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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 607 651 926
Rank change year-on-year +44 +275 +3
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 171 102 194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.85% 1.03% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 57 79 105
10th Percentile - £40,000 £36,395
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,500 £42,751
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £65,351 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.31% +18.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £61,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -13.93% +32.61% -20.00%

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 9,220 9,894 22,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.10% 17.54% 16.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5,234 7,494 14,144
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,188 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +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 14 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Top 14 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 14 November 2024. 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 -3 151 £55,500 -15.07% 9
UK excluding London +2 104 £52,500 -13.93% 14
London +7 50 £85,000 +3.03% 2
North of England +10 37 £52,500 +25.66% 2
North West -18 30 £52,500 -19.66%
Work from Home -8 27 £70,000 +7.11% 7
Midlands -9 22 £110,000 +69.23% 1
West Midlands - 22 £110,000 - 1
South East -18 19 £55,000 -9.84%
Scotland +2 11 £58,750 -10.10% 7
South West +9 8 £52,500 -15.32% 2
East of England -51 7 £52,500 +20.00% 2
Yorkshire +30 6 £72,500 +83.54%
North East - 1 £45,000 - 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 10 (5.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.34%) Apache
2 4 (2.34%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.75%) IIS
4 1 (0.58%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 78 (45.61%) NEC Housing
2 9 (5.26%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.17%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 18 (10.53%) AWS
2 15 (8.77%) Azure
3 7 (4.09%) GCP
4 2 (1.17%) OCI
4 2 (1.17%) WhatsApp
5 1 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.58%) IaaS
5 1 (0.58%) PaaS
5 1 (0.58%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.94%) DNS
2 16 (9.36%) Firewall
3 13 (7.60%) DHCP
3 13 (7.60%) TCP/IP
4 9 (5.26%) FIX Connectivity
5 8 (4.68%) SSL
6 6 (3.51%) SAN
7 2 (1.17%) DWDM
7 2 (1.17%) Ethernet
7 2 (1.17%) LTE
7 2 (1.17%) MPLS
7 2 (1.17%) SDH
7 2 (1.17%) SNMP
7 2 (1.17%) VPN
7 2 (1.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (43.86%) BusinessObjects
2 11 (6.43%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.34%) InfluxDB
3 4 (2.34%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.17%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.17%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.58%) DB2
5 1 (0.58%) MySQL
5 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.34%) Git
1 4 (2.34%) Jenkins
1 4 (2.34%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.17%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.17%) JIRA
General
1 94 (54.97%) Finance
2 78 (45.61%) Local Government
2 78 (45.61%) Police
2 78 (45.61%) Public Sector
3 10 (5.85%) Social Skills
4 9 (5.26%) Banking
5 3 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.75%) Military
6 2 (1.17%) Billing
6 2 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (46.20%) Consultant
2 76 (44.44%) Senior
3 75 (43.86%) Senior Consultant
3 75 (43.86%) Senior Support Consultant
3 75 (43.86%) Support Consultant
4 36 (21.05%) Linux Engineer
5 35 (20.47%) Unix Engineer
6 23 (13.45%) Unix Linux Engineer
7 17 (9.94%) Analyst
8 13 (7.60%) Support Analyst
9 12 (7.02%) Applications Support
10 9 (5.26%) Applications Support Analyst
10 9 (5.26%) Banking Analyst
10 9 (5.26%) Financial Analyst
11 7 (4.09%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
11 7 (4.09%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Analyst
11 7 (4.09%) 3rd Line Support
11 7 (4.09%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
12 5 (2.92%) Administrator
12 5 (2.92%) AIX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.85%) Middleware
2 9 (5.26%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (2.34%) Web Services
4 1 (0.58%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.26%) Clustering
1 9 (5.26%) Eurex
2 6 (3.51%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.34%) Mainframe
3 4 (2.34%) Replication
4 3 (1.75%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.58%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.58%) PKI
6 1 (0.58%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 159 (92.98%) Linux
2 104 (60.82%) Windows
3 80 (46.78%) Unix
4 25 (14.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (9.36%) AIX
6 15 (8.77%) CentOS
7 14 (8.19%) Ubuntu
8 11 (6.43%) Windows Server
9 8 (4.68%) zOS
10 5 (2.92%) SUSE
11 4 (2.34%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (1.17%) HPUX
13 1 (0.58%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.58%) NetWare
13 1 (0.58%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (46.20%) Customer Requirements
2 75 (43.86%) Housing Management
3 12 (7.02%) CI/CD
3 12 (7.02%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (7.02%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (6.43%) Client Onboarding
4 11 (6.43%) Customer Service
4 11 (6.43%) ITIL
4 11 (6.43%) Roadmaps
5 10 (5.85%) Agile
6 9 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (4.68%) Containerisation
7 8 (4.68%) Continuous Delivery
7 8 (4.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (4.68%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (4.68%) DevOps
7 8 (4.68%) High Availability
7 8 (4.68%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (4.68%) Service Delivery
7 8 (4.68%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 85 (49.71%) SQL
2 18 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 17 (9.94%) Bash
3 17 (9.94%) Python
4 13 (7.60%) Shell Script
5 9 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 9 (5.26%) Perl
5 9 (5.26%) Ruby
6 4 (2.34%) C#
7 1 (0.58%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.58%) C++
7 1 (0.58%) Java
7 1 (0.58%) VC++
Qualifications
1 75 (43.86%) DBS Check
2 49 (28.65%) Security Cleared
3 45 (26.32%) DV Cleared
4 26 (15.20%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.43%) Degree
6 2 (1.17%) HNC
7 1 (0.58%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.58%) Dell Certification
7 1 (0.58%) IBM Certification
7 1 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.58%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (45.61%) Accessibility
2 75 (43.86%) ISO 9001
3 8 (4.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (2.34%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (4.68%) Docker
2 5 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.34%) LXC
3 4 (2.34%) Squid
3 4 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.75%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.58%) PowerHA
6 1 (0.58%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 15 (8.77%) Ansible
2 10 (5.85%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.68%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.34%) Grafana
4 4 (2.34%) Istio
4 4 (2.34%) Opsview
4 4 (2.34%) Terraform
5 2 (1.17%) Rancher
5 2 (1.17%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.17%) SCOM
5 2 (1.17%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 1 (0.58%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.58%) Nagios
6 1 (0.58%) nmon
6 1 (0.58%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 80 (46.78%) Microsoft
2 78 (45.61%) NEC
3 75 (43.86%) Citrix
4 51 (29.82%) Red Hat
5 50 (29.24%) Oracle
6 30 (17.54%) VMware
7 9 (5.26%) Bloomberg
7 9 (5.26%) CQG
7 9 (5.26%) ION Trading
7 9 (5.26%) Patsystems
7 9 (5.26%) Reuters
7 9 (5.26%) Trayport
8 8 (4.68%) IBM
9 7 (4.09%) HP
10 6 (3.51%) Splunk
11 4 (2.34%) Google
11 4 (2.34%) Infoblox
11 4 (2.34%) Serena
11 4 (2.34%) Sun
12 3 (1.75%) Dell