Solaris Contracts

Sun Microsystems Solaris
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Solaris skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Solaris over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 510 423
Rank change year-on-year +26 -87 +238
Contract jobs citing Solaris 46 77 272
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.18% 0.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.08% 1.30% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 44 171
10th Percentile £411 £340 £400
25th Percentile £440 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £525 £504
Median % change year-on-year +10.43% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £665 £588 £575
90th Percentile £734 £600 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £589 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +12.19% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £40.71
25th Percentile - - £45.07
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +46.60%

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 4,243 5,905 8,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.68% 13.61% 15.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,753 3,889 6,146
10th Percentile £200 £190 £190
25th Percentile £313 £313 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £588 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £462
% change year-on-year -2.70% +0.13% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 434 407
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.25 £18.44
Median hourly rate £22.25 £24.93 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% -41.35% +88.89%
75th Percentile £43.35 £64.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.15 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £31.25 £33.50
% change year-on-year -39.62% -6.72% +67.50%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Solaris as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solaris.

Daily rate trend for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solaris over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solaris.

Hourly rate trend for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Top 10 Contract 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 2 July 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 +26 32 £550 +2.33% 63
UK excluding London +22 29 £589 +12.19% 46
Scotland +8 13 £589 +73.24% 4
London +36 12 £475 -3.16% 23
North of England +14 10 £600 +34.08% 8
Work from Home +25 9 £440 -14.24% 36
Yorkshire -1 6 £525 +17.32% 2
South East +45 4 £550 +15.79% 12
North West - 4 £600 - 4
South West +34 2 £233 -55.62% 4

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.70%) Tomcat
2 3 (6.52%) Confluence
2 3 (6.52%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.26%) Azure
2 8 (17.39%) AWS
3 6 (13.04%) Nutanix
4 5 (10.87%) GitHub
5 4 (8.70%) Azure AKS
5 4 (8.70%) GCP
5 4 (8.70%) IaaS
5 4 (8.70%) OCI
6 3 (6.52%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (6.52%) PaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.17%) Rubrik
7 1 (2.17%) SaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (21.74%) Firewall
2 9 (19.57%) TCP/IP
3 8 (17.39%) DNS
4 3 (6.52%) DHCP
4 3 (6.52%) Internet
4 3 (6.52%) Kerberos
5 2 (4.35%) SAN
6 1 (2.17%) HTTPS
6 1 (2.17%) LAN
6 1 (2.17%) NAS
6 1 (2.17%) SSH
6 1 (2.17%) VLAN
6 1 (2.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 4 (8.70%) Oracle Exadata
4 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database
4 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database 10g
4 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.35%) SQLite
6 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.17%) MySQL
6 1 (2.17%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 9 (19.57%) Git
2 7 (15.22%) Subversion
3 6 (13.04%) TeamCity
4 4 (8.70%) Jenkins
5 3 (6.52%) GitLab
5 3 (6.52%) JIRA
5 3 (6.52%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (6.52%) Postman
5 3 (6.52%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (4.35%) Gradle
6 2 (4.35%) Maven
General
1 26 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 17 (36.96%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (32.61%) Finance
4 7 (15.22%) Banking
5 3 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.52%) Military
6 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (21.74%) Administrator
2 8 (17.39%) Architect
2 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Architect
2 8 (17.39%) Linux Administrator
3 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 6 (13.04%) Senior
3 6 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (10.87%) Database Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Technical Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) IT Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Applications Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Consultant
6 3 (6.52%) Developer
6 3 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Oracle Applications Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Oracle Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Database Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) REST
2 4 (8.70%) LDAP
3 3 (6.52%) Middleware
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.17%) .NET
4 1 (2.17%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 17 (36.96%) Replication
2 12 (26.09%) Clustering
3 8 (17.39%) Data Centre
4 7 (15.22%) Mainframe
5 3 (6.52%) PKI
6 2 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 44 (95.65%) Linux
2 26 (56.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 26 (56.52%) Windows
3 19 (41.30%) Unix
4 14 (30.43%) AIX
5 10 (21.74%) HPUX
5 10 (21.74%) Windows Server
6 3 (6.52%) Oracle Linux
6 3 (6.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 3 (6.52%) Windows 10
6 3 (6.52%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (6.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (54.35%) High Availability
2 21 (45.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 19 (41.30%) DevOps
4 13 (28.26%) Agile
5 11 (23.91%) Service Management
6 10 (21.74%) CI/CD
6 10 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (19.57%) ITIL
7 9 (19.57%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (17.39%) Capacity Planning
8 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (17.39%) ITSM
9 7 (15.22%) Migration
10 6 (13.04%) Analytical Thinking
10 6 (13.04%) API Integration
10 6 (13.04%) DevSecOps
10 6 (13.04%) Incident Management
10 6 (13.04%) Problem Management
10 6 (13.04%) Software Engineering
10 6 (13.04%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.96%) Python
2 11 (23.91%) Bash
3 10 (21.74%) SQL
4 9 (19.57%) Perl
5 7 (15.22%) PowerShell
6 4 (8.70%) Java
7 3 (6.52%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.35%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.17%) ActionScript
9 1 (2.17%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (2.17%) C#
9 1 (2.17%) Korn
9 1 (2.17%) VB
9 1 (2.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.04%) Degree
3 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.35%) CISM
5 2 (4.35%) CISSP
5 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.17%) CCDE
6 1 (2.17%) IBM Certification
6 1 (2.17%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) GDPR
2 4 (8.70%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (8.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.35%) NIST
3 2 (4.35%) QA
4 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (17.39%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (10.87%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (8.70%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (6.52%) Active Directory
5 3 (6.52%) Hyper-V
6 2 (4.35%) Docker
6 2 (4.35%) NFS
6 2 (4.35%) Veritas File System
6 2 (4.35%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 2 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (30.43%) Ansible
2 7 (15.22%) Red Hat Satellite
3 6 (13.04%) Puppet
3 6 (13.04%) Tivoli
4 5 (10.87%) Data Guard
4 5 (10.87%) Kubernetes
4 5 (10.87%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 5 (10.87%) QRadar
5 4 (8.70%) EMC NetWorker
5 4 (8.70%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (8.70%) Oracle Flashback
5 4 (8.70%) Terraform
5 4 (8.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 3 (6.52%) Netcool
7 2 (4.35%) Control-M
7 2 (4.35%) Progress Chef
7 2 (4.35%) SELinux
8 1 (2.17%) Nagios
Vendors
1 24 (52.17%) Red Hat
2 21 (45.65%) Oracle
3 17 (36.96%) IBM
4 16 (34.78%) VMware
5 9 (19.57%) CyberArk
6 8 (17.39%) Sun
7 7 (15.22%) Splunk
7 7 (15.22%) Unisys
8 6 (13.04%) Qualys
9 5 (10.87%) HP
9 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
9 5 (10.87%) SaltStack
10 4 (8.70%) Dell
10 4 (8.70%) Dynatrace
10 4 (8.70%) EMC
10 4 (8.70%) ServiceNow
11 3 (6.52%) MuleSoft
11 3 (6.52%) Veritas
12 2 (4.35%) BeyondTrust
12 2 (4.35%) SolarWinds