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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 526 474
Rank change year-on-year -31 -52 -47
Contract jobs citing Solaris 123 39 92
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.12% 0.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.31% 0.88% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 19 55
10th Percentile £378 £432 £340
25th Percentile £459 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £624 £588
90th Percentile £574 £685 £627
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £35.21 - -
25th Percentile £36.75 - -
Median hourly rate £39.75 - -
75th Percentile £41.66 - -
90th Percentile £41.71 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.75 - -

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 5,326 4,409 5,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.80% 13.50% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,347 2,817 3,466
10th Percentile £190 £188 £200
25th Percentile £313 £300 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £673 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £435 £450
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 403 284 268
10th Percentile £14.17 £15.50 £15.89
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.86 £20.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £25.15 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.33% -50.93% +11.70%
75th Percentile £67.25 £58.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £74.94 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £55.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -54.27% +25.71%

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 21 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 21 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 -35 112 £509 +4.46% 57
UK excluding London -31 93 £501 -9.00% 33
North of England -10 63 £501 -22.92% 6
North West - 60 £501 - 5
Work from Home -30 39 £500 -15.97% 20
London -78 20 £525 +10.53% 25
South West -24 16 - - 5
West Midlands -45 6 £500 +11.11% 13
Midlands -45 6 £500 +11.11% 15
Scotland -28 4 £488 -24.92%
Yorkshire -42 3 - - 1
South East -62 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 (6.50%) nginx
1 8 (6.50%) Tomcat
2 6 (4.88%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.63%) CICS
3 2 (1.63%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (0.81%) Apache
4 1 (0.81%) Confluence
4 1 (0.81%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.07%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 9 (7.32%) AWS
2 3 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (1.63%) Azure
3 2 (1.63%) MinIO
4 1 (0.81%) GCP
4 1 (0.81%) GitHub
4 1 (0.81%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.88%) HTTP
1 6 (4.88%) SAN
2 3 (2.44%) Firewall
3 1 (0.81%) DNS
3 1 (0.81%) DSL
3 1 (0.81%) Internet
3 1 (0.81%) LAN
3 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.81%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.82%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (13.01%) SQL Server
3 15 (12.20%) MySQL
4 14 (11.38%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.44%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (2.44%) GIS
6 3 (2.44%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.63%) DataStage
7 2 (1.63%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (1.63%) Oracle Database 11g
7 2 (1.63%) SQLite
8 1 (0.81%) Db2
8 1 (0.81%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.81%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Git
1 3 (2.44%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.63%) JIRA
General
1 33 (26.83%) Finance
2 18 (14.63%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.50%) Banking
5 4 (3.25%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.63%) Aviation
6 2 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.63%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.81%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (39.02%) Unix Engineer
2 21 (17.07%) Consultant
3 19 (15.45%) DBA
3 19 (15.45%) Solaris Consultant
4 13 (10.57%) Administrator
4 13 (10.57%) Linux Engineer
5 11 (8.94%) Solaris Engineer
5 11 (8.94%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 8 (6.50%) SQL DBA
7 7 (5.69%) SC Cleared DBA
8 6 (4.88%) Database Manager
8 6 (4.88%) Oracle DBA
9 5 (4.07%) Architect
10 4 (3.25%) Support Engineer
10 4 (3.25%) Unix Administrator
11 3 (2.44%) Developer
11 3 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.44%) Platform Engineer
11 3 (2.44%) Senior
12 2 (1.63%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.25%) EJB
1 4 (3.25%) Java SE
1 4 (3.25%) Middleware
2 3 (2.44%) JSP
3 2 (1.63%) Jakarta EE
3 2 (1.63%) JSON
3 2 (1.63%) OpenLayers
3 2 (1.63%) Spring
3 2 (1.63%) Terraform
4 1 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.81%) JavaBeans
4 1 (0.81%) JDBC
4 1 (0.81%) ODBC
4 1 (0.81%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.76%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (8.13%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.69%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (3.25%) Clustering
4 4 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.44%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.63%) BYOD
6 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.63%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.63%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.63%) VSAM
7 1 (0.81%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.81%) FPGA
7 1 (0.81%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.81%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 72 (58.54%) Unix
2 55 (44.72%) Linux
3 28 (22.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (17.07%) AIX
4 21 (17.07%) Windows
5 8 (6.50%) HPUX
5 8 (6.50%) Windows Server
6 7 (5.69%) SUSE
6 7 (5.69%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (4.88%) Oracle Linux
7 6 (4.88%) Windows 10
7 6 (4.88%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (3.25%) CentOS
8 4 (3.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (1.63%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (25.20%) Migration
2 20 (16.26%) Disaster Recovery
3 19 (15.45%) Change Management
3 19 (15.45%) High Availability
4 13 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (9.76%) ITIL
5 12 (9.76%) Project Delivery
6 11 (8.94%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (8.13%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 9 (7.32%) Runbook
8 9 (7.32%) Security Hardening
9 8 (6.50%) Configuration Management
9 8 (6.50%) DevOps
9 8 (6.50%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (6.50%) Vulnerability Management
10 7 (5.69%) CI/CD
11 6 (4.88%) Change Control
11 6 (4.88%) ETL
11 6 (4.88%) Test Automation
12 5 (4.07%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 25 (20.33%) SQL
2 17 (13.82%) Python
3 10 (8.13%) Shell Script
4 8 (6.50%) Bash
4 8 (6.50%) Java
5 7 (5.69%) PL/SQL
6 5 (4.07%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.25%) C++
8 2 (1.63%) COBOL
9 1 (0.81%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.81%) Korn
9 1 (0.81%) Perl
9 1 (0.81%) VB
Qualifications
1 75 (60.98%) Security Cleared
2 66 (53.66%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (4.07%) CISSP
4 5 (4.07%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (4.07%) Oracle Certification
4 5 (4.07%) RHCE
5 4 (3.25%) Degree
6 3 (2.44%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.63%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.07%) GRC
2 2 (1.63%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (8.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (6.50%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (5.69%) Docker
4 6 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.81%) NFS
5 1 (0.81%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.81%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (5.69%) Ansible
1 7 (5.69%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (4.88%) NetBackup
3 4 (3.25%) Oracle ZFS
4 3 (2.44%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.63%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.81%) Kibana
6 1 (0.81%) logstash
6 1 (0.81%) Opsview
6 1 (0.81%) Puppet
6 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 68 (55.28%) Oracle
2 21 (17.07%) Microsoft
3 17 (13.82%) Red Hat
4 12 (9.76%) VMware
5 11 (8.94%) IBM
6 9 (7.32%) HP
7 5 (4.07%) Veritas
8 4 (3.25%) Dell
9 3 (2.44%) NetApp
9 3 (2.44%) SAP
10 2 (1.63%) Broadcom
10 2 (1.63%) Qualys
10 2 (1.63%) Rapid7
10 2 (1.63%) Tenable
11 1 (0.81%) Avaya
11 1 (0.81%) EMC
11 1 (0.81%) Extreme Networks
11 1 (0.81%) Mellanox
11 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.81%) Solarflare