Solaris Jobs in England

Sun Microsystems Solaris
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Solaris skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Solaris over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 659 739 749
Rank change year-on-year +80 +10 +216
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 20 111 156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.30% 0.88% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 16 63 64
10th Percentile £55,000 £50,850 -
25th Percentile £65,938 £53,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,250 £87,610 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +55.75% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £102,500 £81,250
90th Percentile - £109,500 £99,525
UK median annual salary £75,000 £87,610 £61,000
% change year-on-year -14.39% +43.62% -6.15%

All Operating Systems
England

Solaris falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6,752 12,583 13,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.69% 14.01% 16.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,945 9,814 9,523
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,760 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £71,451
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in England

Solaris
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Solaris in England

Solaris
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solaris in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Solaris in England

Solaris
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
London +70 11 £80,000 -8.69% 14
North of England +29 5 £57,500 +9.52% 8
Yorkshire +58 3 - - 4
South East +64 2 £80,000 +42.86% 1
North East - 2 £57,500 - 3
South West +101 1 £54,321 +8.64% 2
Solaris
UK

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (15.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (10.00%) IIS
2 2 (10.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (5.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) iTrent
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) GCP
2 2 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (10.00%) FCoE
2 2 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (10.00%) iSCSI
2 2 (10.00%) LAN
2 2 (10.00%) Multicast
2 2 (10.00%) NAS
2 2 (10.00%) SAN
2 2 (10.00%) VPN
2 2 (10.00%) WAN
3 1 (5.00%) DHCP
3 1 (5.00%) DNS
3 1 (5.00%) IPsec
3 1 (5.00%) SSH
3 1 (5.00%) SSL
3 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
1 2 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Banking
2 1 (5.00%) Electronics
2 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (5.00%) Fire and Rescue
2 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (5.00%) Local Government
2 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.00%) Marketing
2 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Police
2 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Retail
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Administrator
2 7 (35.00%) Linux Administrator
3 6 (30.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) Consultant
4 3 (15.00%) Linux Consultant
4 3 (15.00%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Consultant
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Linux Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Architect
5 2 (10.00%) DBA
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior DBA
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 1 (5.00%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Middleware
1 3 (15.00%) REST
2 2 (10.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Clustering
2 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (15.00%) Replication
4 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (95.00%) Linux
2 14 (70.00%) Unix
3 9 (45.00%) CentOS
4 5 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (25.00%) Windows
5 3 (15.00%) HPUX
5 3 (15.00%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
7 1 (5.00%) AIX
7 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
7 1 (5.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Capacity Planning
2 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (30.00%) High Availability
2 6 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (15.00%) API Integration
4 3 (15.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (15.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Security Hardening
5 2 (10.00%) Agile
5 2 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (10.00%) Privileged Access Management
5 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (10.00%) Server Virtualisation
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) Bash
3 3 (15.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) Perl
3 3 (15.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) RHCE
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.00%) OCP
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (10.00%) KVM
2 2 (10.00%) NFS
2 2 (10.00%) SRDF
2 2 (10.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.00%) Xen
3 1 (5.00%) Docker
3 1 (5.00%) LXC
3 1 (5.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Ansible
2 3 (15.00%) Puppet
3 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.00%) Data Guard
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 9 (45.00%) Oracle
3 5 (25.00%) VMware
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (10.00%) Cisco
5 2 (10.00%) EMC
5 2 (10.00%) F5
5 2 (10.00%) Google
5 2 (10.00%) NetApp
6 1 (5.00%) SAP