Solaris Contracts in Yorkshire

Sun Microsystems Solaris
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 89 95 121
Rank change year-on-year +6 +26 +16
Contract jobs citing Solaris 3 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.29% 0.30% 0.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.36% 1.51% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £383 £344 -
25th Percentile £431 £381 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £448 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.32% -10.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £631 £521 £528
90th Percentile £688 £561 £534
England median daily rate £550 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -4.55%

All Operating Systems
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 220 331 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.63% 19.60% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 242 224
10th Percentile £178 £163 £153
25th Percentile £243 £275 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £415 £440
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -5.68% +17.33%
75th Percentile £575 £505 £550
90th Percentile £725 £588 £650
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 9
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.57 £12.73
25th Percentile £16.50 £13.87 £13.16
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £19.39
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +13.49% +10.77%
75th Percentile £19.75 £23.75 £22.00
90th Percentile £24.12 - £34.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Solaris as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in Yorkshire

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solaris in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Solaris in Yorkshire

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solaris in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Solaris in Yorkshire

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solaris in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Solaris in Yorkshire

Solaris
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
West Yorkshire +15 2 £700 +118.75%
South Yorkshire +6 1 £350 -39.13%
Solaris
England

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Unix Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) Mainframe
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) HPUX
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) AIX
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Planning and Forecasting
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) Key Management
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) ActionScript
1 1 (33.33%) ActionScript 2.0
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Korn
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Nagios
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) Sun
2 2 (66.67%) Unisys
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) Splunk