The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 98 110 102
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -8
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 22 14 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.230% 0.727% 0.845%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.059% 2.377% 2.935%
Number of salaries quoted 19 13 12
Average salary £40,000 £46,000 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.04% +18.70%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,800 £39,500 £31,700
10% offered a salary of more than £50,500 £62,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
542 589 477
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 30.30% 30.57% 28.79%
Number of salaries quoted 431 527 396
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £23,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
North West

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

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

Cheshire Solaris Salary Histogram

Solaris
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Knutsford +10 10 £50,000 +25.00%
Chester - 5 £37,500 -
Macclesfield - 3 £38,500 -
Warrington +10 1 £40,000 -36.00%
Solaris
North West

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 67 (97.10%) UNIX
2 63 (91.30%) Linux
3 46 (66.67%) AIX
4 45 (65.22%) Red Hat
4 45 (65.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (40.58%) HPUX
6 19 (27.54%) Shell Script
7 16 (23.19%) Sun
7 16 (23.19%) Java
8 15 (21.74%) HP
8 15 (21.74%) Service Delivery
9 14 (20.29%) Finance
10 12 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (17.39%) Problem Management
11 11 (15.94%) Veritas
11 11 (15.94%) SLA
12 10 (14.49%) Intel
12 10 (14.49%) ITIL
12 10 (14.49%) Apache
12 10 (14.49%) Benchmarking
12 10 (14.49%) Software Packaging
12 10 (14.49%) Performance Management
12 10 (14.49%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 9 (13.04%) Windows
14 7 (10.14%) Flash
14 7 (10.14%) JavaScript
14 7 (10.14%) PHP
14 7 (10.14%) CSS
14 7 (10.14%) XML
15 6 (8.696%) XSLT

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 10 (14.49%) Software Packaging
2 7 (10.14%) CSS
2 7 (10.14%) XML
2 7 (10.14%) Flash
3 6 (8.696%) XSLT
3 6 (8.696%) JDBC
3 6 (8.696%) JSP
3 6 (8.696%) Servlets
3 6 (8.696%) SOAP
3 6 (8.696%) Struts
3 6 (8.696%) Web Services
3 6 (8.696%) JMS
3 6 (8.696%) JAXB
3 6 (8.696%) HTML
3 6 (8.696%) Hibernate
3 6 (8.696%) Spring
3 6 (8.696%) Ajax
3 6 (8.696%) Dojo
3 6 (8.696%) Apache Axis
3 6 (8.696%) GWT
Application Platforms
1 10 (14.49%) Apache
2 6 (8.696%) Tomcat
2 6 (8.696%) Jetty
3 3 (4.348%) IBM HTTP Server
3 3 (4.348%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (2.899%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 1 (1.449%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.449%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (1.449%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.449%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.449%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.246%) LDAP
1 5 (7.246%) HTTP
1 5 (7.246%) SSL
2 3 (4.348%) SAN
2 3 (4.348%) Internet
2 3 (4.348%) NAS
3 2 (2.899%) Firewall
3 2 (2.899%) IMAP
3 2 (2.899%) SMTP
3 2 (2.899%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.899%) VPN
4 1 (1.449%) DNS
4 1 (1.449%) RIP
4 1 (1.449%) SNMP
4 1 (1.449%) SMS
4 1 (1.449%) VoIP
4 1 (1.449%) WLAN
4 1 (1.449%) 802.11
4 1 (1.449%) MPLS
4 1 (1.449%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.696%) MySQL
2 2 (2.899%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.449%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (1.449%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (1.449%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (1.449%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (1.449%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (8.696%) Ant
1 6 (8.696%) JUnit
1 6 (8.696%) Log4j
1 6 (8.696%) Subversion
1 6 (8.696%) Maven
1 6 (8.696%) JIRA
General
1 14 (20.29%) Finance
2 5 (7.246%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.348%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 17 (24.64%) Administrator
2 16 (23.19%) Team Leader
3 15 (21.74%) Linux Administrator
4 14 (20.29%) Analyst
4 14 (20.29%) Systems Administrator
4 14 (20.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 14 (20.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 11 (15.94%) Linux Engineer
6 10 (14.49%) UNIX Team Leader
7 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure Manager
8 4 (5.797%) Senior Support Engineer
8 4 (5.797%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.797%) Applications Support
9 3 (4.348%) UNIX Administrator
9 3 (4.348%) Applications Support Engineer
10 2 (2.899%) WebSphere Architect
10 2 (2.899%) Middleware Architect
10 2 (2.899%) Development Team Leader
10 2 (2.899%) DBA
10 2 (2.899%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.797%) Handset
2 3 (4.348%) Tandem
2 3 (4.348%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.449%) SecurID
3 1 (1.449%) Celerra
3 1 (1.449%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.449%) Replication
3 1 (1.449%) CLARiiON
3 1 (1.449%) EMC Centera
Operating Systems
1 67 (97.10%) UNIX
2 63 (91.30%) Linux
3 46 (66.67%) AIX
4 45 (65.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (40.58%) HPUX
6 9 (13.04%) Windows
7 6 (8.696%) Fedora
7 6 (8.696%) Ubuntu
7 6 (8.696%) CentOS
8 1 (1.449%) Android
8 1 (1.449%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.449%) Windows NT
8 1 (1.449%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.449%) SUSE
8 1 (1.449%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (21.74%) Service Delivery
2 12 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (17.39%) Problem Management
3 10 (14.49%) Performance Management
3 10 (14.49%) ITIL
3 10 (14.49%) Benchmarking
4 6 (8.696%) RAD
4 6 (8.696%) TDD
4 6 (8.696%) High Availability
5 5 (7.246%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (7.246%) Scrum
5 5 (7.246%) MVC
6 3 (4.348%) Validation
6 3 (4.348%) Content Management
7 2 (2.899%) Migration
7 2 (2.899%) Risk Management
7 2 (2.899%) Product Management
7 2 (2.899%) Network Management
8 1 (1.449%) Service Management
8 1 (1.449%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.54%) Shell Script
2 16 (23.19%) Java
3 7 (10.14%) JavaScript
3 7 (10.14%) PHP
4 5 (7.246%) C
4 5 (7.246%) Bash shell
5 2 (2.899%) SQL
6 1 (1.449%) VBScript
6 1 (1.449%) Python
6 1 (1.449%) Perl
6 1 (1.449%) Ruby
6 1 (1.449%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (2.899%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.449%) EMC Certification
2 1 (1.449%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.94%) SLA
2 4 (5.797%) QA
System Software
1 10 (14.49%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 1 (1.449%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 1 (1.449%) NFS
2 1 (1.449%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.348%) Tivoli
1 3 (4.348%) CA Wily
2 2 (2.899%) NetBackup
3 1 (1.449%) Backup Exec
3 1 (1.449%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (1.449%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 45 (65.22%) Red Hat
2 16 (23.19%) Sun
3 15 (21.74%) HP
4 11 (15.94%) Veritas
5 10 (14.49%) Intel
6 6 (8.696%) IBM
7 5 (7.246%) Zend
8 4 (5.797%) EMC
9 3 (4.348%) Oracle
9 3 (4.348%) JBoss
10 2 (2.899%) Cisco
10 2 (2.899%) TIBCO
11 1 (1.449%) VMware
11 1 (1.449%) CheckPoint
11 1 (1.449%) Foundry
11 1 (1.449%) Nokia
Runcorn, Cheshire
Activities should have included: installation / upgrade of the technology stack configuration maintenance administration problem solving Knowledge of WebLogic Middleware particularly in the area of: Installation Configuration Administration Release...
Atos
Salary: £1 - £2 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 24 April 2013