The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Coventry region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sun 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 Vendors for the Coventry 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 52 49 39
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -10
Permanent jobs citing Sun 13 4 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 2.163% 1.120% 3.150%
As % of the Vendors category 3.939% 2.353% 5.106%
Number of salaries quoted 13 4 12
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £42,861
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -24.17%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £44,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-15.73% +4.70%
All Vendors
Coventry
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
330 170 235
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 54.91% 47.62% 61.68%
Number of salaries quoted 296 147 224
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -26.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £24,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sun
West Midlands

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry Sun Salary Trend

Sun
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Sun across the Coventry region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Coventry Sun Salary Histogram

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 24 (70.59%) Java
2 19 (55.88%) Spring
3 17 (50.00%) SCJP
3 17 (50.00%) SCJD
3 17 (50.00%) SCJA
3 17 (50.00%) Sun Certification
3 17 (50.00%) J2EE
3 17 (50.00%) Struts
3 17 (50.00%) Apache
4 16 (47.06%) EJB
4 16 (47.06%) SCWCD
4 16 (47.06%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (44.12%) Solaris
6 14 (41.18%) Microsoft
7 9 (26.47%) ITIL
7 9 (26.47%) UNIX
7 9 (26.47%) Windows
7 9 (26.47%) MS Excel
7 9 (26.47%) SharePoint
8 7 (20.59%) Linux
8 7 (20.59%) Oracle
9 6 (17.65%) .NET
9 6 (17.65%) SAP
10 5 (14.71%) SQL
10 5 (14.71%) Cisco
10 5 (14.71%) IBM
10 5 (14.71%) LAN
10 5 (14.71%) WAN
10 5 (14.71%) Active Directory
10 5 (14.71%) Citrix

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 19 (55.88%) Spring
2 17 (50.00%) Struts
2 17 (50.00%) J2EE
3 16 (47.06%) EJB
4 6 (17.65%) .NET
5 2 (5.882%) XML
6 1 (2.941%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.941%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 17 (50.00%) Apache
2 9 (26.47%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.941%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (26.47%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (11.76%) SAP Business One
2 1 (2.941%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (2.941%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) LAN
1 5 (14.71%) WAN
2 2 (5.882%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.941%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.941%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (2.941%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (5.882%) JUnit
2 1 (2.941%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (11.76%) Publishing
2 3 (8.824%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (58.82%) Developer
2 19 (55.88%) Java Developer
3 17 (50.00%) J2EE Developer
3 17 (50.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 7 (20.59%) Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) Service Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) Service Desk Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) Designer
6 3 (8.824%) Technical Designer
7 2 (5.882%) Java Programmer
7 2 (5.882%) Programmer
7 2 (5.882%) Infrastructure Manager
8 1 (2.941%) Senior Technical Analyst
8 1 (2.941%) Operations Analyst
8 1 (2.941%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (2.941%) Architect
8 1 (2.941%) Support Analyst
8 1 (2.941%) Technical Architect
8 1 (2.941%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (2.941%) Oracle Developer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (47.06%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (14.71%) Clustering
3 1 (2.941%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.941%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 15 (44.12%) Solaris
2 9 (26.47%) UNIX
2 9 (26.47%) Windows
3 7 (20.59%) Linux
4 4 (11.76%) OpenVMS
5 1 (2.941%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) ITIL
2 5 (14.71%) Network Design
3 4 (11.76%) Technical Architecture
3 4 (11.76%) ITIL V3
4 3 (8.824%) Problem Management
4 3 (8.824%) Service Delivery
5 2 (5.882%) Change Management
5 2 (5.882%) Service Management
5 2 (5.882%) Quality Management
5 2 (5.882%) OOA/OOD
5 2 (5.882%) OOD
5 2 (5.882%) Release Management
5 2 (5.882%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (5.882%) Supplier Management
5 2 (5.882%) Incident Management
5 2 (5.882%) QMS
6 1 (2.941%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (2.941%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (2.941%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (2.941%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (70.59%) Java
2 5 (14.71%) SQL
3 1 (2.941%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.941%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.941%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 17 (50.00%) Sun Certification
1 17 (50.00%) SCJP
1 17 (50.00%) SCJD
1 17 (50.00%) SCJA
2 16 (47.06%) SCWCD
3 3 (8.824%) Degree
4 2 (5.882%) MCSE
4 2 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (2.941%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Active Directory
1 5 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.882%) Control-M
1 2 (5.882%) SCCM
2 1 (2.941%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 14 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.59%) Oracle
3 6 (17.65%) SAP
4 5 (14.71%) Cisco
4 5 (14.71%) IBM
4 5 (14.71%) Citrix
4 5 (14.71%) VMware
5 1 (2.941%) Red Hat