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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 33 46 43
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -3
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 5 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Derby 2.294% 1.020% 0.304%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.20% 4.000% 1.695%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 1
Average salary £42,500 £35,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.42% +4.47%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Derby
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
49 75 59
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Derby 22.48% 25.51% 17.93%
Number of salaries quoted 46 67 52
Average salary £35,000 £27,500 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.27% -17.91%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £20,000 £19,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
Derbyshire

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Derby 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 Derby region.

Derby Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Derby 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 (80.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 3 (60.00%) WAN
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 3 (60.00%) SAN
2 3 (60.00%) Middleware
2 3 (60.00%) MCDST
2 3 (60.00%) VLAN
2 3 (60.00%) NAS
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL V3
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL V2
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (40.00%) SLA
3 2 (40.00%) VLDB
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) ISO 9001
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) JDBC
3 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (40.00%) SQL

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Derby 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 3 (60.00%) Middleware
2 2 (40.00%) JDBC
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) LAN
1 3 (60.00%) WAN
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
1 3 (60.00%) SAN
1 3 (60.00%) VLAN
1 3 (60.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (40.00%) VLDB
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) IT Support
1 3 (60.00%) Support Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (40.00%) DBA
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL V3
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL V2
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
1 2 (40.00%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle