Solaris Contracts in the UK excluding London

Sun Microsystems Solaris
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 348 318 406
Rank change year-on-year -30 +88 -25
Contract jobs citing Solaris 53 112 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.49% 0.32%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.56% 2.62% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 84 50
10th Percentile £340 £400 £404
25th Percentile £425 £425 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £575 £549 £584
90th Percentile £588 £598 £639
UK median daily rate £525 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £44.24 £21.48
25th Percentile - £53.90 £30.81
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year - +46.60% -1.04%
75th Percentile - - £65.81
90th Percentile - - £75.83
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +27.27%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,391 4,276 5,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.90% 18.84% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,208 2,930 3,824
10th Percentile £176 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £672 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 307 426
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.57
25th Percentile £15.25 £17.70 £15.05
Median hourly rate £24.18 £40.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.43% +102.95% +17.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £49.43
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £46.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.80% +110.11% +27.14%

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 12 June 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 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
South East +12 15 £475 -17.39% 4
East of England +1 11 £550 +37.50% 3
Midlands +12 10 £575 +4.55%
East Midlands +10 9 £575 +9.52%
Scotland +16 7 £340 -33.17% 3
Yorkshire +13 5 £448 -10.50% 1
South West +4 5 £525 +10.53% 4
North of England +2 5 £448 -10.50% 3
West Midlands +10 1 - -
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 (3.77%) Apache
1 2 (3.77%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (13.21%) Azure
2 4 (7.55%) AWS
3 2 (3.77%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.87%) Fibre Channel
1 10 (18.87%) SAN
2 4 (7.55%) Firewall
3 2 (3.77%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.89%) 4G
4 1 (1.89%) 5G
4 1 (1.89%) DHCP
4 1 (1.89%) DNS
4 1 (1.89%) HTTP
4 1 (1.89%) Internet
4 1 (1.89%) LAN
4 1 (1.89%) SIGTRAN
4 1 (1.89%) SS7
4 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.89%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) Oracle Database
1 3 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.77%) Informix
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Git
1 2 (3.77%) Subversion
2 1 (1.89%) GitLab
2 1 (1.89%) JIRA
General
1 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.89%) Advertising
4 1 (1.89%) Legal
4 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (43.40%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (15.09%) Administrator
2 8 (15.09%) Storage Engineer
2 8 (15.09%) Support Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) Unix Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Support
4 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Linux Support
4 6 (11.32%) Linux Support Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Backup Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Senior
5 4 (7.55%) Unix Administrator
6 3 (5.66%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (5.66%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 2 (3.77%) Applications Support
7 2 (3.77%) Deployment Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Senior Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) Middleware
2 1 (1.89%) LDAP
2 1 (1.89%) SPML
2 1 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Clustering
1 6 (11.32%) HP Storage
2 4 (7.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (7.55%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.66%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.66%) EMC VNX
3 3 (5.66%) Replication
4 2 (3.77%) PKI
5 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 45 (84.91%) Linux
2 17 (32.08%) Unix
3 16 (30.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (30.19%) Windows
4 14 (26.42%) AIX
5 3 (5.66%) Windows Server
6 2 (3.77%) HPUX
6 2 (3.77%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (3.77%) Ubuntu
6 2 (3.77%) VMS
6 2 (3.77%) Windows 10
6 2 (3.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.96%) ITIL
2 13 (24.53%) Change Management
3 11 (20.75%) High Availability
4 9 (16.98%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (13.21%) Data Protection
5 7 (13.21%) Migration
5 7 (13.21%) Project Delivery
5 7 (13.21%) Statistics
6 6 (11.32%) Compliance Management
6 6 (11.32%) Customer Service
6 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (11.32%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (7.55%) Computer Science
7 4 (7.55%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (7.55%) Database Migration
7 4 (7.55%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (7.55%) QMS
7 4 (7.55%) Quality Management
7 4 (7.55%) Service Delivery
8 3 (5.66%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.87%) SQL
2 8 (15.09%) Bash
3 6 (11.32%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.55%) Perl
4 4 (7.55%) Python
5 3 (5.66%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.77%) AWK
6 2 (3.77%) Bourne shell
6 2 (3.77%) Korn
7 1 (1.89%) C
Qualifications
1 31 (58.49%) Security Cleared
2 13 (24.53%) DV Cleared
3 11 (20.75%) SC Cleared
4 8 (15.09%) RHCE
5 6 (11.32%) Degree
6 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.77%) RHCSA
7 1 (1.89%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) SLA
2 2 (3.77%) GDPR
3 1 (1.89%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 15 (28.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (16.98%) Hyper-V
3 8 (15.09%) KVM
3 8 (15.09%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (5.66%) Docker
4 3 (5.66%) SRDF
5 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
5 2 (3.77%) vSphere
6 1 (1.89%) NFS
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 19 (35.85%) Ansible
2 14 (26.42%) Kubernetes
3 13 (24.53%) Red Hat Satellite
4 9 (16.98%) EMC NetWorker
5 8 (15.09%) NetBackup
6 7 (13.21%) Rancher
6 7 (13.21%) SCOM
6 7 (13.21%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 6 (11.32%) HP Data Protector
8 4 (7.55%) SELinux
9 3 (5.66%) EMC TimeFinder
10 2 (3.77%) Oracle ZFS
10 2 (3.77%) yum
11 1 (1.89%) Data Guard
11 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
11 1 (1.89%) Nagios
11 1 (1.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (1.89%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (1.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (56.60%) Red Hat
2 21 (39.62%) VMware
3 14 (26.42%) EMC
4 13 (24.53%) HP
5 11 (20.75%) Brocade
5 11 (20.75%) Cisco
5 11 (20.75%) Oracle
6 10 (18.87%) Dell
7 9 (16.98%) IBM
8 7 (13.21%) Symantec
9 4 (7.55%) SolarWinds
9 4 (7.55%) Veritas
10 3 (5.66%) Dell Compellent
10 3 (5.66%) EqualLogic
10 3 (5.66%) Isilon
11 2 (3.77%) Sun
12 1 (1.89%) Avaya
12 1 (1.89%) Extreme Networks
12 1 (1.89%) Fortinet
12 1 (1.89%) Nokia