Solaris Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Oracle Solaris
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Solaris skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 119 110
Rank change year-on-year -41 -9 0
Contract jobs citing Solaris 8 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.23% 0.27% 0.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.61% 1.77% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile - - £441
25th Percentile £475 - £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -2.70% +5.11%
75th Percentile £538 £475 £469
90th Percentile - £490 -
England median daily rate £517 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +6.00% -11.36% +14.58%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 307 282 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.64% 15.10% 15.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 205 185
10th Percentile £210 £161 £186
25th Percentile £335 £220 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £450 £435
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £538 £545 £582
90th Percentile £588 £622 £683
England median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 8
10th Percentile £16.60 £16.53 £14.63
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.14 £17.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.11 £21.59
Median % change year-on-year +11.87% -6.84% -16.96%
75th Percentile £67.84 £27.50 £23.86
90th Percentile £70.37 £45.50 £39.43
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +30.00% -58.33% +28.51%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Solaris relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Solaris job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Solaris.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Solaris

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Solaris.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Solaris

Solaris
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 October 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
Shropshire -42 7 £525 +16.67% 3
Coventry - 1 - -
Solaris
England

Solaris
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) IBM Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Db2
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Solaris Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Unix Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Backup Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Unix
2 3 (37.50%) AIX
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (25.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Service Management
3 2 (25.00%) Workload Management
4 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (12.50%) Database Security
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 1 (12.50%) Observability
4 1 (12.50%) Operational Stability
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (12.50%) Data Guard
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Veritas
1 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle