City of London Solaris Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Sun Microsystems Solaris skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Sun Microsystems Solaris
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bridlington Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Castleford Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Croydon Cwmbran Daresbury Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorchester Dorset Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Farnborough Fife Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rochdale Rugby Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Andrews Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Torfaen Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	46
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching permanent IT job ads	932	830
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.492 %	0.340 %
As % of the category below	15.78 %	14.24 %
Salaries quoted	793	530
Average minimum salary	£51,632	£56,017
Average salary	£55,997	£59,375
% change on same period last year	-5.68 %
Average maximum salary	£60,362	£62,733
UK excluding London average salary	£41,435	£40,865
% change on same period last year	+1.39 %
Operating Systems City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads	5907	5827
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	3.118 %	2.386 %
Salaries quoted	4975	4408
Average minimum salary	£46,300	£49,760
Average salary	£50,415	£53,697
% change on same period last year	-6.11 %
Average maximum salary	£54,531	£57,634
UK excluding London average salary	£34,472	£35,006
% change on same period last year	-1.52 %
Solaris London

Solaris
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Solaris across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Solaris
Salary Trend

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

Solaris
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the City of London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the City of London 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 1242 (65.64 %) UNIX 2 911 (48.15 %) Finance 3 853 (45.08 %) Linux 4 718 (37.95 %) Oracle 5 693 (36.63 %) Banking 6 566 (29.92 %) Windows 7 548 (28.96 %) SQL 8 494 (26.11 %) Sybase 9 434 (22.94 %) Java 10 334 (17.65 %) Shell Script 11 330 (17.44 %) Perl 12 328 (17.34 %) Sun 13 326 (17.23 %) C++ 14 247 (13.05 %) Apache 15 227 (12.00 %) Equities

16 221 (11.68 %) SQL Server 17 202 (10.68 %) Red Hat 18 191 (10.10 %) Degree 19 187 (9.884 %) Investment Banking 20 183 (9.672 %) ClearCase 21 169 (8.932 %) J2EE 22 165 (8.721 %) VERITAS 23 163 (8.615 %) Derivative 24 162 (8.562 %) Citrix 25 161 (8.510 %) VB 25 161 (8.510 %) Replication 26 160 (8.457 %) C 27 153 (8.087 %) SAN 28 137 (7.241 %) HP 29 129 (6.818 %) Windows 2000

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the City of London 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 1 169 (8.932 %) J2EE 2 114 (6.025 %) WebSphere 3 110 (5.814 %) XML 4 85 (4.493 %) Middleware 5 67 (3.541 %) .NET 6 66 (3.488 %) HTML 7 62 (3.277 %) JSP 8 60 (3.171 %) Servlets 9 54 (2.854 %) JMS 10 46 (2.431 %) WebServices 11 43 (2.273 %) ASP 12 42 (2.220 %) Spring 13 38 (2.008 %) AJAX 13 38 (2.008 %) CSS 14 37 (1.956 %) Struts 15 34 (1.797 %) Hibernate 16 31 (1.638 %) EJB 17 28 (1.480 %) JDBC 18 26 (1.374 %) MFC 18 26 (1.374 %) JavaBeans	Application Platforms 1 247 (13.05 %) Apache 2 116 (6.131 %) Tomcat 3 110 (5.814 %) WebLogic 4 65 (3.436 %) WebSphere MQ 5 41 (2.167 %) MS Exchange 6 35 (1.850 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 34 (1.797 %) JBoss 8 30 (1.586 %) IIS 9 20 (1.057 %) Rendezvous 9 20 (1.057 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 19 (1.004 %) TIBCO EMS 11 17 (0.899 %) WebSphere Application Server 12 11 (0.581 %) Exchange Server 2007 13 10 (0.529 %) Oracle Application Server 14 9 (0.476 %) WorkSite 14 9 (0.476 %) iPlanet 14 9 (0.476 %) MQSeries 15 6 (0.317 %) CMS 16 5 (0.264 %) WebLogic Portal 16 5 (0.264 %) WebLogic Integration
Applications 1 70 (3.700 %) MS Excel 2 23 (1.216 %) MS Office 3 4 (0.211 %) MS Visio 4 3 (0.159 %) Photoshop 5 2 (0.106 %) MS Project 5 2 (0.106 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (0.053 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 48 (2.537 %) RMDS 2 11 (0.581 %) SoftGrid 2 11 (0.581 %) Summit 3 9 (0.476 %) Oracle 11i 3 9 (0.476 %) Oracle EBS 4 6 (0.317 %) Kondor+ 5 2 (0.106 %) Oracle Applications 6 1 (0.053 %) BusinessWorks 6 1 (0.053 %) FRONT ARENA 6 1 (0.053 %) Monis 6 1 (0.053 %) Misys Midas 6 1 (0.053 %) ADP Wilco Gloss 6 1 (0.053 %) Eagle PACE 6 1 (0.053 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 153 (8.087 %) SAN 2 117 (6.184 %) Firewall 3 112 (5.920 %) TCP/IP 4 93 (4.915 %) Internet 5 81 (4.281 %) DNS 6 72 (3.805 %) WAN 7 65 (3.436 %) VPN 8 57 (3.013 %) LAN 9 44 (2.326 %) HTTP 10 31 (1.638 %) DHCP 11 29 (1.533 %) LDAP 12 28 (1.480 %) FTP 13 22 (1.163 %) VLAN 14 20 (1.057 %) SNMP 14 20 (1.057 %) VoIP 15 17 (0.899 %) Intranet 16 16 (0.846 %) Network Security 17 12 (0.634 %) Wi-Fi 18 9 (0.476 %) GPRS 18 9 (0.476 %) PPP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 221 (11.68 %) SQL Server 2 119 (6.290 %) Sybase ASE 3 111 (5.867 %) Oracle 10g 4 99 (5.233 %) RDBMS 5 86 (4.545 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 78 (4.123 %) MySQL 7 76 (4.017 %) Oracle 9i 8 73 (3.858 %) SQL Server 2000 9 60 (3.171 %) Ingres 10 36 (1.903 %) Informix 11 26 (1.374 %) DB2 12 25 (1.321 %) SQL Server 2005 13 20 (1.057 %) ETL 14 17 (0.899 %) Datawarehouse 14 17 (0.899 %) PostgreSQL 15 15 (0.793 %) SQL Server 7 16 11 (0.581 %) TOAD 17 7 (0.370 %) OLTP 17 7 (0.370 %) DB2 UDB 18 6 (0.317 %) SQLPlus
Development Applications 1 183 (9.672 %) ClearCase 2 29 (1.533 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 28 (1.480 %) JIRA 4 26 (1.374 %) PVCS 5 21 (1.110 %) Subversion 6 18 (0.951 %) Ant 6 18 (0.951 %) JUnit 7 12 (0.634 %) Eclipse 8 7 (0.370 %) ClearQuest 8 7 (0.370 %) NUnit 9 5 (0.264 %) Visual Studio 9 5 (0.264 %) Oracle Forms 10 3 (0.159 %) Flash 10 3 (0.159 %) OpenDeploy 10 3 (0.159 %) WinRunner 10 3 (0.159 %) QuickTest Pro 10 3 (0.159 %) LoadRunner 10 3 (0.159 %) PowerBuilder 10 3 (0.159 %) Cactus 11 2 (0.106 %) InterDev	General 1 911 (48.15 %) Finance 2 693 (36.63 %) Banking 3 187 (9.884 %) Investment Banking 4 87 (4.598 %) Telecoms 5 79 (4.175 %) Front Office 6 73 (3.858 %) Financial Institution 7 44 (2.326 %) Pensions 8 39 (2.061 %) Back Office 9 32 (1.691 %) Education 10 31 (1.638 %) Insurance 11 30 (1.586 %) Publishing 12 24 (1.268 %) Health 13 11 (0.581 %) Retail 14 10 (0.529 %) Games 15 8 (0.423 %) Auditing 16 6 (0.317 %) Advertising 17 5 (0.264 %) Marketing 18 4 (0.211 %) Online Games 18 4 (0.211 %) Multimedia 19 3 (0.159 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 357 (18.87 %) Developer 2 322 (17.02 %) Administrator 3 214 (11.31 %) Analyst 4 206 (10.89 %) Systems Administrator 5 202 (10.68 %) DBA 6 189 (9.989 %) Applications Support 7 155 (8.192 %) Support Analyst 8 146 (7.717 %) Oracle DBA 9 135 (7.135 %) UNIX Administrator 10 110 (5.814 %) Java Developer 11 104 (5.497 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 12 91 (4.810 %) Team Leader 13 89 (4.704 %) C++ Developer 14 87 (4.598 %) Sybase DBA 15 71 (3.753 %) Applications Support Analyst 15 71 (3.753 %) Architect 16 64 (3.383 %) Support Engineer 17 61 (3.224 %) Sybase Team Leader 18 59 (3.118 %) Database Team Leader 18 59 (3.118 %) Oracle Team Leader	Miscellaneous 1 227 (12.00 %) Equities 2 163 (8.615 %) Derivative 3 161 (8.510 %) Replication 4 69 (3.647 %) Fixed Income 5 55 (2.907 %) Clustering 6 45 (2.378 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 7 38 (2.008 %) Client/Server 8 32 (1.691 %) Equity Derivative 9 27 (1.427 %) Multithreading 10 24 (1.268 %) CLARiiON 11 17 (0.899 %) Computer Science 12 16 (0.846 %) Spread Betting 13 15 (0.793 %) Statistics 13 15 (0.793 %) Mainframe 14 14 (0.740 %) Credit Derivative 14 14 (0.740 %) French Language 15 10 (0.529 %) PKI 16 9 (0.476 %) VWAP 16 9 (0.476 %) Blackberry 16 9 (0.476 %) Symmetrix
Operating Systems 1 1242 (65.64 %) UNIX 2 853 (45.08 %) Linux 3 566 (29.92 %) Windows 4 129 (6.818 %) Windows 2000 5 126 (6.660 %) AIX 6 101 (5.338 %) HPUX 7 83 (4.387 %) Windows Server 2003 8 79 (4.175 %) Windows NT 9 74 (3.911 %) VMS 10 36 (1.903 %) Windows XP 11 24 (1.268 %) SUSE 12 14 (0.740 %) Debian 13 13 (0.687 %) FreeBSD 14 11 (0.581 %) OpenVMS 15 6 (0.317 %) Ubuntu 16 3 (0.159 %) Windows Mobile 17 2 (0.106 %) Fedora 18 1 (0.053 %) NetWare 18 1 (0.053 %) Tru64	Processes & Methodologies 1 126 (6.660 %) OO 2 122 (6.448 %) ITIL 3 106 (5.603 %) Software Engineering 3 106 (5.603 %) Web Development 4 94 (4.968 %) OOA/OOD 5 89 (4.704 %) OOD 6 81 (4.281 %) Algorithmic Trading 7 61 (3.224 %) Project Management 8 56 (2.960 %) Electronic Trading 9 55 (2.907 %) Disaster Recovery 10 50 (2.643 %) Load Balancing 11 36 (1.903 %) Release Management 11 36 (1.903 %) Service Delivery 12 35 (1.850 %) Asset Management 13 34 (1.797 %) User Acceptance Testing 14 30 (1.586 %) Data Modelling 15 29 (1.533 %) Unit Testing 16 26 (1.374 %) Risk Management 17 23 (1.216 %) Agile Software Development 18 21 (1.110 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 548 (28.96 %) SQL 2 434 (22.94 %) Java 3 334 (17.65 %) Shell Script 4 330 (17.44 %) Perl 5 326 (17.23 %) C++ 6 161 (8.510 %) VB 7 160 (8.457 %) C 8 127 (6.712 %) C# 9 91 (4.810 %) PL/SQL 10 52 (2.748 %) JavaScript 11 51 (2.696 %) DCL 12 49 (2.590 %) Python 12 49 (2.590 %) Transact-SQL 13 45 (2.378 %) VC++ 14 40 (2.114 %) PHP 15 35 (1.850 %) Ruby 16 31 (1.638 %) DHTML 17 29 (1.533 %) ActionScript 17 29 (1.533 %) VBA 17 29 (1.533 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 191 (10.10 %) Degree 2 38 (2.008 %) Cisco Certification 3 33 (1.744 %) Sun Certification 4 26 (1.374 %) Microsoft Certification 4 26 (1.374 %) RHCE 5 24 (1.268 %) MCSE 6 18 (0.951 %) CCNA 7 16 (0.846 %) CCNP 7 16 (0.846 %) SCNA 8 14 (0.740 %) ITIL Certification 9 11 (0.581 %) CCSP 10 7 (0.370 %) HNC 11 5 (0.264 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 12 4 (0.211 %) HND 12 4 (0.211 %) MCSA 12 4 (0.211 %) CCIE 13 3 (0.159 %) IBM AIX Certification 13 3 (0.159 %) CCSA 13 3 (0.159 %) PRINCE2 Certification 13 3 (0.159 %) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 27 (1.427 %) SLA 2 24 (1.268 %) QA 3 14 (0.740 %) MiFID 4 1 (0.053 %) BS7799 4 1 (0.053 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 61 (3.224 %) Active Directory 1 61 (3.224 %) NetBackup 2 52 (2.748 %) VMware ESX 3 51 (2.696 %) Oracle RAC 4 49 (2.590 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 43 (2.273 %) Oracle RMAN 6 27 (1.427 %) NFS 7 16 (0.846 %) Backup Exec 8 14 (0.740 %) MetaFrame 9 11 (0.581 %) Squid 10 6 (0.317 %) Xen 11 4 (0.211 %) Samba 12 2 (0.106 %) ISA Server 13 1 (0.053 %) Snort 13 1 (0.053 %) AquaLogic
Systems Management 1 35 (1.850 %) OpenView 2 28 (1.480 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 2 28 (1.480 %) BMC PATROL 2 28 (1.480 %) Nagios 3 23 (1.216 %) Tivoli 4 16 (0.846 %) AutoSys 4 16 (0.846 %) Oracle Statspack 5 11 (0.581 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 5 11 (0.581 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 11 (0.581 %) Unicenter 6 10 (0.529 %) MOM 7 7 (0.370 %) Legato 8 6 (0.317 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 8 6 (0.317 %) CONTROL-M 9 5 (0.264 %) CA SiteMinder 9 5 (0.264 %) Netcool 10 4 (0.211 %) MAILsweeper 11 3 (0.159 %) EMC NetWorker 11 3 (0.159 %) EMC TimeFinder 12 2 (0.106 %) BMC Performance Manager	Vendors 1 718 (37.95 %) Oracle 2 494 (26.11 %) Sybase 3 328 (17.34 %) Sun 4 202 (10.68 %) Red Hat 5 165 (8.721 %) VERITAS 6 162 (8.562 %) Citrix 7 137 (7.241 %) HP 8 126 (6.660 %) Remedy 9 124 (6.554 %) TIBCO 10 110 (5.814 %) VMware 11 104 (5.497 %) EMC 12 99 (5.233 %) Cisco 13 93 (4.915 %) Microsoft 14 84 (4.440 %) IBM 15 66 (3.488 %) Reuters 16 38 (2.008 %) Bloomberg 17 32 (1.691 %) Perforce 18 31 (1.638 %) BMC 19 25 (1.321 %) NetApp 20 24 (1.268 %) GL TRADE