Sun Microsystems Solaris
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 599 749 830
Rank change year-on-year +150 +81 +155
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 71 100 185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.16% 0.74% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 20 44 78
10th Percentile £47,000 £41,725 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,163 £49,375 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £85,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +39.34% -9.63%
75th Percentile £72,500 £102,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £109,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +30.43% -18.58%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6,119 13,593 17,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.11% 14.67% 15.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,406 10,806 11,933
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,760 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,001
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £94,110
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solaris over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the UK over the 6 months to 2 April 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
England +144 52 £70,000 -17.65% 18
UK excluding London +160 41 £55,000 -8.33% 12
London +70 22 £85,000 - 9
Work from Home +153 16 £60,000 -40.00% 19
North of England - 16 £55,000 - 5
Scotland +134 14 £57,500 -4.17% 3
Midlands +68 10 - -
West Midlands +36 10 - -
North West - 10 - - 4
Yorkshire - 3 - -
North East - 3 £55,000 - 1
South West +92 1 £54,321 +23.81% 2

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.23%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.82%) Confluence
3 2 (2.82%) IIS
3 2 (2.82%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.82%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.41%) Apache
Business Applications
1 36 (50.70%) NEC Housing
2 4 (5.63%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.41%) iTrent
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.63%) AWS
1 4 (5.63%) Azure
2 2 (2.82%) GCP
2 2 (2.82%) GitHub
2 2 (2.82%) WhatsApp
3 1 (1.41%) Azure AKS
3 1 (1.41%) IaaS
3 1 (1.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.27%) SSL
2 7 (9.86%) Firewall
3 5 (7.04%) DHCP
3 5 (7.04%) DNS
3 5 (7.04%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.63%) FIX Connectivity
5 2 (2.82%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (2.82%) FCoE
5 2 (2.82%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (2.82%) iSCSI
5 2 (2.82%) LAN
5 2 (2.82%) Multicast
5 2 (2.82%) NAS
5 2 (2.82%) SAN
5 2 (2.82%) VPN
5 2 (2.82%) WAN
6 1 (1.41%) IPsec
6 1 (1.41%) SSH
6 1 (1.41%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (50.70%) BusinessObjects
2 10 (14.08%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.82%) JIRA
1 2 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 46 (64.79%) Finance
2 37 (52.11%) Local Government
2 37 (52.11%) Police
3 36 (50.70%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.63%) Banking
5 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.41%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (57.75%) Senior
2 38 (53.52%) Consultant
3 36 (50.70%) Senior Consultant
3 36 (50.70%) Senior Support Consultant
3 36 (50.70%) Support Consultant
4 12 (16.90%) Analyst
5 8 (11.27%) Project Analyst
6 6 (8.45%) Unix Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) AIX Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Solaris Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
8 4 (5.63%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Analyst
8 4 (5.63%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
8 4 (5.63%) Administrator
8 4 (5.63%) Applications Support
8 4 (5.63%) Applications Support Analyst
8 4 (5.63%) Banking Analyst
8 4 (5.63%) Financial Analyst
8 4 (5.63%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.08%) Middleware
2 4 (5.63%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (2.82%) LDAP
3 2 (2.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.90%) Clustering
2 4 (5.63%) Eurex
3 3 (4.23%) Replication
4 2 (2.82%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 70 (98.59%) Linux
2 55 (77.46%) Windows
3 22 (30.99%) Unix
4 13 (18.31%) AIX
4 13 (18.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (15.49%) Windows Server
6 8 (11.27%) zOS
7 6 (8.45%) CentOS
8 4 (5.63%) Ubuntu
9 2 (2.82%) HPUX
10 1 (1.41%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.41%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (64.79%) Customer Requirements
2 36 (50.70%) Housing Management
3 19 (26.76%) Customer Service
4 13 (18.31%) CI/CD
5 11 (15.49%) Roadmaps
5 11 (15.49%) Service Delivery
6 10 (14.08%) Agile
6 10 (14.08%) Continuous Delivery
6 10 (14.08%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (14.08%) DevOps
7 8 (11.27%) Data Analysis
7 8 (11.27%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (11.27%) Operational Stability
7 8 (11.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (11.27%) Technology Roadmap
8 7 (9.86%) High Availability
8 7 (9.86%) ITIL
8 7 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (8.45%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 5 (7.04%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 46 (64.79%) SQL
2 8 (11.27%) Bash
3 7 (9.86%) Python
4 6 (8.45%) Perl
5 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.63%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.63%) Ruby
6 3 (4.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 36 (50.70%) DBS Check
2 10 (14.08%) Degree
3 9 (12.68%) DV Cleared
3 9 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.68%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (50.70%) Accessibility
1 36 (50.70%) ISO 9001
2 9 (12.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.41%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (2.82%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.82%) KVM
3 2 (2.82%) NFS
3 2 (2.82%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (2.82%) SRDF
3 2 (2.82%) Xen
4 1 (1.41%) Docker
4 1 (1.41%) LXC
4 1 (1.41%) Samba
Systems Management
1 6 (8.45%) Ansible
2 3 (4.23%) Puppet
3 2 (2.82%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 39 (54.93%) Microsoft
2 36 (50.70%) Citrix
2 36 (50.70%) NEC
3 18 (25.35%) Red Hat
4 14 (19.72%) Oracle
5 5 (7.04%) VMware
6 4 (5.63%) Bloomberg
6 4 (5.63%) CQG
6 4 (5.63%) ION Trading
6 4 (5.63%) Patsystems
6 4 (5.63%) Reuters
6 4 (5.63%) Trayport
7 2 (2.82%) Cisco
7 2 (2.82%) EMC
7 2 (2.82%) F5
7 2 (2.82%) Google
7 2 (2.82%) NetApp
8 1 (1.41%) Veritas