The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the County Antrim region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 24 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 County Antrim region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 40 33 21
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -12
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 2 5 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in County Antrim 0.816% 2.538% 8.780%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.632% 9.091% 26.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 7
Average salary £40,000 £36,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.58% -8.75%
UK excluding London average salary £43,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+1.17% +2.40%
All Operating Systems
County Antrim
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
76 55 69
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in County Antrim 31.02% 27.92% 33.66%
Number of salaries quoted 48 36 41
Average salary £35,000 £33,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,250 £15,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £43,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
Northern Ireland

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

County Antrim 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 County Antrim region.

County Antrim Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the County Antrim region over the 3 months to 24 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
Belfast -8 2 £40,000 +9.58%
Solaris
Northern Ireland

Solaris
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the County Antrim 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 4 (100.00%) Perl
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) QA
3 2 (50.00%) Derivative
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) YUM
3 2 (50.00%) JBoss
3 2 (50.00%) Apache
3 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (50.00%) Change Management
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) Equities
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Problem Management

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the County Antrim 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 Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Derivative
1 2 (50.00%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Perl
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) YUM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) JBoss
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (50.00%) VMware