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 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 181 195
Rank change year-on-year +29 +14 +50
Contract jobs citing Solaris 4 14 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.13% 0.25% 0.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.72% 1.38% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 15
10th Percentile - £425 £306
25th Percentile £525 £434 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -17.39% +21.05%
75th Percentile £575 £484 £618
90th Percentile - £488 £623
England median daily rate £550 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% -6.10%

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 554 1,011 1,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 18.10% 17.74% 19.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 641 774
10th Percentile £199 £205 £190
25th Percentile £324 £350 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £600 £595 £575
90th Percentile £660 £663 £638
England median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 67 68
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.95 £16.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.85 £21.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -60.38% -15.56% +230.88%
75th Percentile £28.00 £69.84 £67.50
90th Percentile £58.69 £73.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £19.27 £24.18 £43.75
% change year-on-year -20.31% -44.73% +98.86%

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 26 June 2025. 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
Hampshire +36 2 £550 -
West Sussex +11 2 £550 +15.79% 1
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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (50.00%) Military
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Unix
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (50.00%) Runbook
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Perl
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (50.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (50.00%) Symantec
2 2 (50.00%) Veritas
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