Solaris Job Trends in England

Oracle Solaris
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Solaris skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 523 738
Rank change year-on-year -92 +215 +75
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 29 86 56
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.044% 0.22% 0.076%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.61% 1.42% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 28 18 39
10th Percentile £51,175 £54,515 £41,200
25th Percentile £56,125 £55,000 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% -17.86% +34.62%
75th Percentile £59,500 £90,000 £92,125
90th Percentile - - £102,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.87% -11.54% -

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 4,766 6,059 11,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.27% 15.48% 15.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,606 3,953 9,615
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,750 £25,760
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.53% -11.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £63,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,854
% change year-on-year -10.00% +6.72% -10.75%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Solaris relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Solaris job vacancy trend in England

Solaris
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Solaris.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Solaris

Solaris
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solaris in England over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

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 14 March 2026. 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
South East +4 24 £58,000 +5.45% 2
London -15 2 £53,750 -36.76% 3
South West -30 2 £53,000 -2.43%
North West -25 1 £55,000 - 2
North of England -65 1 £55,000 - 2
Solaris
UK

Solaris
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 24 (82.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (79.31%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (3.45%) Confluence
3 1 (3.45%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.90%) AWS
1 2 (6.90%) Azure
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.45%) GCP
2 1 (3.45%) Google Workspace
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.45%) n8n
2 1 (3.45%) Power Automate
2 1 (3.45%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 23 (79.31%) DHCP
1 23 (79.31%) DNS
2 2 (6.90%) Firewall
2 2 (6.90%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (3.45%) SMTP
3 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.45%) VLAN
3 1 (3.45%) X.400
3 1 (3.45%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (82.76%) Oracle Database
1 24 (82.76%) Oracle Database 10g
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 2 (6.90%) Banking
1 2 (6.90%) Finance
1 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.45%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 24 (82.76%) 3rd Line Support
2 23 (79.31%) Systems Support
3 4 (13.79%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Support Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Systems Support Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 1 (3.45%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Electronic Trading Support
5 1 (3.45%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) IT Support
5 1 (3.45%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Solaris Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Solaris Support Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (3.45%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Eurex
2 1 (3.45%) Blockchain
2 1 (3.45%) IoT
2 1 (3.45%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (100.00%) Unix
2 25 (86.21%) Windows
3 24 (82.76%) HPUX
4 23 (79.31%) Windows Server 2003
5 22 (75.86%) Windows 7
5 22 (75.86%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (17.24%) Linux
7 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (6.90%) Ubuntu
7 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
8 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (82.76%) Incident Management
2 3 (10.34%) Customer Service
2 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (6.90%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (3.45%) AI
4 1 (3.45%) CI/CD
4 1 (3.45%) Containerisation
4 1 (3.45%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (3.45%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (3.45%) DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Edge Computing
4 1 (3.45%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (3.45%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (3.45%) Machine Learning
4 1 (3.45%) Open Source
4 1 (3.45%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (3.45%) Problem Management
4 1 (3.45%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 24 (82.76%) PowerShell
2 22 (75.86%) Perl
3 5 (17.24%) Python
4 4 (13.79%) Bash
5 1 (3.45%) C#
5 1 (3.45%) SQL
5 1 (3.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 27 (93.10%) Security Cleared
2 26 (89.66%) SC Cleared
3 23 (79.31%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.45%) MCDST
4 1 (3.45%) MCITP
4 1 (3.45%) MCSA
4 1 (3.45%) MCSE
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (79.31%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (86.21%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Ansible
1 2 (6.90%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (93.10%) VMware
2 25 (86.21%) Oracle
3 24 (82.76%) Microsoft
4 4 (13.79%) HP
4 4 (13.79%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.90%) Bloomberg
5 2 (6.90%) Cisco
5 2 (6.90%) CQG
5 2 (6.90%) ION Trading
5 2 (6.90%) Mirantis
5 2 (6.90%) Patsystems
5 2 (6.90%) Reuters
5 2 (6.90%) Trayport
6 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.45%) Google