Solaris Contracts in the Thames Valley

Sun Microsystems Solaris
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Solaris skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Solaris over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 128 151
Rank change year-on-year +2 +23 -8
Contract jobs citing Solaris 4 17 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.15% 0.59% 0.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.13% 3.82% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 14 4
10th Percentile - £306 £501
25th Percentile - £425 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £531 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile - £612 £597
90th Percentile - £623 £614
South East median daily rate £475 £581 £475
% change year-on-year -18.28% +22.37% +18.75%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

Solaris is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 354 445 566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.42% 15.55% 15.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 306 385
10th Percentile £203 £200 £147
25th Percentile £244 £350 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £478 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.99% +6.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £608 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £475 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 21
10th Percentile £18.00 £18.08 -
25th Percentile £22.51 £18.29 £13.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +142.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £59.00 £65.31 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.82 £67.50
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £55.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -13.64% +214.29% -20.45%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Solaris as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in the Thames Valley

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solaris in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Solaris in the Thames Valley

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solaris in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Solaris in the Thames Valley

Solaris
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
Berkshire -20 2 - - 1
Oxfordshire +5 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
Solaris
South East

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) IT Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) IT Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (50.00%) VMS
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Batch Scheduling
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Server Migrations
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) HNC
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) KVM
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) NFS
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) VMware