Solaris Jobs in the UK excluding London

Sun Microsystems Solaris
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 558 708
Rank change year-on-year +27 +150 -13
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 98 47 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.52% 0.72% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 33 33 51
10th Percentile - £38,084 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £43,000 £38,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.32% +34.78% -1.08%
75th Percentile £56,000 £67,070 £50,000
90th Percentile £73,800 £71,414 £57,500
UK median annual salary £61,500 £65,351 £54,590
% change year-on-year -5.89% +19.71% -9.02%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6,450 6,509 12,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.88% 19.12% 17.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,519 4,641 8,117
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,750 £31,275
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% +2.22% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,123 £61,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Solaris as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in the UK excluding London

Solaris
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Solaris in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Solaris in the UK excluding London

Solaris
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solaris in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Solaris in the UK excluding London

Solaris
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
North of England -3 35 £52,500 +20.93% 1
North West -23 29 £52,500 -19.66%
Midlands -10 22 £110,000 +69.23%
West Midlands - 22 £110,000 -
South East -25 19 £55,000 -22.54%
South West -5 8 £52,500 -15.32% 1
Scotland -1 7 £56,250 -13.93% 4
East of England -49 7 £52,500 +20.00%
Yorkshire +27 6 £72,500 +83.54%
Solaris
UK

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (9.18%) Apache
1 9 (9.18%) Tomcat
2 8 (8.16%) IIS
3 1 (1.02%) IBM Domino
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 40 (40.82%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.12%) AWS
1 6 (6.12%) Azure
1 6 (6.12%) GCP
2 2 (2.04%) IaaS
2 2 (2.04%) PaaS
2 2 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.10%) Firewall
2 4 (4.08%) DHCP
2 4 (4.08%) DNS
2 4 (4.08%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.04%) DWDM
3 2 (2.04%) Ethernet
3 2 (2.04%) LTE
3 2 (2.04%) MPLS
3 2 (2.04%) SDH
3 2 (2.04%) SNMP
3 2 (2.04%) SSL
3 2 (2.04%) Wireless
4 1 (1.02%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (32.65%) BusinessObjects
2 9 (9.18%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.02%) DB2
3 1 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.02%) SQL Server
General
1 40 (40.82%) Finance
1 40 (40.82%) Local Government
1 40 (40.82%) Police
1 40 (40.82%) Public Sector
2 7 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.06%) Military
4 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (34.69%) Linux Engineer
2 33 (33.67%) Senior
3 32 (32.65%) Consultant
3 32 (32.65%) Senior Consultant
3 32 (32.65%) Senior Support Consultant
3 32 (32.65%) Support Consultant
4 31 (31.63%) Unix Engineer
5 21 (21.43%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) Applications Support
7 4 (4.08%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 4 (4.08%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) AIX Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) Solaris Engineer
9 2 (2.04%) Analyst
9 2 (2.04%) Architect
9 2 (2.04%) Support Analyst
9 2 (2.04%) Support Engineer
9 2 (2.04%) Technical Engineer
9 2 (2.04%) Technical Support
9 2 (2.04%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.16%) Web Services
2 5 (5.10%) Middleware
3 1 (1.02%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.16%) Public Cloud
2 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.04%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.02%) Clustering
3 1 (1.02%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.02%) PKI
3 1 (1.02%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 87 (88.78%) Linux
2 59 (60.20%) Unix
3 50 (51.02%) Windows
4 9 (9.18%) AIX
5 7 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (7.14%) Windows Server
6 6 (6.12%) Ubuntu
7 5 (5.10%) SUSE
8 4 (4.08%) CentOS
9 2 (2.04%) zOS
10 1 (1.02%) NetWare
10 1 (1.02%) Windows 10
10 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.65%) Customer Requirements
1 32 (32.65%) Housing Management
2 10 (10.20%) Server Management
3 8 (8.16%) Data Security
3 8 (8.16%) Network Architecture
3 8 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (8.16%) Task Automation
4 7 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (5.10%) Agile
5 5 (5.10%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (5.10%) Service Delivery
6 4 (4.08%) Containerisation
6 4 (4.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (4.08%) Creative Thinking
6 4 (4.08%) Customer Service
6 4 (4.08%) High Availability
6 4 (4.08%) Information Security
6 4 (4.08%) Machine Learning
6 4 (4.08%) Parallel Computing
6 4 (4.08%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 33 (33.67%) SQL
2 12 (12.24%) Shell Script
3 5 (5.10%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.08%) Bash
4 4 (4.08%) Python
5 1 (1.02%) ActionScript
5 1 (1.02%) C++
5 1 (1.02%) Java
5 1 (1.02%) VC++
Qualifications
1 51 (52.04%) Security Cleared
2 42 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 32 (32.65%) DBS Check
4 23 (23.47%) SC Cleared
5 12 (12.24%) Degree
6 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.04%) HNC
7 1 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (40.82%) Accessibility
2 32 (32.65%) ISO 9001
3 2 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (4.08%) Docker
2 3 (3.06%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.02%) PowerHA
4 1 (1.02%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 6 (6.12%) Ansible
1 6 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.04%) Rancher
2 2 (2.04%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (2.04%) SCOM
2 2 (2.04%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 1 (1.02%) Nagios
3 1 (1.02%) nmon
3 1 (1.02%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 42 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 40 (40.82%) NEC
3 32 (32.65%) Citrix
4 31 (31.63%) Oracle
5 29 (29.59%) Red Hat
6 22 (22.45%) VMware
7 6 (6.12%) HP
8 3 (3.06%) IBM
9 2 (2.04%) Dell
9 2 (2.04%) Sun
10 1 (1.02%) Lotus
10 1 (1.02%) Novell
10 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.02%) SolarWinds