The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 21 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 Cambridgeshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 140 135 133
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Sun 3 18 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.114% 0.627% 0.671%
As % of the Vendors category 0.259% 1.654% 2.193%
Number of salaries quoted 1 15 6
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 £44,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-15.73% +4.70%
All Vendors
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1157 1088 912
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 43.96% 37.90% 30.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1002 988 804
Average salary £40,000 £38,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% +8.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sun
East of England

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Sun Salary Trend

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Cambridge -10 3 £50,500 +18.82%
Sun
East of England

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Apache
2 5 (83.33%) OO
2 5 (83.33%) Tomcat
2 5 (83.33%) OOD
2 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Solaris
3 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (66.67%) Perl
3 4 (66.67%) Internet
4 3 (50.00%) Sybase
5 2 (33.33%) CGI
5 2 (33.33%) Subversion
5 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (33.33%) Degree
5 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
5 2 (33.33%) QA
5 2 (33.33%) Wiki
5 2 (33.33%) Git (software)
6 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
6 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
6 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
6 1 (16.67%) StarTeam
6 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (16.67%) Advertising
6 1 (16.67%) Clustering

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 (33.33%) CGI
2 1 (16.67%) AWT
2 1 (16.67%) Swing
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) JSP
2 1 (16.67%) Servlets
2 1 (16.67%) Struts
2 1 (16.67%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) XSLT
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) Apache
2 5 (83.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (16.67%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
1 2 (33.33%) Git (software)
2 1 (16.67%) StarTeam
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
1 2 (33.33%) Wiki
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Solaris
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) OO
1 5 (83.33%) OOD
2 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Perl
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) Sybase
3 1 (16.67%) Borland