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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 478 488
Rank change year-on-year -69 +10 +19
Contract jobs citing Solaris 43 52 108
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.17% 0.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.90% 1.16% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 67
10th Percentile £317 £425 £400
25th Percentile £450 £506 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.17% +15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £509 £613 £550
90th Percentile £547 £715 £580
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £566 £475
% change year-on-year -18.29% +19.16% -7.41%
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 4,756 4,486 6,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.34% 14.28% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,159 2,792 4,294
10th Percentile £175 £200 £180
25th Percentile £263 £319 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +1.06% -8.56%
75th Percentile £565 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £695 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £403 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -5.29% - -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 157 383
10th Percentile £14.50 £16.19 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.91 £21.00 £17.23
Median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% +28.71% -1.79%
75th Percentile £56.89 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.37 £69.25 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.58 £29.89 £25.00
% change year-on-year -24.47% +19.56% +3.99%

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 1 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 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 1 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 -68 34 £478 -16.96% 11
UK excluding London -53 23 £463 -18.29% 10
North of England -61 12 £471 -18.04% 4
North West -27 11 £471 -18.04% 4
London -49 10 £475 -17.39% 2
Midlands - 8 £450 - 3
West Midlands - 8 £450 - 2
Work from Home -17 5 £540 +5.62% 2
Scotland +9 2 £158 -69.27%
South East -18 1 £525 +7.69% 2
Yorkshire -53 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 4 (9.30%) nginx
1 4 (9.30%) Tomcat
2 3 (6.98%) Apache
3 2 (4.65%) CICS
4 1 (2.33%) Confluence
4 1 (2.33%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.60%) Azure
2 7 (16.28%) AWS
3 4 (9.30%) GitHub
4 3 (6.98%) SaaS
5 2 (4.65%) GCP
5 2 (4.65%) MinIO
6 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.33%) Google Ads
6 1 (2.33%) Lucidchart
6 1 (2.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) SSH
2 4 (9.30%) DNS
2 4 (9.30%) Kerberos
3 3 (6.98%) Firewall
3 3 (6.98%) HTTP
3 3 (6.98%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.33%) DHCP
4 1 (2.33%) SAN
4 1 (2.33%) SSL
4 1 (2.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) Oracle Database
2 4 (9.30%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (9.30%) GIS
2 4 (9.30%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.33%) DataStage
5 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Git
1 4 (9.30%) Subversion
2 3 (6.98%) GitLab
2 3 (6.98%) Gradle
2 3 (6.98%) Maven
2 3 (6.98%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (6.98%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 10 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Finance
2 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.30%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.33%) Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Unix Engineer
2 6 (13.95%) Administrator
2 6 (13.95%) Consultant
2 6 (13.95%) Linux Administrator
3 5 (11.63%) Management Consultant
4 3 (6.98%) DBA
4 3 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Oracle DBA
4 3 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Architect
5 2 (4.65%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Developer
5 2 (4.65%) IT Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Java Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (4.65%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (4.65%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle Technical Architect
6 1 (2.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) LDAP
2 6 (13.95%) Middleware
3 4 (9.30%) EJB
3 4 (9.30%) Java SE
3 4 (9.30%) JSP
3 4 (9.30%) OAuth
3 4 (9.30%) OpenLayers
3 4 (9.30%) Regular Expression
3 4 (9.30%) SAML
4 3 (6.98%) ARM Templates
4 3 (6.98%) REST
5 2 (4.65%) Java EE
6 1 (2.33%) JDBC
6 1 (2.33%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (2.33%) ODBC
6 1 (2.33%) Servlets
6 1 (2.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (9.30%) Clustering
2 4 (9.30%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (9.30%) Replication
3 3 (6.98%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.98%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.65%) Hedge funds
4 2 (4.65%) Mainframe
4 2 (4.65%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.33%) BYOD
5 1 (2.33%) HP Storage
5 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.33%) PKI
5 1 (2.33%) PMI
5 1 (2.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 32 (74.42%) Linux
2 22 (51.16%) Unix
3 19 (44.19%) Windows
4 17 (39.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (20.93%) AIX
6 7 (16.28%) Windows Server
7 3 (6.98%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (6.98%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (6.98%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (2.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) High Availability
1 16 (37.21%) Migration
2 12 (27.91%) CI/CD
2 12 (27.91%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (25.58%) Project Delivery
4 9 (20.93%) DevOps
5 8 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (16.28%) RBAC
6 7 (16.28%) Roadmaps
7 6 (13.95%) Key Management
7 6 (13.95%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (11.63%) Data Protection
8 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (11.63%) Privileged Access Management
8 5 (11.63%) Security Hardening
9 4 (9.30%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (9.30%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (9.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (62.79%) Python
2 16 (37.21%) Bash
3 13 (30.23%) PowerShell
4 5 (11.63%) Java
4 5 (11.63%) Perl
5 4 (9.30%) PL/SQL
5 4 (9.30%) SQL
6 2 (4.65%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.33%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 16 (37.21%) Security Cleared
2 15 (34.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) Degree
4 1 (2.33%) CAPM
4 1 (2.33%) CBAP
4 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.33%) PMP
4 1 (2.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) GDPR
2 3 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.98%) NIST
2 3 (6.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (6.98%) SOC 2
3 2 (4.65%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.65%) QA
System Software
1 11 (25.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (18.60%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (16.28%) Active Directory
4 6 (13.95%) NFS
5 4 (9.30%) Docker
6 3 (6.98%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (6.98%) Veritas File System
6 3 (6.98%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
7 1 (2.33%) KVM
7 1 (2.33%) VMware Server
7 1 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (18.60%) Ansible
2 5 (11.63%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.30%) Terraform
4 3 (6.98%) QRadar
5 2 (4.65%) Data Guard
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (2.33%) NetBackup
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (2.33%) SCCM
6 1 (2.33%) SCOM
6 1 (2.33%) SCOrch
6 1 (2.33%) SELinux
6 1 (2.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (48.84%) Oracle
2 17 (39.53%) VMware
3 13 (30.23%) Red Hat
4 9 (20.93%) CyberArk
5 7 (16.28%) Qualys
6 6 (13.95%) BeyondTrust
7 5 (11.63%) Cisco
7 5 (11.63%) IBM
7 5 (11.63%) Symantec
8 4 (9.30%) Tanium
8 4 (9.30%) Tenable
9 3 (6.98%) SaltStack
9 3 (6.98%) Splunk
10 2 (4.65%) EMC
10 2 (4.65%) NetApp
10 2 (4.65%) Veritas
11 1 (2.33%) Brocade
11 1 (2.33%) Google
11 1 (2.33%) HP
11 1 (2.33%) Microsoft