Hybrid/Remote Solaris Contract Job Trends

Oracle Solaris
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Solaris skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 297 334
Rank change year-on-year -12 +37 +135
Contract jobs citing Solaris 6 23 74
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.060% 0.19% 0.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.52% 1.60% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 49
10th Percentile £518 £450 £344
25th Percentile £526 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +1.52% -6.19%
75th Percentile £569 £556 £542
90th Percentile £586 £648 £567
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £67.00
% change year-on-year - - +49.96%

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 1,146 1,436 2,311
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.41% 11.94% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 753 905 1,651
10th Percentile £219 £250 £255
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £679 £650 £713
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 18 81
10th Percentile £23.60 £14.16 £17.25
25th Percentile £59.00 £18.02 £22.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.25 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.54% -17.41% -13.85%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £69.59 £67.16 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £52.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -54.29% +56.72% +35.35%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Solaris and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Solaris job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Solaris.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Solaris

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Solaris.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Solaris

Solaris
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Applications Specialist
1 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Technical Business Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Wintel Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Wintel Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Middleware
1 3 (50.00%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Unix
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Compliance Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (16.67%) Runbook
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (16.67%) SELinux
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) Symantec
3 3 (50.00%) Qualys
3 3 (50.00%) Tanium
3 3 (50.00%) Tenable
4 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (16.67%) Oracle
5 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
5 1 (16.67%) Veritas