The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 24 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 86 74 55
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -19
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 32 26 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.882% 1.754% 2.679%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.882% 8.050% 12.86%
Number of salaries quoted 21 26 32
Average salary £37,500 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.66% -
UK excluding London average salary £43,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+1.17% +2.40%
All Operating Systems
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
406 323 280
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 23.88% 21.79% 20.83%
Number of salaries quoted 350 304 245
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £24,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
West Midlands

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Birmingham Solaris Salary Histogram

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 61 (82.43%) UNIX
2 54 (72.97%) Linux
3 44 (59.46%) Oracle
4 37 (50.00%) AIX
5 31 (41.89%) SAN
5 31 (41.89%) Shell Script
5 31 (41.89%) VMware
5 31 (41.89%) Finance
6 26 (35.14%) Perl
7 24 (32.43%) SUSE
7 24 (32.43%) ITIL
8 22 (29.73%) SQL
8 22 (29.73%) Red Hat
9 21 (28.38%) Sun
10 19 (25.68%) Veritas
10 19 (25.68%) Java
10 19 (25.68%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 18 (24.32%) Korn
12 17 (22.97%) Degree
12 17 (22.97%) Problem Management
12 17 (22.97%) EMC
12 17 (22.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 17 (22.97%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 16 (21.62%) Symmetrix DMX
13 16 (21.62%) HP
13 16 (21.62%) RDF
13 16 (21.62%) Sybase
13 16 (21.62%) Banking
14 15 (20.27%) Veritas File System
14 15 (20.27%) VMware Infrastructure

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 6 (8.108%) Middleware
1 6 (8.108%) SAP Basis
2 2 (2.703%) CGI
2 2 (2.703%) Java EE
3 1 (1.351%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 13 (17.57%) SharePoint
1 13 (17.57%) MS Exchange
2 12 (16.22%) IIS
3 11 (14.86%) SAS
4 9 (12.16%) Apache
4 9 (12.16%) Tomcat
5 6 (8.108%) TIBCO EMS
6 4 (5.405%) NetWeaver
7 2 (2.703%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (1.351%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 6 (8.108%) BusinessWorks
1 6 (8.108%) TIBCO iProcess
Communications & Networking
1 31 (41.89%) SAN
2 13 (17.57%) VLAN
3 12 (16.22%) Fibre Channel
3 12 (16.22%) iSCSI
3 12 (16.22%) Firewall
3 12 (16.22%) DHCP
3 12 (16.22%) DNS
4 5 (6.757%) SSH
5 4 (5.405%) SSL
6 3 (4.054%) BIG-IP
6 3 (4.054%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.57%) Oracle Exadata
2 7 (9.459%) MySQL
3 5 (6.757%) DB2
4 4 (5.405%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (5.405%) DB2 UDB
5 2 (2.703%) TOAD
6 1 (1.351%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (1.351%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.351%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (2.703%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (2.703%) ProC
2 1 (1.351%) Introscope
General
1 31 (41.89%) Finance
2 16 (21.62%) Banking
3 14 (18.92%) Investment Banking
4 6 (8.108%) Financial Institution
5 3 (4.054%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (33.78%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 16 (21.62%) Administrator
3 9 (12.16%) UNIX Administrator
3 9 (12.16%) Systems Administrator
4 7 (9.459%) Applications Support
5 5 (6.757%) UNIX Team Leader
5 5 (6.757%) TIBCO Support
5 5 (6.757%) SAP Consultant
5 5 (6.757%) Team Leader
5 5 (6.757%) Support Team Leader
5 5 (6.757%) Java Team Leader
5 5 (6.757%) SAP Basis Consultant
5 5 (6.757%) Consultant
6 4 (5.405%) Applications Specialist
6 4 (5.405%) DBA
6 4 (5.405%) Support Engineer
6 4 (5.405%) Support Specialist
7 3 (4.054%) Technical Support Team Leader
7 3 (4.054%) Technical Team Leader
7 3 (4.054%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.62%) Symmetrix DMX
2 13 (17.57%) Wiki
3 2 (2.703%) HACMP
3 2 (2.703%) Computer Science
3 2 (2.703%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 61 (82.43%) UNIX
2 54 (72.97%) Linux
3 37 (50.00%) AIX
4 24 (32.43%) SUSE
5 17 (22.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (17.57%) Windows Server 2003
6 13 (17.57%) Windows
6 13 (17.57%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (2.703%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.43%) ITIL
2 17 (22.97%) Problem Management
3 16 (21.62%) RDF
4 13 (17.57%) Change Management
5 11 (14.86%) Risk Analysis
6 8 (10.81%) Migration
7 5 (6.757%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (6.757%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (6.757%) SOA
8 4 (5.405%) Load Balancing
8 4 (5.405%) Capacity Planning
9 3 (4.054%) Fund Management
9 3 (4.054%) Business Transformation
9 3 (4.054%) Wealth Management
10 2 (2.703%) Incident Management
10 2 (2.703%) Release Management
10 2 (2.703%) Root Cause Analysis
10 2 (2.703%) Capacity Management
11 1 (1.351%) SAP Security
11 1 (1.351%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (41.89%) Shell Script
2 26 (35.14%) Perl
3 22 (29.73%) SQL
4 19 (25.68%) Java
5 18 (24.32%) Korn
6 4 (5.405%) PHP
7 2 (2.703%) C
7 2 (2.703%) C++
8 1 (1.351%) ABAP
8 1 (1.351%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (22.97%) Degree
2 5 (6.757%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.351%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.351%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.054%) SLA
2 1 (1.351%) QA
System Software
1 19 (25.68%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 17 (22.97%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 15 (20.27%) Veritas File System
3 15 (20.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (17.57%) Active Directory
5 12 (16.22%) vSphere
5 12 (16.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 4 (5.405%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (5.405%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (1.351%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 6 (8.108%) Control-M
2 4 (5.405%) Data Guard
3 3 (4.054%) Foglight
4 2 (2.703%) Tivoli
4 2 (2.703%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 2 (2.703%) YUM
5 1 (1.351%) CA Wily
5 1 (1.351%) Netcool/Webtop
5 1 (1.351%) Netcool
5 1 (1.351%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 44 (59.46%) Oracle
2 31 (41.89%) VMware
3 22 (29.73%) Red Hat
4 21 (28.38%) Sun
5 19 (25.68%) Veritas
6 17 (22.97%) EMC
7 16 (21.62%) HP
7 16 (21.62%) Sybase
8 14 (18.92%) IBM
9 12 (16.22%) DataCore
9 12 (16.22%) Microsoft
9 12 (16.22%) Cisco
10 6 (8.108%) SAP
10 6 (8.108%) TIBCO
11 4 (5.405%) Business Objects
12 3 (4.054%) F5
13 1 (1.351%) Nimsoft
13 1 (1.351%) Citrix
13 1 (1.351%) BMC
Birmingham, West Midlands
Knowledge of Oracle, SQL, Unix, Linux, Perl Scripting and Sun Solaris are beneficial but not essential as is a background in bespoke application support... In this role, you...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + + bonus + benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Senior Unix Systems Administrator - £45-55,000 + Bonus + BenefitsOur prestigious Central Birmingham client is looking to recruit an experienced Unix Systems Administrator with a strong technical background and...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
The successful candidate should have experience of supporting Unix, Solaris and Linux Operating systems within large scale production environments. They should also have strong experience of Veritas (VxVM,...
TEKsystems
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Skills required: - Solaris 10 (and earlier releases) - Solaris 10 Zones - Linux (Red hat, SUSE, VMware) - Veritas Cluster Server (Support & Architecture/Deployments) - Veritas Volume Manager (including advanced troubleshooting) - Veritas...
Scope AT Ltd
Salary: £45 - £55 per annum + benefits, bonus
Posted: 22 May 2013