The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Croydon region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 25 47 39
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -8
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 9 2 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 3.147% 0.585% 0.707%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.257% 2.222% 2.740%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 2
Average salary £44,000 £45,000 £60,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.22% -25.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £45,000 £58,450
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £45,000 £62,050
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
109 90 73
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 38.11% 26.32% 25.80%
Number of salaries quoted 98 86 68
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -11.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,000 £25,600
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
London

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

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

Croydon Solaris Salary Histogram

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 10 (66.67%) UNIX
1 10 (66.67%) Windows
2 9 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
3 8 (53.33%) EMC
4 7 (46.67%) Citrix
4 7 (46.67%) Middleware
4 7 (46.67%) Mainframe
4 7 (46.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 7 (46.67%) iSeries
4 7 (46.67%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (40.00%) IBM
5 6 (40.00%) zOS
5 6 (40.00%) Intranet
5 6 (40.00%) Internet
5 6 (40.00%) E-Commerce
6 4 (26.67%) Linux
6 4 (26.67%) PL/SQL
6 4 (26.67%) SQL
6 4 (26.67%) Oracle
6 4 (26.67%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (26.67%) Finance
6 4 (26.67%) Retail
6 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (20.00%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
7 3 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
7 3 (20.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (20.00%) Fedora
7 3 (20.00%) Backup Exec

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 7 (46.67%) Middleware
2 1 (6.667%) COM
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle Application Server
1 3 (20.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Intranet
1 6 (40.00%) Internet
2 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) OSPF
2 3 (20.00%) BGP
2 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (13.33%) TELNET
3 2 (13.33%) SSH
4 1 (6.667%) Cisco PIX
4 1 (6.667%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (6.667%) SAN
4 1 (6.667%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (20.00%) OLTP
2 3 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (6.667%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
1 4 (26.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Administrator
1 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (20.00%) DBA
3 2 (13.33%) Junior
4 1 (6.667%) Designer
4 1 (6.667%) Technical Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Junior Support Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle Financials Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Design Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.667%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (6.667%) Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Mainframe
1 7 (46.67%) iSeries
1 7 (46.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 3 (20.00%) Open Source
3 1 (6.667%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) UNIX
1 10 (66.67%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) zOS
3 4 (26.67%) Linux
3 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (20.00%) Fedora
5 2 (13.33%) AIX
6 1 (6.667%) Ubuntu
6 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (6.667%) HPUX
6 1 (6.667%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (20.00%) Change Management
3 3 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (6.667%) Project Planning
4 1 (6.667%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (6.667%) Validation
4 1 (6.667%) Migration
4 1 (6.667%) Project Management
4 1 (6.667%) ERP
4 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) PL/SQL
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Bash shell
2 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (20.00%) PHP
3 2 (13.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) CCNP
1 1 (6.667%) CCNA
1 1 (6.667%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.667%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.667%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (6.667%) VMware ESX
3 1 (6.667%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (6.667%) NetBackup
2 1 (6.667%) Legato
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
1 8 (53.33%) EMC
2 7 (46.67%) Citrix
3 6 (40.00%) IBM
4 4 (26.67%) Oracle
5 3 (20.00%) Cisco
5 3 (20.00%) Veritas
5 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (13.33%) VMware
7 1 (6.667%) Brocade
7 1 (6.667%) Sun
7 1 (6.667%) Juniper
7 1 (6.667%) NetApp
London, Bromley or Croydon
What being an Infrastructure Solutions Engineer involves: - Contributing to the infrastructure elements of overall IT strategy, enterprise architecture, and technology roadmap to support business needs both current and...
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Salary: £45,000 - £65,000 per year
Posted: 17 May 2013