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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 685 758 775
Rank change year-on-year +73 +17 +221
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 24 154 187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.15% 0.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.34% 1.10% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 18 63 76
10th Percentile £55,000 £50,150 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £87,610 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +43.62% -6.15%
75th Percentile £80,000 £102,500 £82,188
90th Percentile - £109,500 £99,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +14.13% -8.00%

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 7,121 14,027 15,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.85% 13.58% 16.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4,204 10,693 10,460
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £92,000
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 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Top 10 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 30 May 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 +68 19 £78,500 -10.40% 22
Work from Home +69 16 £77,500 -22.50% 25
UK excluding London +105 11 £60,000 +14.29% 23
London +78 10 £80,000 -8.69% 7
North of England +44 5 £57,500 +9.52% 7
Scotland +120 3 £60,000 - 4
Yorkshire - 3 - - 6
South East +75 2 £80,000 - 6
North East - 2 £57,500 - 1
South West +94 1 £54,321 +8.64% 4

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 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 2 (8.33%) Confluence
2 2 (8.33%) IIS
2 2 (8.33%) WebSphere
2 2 (8.33%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (4.17%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) iTrent
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) AWS
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) GCP
2 2 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
3 1 (4.17%) IaaS
3 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (8.33%) FCoE
2 2 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (8.33%) iSCSI
2 2 (8.33%) LAN
2 2 (8.33%) Multicast
2 2 (8.33%) NAS
2 2 (8.33%) SAN
2 2 (8.33%) SSL
2 2 (8.33%) VPN
2 2 (8.33%) WAN
3 1 (4.17%) DHCP
3 1 (4.17%) DNS
3 1 (4.17%) IPsec
3 1 (4.17%) SSH
3 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
1 2 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle APEX
General
1 6 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Banking
3 1 (4.17%) Electronics
3 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.17%) Fire and Rescue
3 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.17%) Local Government
3 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.17%) Marketing
3 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Police
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Retail
3 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Administrator
2 7 (29.17%) Linux Administrator
2 7 (29.17%) Senior
3 4 (16.67%) DBA
3 4 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
4 3 (12.50%) Senior DBA
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Oracle DBA
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Linux Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Oracle Production DBA
5 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Project Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Linux Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Senior SQL DBA
5 2 (8.33%) Senior SQL Server DBA
5 2 (8.33%) SQL DBA
5 2 (8.33%) SQL Server DBA
5 2 (8.33%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) Middleware
2 3 (12.50%) REST
3 2 (8.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Clustering
2 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.50%) Replication
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (95.83%) Linux
2 15 (62.50%) Unix
3 8 (33.33%) CentOS
4 6 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (25.00%) Windows
5 4 (16.67%) AIX
6 3 (12.50%) Windows Server
7 2 (8.33%) HPUX
7 2 (8.33%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (8.33%) zOS
8 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 8 (33.33%) High Availability
2 7 (29.17%) Capacity Planning
2 7 (29.17%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Customer Service
5 4 (16.67%) Agile
5 4 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (16.67%) DevOps
6 3 (12.50%) API Integration
6 3 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 3 (12.50%) Security Hardening
6 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
7 2 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (8.33%) Kernel Tuning
7 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) Bash
3 4 (16.67%) Python
4 3 (12.50%) Java
4 3 (12.50%) Perl
5 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) RHCE
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.17%) OCP
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (8.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (12.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (8.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (8.33%) KVM
2 2 (8.33%) NFS
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (8.33%) SRDF
2 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.33%) Xen
3 1 (4.17%) Docker
3 1 (4.17%) LXC
3 1 (4.17%) Samba
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Ansible
2 3 (12.50%) Puppet
3 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.17%) Data Guard
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Red Hat
2 10 (41.67%) Oracle
3 5 (20.83%) VMware
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco
5 2 (8.33%) EMC
5 2 (8.33%) F5
5 2 (8.33%) Google
5 2 (8.33%) NetApp
6 1 (4.17%) SAP
6 1 (4.17%) Veritas