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 18 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 427 527 633
Rank change year-on-year +100 +106 +67
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 25 29 72
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.099% 0.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.04% 0.68% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 13 11 41
10th Percentile £52,677 - £36,395
25th Percentile £56,250 £38,084 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £43,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +43.68% -43.87% +24.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £115,000 - £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

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 2,404 4,287 7,713
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.47% 14.64% 16.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,430 3,449 5,603
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,000 £41,047
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,968 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £91,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +0.96%

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 18 February 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 (8.00%) Confluence
1 2 (8.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (8.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (8.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (4.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 7 (28.00%) NEC Housing
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) AWS
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) GCP
3 2 (8.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) Firewall
2 3 (12.00%) DHCP
2 3 (12.00%) DNS
2 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (8.00%) FCoE
3 2 (8.00%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (8.00%) iSCSI
3 2 (8.00%) LAN
3 2 (8.00%) Multicast
3 2 (8.00%) NAS
3 2 (8.00%) SAN
3 2 (8.00%) VPN
3 2 (8.00%) WAN
4 1 (4.00%) IPsec
4 1 (4.00%) SSH
4 1 (4.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) BusinessObjects
2 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (12.00%) InfluxDB
4 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) TeamCity
3 2 (8.00%) JIRA
3 2 (8.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (60.00%) Finance
2 8 (32.00%) Local Government
2 8 (32.00%) Police
3 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.00%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Senior
2 7 (28.00%) Consultant
2 7 (28.00%) Senior Consultant
2 7 (28.00%) Senior Support Consultant
2 7 (28.00%) Support Consultant
3 4 (16.00%) AIX Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) DBA
3 4 (16.00%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Solaris Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Administrator
4 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Senior DBA
4 3 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Oracle DBA
5 2 (8.00%) SQL DBA
5 2 (8.00%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) LDAP
1 2 (8.00%) Middleware
1 2 (8.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Clustering
2 6 (24.00%) Replication
3 3 (12.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (64.00%) Windows
3 10 (40.00%) AIX
4 6 (24.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (24.00%) Unix
4 6 (24.00%) Windows Server
5 3 (12.00%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (8.00%) CentOS
6 2 (8.00%) SUSE
6 2 (8.00%) Ubuntu
7 1 (4.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) High Availability
2 8 (32.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (32.00%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (28.00%) Customer Requirements
3 7 (28.00%) Housing Management
4 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (20.00%) Customer Experience
5 5 (20.00%) Customer Service
5 5 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.00%) Security Hardening
5 5 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 5 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 4 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (12.00%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (8.00%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) SQL
2 8 (32.00%) Bash
3 7 (28.00%) Python
4 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (12.00%) C#
6 2 (8.00%) Java
6 2 (8.00%) Perl
6 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) DBS Check
2 5 (20.00%) Degree
3 4 (16.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) Accessibility
1 7 (28.00%) ISO 9001
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
2 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (8.00%) KVM
3 2 (8.00%) NFS
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (8.00%) SRDF
3 2 (8.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.00%) Xen
4 1 (4.00%) LXC
4 1 (4.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) Ansible
2 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (12.00%) Grafana
3 3 (12.00%) Istio
3 3 (12.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (12.00%) Terraform
4 2 (8.00%) Puppet
5 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (36.00%) Oracle
3 7 (28.00%) Citrix
3 7 (28.00%) NEC
4 5 (20.00%) Google
4 5 (20.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (12.00%) Serena
6 2 (8.00%) Cisco
6 2 (8.00%) EMC
6 2 (8.00%) F5
6 2 (8.00%) HP
6 2 (8.00%) NetApp
6 2 (8.00%) VMware