Solaris Jobs in Scotland

Sun Microsystems Solaris
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 276 214
Rank change year-on-year +141 -62 +23
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 10 1 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.35% 0.015% 0.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.15% 0.12% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £49,500 - £33,738
25th Percentile £52,500 - £37,281
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £43,875
Median % change year-on-year - +36.75% -39.48%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £49,781
90th Percentile - - £52,913
UK median annual salary £60,000 £88,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -31.82% +21.38% +7.41%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 194 813 760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.88% 12.07% 16.09%
Number of salaries quoted 161 426 432
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,200 £28,013
25th Percentile £46,250 £29,000 £34,599
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £49,245 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% -1.51% -
75th Percentile £69,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £78,125 £77,715
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in Scotland

Solaris
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Solaris in Scotland

Solaris
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Edinburgh - 4 - -
Glasgow +177 2 £50,000 -16.67%
Renfrewshire - 2 £57,500 - 1
West Lothian - 1 £62,500 -
Lanarkshire - 1 £62,500 -
Solaris
UK

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (10.00%) IaaS
1 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Project Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Unix Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) AIX Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Solaris Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Server Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Server Support
4 1 (10.00%) Server Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Support
4 1 (10.00%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (70.00%) Unix
3 6 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (50.00%) AIX
4 5 (50.00%) Windows
5 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
5 4 (40.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Customer Service
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 5 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Operational Stability
3 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (30.00%) Customer Experience
4 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (20.00%) ITIL
6 1 (10.00%) Change Management
6 1 (10.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
1 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Veritas
2 1 (10.00%) VMware