The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sun 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 Vendors for the Cambridge 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 120 107 103
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -4
Permanent jobs citing Sun 3 16 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.165% 0.796% 0.980%
As % of the Vendors category 0.403% 2.192% 3.535%
Number of salaries quoted 1 14 7
Average salary £50,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.82% +6.25%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-11.76% -
All Vendors
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
745 730 594
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 41.05% 36.32% 27.72%
Number of salaries quoted 627 656 532
Average salary £41,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.75% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,661 £30,000 £27,031
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £45,450 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sun
Cambridgeshire

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Sun Salary Trend

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) Solaris
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) Apache
1 5 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (80.00%) OOD
2 4 (80.00%) Internet
2 4 (80.00%) OO
2 4 (80.00%) Perl
3 3 (60.00%) Sybase
4 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (40.00%) Subversion
4 2 (40.00%) Degree
4 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
4 2 (40.00%) QA
4 2 (40.00%) Wiki
4 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
4 2 (40.00%) CGI
5 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
5 1 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (20.00%) J2EE
5 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 1 (20.00%) Advertising

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 2 (40.00%) CGI
2 1 (20.00%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) Apache
1 5 (100.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
1 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (40.00%) Wiki
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) Solaris
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (80.00%) OOD
1 4 (80.00%) OO
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Sybase