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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 507 479
Rank change year-on-year -62 -28 -44
Contract jobs citing Solaris 113 48 93
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.15% 0.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.17% 1.08% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 30 55
10th Percentile £363 £419 £340
25th Percentile £418 £456 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £582 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.08% +10.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £552 £644 £588
90th Percentile £575 £730 £623
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £589 £525
% change year-on-year -15.11% +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 5,206 4,441 5,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.71% 13.46% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,292 2,828 3,561
10th Percentile £190 £190 £200
25th Percentile £313 £307 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £663 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £447 £455
% change year-on-year +0.67% -1.76% +1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 272 323
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.51 £17.85
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.08 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.69% -16.42% -27.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.60 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 £24.33 £39.25
% change year-on-year +9.58% -38.01% +33.96%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -45 101 £500 -9.09% 13
UK excluding London -55 83 £500 -15.11% 7
North of England -20 57 £488 -22.00% 4
North West +5 54 £488 -18.75% 4
Work from Home -33 37 £500 -11.78% 3
London -66 19 £525 +14.75% 6
South West -30 14 - - 3
Scotland -27 4 £488 -17.15%
Midlands -47 4 £500 +11.11%
West Midlands -47 4 £500 +11.11%
Yorkshire -41 3 - -
South East -67 3 £700 +27.27%
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 (7.08%) nginx
1 8 (7.08%) Tomcat
2 5 (4.42%) WebLogic
3 4 (3.54%) CICS
4 2 (1.77%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.88%) Apache
5 1 (0.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 9 (7.96%) AWS
2 2 (1.77%) Azure
2 2 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (1.77%) MinIO
3 1 (0.88%) GCP
3 1 (0.88%) GitHub
3 1 (0.88%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.31%) HTTP
2 5 (4.42%) Firewall
3 4 (3.54%) SAN
4 1 (0.88%) DSL
4 1 (0.88%) Internet
4 1 (0.88%) LAN
4 1 (0.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.73%) Oracle Database
2 8 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.19%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.31%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (5.31%) MySQL
5 4 (3.54%) DataStage
6 3 (2.65%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (2.65%) GIS
6 3 (2.65%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (2.65%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.77%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (1.77%) Oracle Database 11g
7 2 (1.77%) SQLite
8 1 (0.88%) Db2
8 1 (0.88%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.88%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.77%) Git
3 1 (0.88%) JIRA
General
1 36 (31.86%) Finance
2 16 (14.16%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.96%) Banking
5 4 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (3.54%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.77%) Aviation
6 2 (1.77%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (43.36%) Unix Engineer
2 21 (18.58%) Consultant
3 19 (16.81%) Solaris Consultant
4 14 (12.39%) Linux Engineer
5 12 (10.62%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 11 (9.73%) Solaris Engineer
7 9 (7.96%) DBA
8 6 (5.31%) Senior
9 5 (4.42%) Architect
9 5 (4.42%) Database Manager
9 5 (4.42%) SQL DBA
10 4 (3.54%) Administrator
10 4 (3.54%) Designer
10 4 (3.54%) Infrastructure Designer
10 4 (3.54%) Oracle DBA
10 4 (3.54%) SC Cleared DBA
10 4 (3.54%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Support Engineer
11 3 (2.65%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.65%) Senior Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.42%) Middleware
2 4 (3.54%) EJB
2 4 (3.54%) Java SE
3 3 (2.65%) JSP
4 2 (1.77%) Jakarta EE
4 2 (1.77%) JSON
4 2 (1.77%) OpenLayers
4 2 (1.77%) Spring
4 2 (1.77%) Terraform
5 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.88%) JavaBeans
5 1 (0.88%) JDBC
5 1 (0.88%) ODBC
5 1 (0.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.62%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (9.73%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.19%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (3.54%) BYOD
4 4 (3.54%) Clustering
4 4 (3.54%) Mainframe
4 4 (3.54%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.54%) VSAM
5 3 (2.65%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.77%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.88%) FPGA
7 1 (0.88%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.88%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 70 (61.95%) Unix
2 53 (46.90%) Linux
3 25 (22.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (16.81%) AIX
5 18 (15.93%) Windows
6 8 (7.08%) HPUX
6 8 (7.08%) Windows Server
7 7 (6.19%) Oracle Linux
7 7 (6.19%) SUSE
7 7 (6.19%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (4.42%) Windows 10
8 5 (4.42%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (3.54%) CentOS
9 4 (3.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (2.65%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.88%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (23.89%) Migration
2 21 (18.58%) Disaster Recovery
3 20 (17.70%) High Availability
4 14 (12.39%) Change Management
5 13 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (8.85%) Project Delivery
7 9 (7.96%) DevOps
7 9 (7.96%) ITIL
7 9 (7.96%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (7.96%) Runbook
7 9 (7.96%) Security Hardening
8 8 (7.08%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (7.08%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 7 (6.19%) CI/CD
9 7 (6.19%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (6.19%) Roadmaps
9 7 (6.19%) Test Automation
9 7 (6.19%) Vulnerability Management
10 6 (5.31%) Configuration Management
10 6 (5.31%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.81%) Python
2 16 (14.16%) SQL
3 9 (7.96%) Bash
3 9 (7.96%) Shell Script
4 7 (6.19%) Java
4 7 (6.19%) PL/SQL
5 5 (4.42%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.54%) C++
6 4 (3.54%) COBOL
7 2 (1.77%) Perl
8 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.88%) Korn
8 1 (0.88%) VB
Qualifications
1 61 (53.98%) Security Cleared
2 57 (50.44%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (4.42%) CISSP
4 5 (4.42%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (4.42%) RHCE
5 4 (3.54%) Degree
6 3 (2.65%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.77%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.42%) GRC
2 2 (1.77%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (7.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (6.19%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (5.31%) Docker
3 6 (5.31%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (6.19%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (5.31%) Ansible
3 5 (4.42%) Oracle ZFS
4 3 (2.65%) Data Guard
4 3 (2.65%) NetBackup
5 2 (1.77%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.88%) Kibana
6 1 (0.88%) logstash
6 1 (0.88%) Opsview
Vendors
1 57 (50.44%) Oracle
2 17 (15.04%) Red Hat
3 14 (12.39%) Microsoft
4 13 (11.50%) IBM
5 12 (10.62%) VMware
6 8 (7.08%) HP
7 3 (2.65%) Dell
7 3 (2.65%) SAP
8 2 (1.77%) Broadcom
8 2 (1.77%) NetApp
8 2 (1.77%) Qualys
8 2 (1.77%) Rapid7
8 2 (1.77%) Tenable
8 2 (1.77%) Veritas
9 1 (0.88%) Avaya
9 1 (0.88%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (0.88%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.88%) Mellanox
9 1 (0.88%) Murex
9 1 (0.88%) Solarflare