Sun Microsystems Solaris
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Solaris skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Solaris over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 507 459 631
Rank change year-on-year -48 +172 -87
Contract jobs citing Solaris 66 253 229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.44% 0.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.17% 2.73% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 169 133
10th Percentile £340 £413 £406
25th Percentile £425 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £598 £638 £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £29.58
25th Percentile - £37.80 £51.06
Median hourly rate - £40.59 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.57% +27.27%
75th Percentile - £43.39 £67.88
90th Percentile - - £76.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £40.59 £47.75
% change year-on-year - -14.99% -1.04%

All Operating Systems
UK

Solaris is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,658 9,258 13,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 16.21% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,818 6,479 8,883
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £331 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.10% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 404 604
10th Percentile £12.73 £14.25 £13.38
25th Percentile £15.31 £17.97 £16.08
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.50%
75th Percentile £60.56 £64.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Solaris over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 May 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
England -3 57 £545 +3.81% 18
UK excluding London -15 43 £500 - 18
Work from Home +38 25 £513 -2.38% 3
London +44 15 £613 +19.51% 2
South East +16 13 £475 -19.15% 2
Midlands +32 9 £575 +4.55%
East Midlands +20 9 £575 +9.52%
East of England +5 9 £550 +37.50% 4
Yorkshire +19 5 £448 -10.50%
North of England +8 5 £448 -10.50% 2
Scotland +7 5 £340 -35.24% 3
South West +18 2 £500 -11.11% 7

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (9.09%) Confluence
2 4 (6.06%) IIS
2 4 (6.06%) JBoss
3 2 (3.03%) Apache
3 2 (3.03%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 17 (25.76%) Azure
2 10 (15.15%) AWS
2 10 (15.15%) IaaS
2 10 (15.15%) PaaS
2 10 (15.15%) SaaS
3 6 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (9.09%) GCP
3 6 (9.09%) Nutanix
3 6 (9.09%) Rubrik
4 4 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (3.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (24.24%) SAN
2 10 (15.15%) Fibre Channel
3 8 (12.12%) Firewall
3 8 (12.12%) Kerberos
4 7 (10.61%) DHCP
4 7 (10.61%) DNS
4 7 (10.61%) TCP/IP
5 6 (9.09%) NAS
5 6 (9.09%) VLAN
6 1 (1.52%) 4G
6 1 (1.52%) 5G
6 1 (1.52%) HTTP
6 1 (1.52%) Internet
6 1 (1.52%) LAN
6 1 (1.52%) SIGTRAN
6 1 (1.52%) SS7
6 1 (1.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.15%) Oracle Database
2 5 (7.58%) DB2
3 2 (3.03%) Informix
4 1 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 8 (12.12%) Git
3 7 (10.61%) JIRA
4 6 (9.09%) TeamCity
5 4 (6.06%) Oracle APEX
5 4 (6.06%) Vagrant
6 2 (3.03%) Subversion
7 1 (1.52%) GitLab
General
1 19 (28.79%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.15%) Finance
3 5 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.58%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Advertising
6 1 (1.52%) Legal
6 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (28.79%) Linux Engineer
2 14 (21.21%) Architect
3 10 (15.15%) Oracle Architect
4 8 (12.12%) Storage Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Administrator
5 5 (7.58%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (7.58%) Unix Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Backup Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Infrastructure Support
6 4 (6.06%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Linux Support
6 4 (6.06%) Linux Support Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Senior
6 4 (6.06%) Support Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Unix Administrator
7 3 (4.55%) Applications Specialist
8 2 (3.03%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.61%) LDAP
2 2 (3.03%) Middleware
3 1 (1.52%) SPML
3 1 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Clustering
2 9 (13.64%) Replication
3 6 (9.09%) HP Storage
4 4 (6.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (6.06%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.55%) EMC VNX
6 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (84.85%) Linux
2 29 (43.94%) Windows
3 23 (34.85%) Unix
4 18 (27.27%) AIX
5 17 (25.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (24.24%) Oracle Linux
7 13 (19.70%) VMS
8 7 (10.61%) Windows Server
9 2 (3.03%) HPUX
9 2 (3.03%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.52%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (24.24%) DevOps
2 15 (22.73%) Change Management
2 15 (22.73%) High Availability
2 15 (22.73%) ITIL
2 15 (22.73%) Migration
2 15 (22.73%) Performance Tuning
3 14 (21.21%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (18.18%) Database Migration
5 11 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 10 (15.15%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (12.12%) Storage Management
9 7 (10.61%) CI/CD
9 7 (10.61%) Data Protection
9 7 (10.61%) Project Delivery
9 7 (10.61%) Statistics
10 6 (9.09%) Data Security
10 6 (9.09%) Security Testing
10 6 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (21.21%) Bash
2 12 (18.18%) SQL
3 10 (15.15%) PowerShell
3 10 (15.15%) Python
4 4 (6.06%) Perl
5 2 (3.03%) AWK
5 2 (3.03%) Bourne shell
5 2 (3.03%) Korn
5 2 (3.03%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.52%) C
6 1 (1.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (39.39%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.70%) Degree
2 13 (19.70%) SC Cleared
3 10 (15.15%) DV Cleared
4 9 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (9.09%) RHCE
6 2 (3.03%) RHCSA
7 1 (1.52%) HNC
7 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.12%) GDPR
2 6 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (6.06%) SLA
4 1 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 25 (37.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (21.21%) KVM
3 8 (12.12%) Active Directory
4 6 (9.09%) Docker
4 6 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (7.58%) Hyper-V
6 3 (4.55%) SRDF
7 2 (3.03%) vSphere
8 1 (1.52%) NFS
Systems Management
1 19 (28.79%) Ansible
2 15 (22.73%) EMC NetWorker
2 15 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 11 (16.67%) Red Hat Satellite
4 10 (15.15%) Tivoli
5 8 (12.12%) NetBackup
6 6 (9.09%) HP Data Protector
6 6 (9.09%) Netcool
6 6 (9.09%) Terraform
6 6 (9.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 5 (7.58%) Rancher
7 5 (7.58%) SCOM
7 5 (7.58%) Tivoli Identity Manager
8 4 (6.06%) SELinux
9 3 (4.55%) EMC TimeFinder
10 2 (3.03%) Oracle ZFS
10 2 (3.03%) yum
Vendors
1 31 (46.97%) Oracle
2 28 (42.42%) VMware
3 21 (31.82%) Red Hat
4 20 (30.30%) EMC
5 17 (25.76%) Cisco
5 17 (25.76%) HP
5 17 (25.76%) IBM
6 14 (21.21%) Dell
7 11 (16.67%) Brocade
8 9 (13.64%) Isilon
9 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
9 7 (10.61%) Symantec
10 6 (9.09%) CyberArk
10 6 (9.09%) Qualys
10 6 (9.09%) Serena
10 6 (9.09%) ServiceNow
10 6 (9.09%) Splunk
11 4 (6.06%) AppDynamics
11 4 (6.06%) F5
11 4 (6.06%) SolarWinds