The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 72 52 71
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +19
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 23 32 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 2.124% 3.252% 0.598%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.014% 13.79% 3.333%
Number of salaries quoted 17 31 5
Average salary £50,000 £52,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76% +50.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £40,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £54,500 £57,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
287 232 150
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 26.50% 23.58% 17.94%
Number of salaries quoted 259 206 144
Average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.43% +1.23%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £54,500 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
East of England

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Solaris across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Bedfordshire Solaris Jobs Demand Trend

Solaris
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Solaris across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Bedfordshire Solaris Salary Histogram

Solaris
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Dunstable -12 14 £52,250 -0.47%
Luton 0 9 £54,500 +21.11%
Solaris
East of England

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Solaris also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Solaris.

1 33 (86.84%) UNIX
2 26 (68.42%) Oracle
3 21 (55.26%) Finance
4 18 (47.37%) Linux
4 18 (47.37%) TCP/IP
5 17 (44.74%) HP
6 15 (39.47%) Cisco
7 14 (36.84%) Oracle 11g
8 13 (34.21%) Red Hat
9 12 (31.58%) Data Guard
9 12 (31.58%) Oracle RMAN
10 11 (28.95%) SLA
11 9 (23.68%) Banking
11 9 (23.68%) Shell Script
11 9 (23.68%) MS Excel
12 8 (21.05%) DNS
13 7 (18.42%) LDAP
13 7 (18.42%) ITIL
13 7 (18.42%) Oracle RAC
13 7 (18.42%) C-shell
13 7 (18.42%) Capacity Planning
13 7 (18.42%) SSH
14 6 (15.79%) Oracle Application Server
14 6 (15.79%) Bash shell
14 6 (15.79%) PRINCE2
14 6 (15.79%) Perl
14 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
14 6 (15.79%) EMC
15 5 (13.16%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (13.16%) OCP

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Solaris also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Solaris. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (5.263%) Middleware
2 1 (2.632%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (15.79%) Oracle Application Server
2 5 (13.16%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.632%) Apache
3 1 (2.632%) Papyrus
3 1 (2.632%) StreamWeaver
3 1 (2.632%) Exstream Dialogue
3 1 (2.632%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (2.632%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 9 (23.68%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.632%) DOC1
Business Applications
1 2 (5.263%) BASE24
2 1 (2.632%) Exstream
Communications & Networking
1 18 (47.37%) TCP/IP
2 8 (21.05%) DNS
3 7 (18.42%) LDAP
3 7 (18.42%) SSH
4 5 (13.16%) SSL
4 5 (13.16%) SAN
5 4 (10.53%) Firewall
5 4 (10.53%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.632%) NAS
6 1 (2.632%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (36.84%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (13.16%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (5.263%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (2.632%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.632%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 2 (5.263%) PROIV
General
1 21 (55.26%) Finance
2 9 (23.68%) Banking
3 2 (5.263%) Retail
4 1 (2.632%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) DBA
1 12 (31.58%) Oracle DBA
1 12 (31.58%) UNIX Engineer
2 10 (26.32%) UNIX Support
2 10 (26.32%) Support Engineer
2 10 (26.32%) Administrator
3 9 (23.68%) Build Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) UNIX Administrator
4 5 (13.16%) Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Network Architect
6 3 (7.895%) Technical Manager
6 3 (7.895%) Service Manager
7 2 (5.263%) Technical Support
7 2 (5.263%) Operations Manager
7 2 (5.263%) Project Manager
7 2 (5.263%) Developer
7 2 (5.263%) IT Manager
7 2 (5.263%) Support Manager
7 2 (5.263%) Technical Services Manager
7 2 (5.263%) Technical Support Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.632%) Management Information System
1 1 (2.632%) PKI
1 1 (2.632%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 33 (86.84%) UNIX
2 18 (47.37%) Linux
3 3 (7.895%) AIX
4 1 (2.632%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.632%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (18.42%) ITIL
1 7 (18.42%) Capacity Planning
2 6 (15.79%) PRINCE2
3 5 (13.16%) Configuration Management
3 5 (13.16%) Change Control
4 2 (5.263%) Capacity Management
4 2 (5.263%) Performance Improvement
4 2 (5.263%) Service Management
5 1 (2.632%) Risk Management
5 1 (2.632%) Document Management
5 1 (2.632%) Product Management
5 1 (2.632%) Project Management
5 1 (2.632%) PRINCE
5 1 (2.632%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) Shell Script
2 7 (18.42%) C-shell
3 6 (15.79%) Bash shell
3 6 (15.79%) Perl
4 5 (13.16%) AWK
4 5 (13.16%) Korn
4 5 (13.16%) C
5 2 (5.263%) Java
5 2 (5.263%) PL/SQL
5 2 (5.263%) SQL
6 1 (2.632%) Python
6 1 (2.632%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) CCNP
1 5 (13.16%) CCDA
1 5 (13.16%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (13.16%) OCP
1 5 (13.16%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (10.53%) CCNA
3 1 (2.632%) CCDP
3 1 (2.632%) RHCE
3 1 (2.632%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.632%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.95%) SLA
2 5 (13.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (31.58%) Oracle RMAN
2 7 (18.42%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (7.895%) Hyper-V
3 3 (7.895%) vSphere
3 3 (7.895%) VMware ESX
4 1 (2.632%) NFS
4 1 (2.632%) Samba
Systems Management
1 12 (31.58%) Data Guard
2 5 (13.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (5.263%) Tivoli
3 2 (5.263%) ServiceCenter
4 1 (2.632%) BMC PATROL
4 1 (2.632%) OpenView
Vendors
1 26 (68.42%) Oracle
2 17 (44.74%) HP
3 15 (39.47%) Cisco
4 13 (34.21%) Red Hat
5 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
5 6 (15.79%) EMC
6 5 (13.16%) Juniper
6 5 (13.16%) Sun
6 5 (13.16%) VMware
7 4 (10.53%) F5
8 1 (2.632%) BMC
Bedfordshire, South East
Skills essential:* Solaris 8,9,10* Redhat and or OEL* HP Chassis/Blade based server technology * Cisco UCS Server Platform* TCP, IP, DNS, SSH, DNS, LDAP,* Sun/Oracle...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 25 April 2013