Hybrid/Remote Solaris Job Trends

Oracle Solaris
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Solaris skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 422 429
Rank change year-on-year +69 +7 +263
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 9 24 28
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.059% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.69% 0.94% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7 11 16
10th Percentile - £52,500 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £54,817 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £62,500 £49,875
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +25.31% -35.65%
75th Percentile £59,375 £115,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £79,000 - £85,000
UK median annual salary £58,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.20% - +4.17%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Solaris falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,310 2,544 3,174
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.56% 14.72% 15.87%
Number of salaries quoted 947 1,612 2,670
10th Percentile £28,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,875 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.19% -2.05% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £44,000 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.87% +1.00% -4.76%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Solaris and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Solaris job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Solaris
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Solaris.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Solaris

Solaris
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Solaris over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Solaris salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Solaris
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Cohesity
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 2 (22.22%) Front Office
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Linux Support
2 5 (55.56%) Linux Support Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Support Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Applications Support
3 2 (22.22%) Applications Support Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Server Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Server Support
3 2 (22.22%) Server Support Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Support Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Support Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Unix Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Unix Support
3 2 (22.22%) Unix Support Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server Support
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Backup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) CSS
1 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Unix
2 7 (77.78%) Linux
3 6 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (55.56%) Debian
5 3 (33.33%) Windows
6 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Service Delivery
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
2 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) API Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Security Hardening
3 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 7 (77.78%) Bash
3 5 (55.56%) Korn
4 2 (22.22%) C#
4 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) Perl
5 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) SLA
2 2 (22.22%) QA
3 1 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) NetBackup
2 1 (11.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) NetApp
1 5 (55.56%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) Veeam