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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 767 782 1001
Rank change year-on-year +15 +219 -183
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 135 191 228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.96% 1.18% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 50 81 132
10th Percentile £42,588 - £40,000
25th Percentile £77,500 £40,000 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,000 £65,000 £65,750
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% -1.14% +31.50%
75th Percentile £102,500 £85,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £107,750 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +30.43% -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 14,033 16,182 29,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.16% 15.97% 18.98%
Number of salaries quoted 10,810 10,929 16,503
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
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 9 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 9 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 89 £88,000 +47.90% 18
UK excluding London -20 86 £60,000 +30.43% 18
Work from Home +77 60 £100,000 +29.03% 3
London +86 40 £100,000 +25.00% 1
Wales +33 38 - -
South East -6 15 - - 2
West Midlands +14 12 £105,000 +55.56% 1
Midlands -11 12 £105,000 +55.56% 1
South West -13 10 £43,750 +18.24% 5
North of England +9 7 £94,637 +110.30% 2
North West +8 7 £94,637 +57.73% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
East of England +17 1 - - 5
Scotland -72 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 45 (33.33%) WebLogic
2 44 (32.59%) Oracle Service Bus
3 27 (20.00%) Apache
4 24 (17.78%) Tomcat
5 22 (16.30%) IIS
6 11 (8.15%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (2.22%) GlassFish
7 3 (2.22%) JBoss
8 1 (0.74%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 47 (34.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 47 (34.81%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (32.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 44 (32.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 21 (15.56%) NEC Housing
3 11 (8.15%) Fidessa
4 4 (2.96%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 27 (20.00%) Azure
2 24 (17.78%) AWS
3 11 (8.15%) GCP
4 7 (5.19%) IaaS
4 7 (5.19%) PaaS
4 7 (5.19%) SaaS
5 6 (4.44%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.96%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (2.96%) OCI
7 2 (1.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.48%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (1.48%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.48%) AWS OpsWorks
7 2 (1.48%) CloudFront
7 2 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.74%) npm
8 1 (0.74%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.63%) Firewall
2 11 (8.15%) DHCP
2 11 (8.15%) DNS
2 11 (8.15%) FIX Connectivity
2 11 (8.15%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.70%) Internet
4 3 (2.22%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.48%) DWDM
5 2 (1.48%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.48%) GPON
5 2 (1.48%) MPLS
5 2 (1.48%) SAN
5 2 (1.48%) SDH
5 2 (1.48%) SNMP
5 2 (1.48%) Wireless
6 1 (0.74%) GSM
6 1 (0.74%) HTTP
6 1 (0.74%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.74%) PSTN
6 1 (0.74%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (51.11%) Oracle Database
2 45 (33.33%) Oracle Database 11g
3 44 (32.59%) Oracle Database 10g
3 44 (32.59%) VLDB
4 27 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.70%) InfluxDB
6 4 (2.96%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (2.22%) MySQL
7 3 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (2.22%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.74%) Dremio
9 1 (0.74%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.74%) Oracle9i Database
9 1 (0.74%) OrientDB
9 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (8.89%) Git
2 11 (8.15%) Jenkins
3 10 (7.41%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.48%) VectorCAST
5 1 (0.74%) Ant
5 1 (0.74%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.74%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.74%) JIRA
5 1 (0.74%) Maven
5 1 (0.74%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.74%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 54 (40.00%) Finance
2 45 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (17.78%) Banking
4 22 (16.30%) Local Government
4 22 (16.30%) Public Sector
5 21 (15.56%) Police
6 18 (13.33%) Social Skills
7 8 (5.93%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.48%) Avionics
8 2 (1.48%) Military
9 1 (0.74%) Back Office
9 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (56.30%) Applications Support
2 58 (42.96%) Analyst
2 58 (42.96%) Support Analyst
3 55 (40.74%) Applications Support Analyst
4 47 (34.81%) SQL Analyst
4 47 (34.81%) SQL Support Analyst
5 44 (32.59%) Oracle Analyst
5 44 (32.59%) Oracle Support Analyst
6 11 (8.15%) Financial Analyst
7 10 (7.41%) Linux Engineer
8 9 (6.67%) Architect
8 9 (6.67%) Banking Analyst
9 8 (5.93%) Consultant
9 8 (5.93%) Lead
9 8 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (5.93%) Project Consultant
9 8 (5.93%) Technical Leader
9 8 (5.93%) Unix Consultant
10 7 (5.19%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
10 7 (5.19%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.56%) Web Services
2 15 (11.11%) Middleware
3 13 (9.63%) Kafka
4 11 (8.15%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (2.96%) LDAP
5 4 (2.96%) SAML
6 1 (0.74%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.74%) Express.js
6 1 (0.74%) J2EE
6 1 (0.74%) MEAN Stack
6 1 (0.74%) MERN Stack
6 1 (0.74%) Node.js
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.74%) React
6 1 (0.74%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (19.26%) Public Cloud
2 18 (13.33%) Replication
3 11 (8.15%) Clustering
3 11 (8.15%) Eurex
4 10 (7.41%) Data Centre
5 8 (5.93%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (5.93%) Cyberattack
5 8 (5.93%) Data Fabric
5 8 (5.93%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (5.19%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 4 (2.96%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (2.22%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.48%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.74%) IoT
10 1 (0.74%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 125 (92.59%) Linux
2 122 (90.37%) Unix
3 66 (48.89%) Windows
4 38 (28.15%) Ubuntu
5 23 (17.04%) CentOS
6 12 (8.89%) zOS
7 11 (8.15%) AIX
7 11 (8.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (7.41%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (5.93%) Debian
10 5 (3.70%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.74%) HPUX
11 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (42.96%) Performance Tuning
2 51 (37.78%) Actionable Insight
3 45 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 45 (33.33%) ITSM
4 44 (32.59%) Artificial Intelligence
4 44 (32.59%) Performance Monitoring
5 43 (31.85%) Capacity Management
5 43 (31.85%) Incident Management
5 43 (31.85%) Release Management
6 35 (25.93%) Disaster Recovery
7 29 (21.48%) Server Management
8 25 (18.52%) Data Security
9 21 (15.56%) Network Architecture
9 21 (15.56%) Task Automation
10 14 (10.37%) Agile
10 14 (10.37%) High Availability
11 13 (9.63%) ETL
12 12 (8.89%) ITIL
12 12 (8.89%) Key Management
13 11 (8.15%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 62 (45.93%) SQL
2 45 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 30 (22.22%) Shell Script
4 28 (20.74%) Bash
5 21 (15.56%) PowerShell
5 21 (15.56%) Python
6 13 (9.63%) Perl
7 12 (8.89%) JavaScript
8 11 (8.15%) Ruby
9 10 (7.41%) C#
10 4 (2.96%) Java
11 2 (1.48%) Ada
11 2 (1.48%) Ada 83
11 2 (1.48%) C
12 1 (0.74%) AWK
12 1 (0.74%) Bourne shell
12 1 (0.74%) C++
12 1 (0.74%) Korn
12 1 (0.74%) ProC
12 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 66 (48.89%) Degree
2 65 (48.15%) Security Cleared
3 44 (32.59%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.19%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (5.19%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.96%) CISM
5 4 (2.96%) CISSP
6 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.74%) RHCE
6 1 (0.74%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (32.59%) SLA
2 21 (15.56%) Accessibility
3 12 (8.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (2.96%) NIST
5 2 (1.48%) DO-178B
System Software
1 45 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
2 12 (8.89%) Docker
3 10 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.93%) Firmware
4 8 (5.93%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.96%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.74%) Ceph
6 1 (0.74%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 44 (32.59%) Data Guard
1 44 (32.59%) Oracle RMAN
2 20 (14.81%) Ansible
3 12 (8.89%) Terraform
4 11 (8.15%) Kubernetes
5 6 (4.44%) Progress Chef
6 5 (3.70%) Grafana
6 5 (3.70%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.96%) Istio
8 3 (2.22%) Oracle Statspack
8 3 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.74%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.74%) Kibana
9 1 (0.74%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.74%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.74%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.74%) yum
Vendors
1 100 (74.07%) Oracle
2 45 (33.33%) Sun
3 44 (32.59%) Remedy
4 25 (18.52%) Red Hat
5 24 (17.78%) Microsoft
6 21 (15.56%) NEC
7 14 (10.37%) VMware
8 11 (8.15%) Bloomberg
8 11 (8.15%) CQG
8 11 (8.15%) ION Trading
8 11 (8.15%) Patsystems
8 11 (8.15%) Reuters
8 11 (8.15%) Trayport
9 10 (7.41%) Serena
10 9 (6.67%) IBM
11 5 (3.70%) Qualys
12 4 (2.96%) Google
12 4 (2.96%) PeopleSoft
12 4 (2.96%) Splunk
13 3 (2.22%) New Relic