The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Derbyshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 20 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 Derbyshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 46 55 55
Rank change year-on-year
+9 0
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 7 3 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Derbyshire 1.667% 0.668% 0.573%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.459% 2.632% 3.030%
Number of salaries quoted 5 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
Derbyshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
74 114 99
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Derbyshire 17.62% 25.39% 18.89%
Number of salaries quoted 67 103 85
Average salary £35,000 £27,500 £31,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.27% -12.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £19,500 £19,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £40,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
East Midlands

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire region.

Derbyshire Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Derbyshire Solaris Salary Histogram

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 Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Derby +10 5 £42,500 +21.42%
Solaris
East Midlands

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Derbyshire 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 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 4 (57.14%) UNIX
2 4 (57.14%) VPN
3 3 (42.86%) Middleware
3 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) LAN
3 3 (42.86%) WAN
3 3 (42.86%) SAN
3 3 (42.86%) MCDST
3 3 (42.86%) VLAN
3 3 (42.86%) NAS
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL V3
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL V2
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (28.57%) ISO 9001
4 2 (28.57%) JDBC
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) SLA
4 2 (28.57%) VLDB
5 1 (14.29%) CCNP
5 1 (14.29%) CCNA
5 1 (14.29%) HP
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (14.29%) SSL

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Derbyshire 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 (42.86%) Middleware
2 2 (28.57%) JDBC
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Lync
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) VPN
2 3 (42.86%) NAS
2 3 (42.86%) SAN
2 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
2 3 (42.86%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (14.29%) RIP
3 1 (14.29%) WLAN
3 1 (14.29%) 802.11
3 1 (14.29%) MPLS
3 1 (14.29%) OSPF
3 1 (14.29%) BGP
3 1 (14.29%) EIGRP
3 1 (14.29%) MGCP
3 1 (14.29%) H.323
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 2 (28.57%) VLDB
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle 11g
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Support Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) IT Support Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) IT Support
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (28.57%) DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Voice Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Voice Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) UNIX
3 3 (42.86%) Windows
4 1 (14.29%) AIX
4 1 (14.29%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL V3
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL V2
2 1 (14.29%) Change Management
2 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) MCDST
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) CCNA
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CCVP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO 9001
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco UCCX
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) Nokia
2 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
2 1 (14.29%) Foundry