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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 18 23 35
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +12
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 3 4 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chippenham 4.839% 2.963% 2.844%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.67% 10.81% 9.231%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 5
Average salary £28,000 £36,000 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.22% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,800 £33,550 £31,100
10% offered a salary of more than £35,600 £36,000 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Chippenham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
18 37 65
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chippenham 29.03% 27.41% 30.81%
Number of salaries quoted 18 35 64
Average salary £35,000 £28,250 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.89% -5.83%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £17,750 £24,250
10% offered a salary of more than £39,550 £42,500 £41,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
Wiltshire

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chippenham 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 Chippenham region.

Chippenham Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chippenham 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 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (40.00%) XML
4 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
4 2 (40.00%) Network Planning
4 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (40.00%) SAN
5 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (20.00%) XenServer
5 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (20.00%) Software Deployment
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
5 1 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (20.00%) SCCM
5 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (20.00%) Workflow
5 1 (20.00%) Altiris
5 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (20.00%) Symantec
5 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chippenham 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 2 (40.00%) XML
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Support
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (20.00%) AIX
4 1 (20.00%) HPUX
4 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Network Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) EMC
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) Symantec
3 1 (20.00%) Altiris
Chippenham, South West
The candidate will ideally have several years' experience and must have an excellent working knowledge of at least one primary versions of UNIX that may include Solaris, HP-...
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 24 April 2013