Solaris Job Trends in London

Oracle Solaris
England > London

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 384 410
Rank change year-on-year +21 +26 +215
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 9 40 37
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.065% 0.26% 0.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.65% 1.75% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 34
10th Percentile £37,125 £70,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £44,375 £80,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.88% +3.03% -10.81%
75th Percentile £72,500 £115,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £80,000 - -
England median annual salary £58,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -17.14% +12.00% +13.64%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,385 2,282 2,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 10.02% 14.67% 15.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,068 1,465 2,246
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,222 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £89,625 £88,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £115,000 £101,250
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Solaris job vacancy trend in London

Solaris
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Solaris.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Solaris

Solaris
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solaris in London over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Solaris in London

Solaris
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the London region over the 6 months to 6 January 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
Central London +46 1 £57,500 - 1
Solaris
England

Solaris
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 4 (44.44%) Confluence
2 2 (22.22%) IIS
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Google Workspace
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) n8n
3 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
3 1 (11.11%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
1 3 (33.33%) FIX Connectivity
1 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (22.22%) DHCP
3 1 (11.11%) SSH
3 1 (11.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) MySQL
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Banking
3 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Front Office
5 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Support Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Applications Support
2 2 (22.22%) Applications Support Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Server Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Server Support
2 2 (22.22%) Server Support Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Support Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Unix Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Unix Support
2 2 (22.22%) Unix Support Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server Support
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Unix Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Unix Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) CSS
2 2 (22.22%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) LDAP
3 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Eurex
2 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) Blockchain
3 1 (11.11%) Clustering
3 1 (11.11%) IoT
3 1 (11.11%) Low-Code
3 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Unix
2 7 (77.78%) Linux
3 6 (66.67%) Windows
4 5 (55.56%) Windows Server
5 3 (33.33%) Ubuntu
6 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (11.11%) AIX
7 1 (11.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) AI
3 1 (11.11%) API Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (11.11%) Kanban
3 1 (11.11%) Open Source
3 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Security Hardening
3 1 (11.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Bash
3 4 (44.44%) C#
3 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
3 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
3 4 (44.44%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) Perl
4 2 (22.22%) VB.NET
5 1 (11.11%) Bourne shell
5 1 (11.11%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) MCDST
1 2 (22.22%) MCITP
1 2 (22.22%) MCP
1 2 (22.22%) MCSA
1 2 (22.22%) MCSE
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) NetBackup
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle ZFS
3 1 (11.11%) Podman
3 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
3 1 (11.11%) Puppet
3 1 (11.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (11.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 3 (33.33%) Bloomberg
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco
2 3 (33.33%) CQG
2 3 (33.33%) ION Trading
2 3 (33.33%) Patsystems
2 3 (33.33%) Reuters
2 3 (33.33%) Trayport
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
3 2 (22.22%) Google
4 1 (11.11%) EMC
4 1 (11.11%) HP
4 1 (11.11%) IBM
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) Qualys
4 1 (11.11%) Splunk
4 1 (11.11%) Veeam
4 1 (11.11%) VocaLink