Solaris Contracts with Work from Home Options

Sun Microsystems Solaris
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 316 337 518
Rank change year-on-year +21 +181 -94
Contract jobs citing Solaris 25 120 105
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.50% 0.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.59% 3.70% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 82 59
10th Percentile £451 £400 £404
25th Percentile £463 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £558 £600
90th Percentile £683 £640 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £47.50 -
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - -20.63% +27.27%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £72.75
90th Percentile - - £78.60
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +27.27%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Solaris falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,572 3,239 5,309
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.65% 13.57% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 2,268 3,789
10th Percentile £229 £245 £300
25th Percentile £363 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +1.94% +9.57%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £620
90th Percentile £685 £731 £694
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 113 125
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.20 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £25.71 £20.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.52% +16.67% +21.62%
75th Percentile £27.68 £68.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £46.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.80% +110.11% +27.14%

Solaris
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Solaris as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Solaris trend for jobs with a WFH option

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Solaris.

Solaris daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Solaris over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Solaris daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Solaris.

Solaris hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (20.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) IIS
2 2 (8.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) Azure
2 7 (28.00%) AWS
2 7 (28.00%) IaaS
2 7 (28.00%) PaaS
2 7 (28.00%) SaaS
3 5 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (20.00%) GCP
3 5 (20.00%) Nutanix
3 5 (20.00%) Rubrik
4 2 (8.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (32.00%) SAN
2 7 (28.00%) Firewall
3 6 (24.00%) DHCP
3 6 (24.00%) DNS
4 5 (20.00%) Kerberos
4 5 (20.00%) NAS
4 5 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 5 (20.00%) VLAN
5 3 (12.00%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (4.00%) Internet
6 1 (4.00%) LAN
6 1 (4.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (8.00%) DB2
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (24.00%) Git
3 5 (20.00%) JIRA
3 5 (20.00%) TeamCity
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (8.00%) Vagrant
5 1 (4.00%) Subversion
General
1 7 (28.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Architect
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Backup Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Database Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) EMC Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) EMC Storage Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) IT Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Lead
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Network Communications Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Clustering
1 5 (20.00%) Replication
2 2 (8.00%) HP Storage
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 23 (92.00%) Linux
2 14 (56.00%) Windows
3 10 (40.00%) Oracle Linux
4 8 (32.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (32.00%) Unix
5 6 (24.00%) AIX
5 6 (24.00%) Windows Server
6 5 (20.00%) VMS
7 2 (8.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) High Availability
2 7 (28.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (28.00%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (28.00%) DevOps
2 7 (28.00%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.00%) Agile
4 5 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 5 (20.00%) Data Security
4 5 (20.00%) Database Migration
4 5 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (20.00%) ITIL
4 5 (20.00%) Migration
4 5 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (20.00%) Security Hardening
4 5 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (20.00%) Storage Management
4 5 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) Bash
1 9 (36.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (8.00%) Perl
4 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) GDPR
2 5 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 11 (44.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.00%) Docker
2 5 (20.00%) KVM
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (44.00%) Ansible
2 9 (36.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 8 (32.00%) Kubernetes
4 7 (28.00%) Tivoli
5 5 (20.00%) Netcool
5 5 (20.00%) Terraform
5 5 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (8.00%) HP Data Protector
7 2 (8.00%) NetBackup
7 2 (8.00%) SELinux
8 1 (4.00%) Data Guard
8 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (4.00%) Nagios
8 1 (4.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (4.00%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (4.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (76.00%) Oracle
2 13 (52.00%) VMware
3 9 (36.00%) EMC
4 8 (32.00%) Cisco
5 7 (28.00%) HP
5 7 (28.00%) IBM
6 5 (20.00%) CyberArk
6 5 (20.00%) Dell
6 5 (20.00%) Isilon
6 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 5 (20.00%) Qualys
6 5 (20.00%) Red Hat
6 5 (20.00%) Serena
6 5 (20.00%) ServiceNow
6 5 (20.00%) Splunk
7 3 (12.00%) Brocade
7 3 (12.00%) SolarWinds
7 3 (12.00%) Symantec
8 2 (8.00%) AppDynamics
8 2 (8.00%) F5