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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 784 810 988
Rank change year-on-year +26 +178 -178
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 127 189 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.18% 0.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.90% 1.14% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 48 80 134
10th Percentile £42,513 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £73,125 £41,875 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,000 £68,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% +1.85% +22.73%
75th Percentile £102,500 £82,188 £98,750
90th Percentile £108,250 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £46,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year +30.43% -10.24% +7.89%

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 14,068 16,540 29,594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.28% 15.97% 18.91%
Number of salaries quoted 10,864 11,165 16,729
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,250
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 4 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 4 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
UK excluding London -35 83 £60,000 +30.43% 15
England +22 82 £88,000 +60.00% 18
Work from Home +77 53 £100,000 +29.03% 9
Wales +42 38 - -
London +99 36 £100,000 +17.65% 3
South East +12 16 - - 2
West Midlands +16 10 £105,000 +55.56% 1
Midlands +14 10 £105,000 +55.56% 1
South West -12 10 £43,750 +18.24% 3
North West +3 5 £94,637 +57.73% 1
North of England -13 5 £94,637 +107.99% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
East of England +19 1 - - 5
Scotland -71 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 (36.22%) WebLogic
2 45 (35.43%) Oracle Service Bus
3 20 (15.75%) Apache
4 17 (13.39%) Tomcat
5 15 (11.81%) IIS
6 10 (7.87%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (2.36%) GlassFish
7 3 (2.36%) JBoss
8 1 (0.79%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 48 (37.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 48 (37.80%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (35.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 45 (35.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (11.02%) NEC Housing
3 10 (7.87%) Fidessa
4 3 (2.36%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 25 (19.69%) Azure
2 22 (17.32%) AWS
3 11 (8.66%) GCP
4 7 (5.51%) IaaS
4 7 (5.51%) PaaS
4 7 (5.51%) SaaS
5 6 (4.72%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.15%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (2.36%) OCI
8 2 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.57%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (1.57%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.57%) AWS OpsWorks
8 2 (1.57%) CloudFront
8 2 (1.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.79%) npm
9 1 (0.79%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.45%) Firewall
2 10 (7.87%) DHCP
2 10 (7.87%) DNS
2 10 (7.87%) FIX Connectivity
2 10 (7.87%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.94%) Internet
4 3 (2.36%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.57%) DWDM
5 2 (1.57%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.57%) GPON
5 2 (1.57%) MPLS
5 2 (1.57%) SAN
5 2 (1.57%) SDH
5 2 (1.57%) SNMP
5 2 (1.57%) Wireless
6 1 (0.79%) GSM
6 1 (0.79%) HTTP
6 1 (0.79%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.79%) PSTN
6 1 (0.79%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (49.61%) Oracle Database
2 46 (36.22%) Oracle Database 11g
3 45 (35.43%) Oracle Database 10g
3 45 (35.43%) VLDB
4 26 (20.47%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.15%) InfluxDB
5 4 (3.15%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (2.36%) MySQL
6 3 (2.36%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (2.36%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.79%) Dremio
8 1 (0.79%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.79%) Oracle9i Database
8 1 (0.79%) OrientDB
8 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (8.66%) Git
2 10 (7.87%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.09%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.57%) VectorCAST
5 1 (0.79%) Ant
5 1 (0.79%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.79%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.79%) JIRA
5 1 (0.79%) Maven
5 1 (0.79%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.79%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (36.22%) Analytical Skills
2 45 (35.43%) Finance
3 23 (18.11%) Banking
4 18 (14.17%) Social Skills
5 15 (11.81%) Local Government
5 15 (11.81%) Public Sector
6 14 (11.02%) Police
7 8 (6.30%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.57%) Avionics
8 2 (1.57%) Military
9 1 (0.79%) Back Office
9 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (54.33%) Applications Support
2 58 (45.67%) Analyst
2 58 (45.67%) Support Analyst
3 55 (43.31%) Applications Support Analyst
4 48 (37.80%) SQL Analyst
4 48 (37.80%) SQL Support Analyst
5 45 (35.43%) Oracle Analyst
5 45 (35.43%) Oracle Support Analyst
6 10 (7.87%) Financial Analyst
6 10 (7.87%) Linux Engineer
7 9 (7.09%) Architect
8 8 (6.30%) Banking Analyst
8 8 (6.30%) Consultant
8 8 (6.30%) Lead
8 8 (6.30%) Project Consultant
8 8 (6.30%) Technical Leader
8 8 (6.30%) Unix Consultant
9 7 (5.51%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
9 7 (5.51%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Analyst
9 7 (5.51%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.81%) Middleware
2 14 (11.02%) Web Services
3 13 (10.24%) Kafka
4 10 (7.87%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (3.15%) LDAP
5 4 (3.15%) SAML
6 1 (0.79%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.79%) Express.js
6 1 (0.79%) J2EE
6 1 (0.79%) MEAN Stack
6 1 (0.79%) MERN Stack
6 1 (0.79%) Node.js
6 1 (0.79%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.79%) React
6 1 (0.79%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.96%) Public Cloud
2 17 (13.39%) Replication
3 10 (7.87%) Clustering
3 10 (7.87%) Data Centre
3 10 (7.87%) Eurex
4 8 (6.30%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (6.30%) Cyberattack
4 8 (6.30%) Data Fabric
4 8 (6.30%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (5.51%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.15%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 3 (2.36%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.36%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.57%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.57%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.79%) IoT
9 1 (0.79%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 117 (92.13%) Linux
2 115 (90.55%) Unix
3 58 (45.67%) Windows
4 37 (29.13%) Ubuntu
5 22 (17.32%) CentOS
6 12 (9.45%) zOS
7 11 (8.66%) AIX
8 10 (7.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (7.09%) Oracle Linux
10 8 (6.30%) Debian
11 5 (3.94%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.79%) HPUX
12 1 (0.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (45.67%) Performance Tuning
2 52 (40.94%) Actionable Insight
3 46 (36.22%) Capacity Planning
3 46 (36.22%) ITSM
4 45 (35.43%) Artificial Intelligence
4 45 (35.43%) Performance Monitoring
5 44 (34.65%) Capacity Management
5 44 (34.65%) Incident Management
5 44 (34.65%) Release Management
6 34 (26.77%) Disaster Recovery
7 22 (17.32%) Server Management
8 18 (14.17%) Data Security
9 14 (11.02%) Agile
9 14 (11.02%) Network Architecture
9 14 (11.02%) Task Automation
10 13 (10.24%) ETL
10 13 (10.24%) High Availability
11 12 (9.45%) Key Management
12 11 (8.66%) Identity Access Management
12 11 (8.66%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 62 (48.82%) SQL
2 46 (36.22%) PL/SQL
3 26 (20.47%) Bash
4 23 (18.11%) Shell Script
5 19 (14.96%) PowerShell
5 19 (14.96%) Python
6 12 (9.45%) Perl
7 11 (8.66%) JavaScript
8 10 (7.87%) Ruby
9 9 (7.09%) C#
10 4 (3.15%) Java
11 2 (1.57%) Ada
11 2 (1.57%) Ada 83
11 2 (1.57%) C
12 1 (0.79%) AWK
12 1 (0.79%) Bourne shell
12 1 (0.79%) C++
12 1 (0.79%) Korn
12 1 (0.79%) ProC
12 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 60 (47.24%) Degree
2 59 (46.46%) Security Cleared
3 45 (35.43%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.51%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (5.51%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.15%) CISM
5 4 (3.15%) CISSP
6 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.79%) RHCE
6 1 (0.79%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (35.43%) SLA
2 14 (11.02%) Accessibility
3 12 (9.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (3.15%) NIST
5 2 (1.57%) DO-178B
System Software
1 46 (36.22%) Oracle RAC
2 11 (8.66%) Docker
3 10 (7.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (6.30%) Firmware
4 8 (6.30%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.15%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.79%) Ceph
6 1 (0.79%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 45 (35.43%) Data Guard
1 45 (35.43%) Oracle RMAN
2 19 (14.96%) Ansible
3 11 (8.66%) Terraform
4 10 (7.87%) Kubernetes
5 6 (4.72%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.15%) Grafana
6 4 (3.15%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.36%) Istio
7 3 (2.36%) Oracle Statspack
7 3 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.79%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.79%) Kibana
8 1 (0.79%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.79%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.79%) yum
Vendors
1 92 (72.44%) Oracle
2 46 (36.22%) Sun
3 45 (35.43%) Remedy
4 24 (18.90%) Red Hat
5 17 (13.39%) Microsoft
6 14 (11.02%) NEC
6 14 (11.02%) VMware
7 10 (7.87%) Bloomberg
7 10 (7.87%) CQG
7 10 (7.87%) ION Trading
7 10 (7.87%) Patsystems
7 10 (7.87%) Reuters
7 10 (7.87%) Trayport
8 9 (7.09%) IBM
8 9 (7.09%) Serena
9 5 (3.94%) Qualys
10 4 (3.15%) Splunk
11 3 (2.36%) New Relic
11 3 (2.36%) NGA Human Resources
11 3 (2.36%) SolarWinds