Sun
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Sun over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Sun Microsystems, Inc.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 752 672 751
Rank change year-on-year -80 +79 +40
Permanent jobs citing Sun 162 290 544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.30% 0.33%
As % of the Vendors category 0.44% 0.71% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 94 102 175
10th Percentile £23,002 £34,092 £33,300
25th Percentile £32,813 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +11.90% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £74,235
90th Percentile £89,250 £114,750 £95,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,000 £45,000 £44,345
% change year-on-year -13.33% +1.48% -15.53%

All Vendors
UK

Sun is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,727 40,716 64,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.79% 41.82% 38.88%
Number of salaries quoted 24,890 23,574 33,282
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% +3.26%

Sun
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Sun in the UK

Sun
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Sun in the UK

Sun
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Sun in the UK

Sun
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sun 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 -14 131 £50,000 -4.76% 74
UK excluding London -114 110 £39,000 -13.33% 57
London +149 51 £85,000 -19.05% 12
South East -17 45 £46,293 -7.37% 29
Work from Home +52 42 £85,000 +13.33% 26
Wales +24 30 - -
North of England +9 25 £22,145 -47.49% 4
North West -8 16 £22,145 -59.74% 3
Yorkshire +61 7 £22,501 -49.26% 1
South West -32 5 £28,500 -50.43% 11
Midlands -32 4 £44,500 -15.24% 6
West Midlands -9 2 £44,500 -15.24% 3
North East -13 2 - -
East Midlands -23 2 - - 3
East of England -4 1 £51,500 - 4

Sun
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 44 (27.16%) Oracle Service Bus
1 44 (27.16%) WebLogic
2 23 (14.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (8.64%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.62%) Apache
4 1 (0.62%) CMS
4 1 (0.62%) IBM Domino
4 1 (0.62%) Tomcat
Applications
1 47 (29.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 47 (29.01%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (27.78%) MS Visio
3 9 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.62%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.62%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 44 (27.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (5.56%) Primavera
3 6 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.85%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (1.85%) Infor SunSystems
4 3 (1.85%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.62%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.62%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.62%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 34 (20.99%) Azure
2 31 (19.14%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (12.35%) Entra ID
4 7 (4.32%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.70%) AWS
5 6 (3.70%) Power Automate
5 6 (3.70%) PowerApps
6 5 (3.09%) GitHub
6 5 (3.09%) OneDrive
7 3 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.62%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.70%) Firewall
2 4 (2.47%) Network Security
3 3 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.23%) LAN
4 2 (1.23%) SMTP
4 2 (1.23%) VPN
4 2 (1.23%) WAN
4 2 (1.23%) Wireless
5 1 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.62%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.62%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.62%) DMZ
5 1 (0.62%) HTTP
5 1 (0.62%) MPLS
5 1 (0.62%) NX-OS
5 1 (0.62%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.62%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.62%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (27.16%) Oracle Database
1 44 (27.16%) Oracle Database 10g
1 44 (27.16%) Oracle Database 11g
1 44 (27.16%) VLDB
2 10 (6.17%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (1.85%) Tableau
5 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.62%) MySQL
5 1 (0.62%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (11.73%) JIRA
2 6 (3.70%) Visual Studio
3 5 (3.09%) Git
3 5 (3.09%) GitLab
General
1 56 (34.57%) Social Skills
2 48 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (19.75%) Finance
4 18 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.56%) Banking
5 9 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (4.94%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.85%) Law
8 2 (1.23%) Prime Brokerage
8 2 (1.23%) Retail
9 1 (0.62%) Back Office
9 1 (0.62%) Billing
9 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 72 (44.44%) Analyst
2 49 (30.25%) Applications Support
3 47 (29.01%) Applications Support Analyst
3 47 (29.01%) Support Analyst
4 44 (27.16%) Oracle Analyst
4 44 (27.16%) Oracle Support Analyst
4 44 (27.16%) SQL Analyst
4 44 (27.16%) SQL Support Analyst
5 17 (10.49%) Lead
6 13 (8.02%) Systems Analyst
7 8 (4.94%) Infrastructure Manager
7 8 (4.94%) Project Planner
8 6 (3.70%) Consultant
8 6 (3.70%) Database Analyst
8 6 (3.70%) Senior
8 6 (3.70%) Support Technician
8 6 (3.70%) Team Leader
8 6 (3.70%) Technical Consultant
9 5 (3.09%) Service Analyst
9 5 (3.09%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.64%) EDI
2 6 (3.70%) Web Services
3 2 (1.23%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.62%) .NET
4 1 (0.62%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.62%) XML
4 1 (0.62%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.11%) Clustering
2 9 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.09%) Driving Licence
4 3 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.23%) Grid Computing
5 2 (1.23%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.23%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.62%) Blackberry
6 1 (0.62%) CCTV
6 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.62%) Derivative
6 1 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.62%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.62%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.62%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 57 (35.19%) Linux
2 49 (30.25%) Unix
3 46 (28.40%) Solaris
4 35 (21.60%) Windows
5 27 (16.67%) Windows Server
6 9 (5.56%) Android
7 6 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (3.09%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.85%) Windows 10
10 2 (1.23%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.62%) AIX
11 1 (0.62%) HPUX
11 1 (0.62%) NetWare
11 1 (0.62%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (32.10%) ITSM
2 46 (28.40%) Artificial Intelligence
3 44 (27.16%) Capacity Management
3 44 (27.16%) Capacity Planning
3 44 (27.16%) Performance Monitoring
3 44 (27.16%) Performance Tuning
3 44 (27.16%) Release Management
4 43 (26.54%) Actionable Insight
4 43 (26.54%) Incident Management
5 22 (13.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (12.96%) Information Security
7 20 (12.35%) Backlog Management
7 20 (12.35%) Resource Management
7 20 (12.35%) Systems Engineering
8 18 (11.11%) Performance Management
9 17 (10.49%) Customer Service
10 13 (8.02%) Project Management
10 13 (8.02%) Service Delivery
11 12 (7.41%) Asset Management
11 12 (7.41%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 56 (34.57%) SQL
2 44 (27.16%) PL/SQL
3 31 (19.14%) PowerShell
4 10 (6.17%) Python
5 9 (5.56%) T-SQL
6 7 (4.32%) Bash
7 5 (3.09%) Korn
7 5 (3.09%) Perl
7 5 (3.09%) Ruby
8 2 (1.23%) Java
8 2 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.62%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.62%) C++
9 1 (0.62%) VC++
Qualifications
1 54 (33.33%) Degree
2 45 (27.78%) SC Cleared
2 45 (27.78%) Security Cleared
3 26 (16.05%) DBS Check
4 14 (8.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (4.94%) APMG
6 7 (4.32%) A+ Certification
6 7 (4.32%) ACCA
6 7 (4.32%) CIMA
7 5 (3.09%) Server+ Certification
8 2 (1.23%) HNC
9 1 (0.62%) CCNP
9 1 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (30.25%) SLA
2 3 (1.85%) ISO 14001
2 3 (1.85%) ISO 9001
2 3 (1.85%) QA
3 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.62%) NIST
System Software
1 44 (27.16%) Oracle RAC
2 28 (17.28%) Active Directory
3 20 (12.35%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (27.16%) Data Guard
1 44 (27.16%) Oracle RMAN
2 20 (12.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (12.35%) Single Sign-On
2 20 (12.35%) vCenter Server
3 18 (11.11%) Microsoft Clustering
4 6 (3.70%) Ansible
5 5 (3.09%) Puppet
5 5 (3.09%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.62%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 54 (33.33%) Oracle
2 44 (27.16%) Remedy
3 26 (16.05%) Microsoft
4 23 (14.20%) VMware
5 20 (12.35%) Commvault
5 20 (12.35%) ServiceNow
6 9 (5.56%) Dell
7 6 (3.70%) Red Hat
8 5 (3.09%) IBM
8 5 (3.09%) TOWER Software
9 4 (2.47%) Cisco
9 4 (2.47%) EMC
10 3 (1.85%) Apple
10 3 (1.85%) Epicor
10 3 (1.85%) HP
10 3 (1.85%) IFS
10 3 (1.85%) Infor
10 3 (1.85%) JD Edwards
10 3 (1.85%) Sage
10 3 (1.85%) SAP