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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 481 479
Rank change year-on-year -65 -2 +42
Contract jobs citing Solaris 41 56 111
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.18% 0.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.86% 1.26% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 24 67
10th Percentile £306 £458 £400
25th Percentile £452 £509 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.17% +15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £498 £603 £550
90th Percentile £540 £647 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £571 £475
% change year-on-year -18.49% +20.11% -7.41%
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 4,764 4,461 6,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 14.07% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,162 2,777 4,223
10th Percentile £175 £200 £181
25th Percentile £267 £313 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.77%
75th Percentile £565 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £696 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -2.94% - -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 168 344
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.69 £21.20 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.00 £36.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.56% +26.32% +14.00%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £73.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £25.12
% change year-on-year -27.69% +29.40% +5.57%

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 22 January 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 11 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 22 January 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 -64 36 £479 -16.63% 7
UK excluding London -68 24 £465 -18.49% 7
North of England -63 12 £478 -16.96% 2
London -38 11 £475 -17.39% 2
North West -30 10 £478 -16.96% 2
West Midlands -35 9 £450 -2.70% 2
Midlands -40 9 £450 -2.70% 2
Work from Home -19 4 £533 +4.16% 2
Scotland +3 2 £158 -69.27% 1
Yorkshire -52 2 - -
South East -33 1 £525 +7.69% 2

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 2 (4.88%) CICS
1 2 (4.88%) Confluence
1 2 (4.88%) Tomcat
1 2 (4.88%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.44%) Apache
2 1 (2.44%) nginx
2 1 (2.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.95%) Azure
2 8 (19.51%) AWS
3 6 (14.63%) GitHub
4 3 (7.32%) GCP
4 3 (7.32%) SaaS
5 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.44%) Google Ads
5 1 (2.44%) Lucidchart
5 1 (2.44%) MinIO
5 1 (2.44%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.07%) SSH
2 5 (12.20%) DNS
2 5 (12.20%) Kerberos
3 4 (9.76%) TCP/IP
4 3 (7.32%) Firewall
5 2 (4.88%) SAN
6 1 (2.44%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.44%) DHCP
6 1 (2.44%) FCoE
6 1 (2.44%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (2.44%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.44%) LAN
6 1 (2.44%) Multicast
6 1 (2.44%) NAS
6 1 (2.44%) SSL
6 1 (2.44%) VSAN
6 1 (2.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.07%) Oracle Database
2 4 (9.76%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.44%) GIS
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Git
1 5 (12.20%) Subversion
2 4 (9.76%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (9.76%) TeamCity
3 3 (7.32%) GitLab
3 3 (7.32%) Gradle
3 3 (7.32%) Maven
4 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.88%) JIRA
General
1 10 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.20%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Finance
5 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.88%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.44%) Banking
7 1 (2.44%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) Unix Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) Administrator
2 7 (17.07%) Consultant
2 7 (17.07%) Linux Administrator
3 6 (14.63%) Management Consultant
4 3 (7.32%) Architect
4 3 (7.32%) DBA
4 3 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (4.88%) Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (4.88%) IT Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (4.88%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (4.88%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Developer
6 1 (2.44%) Java Developer
6 1 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.44%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.95%) LDAP
2 5 (12.20%) Middleware
2 5 (12.20%) OAuth
2 5 (12.20%) SAML
3 4 (9.76%) REST
4 3 (7.32%) ARM Templates
4 3 (7.32%) Regular Expression
5 1 (2.44%) EJB
5 1 (2.44%) Java EE
5 1 (2.44%) Java SE
5 1 (2.44%) JSP
5 1 (2.44%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (2.44%) OpenLayers
5 1 (2.44%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Clustering
1 6 (14.63%) Data Protection Act
1 6 (14.63%) Replication
2 3 (7.32%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.88%) Hedge funds
3 2 (4.88%) Mainframe
3 2 (4.88%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.44%) HP Storage
4 1 (2.44%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) PKI
4 1 (2.44%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 30 (73.17%) Linux
2 20 (48.78%) Unix
3 17 (41.46%) Windows
4 14 (34.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (21.95%) AIX
6 3 (7.32%) Windows Server
7 2 (4.88%) zOS
8 1 (2.44%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (43.90%) High Availability
2 16 (39.02%) Migration
3 13 (31.71%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (29.27%) CI/CD
4 12 (29.27%) Project Delivery
5 10 (24.39%) DevOps
6 8 (19.51%) RBAC
7 7 (17.07%) Key Management
7 7 (17.07%) Privileged Access Management
7 7 (17.07%) Roadmaps
8 6 (14.63%) Data Protection
8 6 (14.63%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (14.63%) Security Hardening
9 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (9.76%) API Integration
10 4 (9.76%) Data Security
10 4 (9.76%) Kernel Tuning
10 4 (9.76%) Strategic Planning
10 4 (9.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (60.98%) Python
2 17 (41.46%) Bash
3 13 (31.71%) PowerShell
4 6 (14.63%) Perl
5 3 (7.32%) Java
6 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.88%) SQL
7 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (31.71%) Security Cleared
2 12 (29.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) Degree
4 1 (2.44%) CAPM
4 1 (2.44%) CBAP
4 1 (2.44%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.44%) PMP
4 1 (2.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) GDPR
2 4 (9.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (9.76%) NIST
2 4 (9.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (9.76%) SOC 2
3 3 (7.32%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 10 (24.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (21.95%) Active Directory
3 8 (19.51%) NFS
4 6 (14.63%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (9.76%) Veritas File System
5 4 (9.76%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Hyper-V
6 2 (4.88%) KVM
7 1 (2.44%) Docker
7 1 (2.44%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (2.44%) SRDF
7 1 (2.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (2.44%) vSphere
7 1 (2.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (24.39%) Ansible
2 6 (14.63%) Red Hat Satellite
3 5 (12.20%) Kubernetes
3 5 (12.20%) Terraform
4 4 (9.76%) QRadar
5 2 (4.88%) Data Guard
6 1 (2.44%) NetBackup
6 1 (2.44%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (2.44%) Puppet
6 1 (2.44%) SCCM
6 1 (2.44%) SCOM
6 1 (2.44%) SCOrch
6 1 (2.44%) SELinux
6 1 (2.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 19 (46.34%) Oracle
2 14 (34.15%) VMware
3 12 (29.27%) Red Hat
4 11 (26.83%) CyberArk
5 7 (17.07%) BeyondTrust
5 7 (17.07%) Qualys
6 6 (14.63%) Cisco
7 4 (9.76%) SaltStack
7 4 (9.76%) Splunk
7 4 (9.76%) Symantec
8 3 (7.32%) EMC
8 3 (7.32%) NetApp
8 3 (7.32%) Tanium
8 3 (7.32%) Tenable
9 2 (4.88%) F5
9 2 (4.88%) Google
9 2 (4.88%) IBM
9 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
9 2 (4.88%) Veritas
10 1 (2.44%) Brocade