The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 23 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 79 69 96
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +27
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 7 23 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.658% 1.683% 0.567%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.929% 7.395% 2.813%
Number of salaries quoted 7 12 6
Average salary £52,500 £60,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +50.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £59,000 £65,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.40%
All Operating Systems
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
239 311 320
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 22.46% 22.75% 20.18%
Number of salaries quoted 159 234 218
Average salary £35,000 £34,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £22,500 £23,300
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
Scotland

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Edinburgh Solaris Salary Histogram

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 (91.30%) UNIX
2 13 (56.52%) Linux
2 13 (56.52%) Perl
3 11 (47.83%) Oracle
3 11 (47.83%) Windows
4 9 (39.13%) IBM
4 9 (39.13%) WebSphere
5 8 (34.78%) SQL
6 7 (30.43%) .NET
6 7 (30.43%) Shell Script
6 7 (30.43%) Middleware
7 6 (26.09%) WebSphere MQ
7 6 (26.09%) SWIFT
8 5 (21.74%) Asset Management
8 5 (21.74%) Java
9 4 (17.39%) VB.NET
9 4 (17.39%) RDBMS
9 4 (17.39%) XML
9 4 (17.39%) Finance
9 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (13.04%) Capacity Planning
10 3 (13.04%) Samba
10 3 (13.04%) Project Management
10 3 (13.04%) Degree
10 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
10 3 (13.04%) AIX
10 3 (13.04%) HPUX
10 3 (13.04%) Ingres
10 3 (13.04%) EMC

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 9 (39.13%) WebSphere
2 7 (30.43%) .NET
2 7 (30.43%) Middleware
3 4 (17.39%) XML
4 3 (13.04%) Web Services
4 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET
5 2 (8.696%) DHTML
5 2 (8.696%) ASP
6 1 (4.348%) RESTful
6 1 (4.348%) Hibernate
6 1 (4.348%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (4.348%) Spring
6 1 (4.348%) JPA
6 1 (4.348%) CSS
6 1 (4.348%) JSP
6 1 (4.348%) Servlets
6 1 (4.348%) SOAP
6 1 (4.348%) HTML
6 1 (4.348%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 6 (26.09%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (8.696%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (8.696%) OpenROAD
2 2 (8.696%) WebSphere Process Server
2 2 (8.696%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (8.696%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (4.348%) CMS
3 1 (4.348%) Apache
3 1 (4.348%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
1 1 (4.348%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.696%) HTTP
2 1 (4.348%) NAS
2 1 (4.348%) Unified Communications
2 1 (4.348%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) RDBMS
2 3 (13.04%) Ingres
2 3 (13.04%) Crystal Reports
2 3 (13.04%) Informix
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.04%) DB2
3 2 (8.696%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (8.696%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (4.348%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.348%) OLTP
4 1 (4.348%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (4.348%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (4.348%) JMeter
2 1 (4.348%) Subversion
2 1 (4.348%) HttpUnit
2 1 (4.348%) ClearQuest
2 1 (4.348%) ClearCase
2 1 (4.348%) Ant
2 1 (4.348%) JUnit
General
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 2 (8.696%) Banking
2 2 (8.696%) Billing
3 1 (4.348%) Games
3 1 (4.348%) Advertising
3 1 (4.348%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Support Engineer
1 6 (26.09%) Middleware Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Applications Support
2 4 (17.39%) Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Applications Support Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Developer
4 2 (8.696%) WebSphere Specialist
4 2 (8.696%) Analyst Programmer
4 2 (8.696%) Programmer
5 1 (4.348%) Applications Support Analyst
5 1 (4.348%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) UNIX Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (4.348%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.348%) Support Analyst
5 1 (4.348%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.348%) Web Developer
5 1 (4.348%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) SWIFT
2 2 (8.696%) Mathematics
2 2 (8.696%) Physics
2 2 (8.696%) Computer Science
2 2 (8.696%) Celerra
2 2 (8.696%) Clustering
2 2 (8.696%) Mainframe
2 2 (8.696%) Replication
3 1 (4.348%) Symmetrix DMX
3 1 (4.348%) Open Source
3 1 (4.348%) CLARiiON
3 1 (4.348%) Symmetrix
3 1 (4.348%) EMC Centera
3 1 (4.348%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 21 (91.30%) UNIX
2 13 (56.52%) Linux
3 11 (47.83%) Windows
4 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (13.04%) AIX
5 3 (13.04%) HPUX
6 2 (8.696%) zOS
7 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (21.74%) Asset Management
2 3 (13.04%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (13.04%) Project Management
3 2 (8.696%) Incident Management
3 2 (8.696%) Data Management
3 2 (8.696%) Systems Analysis
3 2 (8.696%) Configuration Management
3 2 (8.696%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (8.696%) Migration
4 1 (4.348%) Enterprise Content Management
4 1 (4.348%) Web Application Development
4 1 (4.348%) Analytics
4 1 (4.348%) Change Management
4 1 (4.348%) Content Management
4 1 (4.348%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Perl
2 8 (34.78%) SQL
3 7 (30.43%) Shell Script
4 5 (21.74%) Java
5 4 (17.39%) VB.NET
6 3 (13.04%) C
6 3 (13.04%) C#
6 3 (13.04%) VB
7 2 (8.696%) Delphi
7 2 (8.696%) PL/SQL
7 2 (8.696%) Korn
8 1 (4.348%) Bash shell
8 1 (4.348%) Ruby
8 1 (4.348%) VB6
8 1 (4.348%) PHP
8 1 (4.348%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.348%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Samba
2 2 (8.696%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.696%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (8.696%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (4.348%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 1 (4.348%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.696%) Data Guard
2 1 (4.348%) EMC TimeFinder
2 1 (4.348%) NetBackup
2 1 (4.348%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (4.348%) Tivoli
2 1 (4.348%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (4.348%) Legato
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Oracle
2 9 (39.13%) IBM
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.04%) EMC
3 3 (13.04%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.696%) JBoss
4 2 (8.696%) Sun
4 2 (8.696%) Cisco
4 2 (8.696%) Brocade
4 2 (8.696%) Veritas
5 1 (4.348%) VMware
5 1 (4.348%) Alterian
5 1 (4.348%) Symantec
5 1 (4.348%) NetApp
5 1 (4.348%) StorageTek