Solaris Jobs in the UK excluding London

Sun Microsystems Solaris
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 583 627 570
Rank change year-on-year +44 -57 +128
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 11 95 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.025% 0.13% 0.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.21% 0.95% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6 30 43
10th Percentile £53,125 - £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £42,957
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £53,250 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +31.46% -18.52% +45.22%
75th Percentile £80,000 £105,243 £70,000
90th Percentile - £107,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year -5.88% +30.07% +0.54%

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 5,354 9,991 8,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.24% 13.99% 17.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,365 7,372 5,707
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £31,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,227 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.47% -3.94% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £74,250
UK median annual salary £42,500 £47,300 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.15% -9.90% -

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Solaris as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in the UK excluding London

Solaris
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Solaris in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Solaris in the UK excluding London

Solaris
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solaris in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

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 20 July 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
Scotland +95 5 £56,250 -21.33% 2
South East +47 3 £80,000 +42.86% 6
North of England +16 3 £60,000 +14.29% 2
Yorkshire +34 2 - -
North East - 1 £60,000 - 2
Solaris
UK

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
1 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
1 1 (9.09%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
1 1 (9.09%) GCP
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub
1 1 (9.09%) IaaS
1 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (9.09%) FCoE
1 1 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) iSCSI
1 1 (9.09%) LAN
1 1 (9.09%) Multicast
1 1 (9.09%) NAS
1 1 (9.09%) SAN
1 1 (9.09%) SSL
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Administrator
1 4 (36.36%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Unix Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Solaris Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Project Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (63.64%) Unix
3 5 (45.45%) Windows
4 4 (36.36%) AIX
4 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
5 3 (27.27%) CentOS
5 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (9.09%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (9.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Customer Service
2 5 (45.45%) Service Delivery
3 4 (36.36%) Data Analysis
3 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
6 1 (9.09%) DevOps
6 1 (9.09%) High Availability
6 1 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (9.09%) Network Segmentation
6 1 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
6 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (9.09%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bash
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) RHCE
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (9.09%) KVM
2 1 (9.09%) NFS
2 1 (9.09%) SRDF
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Puppet
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Red Hat
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) EMC
3 1 (9.09%) F5
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) NetApp
3 1 (9.09%) Veritas