Solaris Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Sun Microsystems Solaris
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Solaris skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Solaris over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 319 360
Rank change year-on-year +27 +41 +153
Contract jobs citing Solaris 12 26 118
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.17% 0.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.02% 1.63% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 82
10th Percentile £386 £463 £400
25th Percentile £415 £472 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -2.38% -1.18%
75th Percentile £543 £588 £558
90th Percentile £576 £633 £641
UK median daily rate £550 £531 £525
% change year-on-year +3.53% +1.19% -2.78%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Solaris falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,177 1,597 3,543
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.88% 10.41% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 1,113 2,503
10th Percentile £288 £218 £250
25th Percentile £388 £350 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £680 £718
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 49 101
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.15 £19.00
25th Percentile £32.19 £14.27 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £18.30 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +241.53% -68.17% +35.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.53 £73.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

Solaris
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Solaris as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Solaris trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Solaris.

Solaris daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Solaris over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Solaris daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Solaris.

Solaris hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) iTrent
1 1 (8.33%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) IaaS
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
4 1 (8.33%) OCI
4 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (8.33%) Rubrik
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) HTTPS
2 1 (8.33%) Kerberos
2 1 (8.33%) NAS
2 1 (8.33%) SSH
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
3 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (8.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Administrator
1 2 (16.67%) Database Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) DBA
1 2 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
1 2 (16.67%) Unix Administrator
1 2 (16.67%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) CyberArk Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Database Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Solaris Administrator
2 1 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Unix Linux Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) LDAP
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Clustering
1 2 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
2 9 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (66.67%) AIX
4 7 (58.33%) Unix
5 6 (50.00%) Windows
6 4 (33.33%) HPUX
7 2 (16.67%) Ubuntu
7 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
8 1 (8.33%) CentOS
8 1 (8.33%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) High Availability
2 5 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) Database Tuning
5 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (16.67%) ITIL
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (16.67%) Server Management
6 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
6 1 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
6 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (8.33%) Key Management
6 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Proactive Maintenance
6 1 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (8.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Bash
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) ActionScript
3 1 (8.33%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) JCL
3 1 (8.33%) Korn
3 1 (8.33%) Perl
3 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (8.33%) VB
3 1 (8.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) CCDE
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) IBM Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) Docker
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (8.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (25.00%) Data Guard
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 2 (16.67%) Puppet
3 2 (16.67%) Terraform
4 1 (8.33%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (8.33%) Nagios
4 1 (8.33%) Netcool
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Flashback
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (8.33%) Tivoli
4 1 (8.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Red Hat
2 5 (41.67%) HP
2 5 (41.67%) Oracle
3 4 (33.33%) IBM
4 3 (25.00%) VMware
5 2 (16.67%) CyberArk
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 2 (16.67%) Splunk
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco
6 1 (8.33%) Commvault
6 1 (8.33%) Dell
6 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
6 1 (8.33%) EMC
6 1 (8.33%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (8.33%) Isilon
6 1 (8.33%) Qualys
6 1 (8.33%) Serena
6 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (8.33%) Sybase
6 1 (8.33%) Veritas