The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 23 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 Bristol region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank - 107 81
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 0 7 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol - 0.405% 1.873%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 1.695% 7.527%
Number of salaries quoted 0 7 35
Average salary - £37,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.40%
All Operating Systems
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
429 413 465
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 24.74% 23.87% 24.88%
Number of salaries quoted 391 368 410
Average salary £37,000 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.71% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £23,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £51,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
South West

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 3 (100.00%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) NHS
2 2 (66.67%) MS Office
3 1 (33.33%) Symantec
3 1 (33.33%) Advertising
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) XenApp
3 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 1 (33.33%) SLA
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Windows

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
1 2 (66.67%) MS Office
General
1 1 (33.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) XenApp
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft