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

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 530 621
Rank change year-on-year +129 +91 +145
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 14 53 55
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.091% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.75% 1.12% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 12 25 27
10th Percentile £52,588 £81,292 £45,550
25th Percentile £55,533 £83,230 £65,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £100,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +29.03% +55.00%
75th Percentile £73,125 £102,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £79,500 £122,500 £107,100
UK median annual salary £61,250 £88,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -30.40% +28.00% +1.85%

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 1,863 4,715 6,576
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.16% 13.94% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,386 3,670 4,829
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -

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 4 May 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 (14.29%) Confluence
1 2 (14.29%) Tomcat
1 2 (14.29%) WebSphere
1 2 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (7.14%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) GCP
1 2 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (14.29%) FCoE
2 2 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (14.29%) iSCSI
2 2 (14.29%) LAN
2 2 (14.29%) Multicast
2 2 (14.29%) NAS
2 2 (14.29%) SAN
2 2 (14.29%) VPN
2 2 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (7.14%) DHCP
3 1 (7.14%) DNS
3 1 (7.14%) IPsec
3 1 (7.14%) SSH
3 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
1 2 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
2 1 (7.14%) Fire and Rescue
2 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Local Government
2 1 (7.14%) Police
2 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Administrator
2 4 (28.57%) DBA
3 3 (21.43%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Senior DBA
4 2 (14.29%) AIX Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle Production DBA
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle SQL Server DBA
4 2 (14.29%) Production DBA
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Oracle SQL Server DBA
4 2 (14.29%) Senior SQL DBA
4 2 (14.29%) Senior SQL Server DBA
4 2 (14.29%) Solaris Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) SQL DBA
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Server DBA
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Production DBA
4 2 (14.29%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) LDAP
2 2 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Clustering
2 3 (21.43%) Replication
3 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (50.00%) Unix
2 7 (50.00%) Windows
3 6 (42.86%) AIX
4 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
5 2 (14.29%) CentOS
6 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
6 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) High Availability
2 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (21.43%) API Integration
4 3 (21.43%) Customer Experience
4 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
4 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Security Hardening
4 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery
4 3 (21.43%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
5 2 (14.29%) Server Virtualisation
5 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Bash
3 3 (21.43%) Perl
3 3 (21.43%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
1 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) RHCE
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 2 (14.29%) KVM
2 2 (14.29%) NFS
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (14.29%) SRDF
2 2 (14.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (14.29%) Xen
3 1 (7.14%) Docker
3 1 (7.14%) LXC
3 1 (7.14%) Samba
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Puppet
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle
1 6 (42.86%) Red Hat
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco
3 2 (14.29%) EMC
3 2 (14.29%) F5
3 2 (14.29%) Google
3 2 (14.29%) NetApp
3 2 (14.29%) VMware