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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 744 788 1009
Rank change year-on-year +44 +221 -194
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 146 189 235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.04% 1.19% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 55 79 136
10th Percentile £42,625 - £38,775
25th Percentile £68,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% - +30.00%
75th Percentile £102,500 £83,125 £98,750
90th Percentile £109,000 £100,500 £103,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +22.28% -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 13,973 15,925 30,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.99% 16.06% 18.92%
Number of salaries quoted 10,731 10,713 16,468
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
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 £92,500 £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 18 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 18 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 +37 100 £88,000 +46.67% 21
UK excluding London -46 93 £56,250 +22.28% 19
Work from Home +85 66 £100,000 +29.03% 6
London +95 44 £95,000 +26.67% 4
Wales +36 38 - -
West Midlands +17 15 £105,000 +55.56%
South East -5 15 - - 4
Midlands -7 15 £105,000 +55.56%
South West -17 11 £43,875 +18.58% 7
North of England +11 10 £73,569 +73.10% 2
North West +2 10 £73,569 +22.61% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
East of England +1 1 - - 5
Scotland -69 1 £60,000 +36.75% 2

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 (30.82%) WebLogic
2 44 (30.14%) Oracle Service Bus
3 33 (22.60%) Apache
4 30 (20.55%) Tomcat
5 28 (19.18%) IIS
6 11 (7.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (2.05%) GlassFish
7 3 (2.05%) JBoss
8 1 (0.68%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 47 (32.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 47 (32.19%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (30.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 44 (30.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 27 (18.49%) NEC Housing
3 11 (7.53%) Fidessa
4 4 (2.74%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 28 (19.18%) Azure
2 25 (17.12%) AWS
3 12 (8.22%) GCP
4 8 (5.48%) IaaS
4 8 (5.48%) PaaS
4 8 (5.48%) SaaS
5 6 (4.11%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.74%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (2.74%) OCI
7 2 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.37%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (1.37%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.37%) AWS OpsWorks
7 2 (1.37%) CloudFront
7 2 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.68%) npm
8 1 (0.68%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.90%) Firewall
2 12 (8.22%) DNS
3 11 (7.53%) DHCP
3 11 (7.53%) FIX Connectivity
3 11 (7.53%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.42%) Internet
5 3 (2.05%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (2.05%) SAN
6 2 (1.37%) DWDM
6 2 (1.37%) Ethernet
6 2 (1.37%) GPON
6 2 (1.37%) MPLS
6 2 (1.37%) SDH
6 2 (1.37%) SNMP
6 2 (1.37%) Wireless
7 1 (0.68%) GSM
7 1 (0.68%) HTTP
7 1 (0.68%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.68%) PSTN
7 1 (0.68%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (51.37%) Oracle Database
2 45 (30.82%) Oracle Database 11g
3 44 (30.14%) Oracle Database 10g
3 44 (30.14%) VLDB
4 27 (18.49%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.42%) InfluxDB
6 4 (2.74%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (2.05%) MySQL
7 3 (2.05%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (2.05%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.68%) Dremio
9 1 (0.68%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.68%) Oracle9i Database
9 1 (0.68%) OrientDB
9 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (8.22%) Git
2 11 (7.53%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.85%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.37%) VectorCAST
5 1 (0.68%) Ant
5 1 (0.68%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.68%) JIRA
5 1 (0.68%) Maven
5 1 (0.68%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 61 (41.78%) Finance
2 45 (30.82%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (19.18%) Local Government
3 28 (19.18%) Public Sector
4 27 (18.49%) Police
5 24 (16.44%) Banking
6 18 (12.33%) Social Skills
7 8 (5.48%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.37%) Avionics
8 2 (1.37%) Military
9 1 (0.68%) Back Office
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (56.16%) Applications Support
2 58 (39.73%) Analyst
2 58 (39.73%) Support Analyst
3 55 (37.67%) Applications Support Analyst
4 47 (32.19%) SQL Analyst
4 47 (32.19%) SQL Support Analyst
5 44 (30.14%) Oracle Analyst
5 44 (30.14%) Oracle Support Analyst
6 12 (8.22%) Linux Engineer
7 11 (7.53%) Financial Analyst
8 10 (6.85%) Architect
9 9 (6.16%) Banking Analyst
10 8 (5.48%) Cloud Architect
10 8 (5.48%) Consultant
10 8 (5.48%) Lead
10 8 (5.48%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (5.48%) Project Consultant
10 8 (5.48%) Technical Leader
10 8 (5.48%) Unix Consultant
11 7 (4.79%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.49%) Web Services
2 16 (10.96%) Middleware
3 13 (8.90%) Kafka
4 11 (7.53%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (2.74%) LDAP
5 4 (2.74%) SAML
6 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.68%) Express.js
6 1 (0.68%) J2EE
6 1 (0.68%) MEAN Stack
6 1 (0.68%) MERN Stack
6 1 (0.68%) Node.js
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.68%) React
6 1 (0.68%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 32 (21.92%) Public Cloud
2 18 (12.33%) Replication
3 11 (7.53%) Clustering
3 11 (7.53%) Eurex
4 10 (6.85%) Data Centre
5 8 (5.48%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.48%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (5.48%) Cyberattack
5 8 (5.48%) Data Fabric
5 8 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 4 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (2.05%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.37%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.68%) IoT
9 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 136 (93.15%) Linux
2 133 (91.10%) Unix
3 73 (50.00%) Windows
4 39 (26.71%) Ubuntu
5 23 (15.75%) CentOS
6 13 (8.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (8.22%) AIX
7 12 (8.22%) zOS
8 10 (6.85%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (5.48%) Debian
10 5 (3.42%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.68%) HPUX
11 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (39.73%) Performance Tuning
2 51 (34.93%) Actionable Insight
3 45 (30.82%) Capacity Planning
3 45 (30.82%) ITSM
4 44 (30.14%) Artificial Intelligence
4 44 (30.14%) Performance Monitoring
5 43 (29.45%) Capacity Management
5 43 (29.45%) Incident Management
5 43 (29.45%) Release Management
6 36 (24.66%) Server Management
7 35 (23.97%) Disaster Recovery
8 31 (21.23%) Data Security
9 27 (18.49%) Network Architecture
9 27 (18.49%) Task Automation
10 15 (10.27%) Agile
11 14 (9.59%) High Availability
12 13 (8.90%) ETL
13 12 (8.22%) Identity Access Management
13 12 (8.22%) ITIL
13 12 (8.22%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (42.47%) SQL
2 45 (30.82%) PL/SQL
3 38 (26.03%) Shell Script
4 28 (19.18%) Bash
5 21 (14.38%) PowerShell
5 21 (14.38%) Python
6 13 (8.90%) Perl
7 12 (8.22%) JavaScript
8 11 (7.53%) Ruby
9 10 (6.85%) C#
10 4 (2.74%) Java
11 2 (1.37%) Ada
11 2 (1.37%) Ada 83
11 2 (1.37%) C
12 1 (0.68%) AWK
12 1 (0.68%) Bourne shell
12 1 (0.68%) C++
12 1 (0.68%) Korn
12 1 (0.68%) ProC
12 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 73 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 72 (49.32%) Degree
3 46 (31.51%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.48%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (5.48%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.74%) CISM
5 4 (2.74%) CISSP
6 2 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.68%) RHCE
7 1 (0.68%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (30.82%) SLA
2 27 (18.49%) Accessibility
3 12 (8.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (2.74%) NIST
5 2 (1.37%) DO-178B
System Software
1 45 (30.82%) Oracle RAC
2 12 (8.22%) Docker
3 10 (6.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (6.16%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (5.48%) Firmware
6 4 (2.74%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.68%) Ceph
7 1 (0.68%) LXC
7 1 (0.68%) Shibboleth
7 1 (0.68%) Squid
Systems Management
1 44 (30.14%) Data Guard
1 44 (30.14%) Oracle RMAN
2 21 (14.38%) Ansible
3 12 (8.22%) Terraform
4 11 (7.53%) Kubernetes
5 6 (4.11%) Progress Chef
5 6 (4.11%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.42%) Grafana
7 4 (2.74%) Istio
8 3 (2.05%) Oracle Statspack
8 3 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.68%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.68%) Kibana
9 1 (0.68%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.68%) Opsview
9 1 (0.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.68%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.68%) yum
Vendors
1 107 (73.29%) Oracle
2 45 (30.82%) Sun
3 44 (30.14%) Remedy
4 30 (20.55%) Microsoft
5 29 (19.86%) Red Hat
6 27 (18.49%) NEC
7 16 (10.96%) VMware
8 11 (7.53%) Bloomberg
8 11 (7.53%) CQG
8 11 (7.53%) ION Trading
8 11 (7.53%) Patsystems
8 11 (7.53%) Reuters
8 11 (7.53%) Trayport
9 10 (6.85%) IBM
9 10 (6.85%) Serena
10 5 (3.42%) Qualys
10 5 (3.42%) Splunk
11 4 (2.74%) Google
11 4 (2.74%) PeopleSoft
12 3 (2.05%) SolarWinds