Solaris Contracts in the South East

Sun Microsystems Solaris
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 197 234
Rank change year-on-year +12 +37 -21
Contract jobs citing Solaris 15 18 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.26% 0.32% 0.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.48% 1.57% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 15
10th Percentile - £306 £393
25th Percentile £425 £438 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +21.05% +18.75%
75th Percentile £481 £618 £606
90th Percentile £488 £623 £638
England median daily rate £539 £500 £545
% change year-on-year +7.75% -8.26% +15.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £77.50
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £82.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £60.00 £47.75
% change year-on-year - +25.65% -1.04%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,016 1,148 1,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.66% 20.27% 18.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 777 937
10th Percentile £205 £195 £160
25th Percentile £325 £250 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - +10.77%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £663 £638 £650
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 67 98
10th Percentile £15.99 £17.25 £12.54
25th Percentile £18.00 £22.51 £14.00
Median hourly rate £48.75 £57.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +219.44% -16.28%
75th Percentile £69.06 £69.38 £27.74
90th Percentile £73.88 £75.00 £58.25
England median hourly rate £22.51 £45.06 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.04% +109.56% +21.13%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Solaris as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in the South East

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Solaris in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Solaris in the South East

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Solaris in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Solaris in the South East

Solaris
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Thames Valley -3 4 - - 1
Hampshire -5 4 - - 2
West Sussex - 4 £475 -
Berkshire -21 2 - - 1
Surrey - 2 £450 -
Oxfordshire 0 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
East Sussex - 1 £475 -
Solaris
England

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (13.33%) SAN
3 1 (6.67%) DHCP
3 1 (6.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
1 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) Subversion
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Legal
2 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Administrator
4 2 (13.33%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Applications Support
4 2 (13.33%) Applications Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Unix Administrator
4 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Unix Administrator
4 2 (13.33%) Unix Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Administrator
5 1 (6.67%) IT Systems Administrator
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
1 2 (13.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (86.67%) Linux
2 5 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (33.33%) Unix
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
3 2 (13.33%) VMS
3 2 (13.33%) Windows
3 2 (13.33%) Windows 10
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Change Management
1 4 (26.67%) ITIL
1 4 (26.67%) Migration
2 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (20.00%) High Availability
2 3 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
2 3 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
2 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (20.00%) Runbook
3 2 (13.33%) Budgeting
3 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (13.33%) Database Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
3 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (13.33%) Server Hardening
3 2 (13.33%) Storage Management
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Bash
1 4 (26.67%) Perl
1 4 (26.67%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) AWK
2 2 (13.33%) Bourne shell
2 2 (13.33%) Korn
2 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) RHCE
3 2 (13.33%) RHCSA
4 1 (6.67%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (26.67%) Hyper-V
3 3 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (13.33%) KVM
4 2 (13.33%) vSphere
5 1 (6.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Ansible
2 8 (53.33%) Red Hat Satellite
3 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 3 (20.00%) SELinux
5 2 (13.33%) NetBackup
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle ZFS
5 2 (13.33%) Rancher
5 2 (13.33%) SCOM
5 2 (13.33%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 2 (13.33%) yum
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Red Hat
2 10 (66.67%) VMware
3 4 (26.67%) Oracle
3 4 (26.67%) SolarWinds
3 4 (26.67%) Veritas
4 2 (13.33%) Dell
4 2 (13.33%) EMC
4 2 (13.33%) HP
4 2 (13.33%) IBM
5 1 (6.67%) Symantec