Solaris Contracts in England

Sun Microsystems Solaris
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 478 625
Rank change year-on-year -7 +147 -110
Contract jobs citing Solaris 57 162 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.34% 0.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.12% 2.09% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 102 90
10th Percentile £425 £381 £412
25th Percentile £469 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +20.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £622
90th Percentile £600 £625 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.89% -3.90% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £39.74 £21.48
25th Percentile - £42.65 £30.81
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year - +4.71% -1.04%
75th Percentile - £61.25 £65.81
90th Percentile - £66.50 £75.83
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year - -20.63% +27.27%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,069 7,744 10,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.73% 16.22% 15.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,437 5,457 7,522
10th Percentile £185 £195 £175
25th Percentile £300 £330 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 374 358 503
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.86 £15.69
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +22.86%
75th Percentile £62.38 £65.00 £50.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.89
% change year-on-year -47.06% +94.15% +25.09%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in England

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Solaris in England

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solaris in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solaris in England

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Solaris in England

Solaris
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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 +5 14 £475 -18.28% 4
London +41 13 £700 +33.33% 7
Midlands +23 9 £575 +4.55%
East Midlands +14 9 £575 +9.52%
East of England +1 9 £550 +37.50% 4
Yorkshire +20 5 £448 -10.50% 1
North of England +14 5 £448 -10.50% 5
South West +9 2 £500 +5.26% 7
Solaris
UK

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (8.77%) Confluence
2 2 (3.51%) Apache
2 2 (3.51%) IIS
2 2 (3.51%) JBoss
2 2 (3.51%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.81%) Azure
2 9 (15.79%) AWS
3 6 (10.53%) IaaS
3 6 (10.53%) PaaS
3 6 (10.53%) SaaS
4 5 (8.77%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (8.77%) GCP
4 5 (8.77%) Nutanix
4 5 (8.77%) Rubrik
5 2 (3.51%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (26.32%) SAN
2 10 (17.54%) Fibre Channel
3 7 (12.28%) Firewall
3 7 (12.28%) Kerberos
4 6 (10.53%) DHCP
4 6 (10.53%) DNS
4 6 (10.53%) TCP/IP
5 5 (8.77%) NAS
5 5 (8.77%) VLAN
6 1 (1.75%) 4G
6 1 (1.75%) 5G
6 1 (1.75%) HTTP
6 1 (1.75%) SIGTRAN
6 1 (1.75%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.30%) Oracle Database
2 3 (5.26%) DB2
3 2 (3.51%) Informix
4 1 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (12.28%) Git
1 7 (12.28%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.53%) JIRA
3 5 (8.77%) TeamCity
4 2 (3.51%) Subversion
4 2 (3.51%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.75%) GitLab
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle APEX
General
1 13 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.28%) Finance
3 5 (8.77%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.75%) Advertising
6 1 (1.75%) Legal
6 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) Linux Engineer
2 13 (22.81%) Architect
3 11 (19.30%) Oracle Architect
4 8 (14.04%) Storage Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Administrator
5 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (8.77%) Unix Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Backup Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Senior
6 4 (7.02%) Unix Administrator
7 2 (3.51%) DBA
7 2 (3.51%) Deployment Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Informix DBA
7 2 (3.51%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Senior Unix Administrator
7 2 (3.51%) Systems Administrator
8 1 (1.75%) Applications Support
8 1 (1.75%) Support Consultant
8 1 (1.75%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.53%) LDAP
2 2 (3.51%) Middleware
3 1 (1.75%) SPML
3 1 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Replication
2 6 (10.53%) HP Storage
3 5 (8.77%) Clustering
4 4 (7.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (7.02%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.26%) EMC VNX
6 1 (1.75%) PKI
6 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (85.96%) Linux
2 23 (40.35%) Windows
3 17 (29.82%) Unix
4 16 (28.07%) AIX
4 16 (28.07%) Oracle Linux
5 12 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (19.30%) VMS
7 6 (10.53%) Windows Server
8 2 (3.51%) HPUX
8 2 (3.51%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.75%) OS/390
9 1 (1.75%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (28.07%) Migration
2 14 (24.56%) ITIL
2 14 (24.56%) Performance Tuning
3 13 (22.81%) Database Migration
3 13 (22.81%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (21.05%) Change Management
5 11 (19.30%) Computer Science
5 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (17.54%) DevOps
6 10 (17.54%) High Availability
7 8 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (12.28%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (12.28%) Data Protection
8 7 (12.28%) Project Delivery
8 7 (12.28%) Statistics
8 7 (12.28%) Storage Management
9 6 (10.53%) Security Testing
9 6 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (10.53%) Validation
10 5 (8.77%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.81%) Bash
2 11 (19.30%) SQL
3 10 (17.54%) PowerShell
4 9 (15.79%) Python
5 4 (7.02%) Perl
6 2 (3.51%) AWK
6 2 (3.51%) Bourne shell
6 2 (3.51%) Korn
6 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.75%) C
7 1 (1.75%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (35.09%) Security Cleared
2 12 (21.05%) Degree
3 10 (17.54%) DV Cleared
4 9 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (10.53%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.51%) RHCE
6 2 (3.51%) RHCSA
7 1 (1.75%) HNC
7 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) GDPR
2 5 (8.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 26 (45.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (19.30%) KVM
3 7 (12.28%) Active Directory
4 6 (10.53%) Hyper-V
4 6 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (8.77%) Docker
6 3 (5.26%) SRDF
7 2 (3.51%) vSphere
8 1 (1.75%) NFS
Systems Management
1 18 (31.58%) Ansible
2 14 (24.56%) EMC NetWorker
2 14 (24.56%) Kubernetes
3 11 (19.30%) Red Hat Satellite
4 8 (14.04%) NetBackup
5 7 (12.28%) Tivoli
6 6 (10.53%) HP Data Protector
7 5 (8.77%) Netcool
7 5 (8.77%) Rancher
7 5 (8.77%) SCOM
7 5 (8.77%) Terraform
7 5 (8.77%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 5 (8.77%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (7.02%) SELinux
9 3 (5.26%) EMC TimeFinder
10 2 (3.51%) Oracle ZFS
10 2 (3.51%) yum
Vendors
1 29 (50.88%) VMware
2 26 (45.61%) Oracle
3 19 (33.33%) EMC
4 18 (31.58%) Red Hat
5 16 (28.07%) Cisco
5 16 (28.07%) HP
6 14 (24.56%) IBM
7 13 (22.81%) Dell
8 11 (19.30%) Brocade
9 8 (14.04%) Isilon
10 7 (12.28%) Symantec
11 5 (8.77%) CyberArk
11 5 (8.77%) Microsoft
11 5 (8.77%) Qualys
11 5 (8.77%) Serena
11 5 (8.77%) ServiceNow
11 5 (8.77%) Splunk
12 4 (7.02%) SolarWinds
12 4 (7.02%) Veritas
13 3 (5.26%) EqualLogic