Sun Microsystems Solaris
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Solaris skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Solaris over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 644 900 917
Rank change year-on-year +256 +17 -259
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 86 172 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.94% 0.85% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 66 97 92
10th Percentile £40,625 £37,058 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,906 £43,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £88,750 £93,750 £74,063
90th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £46,000 £58,250
% change year-on-year +8.70% -21.03% +29.44%

All Operating Systems
UK

Solaris is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 9,131 20,345 22,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.23% 16.56% 17.36%
Number of salaries quoted 7,096 13,692 16,198
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,839 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 +265 82 £65,000 +17.12% 7
London +254 44 £82,500 -10.81% 4
Work from Home +230 37 £62,675 -19.13% 9
UK excluding London +183 36 £50,000 +8.70% 3
South East +145 13 £61,000 +28.42%
South West +79 12 £56,000 +27.27%
North West +119 6 £40,144 +7.18% 1
North of England +115 6 £40,144 -12.73% 1
East of England +107 2 £43,125 -
Scotland +32 2 £65,351 +50.42%
Midlands +120 1 £65,000 +46.56% 2
East Midlands +53 1 £65,000 +62.50%

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 18 (20.93%) Confluence
2 9 (10.47%) NetWeaver
2 9 (10.47%) WebLogic
3 8 (9.30%) Oracle Service Bus
4 6 (6.98%) Apache
5 2 (2.33%) IIS
5 2 (2.33%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.16%) MS Exchange
6 1 (1.16%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (9.30%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (9.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (13.95%) Fidessa
2 8 (9.30%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (2.33%) Adaptiv
3 2 (2.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.16%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.16%) SAP GTS
4 1 (1.16%) SAP MM
4 1 (1.16%) SAP SD
4 1 (1.16%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 23 (26.74%) AWS
2 11 (12.79%) Azure
3 8 (9.30%) OpenShift
4 3 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.33%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (2.33%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (2.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.33%) AWS OpsWorks
5 2 (2.33%) CloudFront
5 2 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.16%) GCP
6 1 (1.16%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.16%) IaaS
6 1 (1.16%) PaaS
6 1 (1.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (22.09%) Firewall
2 15 (17.44%) DNS
3 13 (15.12%) DHCP
3 13 (15.12%) TCP/IP
4 12 (13.95%) FIX Connectivity
5 3 (3.49%) Internet
6 2 (2.33%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.16%) Cisco PIX
7 1 (1.16%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.12%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.47%) Oracle Database
2 9 (10.47%) SAP HANA
3 8 (9.30%) Oracle Database 10g
3 8 (9.30%) Oracle Database 11g
3 8 (9.30%) VLDB
4 6 (6.98%) BusinessObjects
4 6 (6.98%) MySQL
4 6 (6.98%) SAP BW
5 4 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (12.79%) Artifactory
1 11 (12.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 11 (12.79%) Liquibase
2 8 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.14%) Bitbucket
3 7 (8.14%) JIRA
General
1 36 (41.86%) Finance
2 21 (24.42%) Banking
3 18 (20.93%) Social Skills
4 15 (17.44%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.65%) Military
6 2 (2.33%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.16%) Back Office
7 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Law
7 1 (1.16%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (25.58%) Analyst
2 21 (24.42%) Applications Support
3 20 (23.26%) Support Analyst
4 18 (20.93%) Applications Support Analyst
5 15 (17.44%) Linux Engineer
5 15 (17.44%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 15 (17.44%) Systems Engineer
6 12 (13.95%) 3rd Line Support
6 12 (13.95%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
6 12 (13.95%) Administrator
6 12 (13.95%) Unix Engineer
7 11 (12.79%) Systems Administrator
7 11 (12.79%) Unix Linux Engineer
7 11 (12.79%) Unix Systems Engineer
8 10 (11.63%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
8 10 (11.63%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Analyst
8 10 (11.63%) Banking Analyst
8 10 (11.63%) Financial Analyst
9 9 (10.47%) Support Engineer
10 8 (9.30%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (22.09%) Kafka
2 12 (13.95%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (10.47%) SAP PI
4 8 (9.30%) Apache NiFi
5 4 (4.65%) LAMP
6 3 (3.49%) LDAP
7 2 (2.33%) .NET
8 1 (1.16%) SAML
8 1 (1.16%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.95%) Eurex
2 10 (11.63%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.98%) Mainframe
3 6 (6.98%) Replication
4 5 (5.81%) PKI
4 5 (5.81%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.33%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.33%) Educational Technology
5 2 (2.33%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.33%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.33%) VAX
6 1 (1.16%) CLARiiON
6 1 (1.16%) EMC VNX
6 1 (1.16%) Equities
6 1 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 71 (82.56%) Linux
2 61 (70.93%) Unix
3 38 (44.19%) Windows
4 29 (33.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (26.74%) Ubuntu
6 17 (19.77%) HPUX
7 15 (17.44%) AIX
8 14 (16.28%) CentOS
9 11 (12.79%) Fedora
10 7 (8.14%) Debian
10 7 (8.14%) Windows Server
11 6 (6.98%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (6.98%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (4.65%) Windows 10
13 3 (3.49%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (2.33%) VMS
14 2 (2.33%) Windows 7
14 2 (2.33%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (29.07%) DevOps
2 24 (27.91%) Migration
3 19 (22.09%) CI/CD
3 19 (22.09%) Containerisation
4 17 (19.77%) Software Engineering
5 16 (18.60%) Disaster Recovery
6 15 (17.44%) Capacity Management
7 14 (16.28%) Agile
7 14 (16.28%) Capacity Planning
7 14 (16.28%) Configuration Management
7 14 (16.28%) Incident Management
7 14 (16.28%) ITSM
8 13 (15.12%) ITIL
9 12 (13.95%) Client Onboarding
9 12 (13.95%) DevSecOps
10 9 (10.47%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (9.30%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (9.30%) Microservices
11 8 (9.30%) Performance Monitoring
11 8 (9.30%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 38 (44.19%) Bash
2 35 (40.70%) Python
3 28 (32.56%) PowerShell
3 28 (32.56%) SQL
4 25 (29.07%) Java
5 14 (16.28%) Perl
6 10 (11.63%) JavaScript
6 10 (11.63%) Ruby
7 9 (10.47%) PL/SQL
7 9 (10.47%) Shell Script
8 6 (6.98%) ABAP
9 4 (4.65%) PHP
10 2 (2.33%) C#
10 2 (2.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (27.91%) Security Cleared
2 19 (22.09%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.47%) DV Cleared
4 8 (9.30%) Degree
5 2 (2.33%) CCNA
5 2 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.16%) CCNP
6 1 (1.16%) MCDST
6 1 (1.16%) MCITP
6 1 (1.16%) MCP
6 1 (1.16%) MCSA
6 1 (1.16%) MCSE
6 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.16%) OCA
6 1 (1.16%) OCP
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.79%) QA
1 11 (12.79%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (19.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (10.47%) Oracle RAC
3 8 (9.30%) Docker
4 6 (6.98%) Active Directory
4 6 (6.98%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.16%) Forefront TMG
6 1 (1.16%) Shibboleth
6 1 (1.16%) Terminal Services
6 1 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.16%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (1.16%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 17 (19.77%) Ansible
2 9 (10.47%) Data Guard
2 9 (10.47%) Oracle RMAN
3 8 (9.30%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.98%) NetBackup
4 6 (6.98%) Progress Chef
4 6 (6.98%) Puppet
5 3 (3.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (2.33%) BMC PATROL
6 2 (2.33%) Control-M
6 2 (2.33%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (2.33%) Oracle ZFS
6 2 (2.33%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (2.33%) SafeCom
6 2 (2.33%) SCOM
6 2 (2.33%) Terraform
6 2 (2.33%) Xymon
7 1 (1.16%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 1 (1.16%) Oracle Statspack
7 1 (1.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 46 (53.49%) Red Hat
2 42 (48.84%) Oracle
3 27 (31.40%) VMware
4 15 (17.44%) Sun
5 12 (13.95%) Bloomberg
5 12 (13.95%) CQG
5 12 (13.95%) HP
5 12 (13.95%) ION Trading
5 12 (13.95%) Patsystems
5 12 (13.95%) Reuters
5 12 (13.95%) Trayport
6 11 (12.79%) CyberArk
6 11 (12.79%) Splunk
6 11 (12.79%) TOWER Software
7 9 (10.47%) SAP
8 8 (9.30%) Atlassian
8 8 (9.30%) Remedy
9 7 (8.14%) Veritas
10 6 (6.98%) IBM
10 6 (6.98%) Microsoft