The first table below looks at the demand for SCSA in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SCSA over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA)
Rank 318 - 330
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing SCSA 1 0 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.008% - 0.044%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.034% - 0.207%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 6
Average salary £45,000 - £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £60,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
-33.33% +87.50%
All Qualifications
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
2909 2893 3385
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 23.92% 22.03% 21.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2535 2656 3077
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £77,500 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
SCSA
London

SCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SCSA across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

City of London SCSA Jobs Demand Trend

SCSA
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SCSA across the City of London region.

City of London SCSA Salary Trend

SCSA
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing SCSA 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 SCSA.

1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Informix
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source

SCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing SCSA 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 SCSA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Informix
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat