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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 483 517
Rank change year-on-year -63 +34 -32
Contract jobs citing Solaris 43 44 89
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.14% 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.89% 0.99% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 18 52
10th Percentile £333 £425 £400
25th Percentile £446 £502 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £571 £494
Median % change year-on-year -16.74% +15.54% -5.95%
75th Percentile £496 £624 £550
90th Percentile £544 £722 £586
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £558 £468
% change year-on-year -16.67% +19.36% -9.44%
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 4,824 4,430 6,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.11% 14.30% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,201 2,775 4,173
10th Percentile £178 £199 £181
25th Percentile £265 £313 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +2.15% -9.71%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £594
90th Percentile £675 £690 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £406 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -4.41% - -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 154 385
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.96 £16.92
Median hourly rate £23.50 £29.89 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% +18.38% -2.42%
75th Percentile £55.00 £64.31 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.99 £69.63 £72.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.54 £27.50 £25.12
% change year-on-year -18.05% +9.50% -2.47%

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 12 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 10 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 12 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 -85 34 £475 -17.39% 10
UK excluding London -50 25 £465 -16.67% 7
North West -19 16 £465 -19.13% 3
North of England -60 16 £465 -19.13% 3
London -50 9 £475 -18.10% 3
Work from Home -14 6 £533 +3.90% 4
Midlands - 5 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 5 £500 - 2
Scotland +11 3 £158 -69.27%
South East -31 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 6 (13.95%) CICS
2 3 (6.98%) nginx
2 3 (6.98%) Tomcat
3 2 (4.65%) Apache
4 1 (2.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.60%) Azure
2 5 (11.63%) AWS
3 3 (6.98%) SaaS
4 2 (4.65%) GitHub
5 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.33%) GCP
5 1 (2.33%) Google Ads
5 1 (2.33%) MinIO
5 1 (2.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.28%) Firewall
2 4 (9.30%) Kerberos
2 4 (9.30%) SSH
3 3 (6.98%) DNS
3 3 (6.98%) HTTP
4 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.33%) DHCP
5 1 (2.33%) SAN
5 1 (2.33%) SSL
5 1 (2.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) Oracle Database
2 6 (13.95%) DataStage
3 3 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (6.98%) GIS
3 3 (6.98%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database 10g
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Git
1 3 (6.98%) GitLab
1 3 (6.98%) Gradle
1 3 (6.98%) Maven
1 3 (6.98%) Sonatype Nexus
1 3 (6.98%) Subversion
2 2 (4.65%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (20.93%) Finance
4 6 (13.95%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (13.95%) Public Sector
5 4 (9.30%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.65%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.33%) Advertising
8 1 (2.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Unix Engineer
2 6 (13.95%) Designer
2 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Designer
3 5 (11.63%) Administrator
3 5 (11.63%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (9.30%) Consultant
4 4 (9.30%) DBA
4 4 (9.30%) Management Consultant
4 4 (9.30%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) IT Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (4.65%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (4.65%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) Developer
7 1 (2.33%) Java Developer
7 1 (2.33%) Oracle Technical Architect
7 1 (2.33%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.26%) Middleware
2 4 (9.30%) LDAP
2 4 (9.30%) OAuth
2 4 (9.30%) Regular Expression
2 4 (9.30%) SAML
3 3 (6.98%) ARM Templates
3 3 (6.98%) EJB
3 3 (6.98%) Java SE
3 3 (6.98%) JSP
3 3 (6.98%) OpenLayers
4 2 (4.65%) REST
5 1 (2.33%) Java EE
5 1 (2.33%) JDBC
5 1 (2.33%) ODBC
5 1 (2.33%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) BYOD
1 6 (13.95%) Data Centre
1 6 (13.95%) Mainframe
1 6 (13.95%) VSAM
2 4 (9.30%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.98%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.65%) Clustering
4 2 (4.65%) Hedge funds
4 2 (4.65%) Replication
4 2 (4.65%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.33%) HP Storage
5 1 (2.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (72.09%) Linux
2 27 (62.79%) Unix
3 15 (34.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (34.88%) Windows
4 11 (25.58%) AIX
5 7 (16.28%) Windows Server
6 3 (6.98%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (6.98%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (6.98%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) High Availability
1 16 (37.21%) Migration
2 12 (27.91%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (25.58%) Project Delivery
3 11 (25.58%) Roadmaps
4 10 (23.26%) CI/CD
5 9 (20.93%) DevOps
6 6 (13.95%) Business Case
6 6 (13.95%) Design Patterns
6 6 (13.95%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (13.95%) Process Improvement
6 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (9.30%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (9.30%) Data Protection
8 4 (9.30%) Key Management
8 4 (9.30%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (9.30%) RBAC
8 4 (9.30%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 25 (58.14%) Python
2 15 (34.88%) Bash
3 13 (30.23%) PowerShell
4 6 (13.95%) COBOL
5 4 (9.30%) Perl
6 3 (6.98%) Java
6 3 (6.98%) PL/SQL
6 3 (6.98%) SQL
7 2 (4.65%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.33%) JCL
Qualifications
1 17 (39.53%) Security Cleared
2 14 (32.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.33%) Degree
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (2.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) GDPR
2 2 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.65%) NIST
2 2 (4.65%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.65%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (4.65%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (25.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (16.28%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (11.63%) NFS
4 4 (9.30%) Active Directory
4 4 (9.30%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (6.98%) Docker
6 2 (4.65%) Veritas File System
6 2 (4.65%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (2.33%) VMware Server
7 1 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Ansible
2 4 (9.30%) Red Hat Satellite
3 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.98%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (6.98%) Terraform
4 2 (4.65%) Data Guard
4 2 (4.65%) QRadar
5 1 (2.33%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (2.33%) SCCM
5 1 (2.33%) SCOM
5 1 (2.33%) SCOrch
5 1 (2.33%) SELinux
5 1 (2.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (46.51%) Oracle
2 19 (44.19%) VMware
3 11 (25.58%) Red Hat
4 9 (20.93%) IBM
5 6 (13.95%) CyberArk
5 6 (13.95%) Qualys
6 5 (11.63%) Symantec
7 4 (9.30%) BeyondTrust
7 4 (9.30%) Cisco
7 4 (9.30%) Tanium
7 4 (9.30%) Tenable
8 2 (4.65%) SaltStack
8 2 (4.65%) Splunk
8 2 (4.65%) Veritas
9 1 (2.33%) Brocade
9 1 (2.33%) Google
9 1 (2.33%) HP
9 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
9 1 (2.33%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.33%) Veeam