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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 757 785 1006
Rank change year-on-year +28 +221 -168
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 139 190 232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.00% 1.18% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 51 80 135
10th Percentile £42,625 - £40,000
25th Percentile £77,500 £40,000 £43,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,000 £68,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% +5.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile £102,500 £82,188 £98,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,125 £103,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,319 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +68.08% -8.00% +7.53%

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 13,954 16,054 30,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.09% 16.00% 18.96%
Number of salaries quoted 10,737 10,834 16,632
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £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 May 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 May 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 +21 93 £91,319 +52.20% 18
UK excluding London -35 89 £77,319 +68.08% 19
Work from Home +82 63 £100,000 +29.03% 3
London +110 41 £100,000 +29.03% 1
Wales +42 38 - -
South East -1 15 - - 2
West Midlands +10 14 £105,000 +55.56% 1
Midlands +6 14 £105,000 +55.56% 1
South West -16 10 £43,750 +18.24% 7
North West -1 8 £94,637 +57.73% 2
North of England -10 8 £94,637 +110.30% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
East of England +1 1 - - 4
Scotland -60 1 £60,000 +36.75% 3

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 45 (32.37%) WebLogic
2 44 (31.65%) Oracle Service Bus
3 30 (21.58%) Apache
4 27 (19.42%) Tomcat
5 25 (17.99%) IIS
6 11 (7.91%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (2.16%) GlassFish
7 3 (2.16%) JBoss
8 1 (0.72%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 47 (33.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 47 (33.81%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (31.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 44 (31.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 24 (17.27%) NEC Housing
3 11 (7.91%) Fidessa
4 4 (2.88%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 28 (20.14%) Azure
2 25 (17.99%) AWS
3 12 (8.63%) GCP
4 8 (5.76%) IaaS
4 8 (5.76%) PaaS
4 8 (5.76%) SaaS
5 6 (4.32%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (2.88%) OCI
7 2 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.44%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (1.44%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.44%) AWS OpsWorks
7 2 (1.44%) CloudFront
7 2 (1.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.72%) npm
8 1 (0.72%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.35%) Firewall
2 11 (7.91%) DHCP
2 11 (7.91%) DNS
2 11 (7.91%) FIX Connectivity
2 11 (7.91%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.60%) Internet
4 3 (2.16%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.44%) DWDM
5 2 (1.44%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.44%) GPON
5 2 (1.44%) MPLS
5 2 (1.44%) SAN
5 2 (1.44%) SDH
5 2 (1.44%) SNMP
5 2 (1.44%) Wireless
6 1 (0.72%) GSM
6 1 (0.72%) HTTP
6 1 (0.72%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.72%) PSTN
6 1 (0.72%) SIGTRAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (51.80%) Oracle Database
2 45 (32.37%) Oracle Database 11g
3 44 (31.65%) Oracle Database 10g
3 44 (31.65%) VLDB
4 27 (19.42%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.60%) InfluxDB
6 4 (2.88%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (2.16%) MySQL
7 3 (2.16%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (2.16%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.72%) Dremio
9 1 (0.72%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.72%) Oracle9i Database
9 1 (0.72%) OrientDB
9 1 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (8.63%) Git
2 11 (7.91%) Jenkins
3 10 (7.19%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.44%) VectorCAST
5 1 (0.72%) Ant
5 1 (0.72%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.72%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.72%) JIRA
5 1 (0.72%) Maven
5 1 (0.72%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (41.01%) Finance
2 45 (32.37%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (17.99%) Local Government
3 25 (17.99%) Public Sector
4 24 (17.27%) Banking
4 24 (17.27%) Police
5 18 (12.95%) Social Skills
6 8 (5.76%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.44%) Avionics
7 2 (1.44%) Military
8 1 (0.72%) Back Office
8 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (56.83%) Applications Support
2 58 (41.73%) Analyst
2 58 (41.73%) Support Analyst
3 55 (39.57%) Applications Support Analyst
4 47 (33.81%) SQL Analyst
4 47 (33.81%) SQL Support Analyst
5 44 (31.65%) Oracle Analyst
5 44 (31.65%) Oracle Support Analyst
6 11 (7.91%) Financial Analyst
7 10 (7.19%) Architect
7 10 (7.19%) Linux Engineer
8 9 (6.47%) Banking Analyst
9 8 (5.76%) Cloud Architect
9 8 (5.76%) Consultant
9 8 (5.76%) Lead
9 8 (5.76%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (5.76%) Project Consultant
9 8 (5.76%) Technical Leader
9 8 (5.76%) Unix Consultant
10 7 (5.04%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (17.27%) Web Services
2 16 (11.51%) Middleware
3 13 (9.35%) Kafka
4 11 (7.91%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (2.88%) LDAP
5 4 (2.88%) SAML
6 1 (0.72%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.72%) Express.js
6 1 (0.72%) J2EE
6 1 (0.72%) MEAN Stack
6 1 (0.72%) MERN Stack
6 1 (0.72%) Node.js
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.72%) React
6 1 (0.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 29 (20.86%) Public Cloud
2 18 (12.95%) Replication
3 11 (7.91%) Clustering
3 11 (7.91%) Eurex
4 10 (7.19%) Data Centre
5 8 (5.76%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.76%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (5.76%) Cyberattack
5 8 (5.76%) Data Fabric
5 8 (5.76%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 4 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (2.16%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.44%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.72%) IoT
9 1 (0.72%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 129 (92.81%) Linux
2 126 (90.65%) Unix
3 70 (50.36%) Windows
4 39 (28.06%) Ubuntu
5 23 (16.55%) CentOS
6 12 (8.63%) zOS
7 11 (7.91%) AIX
7 11 (7.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (7.19%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (5.76%) Debian
10 5 (3.60%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.72%) HPUX
11 1 (0.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (41.73%) Performance Tuning
2 51 (36.69%) Actionable Insight
3 45 (32.37%) Capacity Planning
3 45 (32.37%) ITSM
4 44 (31.65%) Artificial Intelligence
4 44 (31.65%) Performance Monitoring
5 43 (30.94%) Capacity Management
5 43 (30.94%) Incident Management
5 43 (30.94%) Release Management
6 35 (25.18%) Disaster Recovery
7 33 (23.74%) Server Management
8 28 (20.14%) Data Security
9 24 (17.27%) Network Architecture
9 24 (17.27%) Task Automation
10 15 (10.79%) Agile
11 14 (10.07%) High Availability
12 13 (9.35%) ETL
13 12 (8.63%) Identity Access Management
13 12 (8.63%) ITIL
13 12 (8.63%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (44.60%) SQL
2 45 (32.37%) PL/SQL
3 33 (23.74%) Shell Script
4 28 (20.14%) Bash
5 21 (15.11%) PowerShell
5 21 (15.11%) Python
6 13 (9.35%) Perl
7 12 (8.63%) JavaScript
8 11 (7.91%) Ruby
9 10 (7.19%) C#
10 4 (2.88%) Java
11 2 (1.44%) Ada
11 2 (1.44%) Ada 83
11 2 (1.44%) C
12 1 (0.72%) AWK
12 1 (0.72%) Bourne shell
12 1 (0.72%) C++
12 1 (0.72%) Korn
12 1 (0.72%) ProC
12 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 69 (49.64%) Degree
2 68 (48.92%) Security Cleared
3 44 (31.65%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.76%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (5.76%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.88%) CISM
5 4 (2.88%) CISSP
6 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.72%) RHCE
6 1 (0.72%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (31.65%) SLA
2 24 (17.27%) Accessibility
3 12 (8.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (2.88%) NIST
5 2 (1.44%) DO-178B
System Software
1 45 (32.37%) Oracle RAC
2 12 (8.63%) Docker
3 10 (7.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.76%) Firmware
4 8 (5.76%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.88%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.72%) Ceph
6 1 (0.72%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 44 (31.65%) Data Guard
1 44 (31.65%) Oracle RMAN
2 20 (14.39%) Ansible
3 12 (8.63%) Terraform
4 11 (7.91%) Kubernetes
5 6 (4.32%) Progress Chef
6 5 (3.60%) Grafana
6 5 (3.60%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.88%) Istio
8 3 (2.16%) Oracle Statspack
8 3 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.72%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.72%) Kibana
9 1 (0.72%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.72%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.72%) yum
Vendors
1 103 (74.10%) Oracle
2 45 (32.37%) Sun
3 44 (31.65%) Remedy
4 27 (19.42%) Microsoft
5 25 (17.99%) Red Hat
6 24 (17.27%) NEC
7 14 (10.07%) VMware
8 11 (7.91%) Bloomberg
8 11 (7.91%) CQG
8 11 (7.91%) ION Trading
8 11 (7.91%) Patsystems
8 11 (7.91%) Reuters
8 11 (7.91%) Trayport
9 10 (7.19%) Serena
10 9 (6.47%) IBM
11 5 (3.60%) Qualys
12 4 (2.88%) Google
12 4 (2.88%) PeopleSoft
12 4 (2.88%) Splunk
13 3 (2.16%) SolarWinds