Sun Microsystems Solaris
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Solaris skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Solaris over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 758 767 992
Rank change year-on-year +9 +225 -164
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 156 185 247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.12% 1.18% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 65 74 140
10th Percentile £48,500 - £38,775
25th Percentile £51,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,610 £61,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.46% -5.38% +30.00%
75th Percentile £102,500 £84,063 £98,750
90th Percentile £109,000 £99,525 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.13% -8.00% +7.53%

All Operating Systems
UK

Solaris is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 13,986 15,669 31,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.63% 16.10% 18.82%
Number of salaries quoted 10,693 10,509 16,510
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

Solaris
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Solaris as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Solaris.

Salary trend for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Solaris over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Solaris in the UK

Solaris
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 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
England +31 110 £87,610 +47.24% 22
UK excluding London -28 101 £52,500 +14.13% 16
Work from Home +81 67 £100,000 +29.03% 12
London +132 46 £87,610 +18.79% 5
Wales +32 38 - -
West Midlands +16 16 £105,000 +55.56%
Midlands -2 16 £105,000 +55.56%
South East -6 15 - - 4
North of England +10 13 £52,500 +31.25% 4
North West +6 13 £52,500 -12.50% 2
South West -14 13 £50,000 - 4
East of England -5 3 £52,000 +15.56% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Scotland -62 1 £60,000 +83.21% 1

Solaris
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 45 (28.85%) WebLogic
2 44 (28.21%) Oracle Service Bus
3 33 (21.15%) Apache
4 31 (19.87%) Tomcat
5 28 (17.95%) IIS
6 13 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.92%) GlassFish
7 3 (1.92%) JBoss
8 1 (0.64%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.64%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 47 (30.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 47 (30.13%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (28.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 44 (28.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 27 (17.31%) NEC Housing
3 12 (7.69%) Fidessa
4 5 (3.21%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 29 (18.59%) Azure
2 26 (16.67%) AWS
3 13 (8.33%) GCP
4 9 (5.77%) IaaS
4 9 (5.77%) PaaS
4 9 (5.77%) SaaS
5 6 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (2.56%) OCI
7 2 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.28%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (1.28%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.28%) AWS OpsWorks
7 2 (1.28%) CloudFront
7 2 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.64%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.97%) DNS
1 14 (8.97%) Firewall
2 12 (7.69%) DHCP
2 12 (7.69%) FIX Connectivity
2 12 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.56%) Internet
3 4 (2.56%) SAN
4 3 (1.92%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.28%) DWDM
5 2 (1.28%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.28%) GPON
5 2 (1.28%) MPLS
5 2 (1.28%) SDH
5 2 (1.28%) SNMP
5 2 (1.28%) Wireless
6 1 (0.64%) GSM
6 1 (0.64%) HTTP
6 1 (0.64%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.64%) PSTN
6 1 (0.64%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (48.08%) Oracle Database
2 45 (28.85%) Oracle Database 11g
3 44 (28.21%) Oracle Database 10g
3 44 (28.21%) VLDB
4 29 (18.59%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.21%) InfluxDB
6 4 (2.56%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (1.92%) MySQL
7 3 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.92%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.64%) Dremio
9 1 (0.64%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.64%) Oracle9i Database
9 1 (0.64%) OrientDB
9 1 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (7.69%) Git
2 11 (7.05%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.41%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.28%) VectorCAST
5 1 (0.64%) Ant
5 1 (0.64%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.64%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.64%) JIRA
5 1 (0.64%) Maven
5 1 (0.64%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.64%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 63 (40.38%) Finance
2 45 (28.85%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (17.95%) Local Government
3 28 (17.95%) Public Sector
4 27 (17.31%) Police
5 25 (16.03%) Banking
6 18 (11.54%) Social Skills
7 8 (5.13%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.28%) Avionics
8 2 (1.28%) Military
9 1 (0.64%) Back Office
9 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (53.21%) Applications Support
2 59 (37.82%) Analyst
2 59 (37.82%) Support Analyst
3 56 (35.90%) Applications Support Analyst
4 47 (30.13%) SQL Analyst
4 47 (30.13%) SQL Support Analyst
5 44 (28.21%) Oracle Analyst
5 44 (28.21%) Oracle Support Analyst
6 18 (11.54%) Linux Engineer
7 12 (7.69%) Financial Analyst
8 11 (7.05%) Architect
9 10 (6.41%) Banking Analyst
10 9 (5.77%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (5.77%) Unix Engineer
10 9 (5.77%) Unix Linux Engineer
11 8 (5.13%) Lead
11 8 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.13%) Project Consultant
11 8 (5.13%) Technical Leader
11 8 (5.13%) Unix Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (17.31%) Web Services
2 17 (10.90%) Middleware
3 13 (8.33%) Kafka
4 12 (7.69%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (2.56%) LDAP
5 4 (2.56%) SAML
6 1 (0.64%) .NET
6 1 (0.64%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.64%) Express.js
6 1 (0.64%) J2EE
6 1 (0.64%) MEAN Stack
6 1 (0.64%) MERN Stack
6 1 (0.64%) Node.js
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.64%) React
6 1 (0.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 32 (20.51%) Public Cloud
2 18 (11.54%) Replication
3 12 (7.69%) Eurex
4 11 (7.05%) Clustering
5 10 (6.41%) Data Centre
6 9 (5.77%) Cloud Native
7 8 (5.13%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (5.13%) Cyberattack
7 8 (5.13%) Data Fabric
7 8 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (3.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (2.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (2.56%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.56%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.28%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.28%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.64%) IoT
11 1 (0.64%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 146 (93.59%) Linux
2 143 (91.67%) Unix
3 74 (47.44%) Windows
4 39 (25.00%) Ubuntu
5 24 (15.38%) CentOS
6 15 (9.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (8.33%) AIX
8 12 (7.69%) zOS
9 10 (6.41%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (3.85%) Debian
11 5 (3.21%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.64%) HPUX
12 1 (0.64%) NetWare
12 1 (0.64%) SUSE
12 1 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (37.18%) Performance Tuning
2 51 (32.69%) Actionable Insight
3 45 (28.85%) Capacity Planning
3 45 (28.85%) ITSM
4 44 (28.21%) Artificial Intelligence
4 44 (28.21%) Performance Monitoring
5 43 (27.56%) Capacity Management
5 43 (27.56%) Incident Management
5 43 (27.56%) Release Management
6 37 (23.72%) Server Management
7 36 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
8 31 (19.87%) Data Security
9 27 (17.31%) Network Architecture
9 27 (17.31%) Task Automation
10 17 (10.90%) Agile
11 14 (8.97%) High Availability
11 14 (8.97%) ITIL
12 13 (8.33%) ETL
12 13 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
13 12 (7.69%) Client Onboarding
Programming Languages
1 63 (40.38%) SQL
2 45 (28.85%) PL/SQL
3 39 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 28 (17.95%) Bash
5 22 (14.10%) PowerShell
5 22 (14.10%) Python
6 14 (8.97%) Perl
7 13 (8.33%) JavaScript
8 12 (7.69%) Ruby
9 10 (6.41%) C#
10 5 (3.21%) Java
11 2 (1.28%) Ada
11 2 (1.28%) Ada 83
11 2 (1.28%) C
11 2 (1.28%) C++
12 1 (0.64%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.64%) Korn
12 1 (0.64%) ProC
12 1 (0.64%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.64%) VC++
Qualifications
1 80 (51.28%) Security Cleared
2 72 (46.15%) Degree
3 53 (33.97%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.77%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (5.77%) Azure Certification
4 9 (5.77%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.56%) CISM
5 4 (2.56%) CISSP
6 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.64%) RHCE
6 1 (0.64%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (29.49%) SLA
2 27 (17.31%) Accessibility
3 12 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (2.56%) NIST
5 2 (1.28%) DO-178B
System Software
1 45 (28.85%) Oracle RAC
2 12 (7.69%) Docker
3 11 (7.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (6.41%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (5.13%) Firmware
6 5 (3.21%) Active Directory
7 2 (1.28%) LXC
7 2 (1.28%) Squid
8 1 (0.64%) Ceph
8 1 (0.64%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.64%) Shibboleth
8 1 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 44 (28.21%) Data Guard
1 44 (28.21%) Oracle RMAN
2 23 (14.74%) Ansible
3 12 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 12 (7.69%) Terraform
4 7 (4.49%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.21%) Grafana
6 4 (2.56%) Istio
6 4 (2.56%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.92%) Oracle Statspack
7 3 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.28%) Opsview
8 2 (1.28%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.64%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.64%) Kibana
9 1 (0.64%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.64%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (0.64%) Rancher
9 1 (0.64%) SCOM
9 1 (0.64%) yum
Vendors
1 110 (70.51%) Oracle
2 46 (29.49%) Sun
3 44 (28.21%) Remedy
4 39 (25.00%) Red Hat
5 30 (19.23%) Microsoft
6 27 (17.31%) NEC
7 18 (11.54%) VMware
8 12 (7.69%) Bloomberg
8 12 (7.69%) CQG
8 12 (7.69%) IBM
8 12 (7.69%) ION Trading
8 12 (7.69%) Patsystems
8 12 (7.69%) Reuters
8 12 (7.69%) Trayport
9 10 (6.41%) Serena
10 6 (3.85%) Splunk
11 5 (3.21%) PeopleSoft
11 5 (3.21%) Qualys
12 4 (2.56%) Google
13 3 (1.92%) Northgate