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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 744 764 1002
Rank change year-on-year +20 +238 -170
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 151 188 239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.08% 1.19% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 60 76 136
10th Percentile £47,050 - £38,775
25th Percentile £51,813 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,610 £61,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.46% -5.38% +30.00%
75th Percentile £102,500 £82,188 £98,750
90th Percentile £110,500 £99,375 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.13% -8.00% +7.53%

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 13,934 15,823 30,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.81% 16.06% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 10,696 10,615 16,434
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,750
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 £92,500 £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 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Top 14 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 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +48 105 £88,000 +50.43% 23
UK excluding London -2 98 £52,500 +14.13% 18
Work from Home +75 66 £100,000 +29.03% 9
London +102 44 £95,000 +28.81% 5
Wales +38 38 - -
West Midlands +14 16 £105,000 +55.56%
Midlands -6 16 £105,000 +55.56%
South East +2 15 - - 7
South West -4 13 £50,000 +35.14% 4
North West 0 12 £52,500 -12.50% 2
North of England 0 12 £52,500 +23.53% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
East of England +5 1 - - 4
Scotland -63 1 £60,000 +83.21%

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 (29.80%) WebLogic
2 44 (29.14%) Oracle Service Bus
3 32 (21.19%) Apache
4 30 (19.87%) Tomcat
5 28 (18.54%) IIS
6 12 (7.95%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.99%) GlassFish
7 3 (1.99%) JBoss
8 1 (0.66%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 47 (31.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 47 (31.13%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (29.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 44 (29.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 27 (17.88%) NEC Housing
3 12 (7.95%) Fidessa
4 5 (3.31%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 29 (19.21%) Azure
2 26 (17.22%) AWS
3 13 (8.61%) GCP
4 9 (5.96%) IaaS
4 9 (5.96%) PaaS
4 9 (5.96%) SaaS
5 6 (3.97%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.65%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (2.65%) OCI
7 2 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.32%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (1.32%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.32%) AWS OpsWorks
7 2 (1.32%) CloudFront
7 2 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.66%) npm
8 1 (0.66%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.27%) Firewall
2 13 (8.61%) DNS
3 12 (7.95%) DHCP
3 12 (7.95%) FIX Connectivity
3 12 (7.95%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.65%) Internet
5 3 (1.99%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (1.99%) SAN
6 2 (1.32%) DWDM
6 2 (1.32%) Ethernet
6 2 (1.32%) GPON
6 2 (1.32%) MPLS
6 2 (1.32%) SDH
6 2 (1.32%) SNMP
6 2 (1.32%) Wireless
7 1 (0.66%) GSM
7 1 (0.66%) HTTP
7 1 (0.66%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.66%) PSTN
7 1 (0.66%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (49.67%) Oracle Database
2 45 (29.80%) Oracle Database 11g
3 44 (29.14%) Oracle Database 10g
3 44 (29.14%) VLDB
4 28 (18.54%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.31%) InfluxDB
6 4 (2.65%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (1.99%) MySQL
7 3 (1.99%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.99%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.66%) Dremio
9 1 (0.66%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.66%) Oracle9i Database
9 1 (0.66%) OrientDB
9 1 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (7.95%) Git
2 11 (7.28%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.62%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.32%) VectorCAST
5 1 (0.66%) Ant
5 1 (0.66%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.66%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.66%) JIRA
5 1 (0.66%) Maven
5 1 (0.66%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.66%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (41.06%) Finance
2 45 (29.80%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (18.54%) Local Government
3 28 (18.54%) Public Sector
4 27 (17.88%) Police
5 25 (16.56%) Banking
6 18 (11.92%) Social Skills
7 8 (5.30%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.32%) Avionics
8 2 (1.32%) Military
9 1 (0.66%) Back Office
9 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (54.97%) Applications Support
2 59 (39.07%) Analyst
2 59 (39.07%) Support Analyst
3 56 (37.09%) Applications Support Analyst
4 47 (31.13%) SQL Analyst
4 47 (31.13%) SQL Support Analyst
5 44 (29.14%) Oracle Analyst
5 44 (29.14%) Oracle Support Analyst
6 16 (10.60%) Linux Engineer
7 12 (7.95%) Financial Analyst
8 11 (7.28%) Architect
9 10 (6.62%) Banking Analyst
10 9 (5.96%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (5.30%) Consultant
11 8 (5.30%) Lead
11 8 (5.30%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.30%) Project Consultant
11 8 (5.30%) Technical Leader
11 8 (5.30%) Unix Consultant
12 7 (4.64%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (17.88%) Web Services
2 17 (11.26%) Middleware
3 13 (8.61%) Kafka
4 12 (7.95%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (2.65%) LDAP
5 4 (2.65%) SAML
6 1 (0.66%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.66%) Express.js
6 1 (0.66%) J2EE
6 1 (0.66%) MEAN Stack
6 1 (0.66%) MERN Stack
6 1 (0.66%) Node.js
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.66%) React
6 1 (0.66%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 32 (21.19%) Public Cloud
2 18 (11.92%) Replication
3 12 (7.95%) Eurex
4 11 (7.28%) Clustering
5 10 (6.62%) Data Centre
6 9 (5.96%) Cloud Native
7 8 (5.30%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (5.30%) Cyberattack
7 8 (5.30%) Data Fabric
7 8 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (3.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (2.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (2.65%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.99%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.32%) Educational Technology
11 2 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
12 1 (0.66%) IoT
12 1 (0.66%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 141 (93.38%) Linux
2 138 (91.39%) Unix
3 73 (48.34%) Windows
4 39 (25.83%) Ubuntu
5 24 (15.89%) CentOS
6 13 (8.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (7.95%) AIX
7 12 (7.95%) zOS
8 10 (6.62%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (3.97%) Debian
10 5 (3.31%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.66%) HPUX
11 1 (0.66%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (38.41%) Performance Tuning
2 51 (33.77%) Actionable Insight
3 45 (29.80%) Capacity Planning
3 45 (29.80%) ITSM
4 44 (29.14%) Artificial Intelligence
4 44 (29.14%) Performance Monitoring
5 43 (28.48%) Capacity Management
5 43 (28.48%) Incident Management
5 43 (28.48%) Release Management
6 37 (24.50%) Server Management
7 35 (23.18%) Disaster Recovery
8 31 (20.53%) Data Security
9 27 (17.88%) Network Architecture
9 27 (17.88%) Task Automation
10 17 (11.26%) Agile
11 14 (9.27%) High Availability
11 14 (9.27%) ITIL
12 13 (8.61%) ETL
12 13 (8.61%) Identity Access Management
13 12 (7.95%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (41.72%) SQL
2 45 (29.80%) PL/SQL
3 37 (24.50%) Shell Script
4 28 (18.54%) Bash
5 22 (14.57%) PowerShell
5 22 (14.57%) Python
6 14 (9.27%) Perl
7 13 (8.61%) JavaScript
8 12 (7.95%) Ruby
9 10 (6.62%) C#
10 4 (2.65%) Java
11 2 (1.32%) Ada
11 2 (1.32%) Ada 83
11 2 (1.32%) C
12 1 (0.66%) AWK
12 1 (0.66%) Bourne shell
12 1 (0.66%) C++
12 1 (0.66%) Korn
12 1 (0.66%) ProC
12 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 78 (51.66%) Security Cleared
2 72 (47.68%) Degree
3 51 (33.77%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.96%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (5.96%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.64%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.65%) CISM
6 4 (2.65%) CISSP
7 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.66%) RHCE
7 1 (0.66%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (29.80%) SLA
2 27 (17.88%) Accessibility
3 12 (7.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (2.65%) NIST
5 2 (1.32%) DO-178B
System Software
1 45 (29.80%) Oracle RAC
2 12 (7.95%) Docker
3 11 (7.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (5.96%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (5.30%) Firmware
6 4 (2.65%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.66%) Ceph
7 1 (0.66%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.66%) LXC
7 1 (0.66%) Shibboleth
7 1 (0.66%) Squid
7 1 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 44 (29.14%) Data Guard
1 44 (29.14%) Oracle RMAN
2 22 (14.57%) Ansible
3 12 (7.95%) Kubernetes
3 12 (7.95%) Terraform
4 6 (3.97%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.31%) Grafana
6 4 (2.65%) Istio
6 4 (2.65%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.99%) Oracle Statspack
7 3 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.32%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.66%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.66%) Kibana
9 1 (0.66%) Opsview
9 1 (0.66%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.66%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (0.66%) Rancher
9 1 (0.66%) SCOM
9 1 (0.66%) yum
Vendors
1 108 (71.52%) Oracle
2 45 (29.80%) Sun
3 44 (29.14%) Remedy
4 35 (23.18%) Red Hat
5 30 (19.87%) Microsoft
6 27 (17.88%) NEC
7 16 (10.60%) VMware
8 12 (7.95%) Bloomberg
8 12 (7.95%) CQG
8 12 (7.95%) ION Trading
8 12 (7.95%) Patsystems
8 12 (7.95%) Reuters
8 12 (7.95%) Trayport
9 11 (7.28%) IBM
10 10 (6.62%) Serena
11 5 (3.31%) PeopleSoft
11 5 (3.31%) Qualys
11 5 (3.31%) Splunk
12 4 (2.65%) Google
13 3 (1.99%) HP