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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 749 790 999
Rank change year-on-year +41 +209 -171
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 128 188 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.18% 0.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.91% 1.13% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 49 79 133
10th Percentile £42,250 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £41,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% -3.70% +22.73%
75th Percentile £102,500 £81,250 £98,750
90th Percentile £108,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £46,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +30.43% -12.38% +10.53%

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 14,115 16,608 29,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.32% 16.00% 18.94%
Number of salaries quoted 10,920 11,176 16,749
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,500
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 £92,500 £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 2 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 2 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 +21 83 £88,000 +64.49% 15
UK excluding London -27 83 £60,000 +30.43% 12
Work from Home +91 53 £100,000 +29.03% 6
Wales +42 38 - -
London +104 37 £97,500 +18.18% 3
South East +18 16 - - 1
West Midlands +25 10 £105,000 +55.56%
Midlands +5 10 £105,000 +55.56%
South West -18 10 £43,750 +18.24% 3
North West -3 5 £94,637 +57.73%
North of England -4 5 £94,637 +107.99%
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
East of England +12 1 - - 5
Scotland -63 1 £60,000 +36.75% 3

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 46 (35.94%) WebLogic
2 45 (35.16%) Oracle Service Bus
3 20 (15.63%) Apache
4 17 (13.28%) Tomcat
5 15 (11.72%) IIS
6 10 (7.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (2.34%) GlassFish
7 3 (2.34%) JBoss
8 1 (0.78%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 48 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 48 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (35.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 45 (35.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (10.94%) NEC Housing
3 10 (7.81%) Fidessa
4 3 (2.34%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.78%) Adaptiv
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 25 (19.53%) Azure
2 22 (17.19%) AWS
3 11 (8.59%) GCP
4 7 (5.47%) IaaS
4 7 (5.47%) PaaS
4 7 (5.47%) SaaS
5 6 (4.69%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (2.34%) OCI
8 2 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.56%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (1.56%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.56%) AWS OpsWorks
8 2 (1.56%) CloudFront
8 2 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.78%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.38%) Firewall
2 10 (7.81%) DHCP
2 10 (7.81%) DNS
2 10 (7.81%) FIX Connectivity
2 10 (7.81%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.91%) Internet
4 3 (2.34%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.56%) DWDM
5 2 (1.56%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.56%) GPON
5 2 (1.56%) MPLS
5 2 (1.56%) SAN
5 2 (1.56%) SDH
5 2 (1.56%) SNMP
5 2 (1.56%) Wireless
6 1 (0.78%) GSM
6 1 (0.78%) HTTP
6 1 (0.78%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.78%) PSTN
6 1 (0.78%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (49.22%) Oracle Database
2 46 (35.94%) Oracle Database 11g
3 45 (35.16%) Oracle Database 10g
3 45 (35.16%) VLDB
4 26 (20.31%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.13%) InfluxDB
5 4 (3.13%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (2.34%) MySQL
6 3 (2.34%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (2.34%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.78%) Dremio
8 1 (0.78%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle9i Database
8 1 (0.78%) OrientDB
8 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (8.59%) Git
2 10 (7.81%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.03%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.56%) VectorCAST
5 1 (0.78%) Ant
5 1 (0.78%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.78%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.78%) JIRA
5 1 (0.78%) Maven
5 1 (0.78%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.78%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (35.94%) Analytical Skills
1 46 (35.94%) Finance
2 24 (18.75%) Banking
3 18 (14.06%) Social Skills
4 15 (11.72%) Local Government
4 15 (11.72%) Public Sector
5 14 (10.94%) Police
6 9 (7.03%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.56%) Avionics
7 2 (1.56%) Military
8 1 (0.78%) Back Office
8 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (53.91%) Applications Support
2 59 (46.09%) Analyst
3 58 (45.31%) Support Analyst
4 55 (42.97%) Applications Support Analyst
5 48 (37.50%) SQL Analyst
5 48 (37.50%) SQL Support Analyst
6 45 (35.16%) Oracle Analyst
6 45 (35.16%) Oracle Support Analyst
7 10 (7.81%) Financial Analyst
7 10 (7.81%) Linux Engineer
8 9 (7.03%) Architect
9 8 (6.25%) Banking Analyst
9 8 (6.25%) Consultant
9 8 (6.25%) Lead
9 8 (6.25%) Project Consultant
9 8 (6.25%) Technical Leader
9 8 (6.25%) Unix Consultant
10 7 (5.47%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
10 7 (5.47%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Analyst
10 7 (5.47%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.72%) Middleware
2 14 (10.94%) Web Services
3 13 (10.16%) Kafka
4 10 (7.81%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (3.13%) LDAP
5 4 (3.13%) SAML
6 1 (0.78%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.78%) Express.js
6 1 (0.78%) J2EE
6 1 (0.78%) MEAN Stack
6 1 (0.78%) MERN Stack
6 1 (0.78%) Node.js
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.78%) React
6 1 (0.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.84%) Public Cloud
2 17 (13.28%) Replication
3 10 (7.81%) Clustering
3 10 (7.81%) Data Centre
3 10 (7.81%) Eurex
4 8 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (6.25%) Cyberattack
4 8 (6.25%) Data Fabric
4 8 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (5.47%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 3 (2.34%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.34%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.56%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.56%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.78%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.78%) IoT
9 1 (0.78%) VAX
9 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 117 (91.41%) Linux
2 116 (90.63%) Unix
3 59 (46.09%) Windows
4 37 (28.91%) Ubuntu
5 22 (17.19%) CentOS
6 12 (9.38%) zOS
7 11 (8.59%) AIX
8 10 (7.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (7.03%) Oracle Linux
10 8 (6.25%) Debian
11 5 (3.91%) Windows Server
12 2 (1.56%) VMS
13 1 (0.78%) HPUX
13 1 (0.78%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (45.31%) Performance Tuning
2 52 (40.63%) Actionable Insight
3 46 (35.94%) Capacity Planning
3 46 (35.94%) ITSM
4 45 (35.16%) Artificial Intelligence
4 45 (35.16%) Incident Management
4 45 (35.16%) Performance Monitoring
5 44 (34.38%) Capacity Management
5 44 (34.38%) Release Management
6 34 (26.56%) Disaster Recovery
7 22 (17.19%) Server Management
8 18 (14.06%) Data Security
9 14 (10.94%) Agile
9 14 (10.94%) Network Architecture
9 14 (10.94%) Task Automation
10 13 (10.16%) ETL
10 13 (10.16%) High Availability
11 12 (9.38%) Key Management
12 11 (8.59%) Identity Access Management
12 11 (8.59%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 62 (48.44%) SQL
2 46 (35.94%) PL/SQL
3 26 (20.31%) Bash
4 23 (17.97%) Shell Script
5 19 (14.84%) PowerShell
5 19 (14.84%) Python
6 12 (9.38%) Perl
7 11 (8.59%) JavaScript
8 10 (7.81%) Ruby
9 9 (7.03%) C#
10 4 (3.13%) Java
11 2 (1.56%) Ada
11 2 (1.56%) Ada 83
11 2 (1.56%) C
12 1 (0.78%) AWK
12 1 (0.78%) Bourne shell
12 1 (0.78%) C++
12 1 (0.78%) Korn
12 1 (0.78%) ProC
12 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 60 (46.88%) Degree
2 59 (46.09%) Security Cleared
3 45 (35.16%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.47%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (5.47%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.13%) CISM
5 4 (3.13%) CISSP
6 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.78%) RHCE
6 1 (0.78%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (35.94%) SLA
2 14 (10.94%) Accessibility
3 12 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (3.13%) NIST
5 2 (1.56%) DO-178B
System Software
1 46 (35.94%) Oracle RAC
2 11 (8.59%) Docker
3 10 (7.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (6.25%) Firmware
4 8 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (3.91%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.78%) Ceph
6 1 (0.78%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 45 (35.16%) Data Guard
1 45 (35.16%) Oracle RMAN
2 19 (14.84%) Ansible
3 11 (8.59%) Terraform
4 10 (7.81%) Kubernetes
5 6 (4.69%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.13%) Grafana
6 4 (3.13%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.34%) Istio
7 3 (2.34%) Oracle Statspack
7 3 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.56%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.78%) BMC PATROL
9 1 (0.78%) Control-M
9 1 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.78%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.78%) SafeCom
9 1 (0.78%) yum
Vendors
1 93 (72.66%) Oracle
2 46 (35.94%) Sun
3 45 (35.16%) Remedy
4 24 (18.75%) Red Hat
5 18 (14.06%) Microsoft
6 14 (10.94%) NEC
6 14 (10.94%) VMware
7 10 (7.81%) Bloomberg
7 10 (7.81%) CQG
7 10 (7.81%) ION Trading
7 10 (7.81%) Patsystems
7 10 (7.81%) Reuters
7 10 (7.81%) Trayport
8 9 (7.03%) IBM
8 9 (7.03%) Serena
9 5 (3.91%) Qualys
10 4 (3.13%) SolarWinds
10 4 (3.13%) Splunk
11 3 (2.34%) NGA Human Resources
11 3 (2.34%) Northgate