 (6.09%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (6.09%) SUSE
6 7 (6.09%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (4.35%) Windows 10
7 5 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (3.48%) CentOS
8 4 (3.48%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.87%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (24.35%) Migration
2 21 (18.26%) Disaster Recovery
3 20 (17.39%) High Availability
4 15 (13.04%) Change Management
5 13 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (8.70%) ITIL
6 10 (8.70%) Project Delivery
6 10 (8.70%) Security Hardening
7 9 (7.83%) DevOps
7 9 (7.83%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (7.83%) Runbook
7 9 (7.83%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 8 (6.96%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (6.09%) CI/CD
9 7 (6.09%) Configuration Management
9 7 (6.09%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (6.09%) Test Automation
9 7 (6.09%) Vulnerability Management
10 6 (5.22%) ETL
11 5 (4.35%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.52%) Python
1 19 (16.52%) SQL
2 10 (8.70%) Shell Script
3 9 (7.83%) Bash
4 7 (6.09%) Java
4 7 (6.09%) PL/SQL
5 5 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.48%) C++
7 2 (1.74%) COBOL
7 2 (1.74%) Perl
8 1 (0.87%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.87%) Korn
8 1 (0.87%) VB
Qualifications
1 65 (56.52%) Security Cleared
2 59 (51.30%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (4.35%) CISSP
4 5 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (4.35%) RHCE
5 4 (3.48%) Degree
6 3 (2.61%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.61%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.35%) GRC
2 2 (1.74%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (6.96%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (6.09%) Docker
4 6 (5.22%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.87%) NFS
5 1 (0.87%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.87%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (6.09%) Ansible
1 7 (6.09%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (4.35%) Oracle ZFS
3 4 (3.48%) NetBackup
4 3 (2.61%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.74%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.87%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.87%) Kibana
6 1 (0.87%) logstash
6 1 (0.87%) Opsview
6 1 (0.87%) Puppet
Vendors
1 61 (53.04%) Oracle
2 18 (15.65%) Red Hat
3 15 (13.04%) Microsoft
4 11 (9.57%) IBM
4 11 (9.57%) VMware
5 8 (6.96%) HP
6 3 (2.61%) Dell
6 3 (2.61%) SAP
6 3 (2.61%) Veritas
7 2 (1.74%) Broadcom
7 2 (1.74%) NetApp
7 2 (1.74%) Qualys
7 2 (1.74%) Rapid7
7 2 (1.74%) Tenable
8 1 (0.87%) Avaya
8 1 (0.87%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (0.87%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.87%) Mellanox
8 1 (0.87%) Murex
8 1 (0.87%) Solarflare