The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Berkshire region.

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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 136 151 185
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +34
Permanent jobs citing Sun 73 76 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.375% 1.224% 0.408%
As % of the Vendors category 2.486% 2.483% 0.824%
Number of salaries quoted 70 62 18
Average salary £30,500 £38,000 £46,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-19.73% -18.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £32,500 £31,100
10% offered a salary of more than £67,000 £55,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +1.19%
All Vendors
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2937 3061 2669
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 55.32% 49.32% 49.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2280 2556 2196
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sun
South East

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Sun across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Berkshire Sun Jobs Demand Trend

Sun
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire Sun Salary Trend

Sun
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Sun across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Berkshire Sun Salary Histogram

Sun
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sun within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bracknell -4 35 £30,500 -19.73%
Reading -1 32 £60,000 +53.84% 1
Newbury +14 8 £30,000 -20.00%
Sun
South East

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Sun 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 Sun.

1 126 (82.35%) Linux
2 120 (78.43%) Solaris
3 112 (73.20%) UNIX
4 95 (62.09%) Windows
5 86 (56.21%) Microsoft
6 67 (43.79%) French Language
7 66 (43.14%) Firewall
8 64 (41.83%) Cisco
9 57 (37.25%) TCP/IP
10 55 (35.95%) DNS
11 53 (34.64%) RDBMS
11 53 (34.64%) DHCP
12 52 (33.99%) Red Hat
12 52 (33.99%) Oracle
13 51 (33.33%) German Language
14 50 (32.68%) MCSE
14 50 (32.68%) Microsoft Certification
14 50 (32.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 43 (28.10%) CCNA
15 43 (28.10%) Cisco Certification
15 43 (28.10%) MCSA
15 43 (28.10%) MCDBA
15 43 (28.10%) MCP
15 43 (28.10%) Security Management
16 40 (26.14%) Clustering
16 40 (26.14%) SAN
17 39 (25.49%) AIX
18 36 (23.53%) HPUX
18 36 (23.53%) EMC
19 35 (22.88%) HP

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Sun 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 Sun. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (12.42%) HTML
2 18 (11.76%) XML
3 12 (7.843%) .NET
3 12 (7.843%) Web Services
4 8 (5.229%) JMS
4 8 (5.229%) CSS
4 8 (5.229%) JSP
5 7 (4.575%) Spring
5 7 (4.575%) SOAP
6 6 (3.922%) J2SE
6 6 (3.922%) AWT
6 6 (3.922%) Servlets
6 6 (3.922%) JDBC
6 6 (3.922%) Taglibs
6 6 (3.922%) Apache Axis
7 5 (3.268%) DHTML
7 5 (3.268%) XSLT
8 4 (2.614%) J2EE
9 3 (1.961%) WebSphere
9 3 (1.961%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 25 (16.34%) Apache
2 12 (7.843%) Tomcat
2 12 (7.843%) MS Exchange
3 11 (7.190%) SAS
3 11 (7.190%) IIS
4 5 (3.268%) CMS
4 5 (3.268%) Magento
5 3 (1.961%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.961%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.307%) Confluence
7 1 (0.654%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.654%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 25 (16.34%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.307%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.654%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (0.654%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (43.14%) Firewall
2 57 (37.25%) TCP/IP
3 55 (35.95%) DNS
4 53 (34.64%) DHCP
5 40 (26.14%) SAN
6 12 (7.843%) VPN
6 12 (7.843%) Ethernet
6 12 (7.843%) WAN
6 12 (7.843%) ATM
6 12 (7.843%) LAN
6 12 (7.843%) Frame Relay
7 11 (7.190%) Intrusion Detection
7 11 (7.190%) Cisco ASA
7 11 (7.190%) Wireshark
7 11 (7.190%) tcpdump
7 11 (7.190%) snoop
7 11 (7.190%) FWSM
8 9 (5.882%) Internet
9 5 (3.268%) LDAP
9 5 (3.268%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (34.64%) RDBMS
2 27 (17.65%) DB2
3 7 (4.575%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.575%) Oracle 9i
3 7 (4.575%) Oracle 10g
4 6 (3.922%) MySQL
5 2 (1.307%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (1.307%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 10 (6.536%) Ant
2 8 (5.229%) Eclipse
3 7 (4.575%) Log4j
4 6 (3.922%) JUnit
5 5 (3.268%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (1.961%) Hudson
7 2 (1.307%) Git (software)
7 2 (1.307%) Gradle
7 2 (1.307%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.307%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.307%) ClearCase
7 2 (1.307%) Maven
7 2 (1.307%) Subversion
7 2 (1.307%) Selenium
7 2 (1.307%) JIRA
General
1 67 (43.79%) French Language
2 51 (33.33%) German Language
3 34 (22.22%) Italian Language
4 11 (7.190%) Telecoms
5 9 (5.882%) Spanish Language
6 8 (5.229%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.268%) Marketing
8 3 (1.961%) Finance
9 1 (0.654%) Czech Language
Job Titles
1 71 (46.41%) Support Engineer
2 69 (45.10%) Technical Support
3 59 (38.56%) Technical Engineer
4 58 (37.91%) Technical Support Engineer
5 20 (13.07%) Consultant
6 16 (10.46%) Analyst
6 16 (10.46%) UNIX Support
6 16 (10.46%) Pre Sales Consultant
6 16 (10.46%) Support Analyst
7 13 (8.497%) Sales Consultant
8 12 (7.843%) Pre Sales Engineer
9 11 (7.190%) UNIX Engineer
9 11 (7.190%) UNIX Support Engineer
10 7 (4.575%) Technical Support Specialist
10 7 (4.575%) Technical Specialist
10 7 (4.575%) Administrator
10 7 (4.575%) Support Specialist
10 7 (4.575%) Systems Engineer
10 7 (4.575%) Systems Administrator
11 6 (3.922%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 40 (26.14%) Clustering
2 33 (21.57%) Replication
3 13 (8.497%) Firmware
4 7 (4.575%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (3.922%) Statistics
6 5 (3.268%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.268%) IaaS
6 5 (3.268%) SaaS
7 4 (2.614%) Open Source
8 2 (1.307%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.307%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 126 (82.35%) Linux
2 120 (78.43%) Solaris
3 112 (73.20%) UNIX
4 95 (62.09%) Windows
5 50 (32.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (25.49%) AIX
7 36 (23.53%) HPUX
8 33 (21.57%) SUSE
9 14 (9.150%) Windows Server 2003
9 14 (9.150%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (1.961%) IRIX
11 2 (1.307%) CentOS
12 1 (0.654%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (28.10%) Security Management
2 15 (9.804%) Project Management
3 13 (8.497%) Change Management
4 12 (7.843%) Performance Management
4 12 (7.843%) Web Development
5 11 (7.190%) Problem Management
5 11 (7.190%) Service Delivery
5 11 (7.190%) ITIL
6 9 (5.882%) Validation
6 9 (5.882%) OO
7 8 (5.229%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (5.229%) Data Protection
8 6 (3.922%) UML
8 6 (3.922%) E-Commerce
9 5 (3.268%) Product Marketing
9 5 (3.268%) Time Management
9 5 (3.268%) Web Analytics
9 5 (3.268%) Requirements Analysis
9 5 (3.268%) Content Management
9 5 (3.268%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 31 (20.26%) Shell Script
2 28 (18.30%) C
3 25 (16.34%) Java
4 16 (10.46%) SQL
5 15 (9.804%) Perl
6 13 (8.497%) PowerShell
7 9 (5.882%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.961%) Korn
8 3 (1.961%) Bash shell
9 2 (1.307%) Scala
9 2 (1.307%) C-shell
9 2 (1.307%) Ruby
10 1 (0.654%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.654%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.654%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 50 (32.68%) MCSE
1 50 (32.68%) Microsoft Certification
2 43 (28.10%) CCNA
2 43 (28.10%) Cisco Certification
2 43 (28.10%) MCSA
2 43 (28.10%) MCDBA
2 43 (28.10%) MCP
3 12 (7.843%) Degree
4 2 (1.307%) Sun Certification
4 2 (1.307%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.307%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.229%) SLA
2 4 (2.614%) ISO 9001
2 4 (2.614%) QA
3 1 (0.654%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (18.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (16.99%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 10 (6.536%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (1.307%) Sendmail
4 2 (1.307%) NFS
4 2 (1.307%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (1.307%) Xen
5 1 (0.654%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (5.229%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 7 (4.575%) Nagios
3 2 (1.307%) YUM
3 2 (1.307%) Puppet
3 2 (1.307%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.654%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.654%) HP Data Protector
4 1 (0.654%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.654%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 86 (56.21%) Microsoft
2 64 (41.83%) Cisco
3 52 (33.99%) Red Hat
3 52 (33.99%) Oracle
4 36 (23.53%) EMC
5 35 (22.88%) HP
6 34 (22.22%) Hitachi
7 29 (18.95%) VMware
8 26 (16.99%) Sybase
8 26 (16.99%) Veritas
9 21 (13.73%) JBoss
10 14 (9.150%) IBM
11 13 (8.497%) F5
12 12 (7.843%) NetApp
12 12 (7.843%) Citrix
13 11 (7.190%) Egenera
13 11 (7.190%) Nortel
13 11 (7.190%) Juniper
13 11 (7.190%) Foundry
14 6 (3.922%) hybris
Reading, Berkshire
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Posted: 17 June 2013