The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheltenham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 17 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 Cheltenham region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 32 33 27
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -6
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 7 24 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheltenham 3.182% 6.091% 4.082%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.73% 16.22% 14.08%
Number of salaries quoted 7 11 8
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +44.92%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,500 £45,000 £33,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Cheltenham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
51 148 71
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheltenham 23.18% 37.56% 28.98%
Number of salaries quoted 48 101 60
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +16.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £26,550
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
Gloucestershire

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the Cheltenham region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cheltenham Solaris Salary Histogram

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheltenham 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 18 (100.00%) UNIX
2 14 (77.78%) HPUX
2 14 (77.78%) Linux
2 14 (77.78%) Shell Script
3 13 (72.22%) DV Cleared
3 13 (72.22%) Security Cleared
4 10 (55.56%) DHCP
4 10 (55.56%) DNS
4 10 (55.56%) Perl
5 9 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (38.89%) HP
7 4 (22.22%) ISEB
7 4 (22.22%) Citrix
7 4 (22.22%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (22.22%) Oracle 11g
7 4 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (22.22%) Military
7 4 (22.22%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (22.22%) PL/SQL
7 4 (22.22%) SQL
7 4 (22.22%) VB
7 4 (22.22%) Oracle
7 4 (22.22%) C#
7 4 (22.22%) C++
7 4 (22.22%) Java
7 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
7 4 (22.22%) OLTP
7 4 (22.22%) Oracle 10g
7 4 (22.22%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (22.22%) Oracle 9i

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheltenham 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.

Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) DHCP
1 10 (55.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.556%) SAN
2 1 (5.556%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle Reports
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle 9i
1 4 (22.22%) OLTP
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle 10g
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle 11g
General
1 4 (22.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) UNIX Engineer
1 10 (55.56%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Consultant
2 4 (22.22%) DBA
2 4 (22.22%) Technical Consultant
2 4 (22.22%) Administrator
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (5.556%) HPUX Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Speech Recognition
2 1 (5.556%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) UNIX
2 14 (77.78%) HPUX
2 14 (77.78%) Linux
3 9 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
1 4 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (5.556%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) Shell Script
2 10 (55.56%) Perl
3 4 (22.22%) PL/SQL
3 4 (22.22%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) VB
3 4 (22.22%) C#
3 4 (22.22%) C++
3 4 (22.22%) Java
3 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.556%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) DV Cleared
1 13 (72.22%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) ISEB
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle RMAN
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (5.556%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) HP
2 4 (22.22%) Citrix
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle
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