Sun Microsystems Solaris
UK

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 748 756 1015
Rank change year-on-year +8 +259 -163
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 157 190 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.20% 0.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.11% 1.23% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 66 78 140
10th Percentile £50,375 - £38,200
25th Percentile £52,875 £40,000 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,305 £61,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.33% -5.38% +30.00%
75th Percentile £102,500 £81,250 £98,750
90th Percentile £108,750 £97,950 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £49,250 £46,974
% change year-on-year +6.60% +4.85% +1.02%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14,112 15,500 31,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.41% 16.35% 18.77%
Number of salaries quoted 10,734 10,456 16,364
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Solaris.

Salary trend for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solaris over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +21 112 £87,610 +47.24% 30
UK excluding London -48 102 £52,500 +6.60% 22
Work from Home +59 68 £97,500 +30.00% 12
London +95 47 £87,610 +27.11% 7
Wales +34 38 - -
West Midlands -4 16 £105,000 +55.56%
Midlands -8 16 £105,000 +55.56%
South East -18 16 £56,000 -30.00% 4
North of England -6 14 £52,500 +25.88% 5
North West -14 13 £52,500 -19.66% 4
South West -18 12 £50,000 -23.49% 9
East of England -7 3 £52,000 +13.66% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Yorkshire +39 1 £70,000 +52.17% 1
Scotland -74 1 £60,000 +22.32% 1

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 45 (28.66%) WebLogic
2 44 (28.03%) Oracle Service Bus
3 32 (20.38%) Apache
4 31 (19.75%) Tomcat
5 28 (17.83%) IIS
6 13 (8.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.91%) GlassFish
7 3 (1.91%) JBoss
8 1 (0.64%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.64%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 47 (29.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 47 (29.94%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (28.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 44 (28.03%) Remedy ITSM
2 27 (17.20%) NEC Housing
3 12 (7.64%) Fidessa
4 5 (3.18%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 28 (17.83%) Azure
2 25 (15.92%) AWS
3 13 (8.28%) GCP
4 9 (5.73%) IaaS
4 9 (5.73%) PaaS
4 9 (5.73%) SaaS
5 5 (3.18%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.55%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (2.55%) OCI
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (0.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.64%) AWS OpsWorks
7 1 (0.64%) CloudFront
7 1 (0.64%) npm
7 1 (0.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.64%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.55%) DNS
1 15 (9.55%) Firewall
2 12 (7.64%) DHCP
2 12 (7.64%) FIX Connectivity
2 12 (7.64%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.18%) SAN
4 3 (1.91%) Internet
4 3 (1.91%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.27%) DWDM
5 2 (1.27%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.27%) GPON
5 2 (1.27%) MPLS
5 2 (1.27%) SDH
5 2 (1.27%) SNMP
5 2 (1.27%) Wireless
6 1 (0.64%) GSM
6 1 (0.64%) HTTP
6 1 (0.64%) PSTN
6 1 (0.64%) SIGTRAN
6 1 (0.64%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (48.41%) Oracle Database
2 45 (28.66%) Oracle Database 11g
3 44 (28.03%) Oracle Database 10g
3 44 (28.03%) VLDB
4 29 (18.47%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.18%) InfluxDB
6 4 (2.55%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (1.91%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.27%) MySQL
8 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.64%) DB2
9 1 (0.64%) Dremio
9 1 (0.64%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.64%) Oracle9i Database
9 1 (0.64%) OrientDB
Development Applications
1 12 (7.64%) Git
2 11 (7.01%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.37%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.27%) VectorCAST
5 1 (0.64%) Ant
5 1 (0.64%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.64%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.64%) JIRA
5 1 (0.64%) Maven
5 1 (0.64%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.64%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 63 (40.13%) Finance
2 45 (28.66%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (17.83%) Local Government
3 28 (17.83%) Public Sector
4 27 (17.20%) Police
5 25 (15.92%) Banking
6 18 (11.46%) Social Skills
7 8 (5.10%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.91%) Military
9 2 (1.27%) Avionics
10 1 (0.64%) Back Office
10 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (52.87%) Applications Support
2 59 (37.58%) Analyst
2 59 (37.58%) Support Analyst
3 56 (35.67%) Applications Support Analyst
4 47 (29.94%) SQL Analyst
4 47 (29.94%) SQL Support Analyst
5 44 (28.03%) Oracle Analyst
5 44 (28.03%) Oracle Support Analyst
6 16 (10.19%) Linux Engineer
7 12 (7.64%) Financial Analyst
8 11 (7.01%) Architect
9 10 (6.37%) Banking Analyst
10 9 (5.73%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (5.73%) Unix Engineer
10 9 (5.73%) Unix Linux Engineer
11 8 (5.10%) Consultant
11 8 (5.10%) Lead
11 8 (5.10%) Project Consultant
11 8 (5.10%) Technical Leader
11 8 (5.10%) Unix Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (17.20%) Web Services
2 18 (11.46%) Middleware
3 13 (8.28%) Kafka
4 12 (7.64%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (1.91%) LDAP
5 3 (1.91%) SAML
6 1 (0.64%) .NET
6 1 (0.64%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.64%) Express.js
6 1 (0.64%) J2EE
6 1 (0.64%) MEAN Stack
6 1 (0.64%) MERN Stack
6 1 (0.64%) Node.js
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.64%) React
6 1 (0.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 32 (20.38%) Public Cloud
2 18 (11.46%) Replication
3 12 (7.64%) Clustering
3 12 (7.64%) Eurex
4 10 (6.37%) Data Centre
5 9 (5.73%) Cloud Native
6 8 (5.10%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (5.10%) Cyberattack
6 8 (5.10%) Data Fabric
6 8 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (2.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (2.55%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.55%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.64%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.64%) IoT
10 1 (0.64%) PKI
10 1 (0.64%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 146 (92.99%) Linux
2 143 (91.08%) Unix
3 73 (46.50%) Windows
4 37 (23.57%) Ubuntu
5 24 (15.29%) CentOS
6 16 (10.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (8.92%) AIX
8 12 (7.64%) zOS
9 10 (6.37%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (3.82%) Windows Server
11 4 (2.55%) Debian
12 1 (0.64%) HPUX
12 1 (0.64%) NetWare
12 1 (0.64%) SUSE
12 1 (0.64%) VMS
12 1 (0.64%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (36.94%) Performance Tuning
2 51 (32.48%) Actionable Insight
3 45 (28.66%) Artificial Intelligence
3 45 (28.66%) Capacity Planning
3 45 (28.66%) ITSM
4 44 (28.03%) Incident Management
4 44 (28.03%) Performance Monitoring
5 43 (27.39%) Capacity Management
5 43 (27.39%) Release Management
6 37 (23.57%) Server Management
7 36 (22.93%) Disaster Recovery
8 31 (19.75%) Data Security
9 27 (17.20%) Network Architecture
9 27 (17.20%) Task Automation
10 17 (10.83%) Agile
11 14 (8.92%) High Availability
11 14 (8.92%) ITIL
12 13 (8.28%) ETL
12 13 (8.28%) Identity Access Management
13 12 (7.64%) Client Onboarding
Programming Languages
1 63 (40.13%) SQL
2 45 (28.66%) PL/SQL
3 38 (24.20%) Shell Script
4 26 (16.56%) Bash
5 23 (14.65%) PowerShell
6 22 (14.01%) Python
7 14 (8.92%) Perl
8 13 (8.28%) JavaScript
9 12 (7.64%) Ruby
10 10 (6.37%) C#
11 5 (3.18%) Java
12 2 (1.27%) Ada
12 2 (1.27%) Ada 83
12 2 (1.27%) C
12 2 (1.27%) C++
13 1 (0.64%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.64%) Bourne shell
13 1 (0.64%) Korn
13 1 (0.64%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.64%) VC++
Qualifications
1 81 (51.59%) Security Cleared
2 72 (45.86%) Degree
3 53 (33.76%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.37%) DV Cleared
5 9 (5.73%) AWS Certification
5 9 (5.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (5.73%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.55%) CISM
6 4 (2.55%) CISSP
7 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.64%) RHCE
7 1 (0.64%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (29.94%) SLA
2 27 (17.20%) Accessibility
3 12 (7.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (2.55%) NIST
5 2 (1.27%) DO-178B
System Software
1 45 (28.66%) Oracle RAC
2 12 (7.64%) Docker
3 11 (7.01%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (7.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.10%) Firmware
5 5 (3.18%) Active Directory
6 3 (1.91%) LXC
6 3 (1.91%) Squid
7 2 (1.27%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.64%) Ceph
8 1 (0.64%) PowerHA
8 1 (0.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 44 (28.03%) Data Guard
1 44 (28.03%) Oracle RMAN
2 24 (15.29%) Ansible
3 12 (7.64%) Kubernetes
4 11 (7.01%) Terraform
5 8 (5.10%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.18%) Grafana
7 4 (2.55%) Istio
8 3 (1.91%) Opsview
8 3 (1.91%) Oracle Statspack
8 3 (1.91%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.64%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.64%) Kibana
10 1 (0.64%) nmon
10 1 (0.64%) Oracle ZFS
10 1 (0.64%) Rancher
10 1 (0.64%) SCOM
10 1 (0.64%) yum
Vendors
1 113 (71.97%) Oracle
2 46 (29.30%) Sun
3 44 (28.03%) Remedy
4 41 (26.11%) Red Hat
5 30 (19.11%) Microsoft
6 27 (17.20%) NEC
7 20 (12.74%) VMware
8 13 (8.28%) IBM
9 12 (7.64%) Bloomberg
9 12 (7.64%) CQG
9 12 (7.64%) ION Trading
9 12 (7.64%) Patsystems
9 12 (7.64%) Reuters
9 12 (7.64%) Trayport
10 10 (6.37%) Serena
11 7 (4.46%) Splunk
12 5 (3.18%) PeopleSoft
12 5 (3.18%) Qualys
13 4 (2.55%) Google
13 4 (2.55%) SolarWinds