The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services 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 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 City of London 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 259 221 182
Rank change year-on-year
-38 -39
Permanent jobs citing Sun 59 103 160
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.501% 0.784% 1.056%
As % of the Vendors category 1.091% 1.684% 2.445%
Number of salaries quoted 54 97 153
Average salary £61,500 £59,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.23% +12.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £34,600 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £44,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-15.73% +4.70%
All Vendors
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
5406 6118 6545
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 45.95% 46.57% 43.19%
Number of salaries quoted 4641 5591 5887
Average salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.54% -4.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sun
London

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Sun Salary Trend

Sun
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Sun across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London Sun Salary Histogram

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 83 (58.87%) UNIX
2 65 (46.10%) Oracle
3 62 (43.97%) Solaris
4 57 (40.43%) Finance
5 56 (39.72%) Linux
6 37 (26.24%) Java
6 37 (26.24%) SAN
7 36 (25.53%) SQL
8 32 (22.70%) SQL Server
9 30 (21.28%) Perl
10 29 (20.57%) Windows
11 26 (18.44%) Veritas
11 26 (18.44%) Banking
12 25 (17.73%) EMC
13 23 (16.31%) NAS
14 22 (15.60%) Degree
14 22 (15.60%) TCP/IP
15 21 (14.89%) Tomcat
15 21 (14.89%) XML
16 19 (13.48%) ITIL
16 19 (13.48%) Microsoft
17 18 (12.77%) Red Hat
17 18 (12.77%) Investment Banking
18 17 (12.06%) Enterprise Storage
18 17 (12.06%) Sybase
19 16 (11.35%) J2EE
19 16 (11.35%) SOAP
19 16 (11.35%) HP
19 16 (11.35%) Replication
20 15 (10.64%) Front Office

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 21 (14.89%) XML
2 16 (11.35%) J2EE
2 16 (11.35%) SOAP
3 14 (9.929%) REST
4 12 (8.511%) WebSphere
5 11 (7.801%) Middleware
6 10 (7.092%) Web Services
7 9 (6.383%) HTML
8 8 (5.674%) .NET
8 8 (5.674%) J2SE
9 7 (4.965%) CSS
9 7 (4.965%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (3.546%) FpML
11 4 (2.837%) LAMP
11 4 (2.837%) JDBC
11 4 (2.837%) JMS
12 3 (2.128%) AWT
12 3 (2.128%) Swing
12 3 (2.128%) JSP
12 3 (2.128%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 21 (14.89%) Tomcat
2 14 (9.929%) WebLogic
3 13 (9.220%) Apache
4 10 (7.092%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.837%) Lync
5 4 (2.837%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (2.128%) IIS
6 3 (2.128%) nginx
6 3 (2.128%) TIBCO EMS
7 2 (1.418%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (1.418%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (1.418%) Resin
7 2 (1.418%) Confluence
7 2 (1.418%) Documentum
8 1 (0.709%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.709%) CMS
8 1 (0.709%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.709%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.709%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.709%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 9 (6.383%) MS Excel
2 5 (3.546%) MS Office
3 1 (0.709%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.709%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.837%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.418%) Applix TM1
3 1 (0.709%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.709%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.709%) Kondor+
3 1 (0.709%) Bond Adapt
Communications & Networking
1 37 (26.24%) SAN
2 23 (16.31%) NAS
3 22 (15.60%) TCP/IP
4 15 (10.64%) LDAP
5 13 (9.220%) DNS
5 13 (9.220%) SSH
6 10 (7.092%) Internet
6 10 (7.092%) HTTP
7 6 (4.255%) LAN
7 6 (4.255%) VoIP
7 6 (4.255%) WAN
7 6 (4.255%) DHCP
8 4 (2.837%) Firewall
9 3 (2.128%) Intranet
10 2 (1.418%) FTP
11 1 (0.709%) SNMP
11 1 (0.709%) Connectrix
11 1 (0.709%) OSPF
11 1 (0.709%) BGP
11 1 (0.709%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (22.70%) SQL Server
2 13 (9.220%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (6.383%) SQL Server 2008
4 8 (5.674%) SQL Server 2005
4 8 (5.674%) OLAP
4 8 (5.674%) Oracle 8/8i
4 8 (5.674%) OLTP
5 7 (4.965%) SQL Server 2012
6 6 (4.255%) Hadoop
6 6 (4.255%) SQL Server 2000
6 6 (4.255%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (4.255%) Oracle 10g
7 5 (3.546%) Data Mart
8 4 (2.837%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.837%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (2.837%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (2.128%) DTS
9 3 (2.128%) Informix
9 3 (2.128%) DB2
9 3 (2.128%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (6.383%) Subversion
2 5 (3.546%) ClearCase
3 3 (2.128%) JUnit
3 3 (2.128%) Log4j
4 2 (1.418%) JIRA
4 2 (1.418%) Selenium
4 2 (1.418%) FitNesse
4 2 (1.418%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.709%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.709%) Ant
5 1 (0.709%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.709%) Optimizeit
5 1 (0.709%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.709%) Maven
General
1 57 (40.43%) Finance
2 26 (18.44%) Banking
3 18 (12.77%) Investment Banking
4 15 (10.64%) Front Office
5 8 (5.674%) Back Office
6 3 (2.128%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.418%) Billing
7 2 (1.418%) Games
8 1 (0.709%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.709%) Automotive
8 1 (0.709%) Legal
8 1 (0.709%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.709%) Advertising
8 1 (0.709%) Publishing
8 1 (0.709%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (21.28%) Analyst
2 26 (18.44%) Support Analyst
3 22 (15.60%) Administrator
4 14 (9.929%) Developer
5 13 (9.220%) UNIX Administrator
6 12 (8.511%) Architect
7 11 (7.801%) Systems Administrator
7 11 (7.801%) Technical Support
7 11 (7.801%) Technical Support Analyst
7 11 (7.801%) Technical Analyst
7 11 (7.801%) Linux Engineer
8 10 (7.092%) Senior UNIX Engineer
8 10 (7.092%) UNIX Engineer
8 10 (7.092%) Support Engineer
9 9 (6.383%) Storage Engineer
9 9 (6.383%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 8 (5.674%) Technical Specialist
10 8 (5.674%) Storage Support Engineer
10 8 (5.674%) Applications Support
10 8 (5.674%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.06%) Enterprise Storage
2 16 (11.35%) Replication
3 15 (10.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (7.092%) Cloud Computing
4 10 (7.092%) Clustering
5 9 (6.383%) Video on Demand
5 9 (6.383%) New Media
6 6 (4.255%) CLARiiON
6 6 (4.255%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.837%) Blackberry
8 3 (2.128%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.128%) Semantic Web
8 3 (2.128%) Open Source
8 3 (2.128%) Computer Science
8 3 (2.128%) Derivative
9 2 (1.418%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 2 (1.418%) CMDB
9 2 (1.418%) Wiki
9 2 (1.418%) Fat Client
9 2 (1.418%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 83 (58.87%) UNIX
2 62 (43.97%) Solaris
3 56 (39.72%) Linux
4 29 (20.57%) Windows
5 12 (8.511%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (7.801%) Oracle Linux
7 8 (5.674%) SUSE
8 6 (4.255%) HPUX
9 4 (2.837%) Windows 7
9 4 (2.837%) Windows XP
10 2 (1.418%) Ubuntu
10 2 (1.418%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (1.418%) Debian
11 1 (0.709%) VMS
11 1 (0.709%) AIX
11 1 (0.709%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (13.48%) ITIL
2 15 (10.64%) Load Balancing
2 15 (10.64%) Problem Management
3 14 (9.929%) Change Management
4 13 (9.220%) Business Continuity
5 12 (8.511%) E-Commerce
6 11 (7.801%) Workflow
6 11 (7.801%) Incident Management
6 11 (7.801%) Asset Management
7 10 (7.092%) Electronic Trading
7 10 (7.092%) OO
8 9 (6.383%) UML
8 9 (6.383%) Service Management
9 8 (5.674%) Investment Management
9 8 (5.674%) Multithreading
9 8 (5.674%) Service Delivery
10 7 (4.965%) SOA
10 7 (4.965%) Configuration Management
10 7 (4.965%) Capacity Planning
11 6 (4.255%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 37 (26.24%) Java
2 36 (25.53%) SQL
3 30 (21.28%) Perl
4 14 (9.929%) Python
4 14 (9.929%) Shell Script
5 11 (7.801%) Korn
6 10 (7.092%) Bash shell
7 7 (4.965%) C#
8 6 (4.255%) PHP
8 6 (4.255%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.128%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.128%) VBA
9 3 (2.128%) VB
9 3 (2.128%) AWK
9 3 (2.128%) Bourne shell
9 3 (2.128%) Ruby
10 2 (1.418%) Groovy
10 2 (1.418%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.418%) VBScript
10 2 (1.418%) C
Qualifications
1 22 (15.60%) Degree
2 10 (7.092%) Sun Certification
3 5 (3.546%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.837%) MCITP
4 4 (2.837%) VTSP
5 3 (2.128%) MCSE
5 3 (2.128%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (2.128%) SCJP
6 2 (1.418%) LPIC
6 2 (1.418%) MCSA
6 2 (1.418%) MCDBA
6 2 (1.418%) MCP
6 2 (1.418%) MCSD
7 1 (0.709%) RHCE
7 1 (0.709%) CCA
7 1 (0.709%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (0.709%) CISSP
7 1 (0.709%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.709%) CCNP
7 1 (0.709%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.674%) SLA
2 4 (2.837%) GAAP
3 3 (2.128%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.418%) QA
System Software
1 9 (6.383%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (6.383%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 8 (5.674%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.546%) XenServer
4 4 (2.837%) XenApp
4 4 (2.837%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 4 (2.837%) Terminal Server
4 4 (2.837%) NFS
5 3 (2.128%) Samba
6 2 (1.418%) vSphere
6 2 (1.418%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.418%) Sendmail
6 2 (1.418%) Veritas File System
7 1 (0.709%) MetaFrame
7 1 (0.709%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.709%) Shibboleth
7 1 (0.709%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (0.709%) Squid
Systems Management
1 12 (8.511%) NetBackup
2 10 (7.092%) Tivoli
2 10 (7.092%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 6 (4.255%) BMC PATROL
4 4 (2.837%) ARCserve
5 3 (2.128%) TIBCO Hawk
6 2 (1.418%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (1.418%) Plesk
7 1 (0.709%) OpenView
7 1 (0.709%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 65 (46.10%) Oracle
2 26 (18.44%) Veritas
3 25 (17.73%) EMC
4 19 (13.48%) Microsoft
5 18 (12.77%) Red Hat
6 17 (12.06%) Sybase
7 16 (11.35%) HP
8 14 (9.929%) NetApp
9 13 (9.220%) VMware
10 12 (8.511%) Cisco
10 12 (8.511%) IBM
10 12 (8.511%) JBoss
11 9 (6.383%) Citrix
11 9 (6.383%) Reuters
11 9 (6.383%) Akamai
12 8 (5.674%) Hitachi
12 8 (5.674%) BMC
13 7 (4.965%) Cognos
14 6 (4.255%) TIBCO
14 6 (4.255%) SAP
City of London
The successful candidate must have: - Hands-on exposure to FX Applications - In-depth understanding of FX products - In addition to business knowledge, must be technically competent in Unix/...
Real Staffing
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
For the Global Head of DBA role, we are looking for someone who understands database technologies (Oracle and SQL Server) and will have probably have come from that...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £80000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Flex Bens
Posted: 16 May 2013
City of London
The Global Head of DBAs will be responsible for a team of 12 DBAs and senior DBAs, who are based through out Europe, Asia and the USA. Candidates...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £80000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Flex Bens
Posted: 1 May 2013
City, London
My client, a leading Investment Bank, seeks to find an enthusiastic, dynamic and experienced individual to join their exciting eCommerce IT Support team. The successful candidate will be...
Thomson Keene Associates
Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum + Banking Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
A real opportunity has arisen for an individual as a Murex Support Analyst to join the Swaps area. This organisation is at the very heart of the London...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £75000 - £80000 per annum + bonus, benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013
City, London
A Global Investment Management company with a long history of excellence within Asset Management has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Application Support Analyst with experience across multiple...
Eaglecliff
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
London, City
You will have the following experience: - Java/J2EE/J2SE. - Advanced OOP concepts, Design Patterns, and Software Engineering best practices. - Development processes and methodologies (e.g., RUP / XP / UML).
GreySpark
Salary: Attractive Salary + Quarterly Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
CORBA/RMI, Web services, SOAP. JSP, JDBC, Java Servlets, Javabeans/EJBs, ASP. Understanding of Multithreaded applications and Java internals Strong relational database experience (DB2, Sybase, SQL, Oracle 8i/...
Grey Spark
Salary: Attractive Salary + Quarterly Bonus (OTE)
Posted: 1 May 2013