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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 675 645
Rank change year-on-year +109 -30 +41
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 13 88 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.26% 0.84% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 40
10th Percentile £51,030 £41,950 -
25th Percentile £54,192 £42,813 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% -8.00%
75th Percentile £66,875 £107,500 £74,750
90th Percentile £68,750 - £93,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £88,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -28.98% +21.38% +11.54%

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 5,097 10,538 9,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.07% 14.87% 16.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,028 8,151 6,245
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,101 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £46,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.22% -14.29% -

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
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 14 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
Scotland +125 7 £61,250 +2.08% 4
North of England +49 5 £57,500 -39.24% 2
Yorkshire - 3 - -
North East - 2 £57,500 -
South West +98 1 £54,321 +24.16% 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 3 (23.08%) Tomcat
2 2 (15.38%) Confluence
2 2 (15.38%) IIS
2 2 (15.38%) WebSphere
2 2 (15.38%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (7.69%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) iTrent
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) GCP
1 2 (15.38%) GitHub
2 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
2 1 (7.69%) IaaS
2 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (15.38%) FCoE
2 2 (15.38%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (15.38%) iSCSI
2 2 (15.38%) LAN
2 2 (15.38%) Multicast
2 2 (15.38%) NAS
2 2 (15.38%) SAN
2 2 (15.38%) SSL
2 2 (15.38%) VPN
2 2 (15.38%) WAN
3 1 (7.69%) DHCP
3 1 (7.69%) DNS
3 1 (7.69%) IPsec
3 1 (7.69%) SSH
3 1 (7.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
1 2 (15.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Fire and Rescue
2 1 (7.69%) Local Government
2 1 (7.69%) Police
2 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Senior
1 3 (23.08%) Unix Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Unix Linux Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) DBA
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Project Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Server Support
3 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Middleware
2 2 (15.38%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Clustering
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Linux
2 9 (69.23%) Windows
3 6 (46.15%) Unix
4 5 (38.46%) AIX
4 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (38.46%) Windows Server
5 2 (15.38%) zOS
6 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
6 1 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Customer Service
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Service Delivery
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (30.77%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (30.77%) Data Analysis
4 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (23.08%) High Availability
4 3 (23.08%) ITIL
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
5 2 (15.38%) Customer Experience
5 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (15.38%) Server Virtualisation
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
1 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
1 3 (23.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
2 2 (15.38%) KVM
2 2 (15.38%) NFS
2 2 (15.38%) SRDF
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (15.38%) Xen
3 1 (7.69%) Docker
3 1 (7.69%) LXC
3 1 (7.69%) Samba
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) Puppet
3 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle
1 6 (46.15%) Red Hat
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco
3 2 (15.38%) EMC
3 2 (15.38%) F5
3 2 (15.38%) Google
3 2 (15.38%) NetApp
4 1 (7.69%) Veritas