Solaris Contracts in the UK excluding London

Sun Microsystems Solaris
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 341 402
Rank change year-on-year -9 +61 -32
Contract jobs citing Solaris 44 109 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.47% 0.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.37% 2.48% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 86 62
10th Percentile £340 £400 £405
25th Percentile £425 £463 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £557 £588
90th Percentile £588 £610 £650
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.19% -2.78% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £21.48
25th Percentile - £37.80 £30.81
Median hourly rate - £40.59 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year - -14.99% -1.04%
75th Percentile - £43.39 £65.81
90th Percentile - - £75.83
UK median hourly rate - £40.59 £63.00
% change year-on-year - -35.57% +27.27%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,201 4,390 5,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.77% 19.08% 19.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,133 3,041 3,829
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £263 £250 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £672 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 316 451
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.83
25th Percentile £14.27 £17.25 £15.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £29.65 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.11% +48.25% +21.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.25 £49.51
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.74 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £39.05 £23.00
% change year-on-year -43.47% +69.78% +31.43%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Solaris as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in the UK excluding London

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solaris in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Solaris in the UK excluding London

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solaris in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solaris in the UK excluding London

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solaris in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Solaris in the UK excluding London

Solaris
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East +9 13 £475 -19.15% 2
Midlands +26 9 £575 +4.55% 1
East Midlands +18 9 £575 +9.52%
East of England +3 9 £550 +37.50% 4
Scotland -4 6 £340 -35.24% 3
North of England +13 5 £448 -10.50% 2
Yorkshire +13 5 £448 -10.50%
South West +10 2 £500 -11.11% 7
Solaris
UK

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (4.55%) Apache
1 2 (4.55%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.91%) Azure
2 4 (9.09%) AWS
3 2 (4.55%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.73%) Fibre Channel
1 10 (22.73%) SAN
2 2 (4.55%) Firewall
2 2 (4.55%) Kerberos
3 1 (2.27%) 4G
3 1 (2.27%) 5G
3 1 (2.27%) DHCP
3 1 (2.27%) DNS
3 1 (2.27%) HTTP
3 1 (2.27%) Internet
3 1 (2.27%) LAN
3 1 (2.27%) SIGTRAN
3 1 (2.27%) SS7
3 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) Informix
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Git
1 2 (4.55%) Subversion
2 1 (2.27%) GitLab
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.27%) Advertising
4 1 (2.27%) Legal
4 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (45.45%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (18.18%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Administrator
3 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Support
3 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Linux Support
3 5 (11.36%) Linux Support Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Support Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Unix Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Backup Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Senior
4 4 (9.09%) Unix Administrator
5 2 (4.55%) Deployment Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Informix DBA
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) Middleware
2 1 (2.27%) LDAP
2 1 (2.27%) SPML
2 1 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) HP Storage
2 5 (11.36%) Clustering
3 4 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.82%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (6.82%) EMC VNX
4 3 (6.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 38 (86.36%) Linux
2 14 (31.82%) AIX
2 14 (31.82%) Unix
2 14 (31.82%) Windows
3 12 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.55%) HPUX
4 2 (4.55%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (4.55%) Ubuntu
4 2 (4.55%) VMS
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.09%) ITIL
2 11 (25.00%) Change Management
3 10 (22.73%) High Availability
4 9 (20.45%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (15.91%) Data Protection
5 7 (15.91%) Migration
5 7 (15.91%) Project Delivery
5 7 (15.91%) Statistics
6 6 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (11.36%) Compliance Management
7 5 (11.36%) Customer Service
7 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (9.09%) Computer Science
8 4 (9.09%) Database Migration
8 4 (9.09%) QMS
8 4 (9.09%) Quality Management
8 4 (9.09%) Service Delivery
9 3 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (6.82%) Performance Analysis
9 3 (6.82%) Remediation Plan
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.18%) Bash
2 7 (15.91%) SQL
3 4 (9.09%) Perl
3 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 4 (9.09%) Python
4 2 (4.55%) AWK
4 2 (4.55%) Bourne shell
4 2 (4.55%) Korn
4 2 (4.55%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.27%) C
Qualifications
1 23 (52.27%) Security Cleared
2 10 (22.73%) DV Cleared
2 10 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.91%) RHCE
4 6 (13.64%) Degree
5 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.55%) RHCSA
6 1 (2.27%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) SLA
2 2 (4.55%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 11 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (15.91%) KVM
3 6 (13.64%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (11.36%) Hyper-V
5 3 (6.82%) SRDF
6 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
6 2 (4.55%) vSphere
7 1 (2.27%) NFS
Systems Management
1 13 (29.55%) Ansible
2 11 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 9 (20.45%) EMC NetWorker
3 9 (20.45%) Kubernetes
4 8 (18.18%) NetBackup
5 6 (13.64%) HP Data Protector
6 5 (11.36%) Rancher
6 5 (11.36%) SCOM
6 5 (11.36%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 4 (9.09%) SELinux
8 3 (6.82%) EMC TimeFinder
9 2 (4.55%) Oracle ZFS
9 2 (4.55%) yum
Vendors
1 22 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 14 (31.82%) EMC
2 14 (31.82%) VMware
3 11 (25.00%) Brocade
3 11 (25.00%) Cisco
3 11 (25.00%) HP
4 8 (18.18%) Dell
4 8 (18.18%) Oracle
5 7 (15.91%) IBM
5 7 (15.91%) Symantec
6 4 (9.09%) SolarWinds
6 4 (9.09%) Veritas
7 3 (6.82%) Dell Compellent
7 3 (6.82%) EqualLogic
7 3 (6.82%) Isilon
8 2 (4.55%) Sun
9 1 (2.27%) Avaya
9 1 (2.27%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (2.27%) Fortinet
9 1 (2.27%) Nokia