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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 463 501
Rank change year-on-year -71 +38 -45
Contract jobs citing Solaris 97 55 66
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.03% 1.36% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 35 33
10th Percentile £440 £411 £340
25th Percentile £463 £433 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +14.90% -0.89%
75th Percentile £552 £660 £575
90th Percentile £588 £733 £598
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £589 £500
% change year-on-year -18.29% +17.80% -
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 4,786 4,034 5,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.78% 13.85% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,057 2,655 3,887
10th Percentile £188 £200 £185
25th Percentile £315 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £467 £470
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -0.64% -6.00%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £678 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -3.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 186 404
10th Percentile £14.80 £15.17 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.13 £17.36 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £22.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.73% -2.22% -51.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.67 £61.60
90th Percentile £71.70 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £19.00 £22.79
% change year-on-year +71.05% -16.63% -43.85%

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 1 June 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 12 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 1 June 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 -53 88 £491 -10.77% 10
UK excluding London -50 70 £481 -18.29% 8
North of England -36 49 £481 -19.79% 2
North West -2 48 £481 -19.79% 1
Work from Home -24 33 £511 +7.41% 4
London -64 20 £525 +16.67% 4
South West -15 14 - - 2
Scotland -13 3 - - 1
Midlands - 3 - - 2
West Midlands - 3 - -
Yorkshire -64 1 - - 1
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 11 (11.34%) nginx
1 11 (11.34%) Tomcat
2 10 (10.31%) CICS
3 4 (4.12%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.06%) Apache
4 2 (2.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.06%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.25%) AWS
2 4 (4.12%) MinIO
3 2 (2.06%) Azure
3 2 (2.06%) Lucidchart
4 1 (1.03%) GCP
4 1 (1.03%) Google Ads
4 1 (1.03%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (1.03%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.34%) Firewall
2 8 (8.25%) HTTP
3 1 (1.03%) DSL
3 1 (1.03%) Internet
3 1 (1.03%) LAN
3 1 (1.03%) SAN
3 1 (1.03%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.34%) Oracle Database
2 10 (10.31%) DataStage
3 8 (8.25%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (6.19%) GIS
5 4 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.09%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.03%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.03%) DB2
7 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (1.03%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
General
1 37 (38.14%) Finance
2 17 (17.53%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.31%) Influencing Skills
3 10 (10.31%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.22%) Banking
5 3 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.06%) Aviation
7 1 (1.03%) Advertising
7 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (35.05%) Unix Engineer
2 19 (19.59%) Consultant
2 19 (19.59%) Solaris Consultant
3 10 (10.31%) Designer
3 10 (10.31%) Infrastructure Designer
4 5 (5.15%) Database Manager
4 5 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (4.12%) Architect
5 4 (4.12%) Lead
5 4 (4.12%) Senior
5 4 (4.12%) Support Engineer
6 3 (3.09%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (3.09%) Senior Unix Engineer
6 3 (3.09%) Software Engineer
7 2 (2.06%) Analyst
7 2 (2.06%) Business Analyst
7 2 (2.06%) Developer
7 2 (2.06%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (2.06%) Oracle DBA
7 2 (2.06%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.40%) Middleware
2 7 (7.22%) EJB
3 6 (6.19%) OpenLayers
4 4 (4.12%) Java EE
4 4 (4.12%) JSP
5 3 (3.09%) Java SE
5 3 (3.09%) Spring
6 1 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.03%) JavaBeans
6 1 (1.03%) JDBC
6 1 (1.03%) JSON
6 1 (1.03%) ODBC
6 1 (1.03%) Regular Expression
6 1 (1.03%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.53%) Data Centre
2 12 (12.37%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (10.31%) BYOD
3 10 (10.31%) Mainframe
3 10 (10.31%) VSAM
4 8 (8.25%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (4.12%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.09%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.09%) Clustering
6 3 (3.09%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.06%) PMI
7 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.03%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.03%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 54 (55.67%) Unix
2 45 (46.39%) Linux
3 22 (22.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (21.65%) Windows
5 20 (20.62%) AIX
6 12 (12.37%) Windows Server
7 11 (11.34%) Windows Server 2008
8 10 (10.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (7.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (5.15%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (5.15%) Windows 10
10 5 (5.15%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (4.12%) HPUX
11 4 (4.12%) SUSE
12 1 (1.03%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (35.05%) Migration
2 28 (28.87%) High Availability
3 26 (26.80%) Disaster Recovery
4 15 (15.46%) Project Delivery
5 11 (11.34%) Change Management
5 11 (11.34%) Roadmaps
6 10 (10.31%) Business Case
6 10 (10.31%) Design Patterns
6 10 (10.31%) ETL
6 10 (10.31%) Process Improvement
7 9 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (8.25%) Runbook
8 8 (8.25%) Test Automation
9 7 (7.22%) CI/CD
9 7 (7.22%) DevOps
9 7 (7.22%) Master Data Management
9 7 (7.22%) Refactoring
9 7 (7.22%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (6.19%) ITIL
10 6 (6.19%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.71%) Python
2 12 (12.37%) SQL
3 10 (10.31%) COBOL
3 10 (10.31%) PL/SQL
4 8 (8.25%) Java
5 4 (4.12%) C++
6 3 (3.09%) Bash
6 3 (3.09%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.09%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.03%) JCL
8 1 (1.03%) Perl
Qualifications
1 51 (52.58%) Security Cleared
2 47 (48.45%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.12%) CISSP
3 4 (4.12%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (4.12%) Degree
3 4 (4.12%) RHCE
4 3 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.06%) CAPM
5 2 (2.06%) CBAP
5 2 (2.06%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.06%) PMP
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.12%) GRC
2 3 (3.09%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.06%) NIST
3 2 (2.06%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.03%) QA
4 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (13.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (9.28%) Oracle RAC
3 8 (8.25%) Docker
3 8 (8.25%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.03%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 8 (8.25%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (3.09%) Data Guard
3 2 (2.06%) Ansible
3 2 (2.06%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (1.03%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.03%) Kibana
4 1 (1.03%) logstash
Vendors
1 55 (56.70%) Oracle
2 22 (22.68%) IBM
3 20 (20.62%) VMware
4 17 (17.53%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.12%) Cisco
5 4 (4.12%) HP
5 4 (4.12%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.03%) Avaya
6 1 (1.03%) Commvault
6 1 (1.03%) Dell
6 1 (1.03%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.03%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.03%) Google
6 1 (1.03%) Murex
6 1 (1.03%) Qualys
6 1 (1.03%) SAP
6 1 (1.03%) Symantec
6 1 (1.03%) Tanium
6 1 (1.03%) Tenable