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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 767 781 1008
Rank change year-on-year +14 +227 -201
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 129 189 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.92% 1.13% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 50 81 133
10th Percentile £42,250 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £64,375 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.38% +7.41% +22.73%
75th Percentile £102,500 £85,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £107,750 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £46,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +30.43% -12.38% +10.53%

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 14,079 16,671 29,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.36% 15.93% 18.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10,884 11,238 16,744
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,398
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 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 84 £88,000 +60.00% 16
UK excluding London -12 83 £60,000 +30.43% 14
Work from Home +90 53 £100,000 +29.03% 6
London +114 38 £95,000 +8.57% 2
Wales +42 38 - -
South East +28 16 - - 2
West Midlands +26 10 £105,000 +55.56%
South West +7 10 £43,750 +18.24% 4
Midlands +5 10 £105,000 +55.56%
North West +4 5 £94,637 +57.73% 1
North of England +2 5 £94,637 +105.73% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
East of England +10 1 - - 4
Scotland -70 1 £60,000 +36.75% 3

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 46 (35.66%) WebLogic
2 45 (34.88%) Oracle Service Bus
3 20 (15.50%) Apache
4 17 (13.18%) Tomcat
5 15 (11.63%) IIS
6 11 (8.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (2.33%) GlassFish
7 3 (2.33%) JBoss
8 1 (0.78%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 48 (37.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 48 (37.21%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (34.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 45 (34.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (10.85%) NEC Housing
3 11 (8.53%) Fidessa
4 3 (2.33%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.78%) Adaptiv
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 25 (19.38%) Azure
2 22 (17.05%) AWS
3 11 (8.53%) GCP
4 7 (5.43%) IaaS
4 7 (5.43%) PaaS
4 7 (5.43%) SaaS
5 6 (4.65%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.10%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (2.33%) OCI
8 2 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.55%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (1.55%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.55%) AWS OpsWorks
8 2 (1.55%) CloudFront
8 2 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.78%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.08%) Firewall
2 11 (8.53%) DHCP
2 11 (8.53%) DNS
2 11 (8.53%) FIX Connectivity
2 11 (8.53%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.88%) Internet
4 3 (2.33%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.55%) DWDM
5 2 (1.55%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.55%) GPON
5 2 (1.55%) MPLS
5 2 (1.55%) SAN
5 2 (1.55%) SDH
5 2 (1.55%) SNMP
5 2 (1.55%) Wireless
6 1 (0.78%) GSM
6 1 (0.78%) HTTP
6 1 (0.78%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.78%) PSTN
6 1 (0.78%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (48.84%) Oracle Database
2 46 (35.66%) Oracle Database 11g
3 45 (34.88%) Oracle Database 10g
3 45 (34.88%) VLDB
4 27 (20.93%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.10%) InfluxDB
5 4 (3.10%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (2.33%) MySQL
6 3 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (2.33%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.78%) Dremio
8 1 (0.78%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle9i Database
8 1 (0.78%) OrientDB
8 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (8.53%) Git
2 10 (7.75%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.98%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.55%) VectorCAST
5 1 (0.78%) Ant
5 1 (0.78%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.78%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.78%) JIRA
5 1 (0.78%) Maven
5 1 (0.78%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.78%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 47 (36.43%) Finance
2 46 (35.66%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (19.38%) Banking
4 18 (13.95%) Social Skills
5 15 (11.63%) Local Government
5 15 (11.63%) Public Sector
6 14 (10.85%) Police
7 9 (6.98%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.55%) Avionics
8 2 (1.55%) Military
9 1 (0.78%) Back Office
9 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (54.26%) Applications Support
2 60 (46.51%) Analyst
3 59 (45.74%) Support Analyst
4 56 (43.41%) Applications Support Analyst
5 48 (37.21%) SQL Analyst
5 48 (37.21%) SQL Support Analyst
6 45 (34.88%) Oracle Analyst
6 45 (34.88%) Oracle Support Analyst
7 11 (8.53%) Financial Analyst
8 10 (7.75%) Linux Engineer
9 9 (6.98%) Architect
9 9 (6.98%) Banking Analyst
10 8 (6.20%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
10 8 (6.20%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Analyst
10 8 (6.20%) 3rd Line Support
10 8 (6.20%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
10 8 (6.20%) Consultant
10 8 (6.20%) Project Consultant
10 8 (6.20%) Technical Leader
10 8 (6.20%) Unix Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.63%) Middleware
2 14 (10.85%) Web Services
3 13 (10.08%) Kafka
4 11 (8.53%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (3.10%) LDAP
5 4 (3.10%) SAML
6 1 (0.78%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.78%) Express.js
6 1 (0.78%) J2EE
6 1 (0.78%) MEAN Stack
6 1 (0.78%) MERN Stack
6 1 (0.78%) Node.js
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.78%) React
6 1 (0.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.73%) Public Cloud
2 17 (13.18%) Replication
3 11 (8.53%) Eurex
4 10 (7.75%) Clustering
4 10 (7.75%) Data Centre
5 8 (6.20%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (6.20%) Cyberattack
5 8 (6.20%) Data Fabric
5 8 (6.20%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (5.43%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.10%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (2.33%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.55%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.55%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.78%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.78%) IoT
10 1 (0.78%) VAX
10 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 118 (91.47%) Linux
2 117 (90.70%) Unix
3 60 (46.51%) Windows
4 38 (29.46%) Ubuntu
5 23 (17.83%) CentOS
6 12 (9.30%) zOS
7 11 (8.53%) AIX
8 10 (7.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (6.98%) Oracle Linux
10 8 (6.20%) Debian
11 5 (3.88%) Windows Server
12 2 (1.55%) VMS
13 1 (0.78%) HPUX
13 1 (0.78%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (44.96%) Performance Tuning
2 52 (40.31%) Actionable Insight
3 46 (35.66%) Capacity Planning
3 46 (35.66%) ITSM
4 45 (34.88%) Artificial Intelligence
4 45 (34.88%) Incident Management
4 45 (34.88%) Performance Monitoring
5 44 (34.11%) Capacity Management
5 44 (34.11%) Release Management
6 34 (26.36%) Disaster Recovery
7 22 (17.05%) Server Management
8 18 (13.95%) Data Security
9 14 (10.85%) Agile
9 14 (10.85%) Network Architecture
9 14 (10.85%) Task Automation
10 13 (10.08%) ETL
10 13 (10.08%) High Availability
11 12 (9.30%) ITIL
11 12 (9.30%) Key Management
12 11 (8.53%) Client Onboarding
Programming Languages
1 63 (48.84%) SQL
2 46 (35.66%) PL/SQL
3 27 (20.93%) Bash
4 23 (17.83%) Shell Script
5 20 (15.50%) PowerShell
5 20 (15.50%) Python
6 13 (10.08%) Perl
7 12 (9.30%) JavaScript
8 11 (8.53%) Ruby
9 9 (6.98%) C#
10 4 (3.10%) Java
11 2 (1.55%) Ada
11 2 (1.55%) Ada 83
11 2 (1.55%) C
12 1 (0.78%) AWK
12 1 (0.78%) Bourne shell
12 1 (0.78%) C++
12 1 (0.78%) Korn
12 1 (0.78%) ProC
12 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 60 (46.51%) Degree
2 59 (45.74%) Security Cleared
3 45 (34.88%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.43%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (5.43%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.10%) CISM
5 4 (3.10%) CISSP
6 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.78%) RHCE
6 1 (0.78%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (35.66%) SLA
2 14 (10.85%) Accessibility
3 12 (9.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (3.10%) NIST
5 2 (1.55%) DO-178B
System Software
1 46 (35.66%) Oracle RAC
2 11 (8.53%) Docker
3 10 (7.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (6.20%) Firmware
4 8 (6.20%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (3.88%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.78%) Ceph
6 1 (0.78%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 45 (34.88%) Data Guard
1 45 (34.88%) Oracle RMAN
2 19 (14.73%) Ansible
3 11 (8.53%) Terraform
4 10 (7.75%) Kubernetes
5 6 (4.65%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.10%) Grafana
6 4 (3.10%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.33%) Istio
7 3 (2.33%) Oracle Statspack
7 3 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.55%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.78%) BMC PATROL
9 1 (0.78%) Control-M
9 1 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.78%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.78%) SafeCom
9 1 (0.78%) yum
Vendors
1 94 (72.87%) Oracle
2 46 (35.66%) Sun
3 45 (34.88%) Remedy
4 25 (19.38%) Red Hat
5 18 (13.95%) Microsoft
6 14 (10.85%) NEC
6 14 (10.85%) VMware
7 11 (8.53%) Bloomberg
7 11 (8.53%) CQG
7 11 (8.53%) ION Trading
7 11 (8.53%) Patsystems
7 11 (8.53%) Reuters
7 11 (8.53%) Trayport
8 9 (6.98%) IBM
8 9 (6.98%) Serena
9 5 (3.88%) Qualys
10 4 (3.10%) SolarWinds
10 4 (3.10%) Splunk
11 3 (2.33%) NGA Human Resources
11 3 (2.33%) Northgate