Solaris Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Oracle Solaris
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Solaris skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 548 649
Rank change year-on-year -55 +101 -83
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 12 11 77
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% 0.033% 0.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.27% 0.22% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 12 5 30
10th Percentile £41,137 - -
25th Percentile £44,166 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,472 £80,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -44.41% +52.38% -19.23%
75th Percentile £59,188 - £105,243
90th Percentile £62,075 - £107,750
UK median annual salary £44,472 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -44.41% -5.88% +30.07%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,503 5,111 10,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.33% 15.20% 14.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,490 3,284 7,893
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £31,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,988 £70,000 £69,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,998
% change year-on-year +5.88% -7.60% -12.39%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Solaris job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Solaris
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Solaris.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Solaris

Solaris
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solaris in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Solaris in the UK excluding London

Solaris
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
East Midlands - 8 £44,472 -
Midlands - 8 £44,472 - 3
North of England -34 3 £57,000 -5.00% 4
North West - 3 £57,000 - 4
Scotland +4 1 £40,800 -32.00%
Solaris
UK

Solaris
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) SaaS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) IaaS
2 2 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Senior
1 6 (50.00%) Technical Specialist
2 5 (41.67%) Firewall Specialist
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Technical Specialist
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
3 3 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Administrator
4 2 (16.67%) DBA
4 2 (16.67%) Unix Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Database Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Database Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (75.00%) Windows
3 5 (41.67%) Unix
4 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (8.33%) AIX
5 1 (8.33%) CentOS
5 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (41.67%) Facilities Management
2 5 (41.67%) High Availability
2 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
2 5 (41.67%) Security Testing
2 5 (41.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 4 (33.33%) Line Management
3 4 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (33.33%) Tech Ops
4 3 (25.00%) Database Tuning
5 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
6 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
6 1 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Bash
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (8.33%) RHCE
3 1 (8.33%) RHCSA
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) Docker
3 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (8.33%) KVM
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Podman
3 1 (8.33%) Data Guard
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Flashback
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 4 (33.33%) Cisco
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle
2 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Mirantis
3 2 (16.67%) Sybase
4 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow