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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 706 736 710
Rank change year-on-year +30 -26 +306
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 29 151 190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.15% 0.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.39% 1.11% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 22 71 78
10th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £43,998
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,250 £85,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +30.07% +0.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £102,500 £80,000
90th Percentile - £107,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £52,500 £65,175
% change year-on-year +33.33% -19.45% +45.89%

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 7,418 13,664 14,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.35% 13.25% 16.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,647 10,218 10,069
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,043 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £31,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% -12.38% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £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 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Top 9 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 16 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
England +59 22 £80,000 -5.88% 14
Work from Home +58 19 £80,000 -17.95% 5
London +78 15 £80,000 -8.69% 3
UK excluding London +73 11 £70,000 +33.33% 14
Scotland +93 5 £56,250 -21.33% 2
South East +71 3 £80,000 +42.86% 3
North of England +39 3 £60,000 +14.29% 3
Yorkshire +47 2 - -
North East - 1 £60,000 - 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 2 (6.90%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) IIS
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.45%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) AWS
1 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
2 1 (3.45%) GCP
2 1 (3.45%) GitHub
2 1 (3.45%) Google Workspace
2 1 (3.45%) IaaS
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.90%) DNS
2 2 (6.90%) Firewall
2 2 (6.90%) SSL
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.45%) DHCP
3 1 (3.45%) FCoE
3 1 (3.45%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (3.45%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (3.45%) iSCSI
3 1 (3.45%) LAN
3 1 (3.45%) Multicast
3 1 (3.45%) NAS
3 1 (3.45%) SAN
3 1 (3.45%) SSH
3 1 (3.45%) VPN
3 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Git
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (24.14%) Finance
2 2 (6.90%) Banking
2 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Electronics
3 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.45%) Marketing
3 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Administrator
1 10 (34.48%) Senior
2 8 (27.59%) Linux Administrator
3 5 (17.24%) Consultant
3 5 (17.24%) Linux Consultant
3 5 (17.24%) Senior Consultant
3 5 (17.24%) Senior Linux Consultant
4 4 (13.79%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Unix Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) DBA
5 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (10.34%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior DBA
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Oracle DBA
5 3 (10.34%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Project Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) SQL DBA
6 2 (6.90%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Middleware
1 3 (10.34%) REST
2 2 (6.90%) LDAP
3 1 (3.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.45%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Clustering
2 5 (17.24%) Data Centre
3 4 (13.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.90%) Replication
5 1 (3.45%) Eurex
5 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (100.00%) Linux
2 21 (72.41%) Unix
3 12 (41.38%) CentOS
4 9 (31.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (20.69%) AIX
5 6 (20.69%) Windows
6 5 (17.24%) HPUX
6 5 (17.24%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (17.24%) Windows Server
7 2 (6.90%) zOS
8 1 (3.45%) Ubuntu
8 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Capacity Planning
1 8 (27.59%) Root Cause Analysis
2 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
2 7 (24.14%) Customer Service
2 7 (24.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (24.14%) High Availability
3 5 (17.24%) DevOps
3 5 (17.24%) Service Delivery
4 4 (13.79%) Agile
4 4 (13.79%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (13.79%) Data Analysis
4 4 (13.79%) Migration
4 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (10.34%) API Integration
5 3 (10.34%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (10.34%) Roadmaps
5 3 (10.34%) Security Hardening
5 3 (10.34%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) Python
2 5 (17.24%) Bash
2 5 (17.24%) SQL
3 4 (13.79%) Perl
4 1 (3.45%) Bourne shell
4 1 (3.45%) C#
4 1 (3.45%) C-shell
4 1 (3.45%) Java
4 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
1 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 7 (24.14%) RHCE
3 4 (13.79%) Degree
4 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) MCDST
5 1 (3.45%) MCITP
5 1 (3.45%) MCP
5 1 (3.45%) MCSA
5 1 (3.45%) MCSE
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.45%) OCP
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (6.90%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (6.90%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.45%) KVM
3 1 (3.45%) NFS
3 1 (3.45%) SRDF
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.45%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Ansible
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle ZFS
2 2 (6.90%) Puppet
3 1 (3.45%) Data Guard
3 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (3.45%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (55.17%) Red Hat
2 10 (34.48%) Oracle
3 9 (31.03%) VMware
4 2 (6.90%) Cisco
4 2 (6.90%) EMC
4 2 (6.90%) Google
5 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.45%) F5
5 1 (3.45%) HP
5 1 (3.45%) IBM
5 1 (3.45%) ION Trading
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.45%) NetApp
5 1 (3.45%) Patsystems
5 1 (3.45%) Qualys
5 1 (3.45%) SAP
5 1 (3.45%) Splunk
5 1 (3.45%) Trayport
5 1 (3.45%) Veritas
5 1 (3.45%) VocaLink