The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Docklands, London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Docklands, London region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 21 29 33
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +4
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 19 12 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Docklands, London 9.314% 4.301% 5.687%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.17% 12.12% 20.22%
Number of salaries quoted 19 12 33
Average salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.09% -4.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,500 £50,250 £45,000
10% offered a salary of more than £61,000 £55,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Docklands, London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
82 99 178
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Docklands, London 40.20% 35.48% 28.12%
Number of salaries quoted 63 81 99
Average salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.76% -8.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £29,200 £36,300
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £80,000 £80,000
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 Docklands, London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Docklands, London Solaris Salary Histogram

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Docklands, London 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 21 (95.45%) Windows
1 21 (95.45%) SAN
2 19 (86.36%) UNIX
3 16 (72.73%) VMware
3 16 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (63.64%) Linux
5 12 (54.55%) Firewall
6 11 (50.00%) Veritas
7 10 (45.45%) Cisco
8 9 (40.91%) EMC
8 9 (40.91%) LAN
8 9 (40.91%) WAN
9 8 (36.36%) NetBackup
9 8 (36.36%) Service Management
9 8 (36.36%) Back Office
9 8 (36.36%) Red Hat
9 8 (36.36%) CheckPoint
9 8 (36.36%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 8 (36.36%) Mercator
9 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
9 8 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (31.82%) Xen
10 7 (31.82%) Degree
10 7 (31.82%) RMDS
10 7 (31.82%) iSCSI
10 7 (31.82%) NAS
10 7 (31.82%) Fibre Channel
10 7 (31.82%) Citrix
10 7 (31.82%) SLA
10 7 (31.82%) NFS

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Docklands, London 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 1 (4.545%) ODBC
Application Platforms
1 4 (18.18%) IIS
2 2 (9.091%) Apache
3 1 (4.545%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.545%) MS Office
1 1 (4.545%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (31.82%) RMDS
2 1 (4.545%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 21 (95.45%) SAN
2 12 (54.55%) Firewall
3 9 (40.91%) LAN
3 9 (40.91%) WAN
4 7 (31.82%) iSCSI
4 7 (31.82%) NAS
4 7 (31.82%) Fibre Channel
4 7 (31.82%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.545%) VPN
5 1 (4.545%) DNS
5 1 (4.545%) DHCP
5 1 (4.545%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.091%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.545%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (4.545%) OLTP
2 1 (4.545%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (4.545%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 8 (36.36%) Back Office
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (4.545%) Banking
3 1 (4.545%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Service Manager
2 8 (36.36%) Technical Manager
2 8 (36.36%) Systems Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Technical Services Manager
3 7 (31.82%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Technical Consultant
4 4 (18.18%) Consultant
4 4 (18.18%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Support Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Windows Systems Engineer
6 2 (9.091%) UNIX Support Engineer
6 2 (9.091%) Storage Engineer
6 2 (9.091%) UNIX Support
6 2 (9.091%) Solaris Support Engineer
6 2 (9.091%) UNIX Engineer
7 1 (4.545%) Systems Manager
7 1 (4.545%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.64%) Replication
3 2 (9.091%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 21 (95.45%) Windows
2 19 (86.36%) UNIX
3 14 (63.64%) Linux
4 1 (4.545%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.545%) Windows 7
4 1 (4.545%) Windows 8
4 1 (4.545%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (4.545%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Service Management
1 8 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (18.18%) ITIL
2 4 (18.18%) Release Management
3 3 (13.64%) Data Protection
4 2 (9.091%) Project Management
5 1 (4.545%) PRINCE2
5 1 (4.545%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) Perl
2 3 (13.64%) Python
3 1 (4.545%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.545%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Degree
2 1 (4.545%) MCSE
2 1 (4.545%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.545%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (31.82%) NFS
2 7 (31.82%) Xen
3 2 (9.091%) SRDF
4 1 (4.545%) vSphere
4 1 (4.545%) Active Directory
4 1 (4.545%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) NetBackup
1 8 (36.36%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (13.64%) Netcool
2 3 (13.64%) Tivoli
3 2 (9.091%) EMC TimeFinder
4 1 (4.545%) WSUS
4 1 (4.545%) SCCM
4 1 (4.545%) SCOM
Vendors
1 16 (72.73%) VMware
2 11 (50.00%) Veritas
3 10 (45.45%) Cisco
4 9 (40.91%) EMC
5 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
5 8 (36.36%) Red Hat
5 8 (36.36%) CheckPoint
5 8 (36.36%) Mercator
6 7 (31.82%) Citrix
6 7 (31.82%) NetApp
7 3 (13.64%) Oracle
8 2 (9.091%) Brocade
9 1 (4.545%) F5
9 1 (4.545%) HP
9 1 (4.545%) Remedy