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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 646 772 802
Rank change year-on-year +126 +30 +178
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 41 123 189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.62% 0.87% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17 51 81
10th Percentile £50,500 £42,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £88,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +21.38% +7.41%
75th Percentile £72,500 £102,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +30.43% -12.38%

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 6,581 14,133 16,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.75% 14.40% 15.95%
Number of salaries quoted 4,451 10,947 11,330
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,759 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,375 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.18% -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 26 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 26 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 +133 29 £70,000 -20.45% 16
UK excluding London +156 25 £55,000 -8.33% 11
London +94 14 £80,000 -12.38% 9
Work from Home +126 12 £60,000 -40.00% 15
Scotland +143 10 £60,000 - 3
North of England +85 10 £55,000 -41.88% 2
Midlands +68 4 - - 1
West Midlands +64 4 - - 1
North West +33 4 - - 2
North East - 3 £55,000 -
Yorkshire - 3 - -
South West +108 1 £54,321 +24.16%

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 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (7.32%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.88%) Confluence
2 2 (4.88%) IIS
2 2 (4.88%) WebSphere
2 2 (4.88%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (2.44%) Apache
Business Applications
1 12 (29.27%) NEC Housing
2 3 (7.32%) Fidessa
3 1 (2.44%) iTrent
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.88%) AWS
1 2 (4.88%) Azure
1 2 (4.88%) GCP
1 2 (4.88%) GitHub
2 1 (2.44%) Azure AKS
2 1 (2.44%) IaaS
2 1 (2.44%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.51%) SSL
2 6 (14.63%) Firewall
3 4 (9.76%) DHCP
3 4 (9.76%) DNS
3 4 (9.76%) TCP/IP
4 3 (7.32%) FIX Connectivity
5 2 (4.88%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (4.88%) FCoE
5 2 (4.88%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (4.88%) iSCSI
5 2 (4.88%) LAN
5 2 (4.88%) Multicast
5 2 (4.88%) NAS
5 2 (4.88%) SAN
5 2 (4.88%) VPN
5 2 (4.88%) WAN
6 1 (2.44%) IPsec
6 1 (2.44%) SSH
6 1 (2.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (29.27%) BusinessObjects
2 9 (21.95%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.88%) JIRA
1 2 (4.88%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.44%) Git
General
1 21 (51.22%) Finance
2 13 (31.71%) Local Government
2 13 (31.71%) Police
3 12 (29.27%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.76%) Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.44%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (41.46%) Senior
2 12 (29.27%) Consultant
2 12 (29.27%) Senior Consultant
2 12 (29.27%) Senior Support Consultant
2 12 (29.27%) Support Consultant
3 11 (26.83%) Analyst
4 8 (19.51%) Project Analyst
5 5 (12.20%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Unix Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Administrator
6 4 (9.76%) DBA
7 3 (7.32%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
7 3 (7.32%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (7.32%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
7 3 (7.32%) Applications Support
7 3 (7.32%) Applications Support Analyst
7 3 (7.32%) Banking Analyst
7 3 (7.32%) Financial Analyst
7 3 (7.32%) Senior DBA
7 3 (7.32%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (24.39%) Middleware
2 3 (7.32%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (7.32%) REST
3 2 (4.88%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (29.27%) Clustering
2 3 (7.32%) Eurex
2 3 (7.32%) Replication
3 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 40 (97.56%) Linux
2 26 (63.41%) Windows
3 19 (46.34%) Unix
4 11 (26.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (21.95%) AIX
6 8 (19.51%) zOS
7 7 (17.07%) Windows Server
8 3 (7.32%) CentOS
8 3 (7.32%) Ubuntu
9 1 (2.44%) Mac OS
9 1 (2.44%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (53.66%) Customer Requirements
2 15 (36.59%) Customer Service
3 14 (34.15%) CI/CD
4 12 (29.27%) Housing Management
5 10 (24.39%) Agile
5 10 (24.39%) Continuous Delivery
5 10 (24.39%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (24.39%) DevOps
6 9 (21.95%) Roadmaps
7 8 (19.51%) High Availability
7 8 (19.51%) Operational Stability
7 8 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (19.51%) Technology Roadmap
8 7 (17.07%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (17.07%) Service Delivery
9 6 (14.63%) ITIL
10 5 (12.20%) Data Analysis
10 5 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (7.32%) Client Onboarding
11 3 (7.32%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 21 (51.22%) SQL
2 8 (19.51%) Bash
3 7 (17.07%) Python
4 6 (14.63%) Perl
5 3 (7.32%) Java
5 3 (7.32%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.32%) PowerShell
5 3 (7.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (29.27%) DBS Check
2 6 (14.63%) Degree
2 6 (14.63%) DV Cleared
2 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared
2 6 (14.63%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (29.27%) Accessibility
1 12 (29.27%) ISO 9001
2 10 (24.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (4.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Active Directory
1 3 (7.32%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (4.88%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.88%) KVM
2 2 (4.88%) NFS
2 2 (4.88%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (4.88%) SRDF
2 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.88%) Xen
3 1 (2.44%) Docker
3 1 (2.44%) LXC
3 1 (2.44%) Samba
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) Ansible
2 3 (7.32%) Puppet
3 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 18 (43.90%) Red Hat
2 15 (36.59%) Microsoft
3 12 (29.27%) Citrix
3 12 (29.27%) NEC
4 11 (26.83%) Oracle
5 3 (7.32%) Bloomberg
5 3 (7.32%) CQG
5 3 (7.32%) ION Trading
5 3 (7.32%) Patsystems
5 3 (7.32%) Reuters
5 3 (7.32%) Trayport
5 3 (7.32%) VMware
6 2 (4.88%) Cisco
6 2 (4.88%) EMC
6 2 (4.88%) F5
6 2 (4.88%) Google
6 2 (4.88%) NetApp
7 1 (2.44%) Veritas