The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 24 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 East Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 135 144 134
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -10
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 28 16 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.911% 0.482% 0.868%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.390% 2.049% 4.324%
Number of salaries quoted 22 15 26
Average salary £41,250 £35,750 £37,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -4.02%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,550 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £49,000
UK excluding London average salary £43,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+1.17% +2.40%
All Operating Systems
East Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
826 781 717
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 26.87% 23.54% 20.07%
Number of salaries quoted 694 703 638
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +12.90%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £22,410 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
England

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Northamptonshire +6 11 £35,000 -41.66%
Nottinghamshire +1 8 £40,000 +6.66%
Derbyshire +7 7 £42,500 +21.42%
Solaris
England

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 45 (88.24%) UNIX
2 31 (60.78%) Windows
2 31 (60.78%) Oracle
3 26 (50.98%) Linux
4 17 (33.33%) AIX
5 15 (29.41%) Middleware
5 15 (29.41%) SQL Server
6 14 (27.45%) Red Hat
6 14 (27.45%) VMware
7 13 (25.49%) HPUX
7 13 (25.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (23.53%) WebSphere
8 12 (23.53%) Oracle 11g
8 12 (23.53%) PL/SQL
8 12 (23.53%) SQL
8 12 (23.53%) IBM
9 11 (21.57%) Business Continuity
9 11 (21.57%) Microsoft
9 11 (21.57%) SAN
10 9 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
10 9 (17.65%) Tivoli
10 9 (17.65%) Oracle 8/8i
10 9 (17.65%) Finance
10 9 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
10 9 (17.65%) Capacity Planning
11 8 (15.69%) Data Guard
11 8 (15.69%) Shell Script
11 8 (15.69%) Oracle 9i
11 8 (15.69%) Cisco
11 8 (15.69%) SSL

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 15 (29.41%) Middleware
2 12 (23.53%) WebSphere
3 4 (7.843%) JDBC
4 2 (3.922%) XML
5 1 (1.961%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 7 (13.73%) WebSphere MQ
1 7 (13.73%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 6 (11.76%) CICS
3 5 (9.804%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
4 4 (7.843%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (5.882%) Tomcat
6 2 (3.922%) CMS
7 1 (1.961%) Apache
7 1 (1.961%) OpenROAD
7 1 (1.961%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (1.961%) Lync
Applications
1 1 (1.961%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.922%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (3.922%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (3.922%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (3.922%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 11 (21.57%) SAN
2 8 (15.69%) SSL
3 7 (13.73%) TCP/IP
4 6 (11.76%) DMVPN
4 6 (11.76%) MPLS
4 6 (11.76%) OSPF
4 6 (11.76%) VPN
5 5 (9.804%) Firewall
5 5 (9.804%) BGP
5 5 (9.804%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (9.804%) NAS
5 5 (9.804%) Cisco IOS
5 5 (9.804%) VLAN
6 3 (5.882%) LAN
6 3 (5.882%) WAN
7 2 (3.922%) Unified Communications
7 2 (3.922%) Network Security
7 2 (3.922%) Internet
7 2 (3.922%) FTP
8 1 (1.961%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (29.41%) SQL Server
2 12 (23.53%) Oracle 11g
3 9 (17.65%) Oracle 8/8i
4 8 (15.69%) Oracle 9i
4 8 (15.69%) Oracle 10g
5 6 (11.76%) SQL Server 2008
5 6 (11.76%) SQL Server 2000
5 6 (11.76%) DB2
6 4 (7.843%) VLDB
7 2 (3.922%) RDBMS
7 2 (3.922%) Ingres
8 1 (1.961%) MySQL
General
1 9 (17.65%) Finance
2 2 (3.922%) French Language
3 1 (1.961%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) DBA
2 12 (23.53%) Oracle DBA
3 6 (11.76%) Administrator
4 5 (9.804%) Consultant
5 4 (7.843%) Analyst
5 4 (7.843%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 3 (5.882%) IT Support Analyst
6 3 (5.882%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (5.882%) Support Analyst
6 3 (5.882%) Technical Consultant
6 3 (5.882%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 3 (5.882%) IT Support
6 3 (5.882%) Middleware Specialist
7 2 (3.922%) Middleware Architect
7 2 (3.922%) WebSphere Specialist
7 2 (3.922%) Architect
7 2 (3.922%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (3.922%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.922%) WebSphere Architect
7 2 (3.922%) Infrastructure Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Mainframe
2 6 (11.76%) Tandem
3 4 (7.843%) PKI
3 4 (7.843%) Computer Science
4 3 (5.882%) HACMP
5 2 (3.922%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.922%) Clustering
6 1 (1.961%) SecurID
6 1 (1.961%) Replication
6 1 (1.961%) CLARiiON
6 1 (1.961%) EMC Centera
6 1 (1.961%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.961%) Celerra
6 1 (1.961%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 45 (88.24%) UNIX
2 31 (60.78%) Windows
3 26 (50.98%) Linux
4 17 (33.33%) AIX
5 13 (25.49%) HPUX
5 13 (25.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
6 9 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (9.804%) SUSE
8 3 (5.882%) OS/400
9 2 (3.922%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.961%) Debian
10 1 (1.961%) CentOS
10 1 (1.961%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (21.57%) Business Continuity
2 9 (17.65%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (9.804%) ITIL
4 5 (9.804%) SOA
4 5 (9.804%) Infrastructure Management
4 5 (9.804%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (7.843%) Configuration Management
5 4 (7.843%) Project Management
5 4 (7.843%) Validation
6 3 (5.882%) Service Management
6 3 (5.882%) Service Delivery
6 3 (5.882%) ITIL V3
6 3 (5.882%) ITIL V2
6 3 (5.882%) High Availability
7 2 (3.922%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (3.922%) Security Architecture
7 2 (3.922%) Performance Management
7 2 (3.922%) Migration
7 2 (3.922%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.53%) PL/SQL
1 12 (23.53%) SQL
2 8 (15.69%) Shell Script
3 3 (5.882%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (13.73%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (9.804%) Degree
3 3 (5.882%) CCNP
3 3 (5.882%) CCNA
3 3 (5.882%) MCDST
4 1 (1.961%) Sun Certification
4 1 (1.961%) CCVP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.843%) SLA
1 4 (7.843%) ISO 9001
2 3 (5.882%) QA
System Software
1 6 (11.76%) Oracle RAC
1 6 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.804%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (7.843%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.882%) VMware ESX
4 3 (5.882%) PowerHA
5 1 (1.961%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (1.961%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 9 (17.65%) Tivoli
2 8 (15.69%) Data Guard
3 5 (9.804%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 4 (7.843%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (5.882%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 3 (5.882%) Backup Exec
5 3 (5.882%) Nagios
5 3 (5.882%) CA Wily
6 2 (3.922%) NetBackup
6 2 (3.922%) OpenView
7 1 (1.961%) Cisco UCCX
7 1 (1.961%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 31 (60.78%) Oracle
2 14 (27.45%) Red Hat
2 14 (27.45%) VMware
3 12 (23.53%) IBM
4 11 (21.57%) Microsoft
5 8 (15.69%) Cisco
6 5 (9.804%) HP
6 5 (9.804%) EMC
6 5 (9.804%) Sun
7 4 (7.843%) Brocade
7 4 (7.843%) JBoss
8 2 (3.922%) CA
8 2 (3.922%) Citrix
9 1 (1.961%) NCR
9 1 (1.961%) Nokia
9 1 (1.961%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.961%) Foundry
Nottingham, East Midlands
The C++ Developer will rely on their extensive technical skills and be able to assume the role of technical lead for a diverse software engineering team, implementing major...
Claremont Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Negotiable
Posted: 23 May 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Skills and Experience *Strong Java and extensive C++ development experience *Real time server development *Oracle and SQL *Excellent communication skills and able to work as part of a...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Negotiable
Posted: 22 May 2013
East Midlands
Are you accustomed to working in a UNIX environment?... My client is looking for a Middleware Specialist (Websphere, MQ, Message Broker) to handle Middleware design and implementation in...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: £40,000 per annum + package
Posted: 20 May 2013