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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 506 515
Rank change year-on-year -41 +9 -100
Contract jobs citing Solaris 112 44 78
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.21% 0.99% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 33 46
10th Percentile £365 £411 £340
25th Percentile £459 £440 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £589 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +12.19% +5.00%
75th Percentile £552 £675 £584
90th Percentile £580 £738 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £589 £525
% change year-on-year -18.34% +12.19% +5.00%
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 5,073 4,435 5,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.63% 13.57% 13.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,238 2,866 3,832
10th Percentile £190 £200 £190
25th Percentile £315 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 239 437
10th Percentile £15.78 £15.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.04 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £23.00 £24.86
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -7.46% -41.52%
75th Percentile £63.75 £54.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.44 £21.28 £31.13
% change year-on-year +24.25% -31.63% +4.97%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -44 99 £497 -9.64% 17
UK excluding London -46 77 £481 -18.34% 15
North of England -32 54 £481 -19.83% 4
North West -5 51 £481 -19.83% 4
Work from Home -27 39 £494 +0.36% 8
London -54 22 £525 +10.53% 2
South West -20 14 - - 4
West Midlands - 4 £500 - 4
Midlands - 4 £500 - 4
Scotland -24 3 - -
Yorkshire -55 3 - -
South East -77 1 £548 -0.45% 3
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 14 (12.50%) nginx
1 14 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 10 (8.93%) CICS
3 7 (6.25%) WebLogic
4 3 (2.68%) Apache
4 3 (2.68%) Confluence
5 2 (1.79%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (3.57%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.04%) AWS
2 4 (3.57%) MinIO
3 2 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (1.79%) Lucidchart
4 1 (0.89%) Azure
4 1 (0.89%) GCP
4 1 (0.89%) GitHub
4 1 (0.89%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.82%) Firewall
2 10 (8.93%) HTTP
3 2 (1.79%) SAN
4 1 (0.89%) DSL
4 1 (0.89%) Internet
4 1 (0.89%) LAN
4 1 (0.89%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.50%) Oracle Database
2 10 (8.93%) DataStage
2 10 (8.93%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.25%) GIS
5 5 (4.46%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.57%) MySQL
6 4 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (2.68%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (2.68%) Oracle Database 10g
7 3 (2.68%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (1.79%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (1.79%) SQLite
9 1 (0.89%) Db2
9 1 (0.89%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.89%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.79%) Git
3 1 (0.89%) JIRA
General
1 39 (34.82%) Finance
2 23 (20.54%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 10 (8.93%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (8.04%) Banking
7 3 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Aviation
8 2 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Advertising
9 1 (0.89%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (33.93%) Unix Engineer
2 21 (18.75%) Consultant
3 19 (16.96%) Solaris Consultant
4 10 (8.93%) Designer
4 10 (8.93%) Infrastructure Designer
5 8 (7.14%) DBA
6 7 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
6 7 (6.25%) Solaris Engineer
6 7 (6.25%) Unix Linux Engineer
7 5 (4.46%) Database Manager
7 5 (4.46%) Oracle DBA
7 5 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (3.57%) Developer
8 4 (3.57%) Lead
8 4 (3.57%) Senior
8 4 (3.57%) SQL DBA
8 4 (3.57%) Support Engineer
9 3 (2.68%) Administrator
9 3 (2.68%) Architect
9 3 (2.68%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.61%) Middleware
2 8 (7.14%) EJB
3 6 (5.36%) Java SE
3 6 (5.36%) OpenLayers
4 5 (4.46%) JSP
5 4 (3.57%) Java EE
5 4 (3.57%) Spring
6 2 (1.79%) JDBC
6 2 (1.79%) JSON
6 2 (1.79%) ODBC
7 1 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.89%) JavaBeans
7 1 (0.89%) Regular Expression
7 1 (0.89%) Servlets
7 1 (0.89%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.07%) Data Centre
2 17 (15.18%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (9.82%) Legacy Applications
4 10 (8.93%) BYOD
4 10 (8.93%) Mainframe
4 10 (8.93%) VSAM
5 4 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.68%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.68%) Clustering
6 3 (2.68%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.79%) PMI
7 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.89%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.89%) FPGA
8 1 (0.89%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.89%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 64 (57.14%) Unix
2 59 (52.68%) Linux
3 30 (26.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (21.43%) Windows
5 23 (20.54%) AIX
6 13 (11.61%) Windows Server
6 13 (11.61%) Windows Server 2008
7 10 (8.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (6.25%) Oracle Linux
8 7 (6.25%) SUSE
8 7 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (5.36%) HPUX
10 5 (4.46%) Windows 10
10 5 (4.46%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (3.57%) CentOS
12 1 (0.89%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (23.21%) Migration
2 19 (16.96%) Disaster Recovery
2 19 (16.96%) High Availability
3 12 (10.71%) Change Management
3 12 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (10.71%) ETL
4 11 (9.82%) DevOps
4 11 (9.82%) Roadmaps
4 11 (9.82%) Test Automation
5 10 (8.93%) Business Case
5 10 (8.93%) CI/CD
5 10 (8.93%) Design Patterns
5 10 (8.93%) Process Improvement
6 9 (8.04%) ITIL
6 9 (8.04%) Project Delivery
6 9 (8.04%) Refactoring
6 9 (8.04%) Runbook
7 8 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (17.86%) SQL
2 18 (16.07%) Python
3 13 (11.61%) PL/SQL
4 11 (9.82%) Java
5 10 (8.93%) COBOL
6 8 (7.14%) Bash
7 7 (6.25%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.57%) C++
8 4 (3.57%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.68%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.79%) Perl
11 1 (0.89%) JCL
11 1 (0.89%) Korn
11 1 (0.89%) VB
Qualifications
1 58 (51.79%) Security Cleared
2 54 (48.21%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.36%) Degree
4 5 (4.46%) CISSP
4 5 (4.46%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (4.46%) RHCE
5 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.57%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.79%) CAPM
7 2 (1.79%) CBAP
7 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.79%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.46%) GRC
2 3 (2.68%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.79%) NIST
3 2 (1.79%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.89%) QA
4 1 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (13.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (9.82%) Oracle RAC
3 10 (8.93%) Docker
3 10 (8.93%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.89%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 11 (9.82%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (4.46%) Oracle ZFS
3 4 (3.57%) Ansible
3 4 (3.57%) Data Guard
4 2 (1.79%) Terraform
5 1 (0.89%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.89%) Kibana
5 1 (0.89%) logstash
5 1 (0.89%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.89%) Opsview
Vendors
1 60 (53.57%) Oracle
2 25 (22.32%) IBM
3 23 (20.54%) VMware
4 20 (17.86%) Red Hat
5 10 (8.93%) Microsoft
6 6 (5.36%) HP
7 3 (2.68%) SAP
8 1 (0.89%) Avaya
8 1 (0.89%) Commvault
8 1 (0.89%) Dell
8 1 (0.89%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (0.89%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.89%) Mellanox
8 1 (0.89%) Murex
8 1 (0.89%) Qualys
8 1 (0.89%) Solarflare
8 1 (0.89%) Symantec
8 1 (0.89%) Tanium
8 1 (0.89%) Tenable