The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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 106 103 110
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +7
Permanent jobs citing Sun 12 24 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.666% 1.225% 0.428%
As % of the Vendors category 1.435% 2.697% 0.993%
Number of salaries quoted 8 24 7
Average salary £40,000 £39,000 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.56% -
90% offered a salary of more than £36,750 £39,000 £34,700
10% offered a salary of more than £42,250 £46,000 £40,200
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £44,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-15.73% +4.70%
All Vendors
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
836 890 705
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 46.37% 45.43% 43.09%
Number of salaries quoted 650 775 590
Average salary £36,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.28% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sun
North West

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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
Chester - 6 £40,000 -
Warrington - 6 £38,750 -
Sun
North West

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 19 (63.33%) UNIX
2 17 (56.67%) Shell Script
3 16 (53.33%) Solaris
4 15 (50.00%) Linux
5 14 (46.67%) IBM
6 13 (43.33%) Veritas
6 13 (43.33%) Red Hat
6 13 (43.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (33.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 10 (33.33%) Software Packaging
7 10 (33.33%) Benchmarking
7 10 (33.33%) Intel
8 9 (30.00%) EMC
8 9 (30.00%) Oracle
9 8 (26.67%) Windows
9 8 (26.67%) AIX
9 8 (26.67%) SAN
9 8 (26.67%) NAS
10 6 (20.00%) Celerra
10 6 (20.00%) Brocade
10 6 (20.00%) NetBackup
10 6 (20.00%) Tivoli
10 6 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 6 (20.00%) CLARiiON
10 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
11 5 (16.67%) LDAP
11 5 (16.67%) MS Visio
11 5 (16.67%) SSL
11 5 (16.67%) Apache
11 5 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 10 (33.33%) Software Packaging
2 5 (16.67%) Middleware
2 5 (16.67%) WebSphere
3 3 (10.00%) Flash
4 2 (6.667%) Web Services
5 1 (3.333%) COM
Application Platforms
1 5 (16.67%) Apache
1 5 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
1 5 (16.67%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (6.667%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) MS Visio
1 5 (16.67%) MS Project
1 5 (16.67%) MS Office
2 2 (6.667%) Acrobat
3 1 (3.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (26.67%) SAN
1 8 (26.67%) NAS
2 5 (16.67%) LDAP
2 5 (16.67%) SSL
3 3 (10.00%) Internet
4 2 (6.667%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle 9i
1 3 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle 10g
General
1 4 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (6.667%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.333%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Lead Systems Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Analyst
2 4 (13.33%) Support Analyst
2 4 (13.33%) Administrator
2 4 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) DBA
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (10.00%) UNIX Administrator
4 2 (6.667%) Storage Support Analyst
4 2 (6.667%) Middleware Architect
4 2 (6.667%) Storage Analyst
4 2 (6.667%) Senior UNIX Administrator
4 2 (6.667%) Systems Support Analyst
4 2 (6.667%) Senior Support Analyst
4 2 (6.667%) WebSphere Architect
4 2 (6.667%) Storage Engineer
4 2 (6.667%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 2 (6.667%) Senior Storage Analyst
4 2 (6.667%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Celerra
1 6 (20.00%) CLARiiON
2 3 (10.00%) Replication
2 3 (10.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (10.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 19 (63.33%) UNIX
2 16 (53.33%) Solaris
3 15 (50.00%) Linux
4 13 (43.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (26.67%) Windows
5 8 (26.67%) AIX
6 3 (10.00%) HPUX
7 2 (6.667%) CentOS
7 2 (6.667%) Fedora
8 1 (3.333%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Benchmarking
2 5 (16.67%) Migration
3 4 (13.33%) Incident Management
4 3 (10.00%) Validation
4 3 (10.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (10.00%) Release Management
4 3 (10.00%) Content Management
4 3 (10.00%) High Availability
4 3 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (10.00%) Capacity Management
4 3 (10.00%) Database Security
5 2 (6.667%) Network Management
5 2 (6.667%) Problem Management
5 2 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (6.667%) Risk Management
6 1 (3.333%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) Shell Script
2 5 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (3.333%) VBScript
3 1 (3.333%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) OCP
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (3.333%) CCSP
2 1 (3.333%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.333%) VTSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (33.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (3.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) NetBackup
1 6 (20.00%) Tivoli
1 6 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 5 (16.67%) CA Wily
3 3 (10.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) IBM
2 13 (43.33%) Veritas
2 13 (43.33%) Red Hat
3 10 (33.33%) Intel
4 9 (30.00%) EMC
4 9 (30.00%) Oracle
5 6 (20.00%) Brocade
5 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (10.00%) JBoss
6 3 (10.00%) HP
7 2 (6.667%) FatWire
7 2 (6.667%) Adobe
8 1 (3.333%) VMware
8 1 (3.333%) Citrix