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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 481 456
Rank change year-on-year -67 -25 +101
Contract jobs citing Solaris 36 63 149
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.098% 0.18% 0.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.75% 1.32% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 33 86
10th Percentile £246 £441 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £540 £600 £550
90th Percentile £587 £639 £594
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £52.83
25th Percentile - - £55.19
Median hourly rate - - £59.75
75th Percentile - - £63.69
90th Percentile - - £65.68
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 4,778 4,787 6,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.98% 14.00% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,101 2,995 4,544
10th Percentile £175 £200 £181
25th Percentile £263 £317 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £600
90th Percentile £660 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £408 £425 £431
% change year-on-year -4.12% -1.28% -4.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 180 330
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.31 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.19 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% +53.23% +27.84%
75th Percentile £63.00 £65.51 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £49.00 £26.09
% change year-on-year -48.67% +87.81% +18.59%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 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
England -55 31 £475 -11.63% 11
UK excluding London -48 18 £450 -14.29% 10
London -26 11 £475 -13.64% 1
West Midlands -26 9 £450 -2.70% 1
Midlands -34 9 £450 -2.70% 1
North of England -58 6 £456 -20.70% 5
Work from Home -19 5 £540 +8.00%
North West -34 4 £456 -20.70% 5
Scotland +3 2 £158 -68.89%
Yorkshire -42 2 - -
South East -24 1 £525 +7.69% 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 3 (8.33%) CICS
2 2 (5.56%) Confluence
2 2 (5.56%) Tomcat
2 2 (5.56%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.78%) Apache
3 1 (2.78%) nginx
3 1 (2.78%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.78%) Azure
2 9 (25.00%) AWS
3 6 (16.67%) GitHub
4 4 (11.11%) SaaS
5 3 (8.33%) GCP
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.78%) IaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Lucidchart
6 1 (2.78%) MinIO
6 1 (2.78%) PaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (19.44%) SSH
2 5 (13.89%) DNS
2 5 (13.89%) Kerberos
3 4 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 3 (8.33%) Firewall
5 2 (5.56%) NAS
5 2 (5.56%) SAN
6 1 (2.78%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.78%) DHCP
6 1 (2.78%) FCoE
6 1 (2.78%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (2.78%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.78%) LAN
6 1 (2.78%) Multicast
6 1 (2.78%) SSL
6 1 (2.78%) VSAN
6 1 (2.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) Oracle Database
2 5 (13.89%) Relational Database
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.78%) GIS
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Git
1 5 (13.89%) Subversion
2 4 (11.11%) GitLab
2 4 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (11.11%) TeamCity
3 3 (8.33%) Gradle
3 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.33%) Maven
4 2 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 11 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Finance
3 5 (13.89%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.78%) Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Administrator
1 7 (19.44%) Consultant
1 7 (19.44%) Linux Administrator
2 6 (16.67%) Management Consultant
3 3 (8.33%) Architect
3 3 (8.33%) DBA
3 3 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (8.33%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (8.33%) Unix Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Business Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) IT Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (5.56%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (2.78%) Developer
5 1 (2.78%) Principal Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.00%) LDAP
2 5 (13.89%) Middleware
2 5 (13.89%) OAuth
2 5 (13.89%) SAML
3 4 (11.11%) REST
4 3 (8.33%) ARM Templates
4 3 (8.33%) Regular Expression
5 1 (2.78%) EJB
5 1 (2.78%) Java EE
5 1 (2.78%) Java SE
5 1 (2.78%) JSP
5 1 (2.78%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (2.78%) OpenLayers
5 1 (2.78%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Clustering
1 6 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 6 (16.67%) Replication
2 4 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.33%) Mainframe
4 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.56%) Hedge funds
4 2 (5.56%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.78%) HP Storage
5 1 (2.78%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.78%) PKI
5 1 (2.78%) PMI
5 1 (2.78%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 29 (80.56%) Linux
2 18 (50.00%) Windows
3 14 (38.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (38.89%) Unix
4 10 (27.78%) AIX
5 3 (8.33%) Windows Server
6 2 (5.56%) zOS
7 1 (2.78%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) CI/CD
2 11 (30.56%) DevOps
2 11 (30.56%) High Availability
3 10 (27.78%) Migration
4 8 (22.22%) RBAC
4 8 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 7 (19.44%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (19.44%) Key Management
5 7 (19.44%) Privileged Access Management
5 7 (19.44%) Project Delivery
6 6 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (16.67%) Security Hardening
6 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (13.89%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (11.11%) API Integration
8 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (11.11%) Data Security
8 4 (11.11%) Kernel Tuning
8 4 (11.11%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 19 (52.78%) Python
2 17 (47.22%) Bash
3 13 (36.11%) PowerShell
4 6 (16.67%) Perl
5 3 (8.33%) Java
5 3 (8.33%) SQL
6 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.78%) COBOL
7 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.78%) CAPM
4 1 (2.78%) CBAP
4 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.78%) PMP
4 1 (2.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) GDPR
2 4 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (11.11%) NIST
2 4 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (11.11%) SOC 2
3 3 (8.33%) PCI DSS
4 2 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 10 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 8 (22.22%) NFS
4 6 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (11.11%) Veritas File System
5 4 (11.11%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V
6 2 (5.56%) KVM
7 1 (2.78%) Docker
7 1 (2.78%) SRDF
7 1 (2.78%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (2.78%) vSphere
7 1 (2.78%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (30.56%) Ansible
2 6 (16.67%) Red Hat Satellite
2 6 (16.67%) Terraform
3 5 (13.89%) Kubernetes
4 4 (11.11%) QRadar
5 1 (2.78%) Data Guard
5 1 (2.78%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.78%) Puppet
5 1 (2.78%) SCCM
5 1 (2.78%) SCOM
5 1 (2.78%) SCOrch
5 1 (2.78%) SELinux
5 1 (2.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (41.67%) VMware
2 12 (33.33%) Oracle
2 12 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 11 (30.56%) CyberArk
4 7 (19.44%) BeyondTrust
4 7 (19.44%) Qualys
5 4 (11.11%) NetApp
5 4 (11.11%) SaltStack
5 4 (11.11%) Splunk
5 4 (11.11%) Symantec
6 3 (8.33%) EMC
6 3 (8.33%) Tanium
6 3 (8.33%) Tenable
7 2 (5.56%) Cisco
7 2 (5.56%) F5
7 2 (5.56%) IBM
7 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
7 2 (5.56%) Veritas
8 1 (2.78%) HP
8 1 (2.78%) Veeam