Solaris Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Sun Microsystems Solaris
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 520 552
Rank change year-on-year +76 +32 +256
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 20 65 65
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.099% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.78% 1.43% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 17 27 36
10th Percentile £59,250 £76,000 £35,255
25th Percentile £67,500 £83,230 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £100,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +53.02% +19.71%
75th Percentile - £102,500 £67,178
90th Percentile - £122,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year -5.88% +30.07% +0.54%

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 2,560 4,548 5,538
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.68% 13.19% 15.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,249 3,429 4,153
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,654
25th Percentile £33,250 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,150
Median % change year-on-year - -9.34% +0.27%
75th Percentile £69,750 £65,603 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £91,250
UK median annual salary £43,000 £45,054 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.56% -14.18% -

Solaris
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Solaris as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Solaris trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Solaris
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Solaris.

Solaris salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Solaris
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Solaris over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Solaris salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
1 2 (10.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (10.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) GCP
2 2 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (10.00%) FCoE
1 2 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) iSCSI
1 2 (10.00%) LAN
1 2 (10.00%) Multicast
1 2 (10.00%) NAS
1 2 (10.00%) SAN
1 2 (10.00%) VPN
1 2 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
1 2 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Banking
2 1 (5.00%) Electronics
2 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.00%) Marketing
2 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Administrator
2 7 (35.00%) Linux Administrator
2 7 (35.00%) Senior
3 4 (20.00%) Consultant
3 4 (20.00%) Linux Consultant
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Linux Consultant
4 3 (15.00%) DBA
4 3 (15.00%) Oracle DBA
4 3 (15.00%) Senior DBA
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Oracle DBA
5 2 (10.00%) Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior SQL DBA
5 2 (10.00%) Senior SQL Server DBA
5 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.00%) SQL DBA
5 2 (10.00%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) REST
2 2 (10.00%) LDAP
2 2 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (20.00%) Clustering
2 4 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (15.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (65.00%) Unix
3 11 (55.00%) CentOS
4 4 (20.00%) HPUX
4 4 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
4 4 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (15.00%) AIX
5 3 (15.00%) Windows
6 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
1 8 (40.00%) High Availability
2 7 (35.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (20.00%) Migration
5 3 (15.00%) API Integration
5 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (15.00%) Security Hardening
6 2 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (10.00%) DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (10.00%) Kernel Tuning
6 2 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
6 2 (10.00%) Privileged Access Management
6 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.00%) Server Virtualisation
6 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (10.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Bash
2 3 (15.00%) Perl
2 3 (15.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) RHCE
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) OCP
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) GDPR
1 2 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (10.00%) KVM
1 2 (10.00%) NFS
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (10.00%) SRDF
1 2 (10.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (10.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Puppet
3 1 (5.00%) Data Guard
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle ZFS
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 9 (45.00%) Oracle
3 6 (30.00%) VMware
4 2 (10.00%) Cisco
4 2 (10.00%) EMC
4 2 (10.00%) F5
4 2 (10.00%) Google
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) NetApp
5 1 (5.00%) SAP