Solaris Contracts in the Midlands

Sun Microsystems Solaris
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 131 143 171
Rank change year-on-year +12 +28 -14
Contract jobs citing Solaris 10 15 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.34% 0.47% 0.68%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.04% 2.86% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 14
10th Percentile £507 £483 £416
25th Percentile £528 £513 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% +58.33%
75th Percentile £591 £597 £540
90th Percentile £600 £650 £645
England median daily rate £539 £500 £545
% change year-on-year +7.75% -8.26% +15.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.25
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year - +351.61% -67.88%
75th Percentile - - £15.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £60.00 £47.75
% change year-on-year - +25.65% -1.04%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 489 524 994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.59% 16.28% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 342 662
10th Percentile £150 £160 £131
25th Percentile £206 £226 £191
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £441 £396
Median % change year-on-year -4.82% +11.36% +8.27%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £500
90th Percentile £638 £694 £575
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 33 64
10th Percentile £13.09 £12.79 £12.33
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.00 £14.38
Median hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £23.75 £27.50 £22.38
90th Percentile £24.75 £40.25 £23.93
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in the Midlands

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Solaris in the Midlands

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Solaris in the Midlands

Solaris
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the Midlands 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
East Midlands +10 9 £575 +9.52%
West Midlands +10 1 - -
Solaris
England

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) Fibre Channel
1 8 (80.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Backup Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Database Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) EMC Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) EMC Storage Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Storage and Backup Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) HP Storage
2 4 (40.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (90.00%) AIX
2 9 (90.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) ITIL
2 6 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 5 (50.00%) Statistics
4 4 (40.00%) QMS
4 4 (40.00%) Quality Management
5 3 (30.00%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
7 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
7 1 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
7 1 (10.00%) DevOps
7 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Bash
2 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (60.00%) HP Data Protector
2 6 (60.00%) NetBackup
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Data Guard
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (10.00%) Nagios
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) EMC
2 8 (80.00%) Brocade
2 8 (80.00%) Cisco
3 6 (60.00%) HP
3 6 (60.00%) Oracle
3 6 (60.00%) Symantec