England Solaris Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Sun Microsystems Solaris skills within the England region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT job ads that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 9 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Sun Microsystems Solaris
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bridlington Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Daresbury Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorset Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fife Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rochdale Rugby Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Andrews Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Torfaen Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	77	64
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching permanent IT job ads	4711	6527
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.421 %	2.719 %
As % of the category below	10.31 %	11.49 %
Salaries quoted	3638	4888
Average minimum salary	£44,268	£44,667
Average salary	£47,617	£48,138
% change on same period last year	-1.08 %
Average maximum salary	£50,966	£51,608
UK excluding London average salary	£41,625	£41,166
% change on same period last year	+1.11 %
Operating Systems England
Matching permanent IT job ads	45703	56791
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	23.48 %	23.65 %
Salaries quoted	38483	45061
Average minimum salary	£36,407	£37,892
Average salary	£39,403	£41,055
% change on same period last year	-4.02 %
Average maximum salary	£42,398	£44,217
UK excluding London average salary	£34,437	£35,018
% change on same period last year	-1.66 %
Solaris UK

Solaris
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Solaris across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Solaris
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Solaris across the England region.

Solaris
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the England region over the 3 months to 9 July 2008.

Solaris
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT job ads citing Solaris within the England region over the 3 months to 9 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	-9	2415	£53,086	-3.30 %
South East	-4	1258	£43,673	-0.49 %
East of England	-22	303	£39,996	-1.60 %
Yorkshire	+25	264	£39,149	+12.09 %
South West	-52	167	£42,754	-0.24 %
North West	-42	139	£36,083	-5.57 %
West Midlands	-44	112	£38,686	+17.57 %
East Midlands	-8	61	£40,867	+18.68 %
Midlands	-3	19	£47,125	+32.62 %
North East	-12	3	£30,000	-20.48 %

Solaris UK

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 7295 (71.74 %) Unix 2 5055 (49.71 %) Linux 3 3736 (36.74 %) Oracle 4 3102 (30.50 %) Windows 5 2882 (28.34 %) Finance 6 2651 (26.07 %) Sun 7 2269 (22.31 %) SQL 8 2101 (20.66 %) AIX 9 1882 (18.51 %) Java 10 1874 (18.43 %) Perl 11 1593 (15.67 %) Shell Script 12 1569 (15.43 %) Banking 13 1457 (14.33 %) Apache 14 1406 (13.83 %) Red Hat 15 1223 (12.03 %) SAN

16 1206 (11.86 %) SQL Server 17 1199 (11.79 %) HPUX 18 1140 (11.21 %) HP 19 1071 (10.53 %) Sybase 20 1069 (10.51 %) TCP/IP 20 1069 (10.51 %) VERITAS 21 982 (9.657 %) C++ 22 945 (9.293 %) IBM 23 877 (8.624 %) J2EE 24 873 (8.585 %) Internet 25 841 (8.270 %) Cisco 26 821 (8.074 %) WebSphere 27 800 (7.867 %) DNS 28 792 (7.788 %) Firewall 29 763 (7.503 %) WebLogic

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 1 877 (8.624 %) J2EE 2 821 (8.074 %) WebSphere 3 568 (5.586 %) XML 4 406 (3.993 %) HTML 5 322 (3.166 %) Middleware 6 309 (3.039 %) JSP 7 299 (2.940 %) .NET 8 226 (2.222 %) WebServices 9 167 (1.642 %) Servlets 10 164 (1.613 %) Spring 11 150 (1.475 %) Hibernate 12 143 (1.406 %) JMS 13 139 (1.367 %) EJB 13 139 (1.367 %) ASP 14 135 (1.328 %) CSS 15 122 (1.200 %) Struts 16 110 (1.082 %) SOAP 17 103 (1.013 %) JDBC 18 92 (0.905 %) AJAX 19 75 (0.738 %) STL	Application Platforms 1 1457 (14.33 %) Apache 2 763 (7.503 %) WebLogic 3 671 (6.598 %) Tomcat 4 287 (2.822 %) JBoss 5 280 (2.753 %) IIS 6 208 (2.045 %) WebSphere Application Server 7 201 (1.977 %) MS Exchange 8 189 (1.859 %) WebSphere MQ 9 169 (1.662 %) Oracle Application Server 10 151 (1.485 %) MQSeries 11 118 (1.160 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 88 (0.865 %) Exchange Server 2000 13 77 (0.757 %) CMS 14 43 (0.423 %) SAS 15 42 (0.413 %) Oracle 10gAS 16 38 (0.374 %) iPlanet 17 33 (0.325 %) WebLogic Portal 17 33 (0.325 %) Oracle 9iAS 18 30 (0.295 %) TeamSite 19 29 (0.285 %) NetWeaver
Applications 1 425 (4.179 %) MS Excel 2 137 (1.347 %) MS Office 3 30 (0.295 %) MS Visio 4 19 (0.187 %) MATLAB 5 14 (0.138 %) MS PowerPoint 6 10 (0.098 %) MS Project 7 8 (0.079 %) SPSS 8 4 (0.039 %) S-PLUS 9 3 (0.030 %) Photoshop 9 3 (0.030 %) Fireworks 9 3 (0.030 %) CA Clarity 10 1 (0.010 %) FrameMaker	Business Applications 1 143 (1.406 %) Oracle EBS 1 143 (1.406 %) RMDS 2 96 (0.944 %) Oracle Applications 3 94 (0.924 %) Oracle 11i 4 24 (0.236 %) Navision 5 22 (0.216 %) Movex 5 22 (0.216 %) SAP Retail 6 17 (0.167 %) Summit 7 16 (0.157 %) SoftGrid 8 12 (0.118 %) Kondor+ 8 12 (0.118 %) MarketView 9 11 (0.108 %) Oracle Financials 10 7 (0.069 %) WebTrends 10 7 (0.069 %) ADP Wilco Gloss 10 7 (0.069 %) Eagle PACE 11 6 (0.059 %) Oracle CRM 12 5 (0.049 %) MAXIMO 12 5 (0.049 %) Misys Midas 12 5 (0.049 %) Teamcenter 13 3 (0.030 %) ENOVIA
Communications & Networking 1 1223 (12.03 %) SAN 2 1069 (10.51 %) TCP/IP 3 873 (8.585 %) Internet 4 800 (7.867 %) DNS 5 792 (7.788 %) Firewall 6 438 (4.307 %) WAN 7 422 (4.150 %) LAN 8 409 (4.022 %) VPN 9 299 (2.940 %) HTTP 10 282 (2.773 %) LDAP 11 183 (1.800 %) DHCP 12 149 (1.465 %) SMTP 13 143 (1.406 %) FTP 13 143 (1.406 %) Network Security 14 139 (1.367 %) VoIP 15 134 (1.318 %) SSL 16 121 (1.190 %) SNMP 17 109 (1.072 %) SSH 18 101 (0.993 %) Wireless 19 92 (0.905 %) VLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1206 (11.86 %) SQL Server 2 751 (7.385 %) Oracle 10g 3 617 (6.067 %) Oracle 9i 4 588 (5.782 %) MySQL 5 501 (4.927 %) RDBMS 6 421 (4.140 %) DB2 7 387 (3.806 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 237 (2.331 %) SQL Server 2000 9 188 (1.849 %) Sybase ASE 10 149 (1.465 %) SQL Server 2005 11 144 (1.416 %) Informix 12 114 (1.121 %) Oracle Reports 13 106 (1.042 %) Ingres 14 98 (0.964 %) Datawarehouse 15 88 (0.865 %) BusinessObjects 16 72 (0.708 %) TOAD 17 68 (0.669 %) SQL Server 7 18 54 (0.531 %) PostgreSQL 18 54 (0.531 %) ETL 19 50 (0.492 %) SQLPlus
Development Applications 1 249 (2.449 %) ClearCase 2 96 (0.944 %) Ant 3 89 (0.875 %) Oracle Forms 4 76 (0.747 %) Eclipse 5 59 (0.580 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 56 (0.551 %) Subversion 7 51 (0.502 %) JUnit 8 50 (0.492 %) Visual Studio 9 37 (0.364 %) ProC 10 34 (0.334 %) LoadRunner 10 34 (0.334 %) JIRA 11 32 (0.315 %) PVCS 12 30 (0.295 %) ClearQuest 13 28 (0.275 %) OpenDeploy 14 26 (0.256 %) NUnit 15 25 (0.246 %) WinRunner 16 23 (0.226 %) QuickTest Pro 17 22 (0.216 %) Log4j 18 19 (0.187 %) TestDirector 19 18 (0.177 %) Introscope	General 1 2882 (28.34 %) Finance 2 1569 (15.43 %) Banking 3 656 (6.451 %) Telecoms 4 427 (4.199 %) Investment Banking 5 375 (3.688 %) Pensions 6 340 (3.343 %) Financial Institution 7 281 (2.763 %) Health 8 213 (2.095 %) Front Office 9 172 (1.691 %) Retail 10 149 (1.465 %) Back Office 11 148 (1.455 %) Education 12 138 (1.357 %) Insurance 13 98 (0.964 %) Government 14 90 (0.885 %) Games 15 83 (0.816 %) Publishing 16 80 (0.787 %) Marketing 17 45 (0.443 %) Billing 18 38 (0.374 %) Online Games 19 25 (0.246 %) Legal 20 24 (0.236 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 2298 (22.60 %) Administrator 2 1459 (14.35 %) Systems Administrator 3 1180 (11.60 %) Developer 4 1109 (10.91 %) UNIX Administrator 5 990 (9.735 %) Analyst 6 933 (9.175 %) DBA 7 849 (8.349 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 8 678 (6.667 %) Oracle DBA 9 541 (5.320 %) Support Analyst 10 521 (5.123 %) Support Engineer 11 512 (5.035 %) Consultant 12 471 (4.632 %) Architect 13 467 (4.592 %) Applications Support 14 465 (4.573 %) UNIX Engineer 15 411 (4.042 %) UNIX Support 16 408 (4.012 %) Team Leader 17 356 (3.501 %) Java Developer 18 321 (3.157 %) Linux Administrator 19 310 (3.048 %) Technical Support 20 307 (3.019 %) Solaris Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 565 (5.556 %) Clustering 2 342 (3.363 %) Equities 3 323 (3.176 %) Derivative 4 282 (2.773 %) Replication 5 165 (1.623 %) HACMP 6 163 (1.603 %) Client/Server 7 143 (1.406 %) Computer Science 8 133 (1.308 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 9 126 (1.239 %) Fixed Income 10 111 (1.092 %) Mainframe 11 83 (0.816 %) Asset Management 12 81 (0.797 %) French Language 13 72 (0.708 %) PKI 13 72 (0.708 %) Management Information System 14 70 (0.688 %) German Language 15 66 (0.649 %) CLARiiON 16 55 (0.541 %) Multithreading 17 52 (0.511 %) SecurID 18 45 (0.443 %) Statistics 19 42 (0.413 %) Spread Betting
Operating Systems 1 7295 (71.74 %) Unix 2 5055 (49.71 %) Linux 3 3102 (30.50 %) Windows 4 2101 (20.66 %) AIX 5 1199 (11.79 %) HPUX 6 531 (5.222 %) Windows 2000 7 458 (4.504 %) Windows NT 8 301 (2.960 %) SUSE 9 291 (2.862 %) Windows Server 2003 10 167 (1.642 %) VMS 11 162 (1.593 %) Debian 12 156 (1.534 %) FreeBSD 13 126 (1.239 %) Tru64 14 122 (1.200 %) Windows XP 15 74 (0.728 %) Fedora 16 58 (0.570 %) Ubuntu 17 53 (0.521 %) OpenVMS 18 21 (0.207 %) MVS 19 20 (0.197 %) zOS 20 16 (0.157 %) OS/400	Processes & Methodologies 1 708 (6.962 %) ITIL 2 382 (3.757 %) OO 3 374 (3.678 %) Project Management 4 273 (2.685 %) Disaster Recovery 5 199 (1.957 %) Change Management 6 190 (1.868 %) Security Cleared 7 186 (1.829 %) Software Engineering 8 184 (1.809 %) Service Delivery 9 178 (1.750 %) E-Commerce 10 176 (1.731 %) Load Balancing 11 161 (1.583 %) Web Development 12 145 (1.426 %) OOD 13 139 (1.367 %) Release Management 14 135 (1.328 %) Migration 15 132 (1.298 %) OOA/OOD 16 122 (1.200 %) Problem Management 17 118 (1.160 %) UML 18 111 (1.092 %) Configuration Management 18 111 (1.092 %) Algorithmic Trading 19 102 (1.003 %) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages 1 2269 (22.31 %) SQL 2 1882 (18.51 %) Java 3 1874 (18.43 %) Perl 4 1593 (15.67 %) Shell Script 5 982 (9.657 %) C++ 6 726 (7.139 %) C 7 534 (5.251 %) PL/SQL 8 366 (3.599 %) C# 9 305 (2.999 %) VB 10 291 (2.862 %) PHP 11 284 (2.793 %) Korn 12 280 (2.753 %) Python 13 274 (2.694 %) JavaScript 14 133 (1.308 %) Tcl 15 124 (1.219 %) VBA 16 120 (1.180 %) AWK 17 113 (1.111 %) Transact-SQL 18 105 (1.033 %) Ruby 19 75 (0.738 %) VC++ 20 56 (0.551 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 751 (7.385 %) Degree 2 194 (1.908 %) Cisco Certification 3 172 (1.691 %) Microsoft Certification 4 159 (1.564 %) Sun Certification 5 149 (1.465 %) MCSE 6 138 (1.357 %) CCNA 7 123 (1.210 %) Oracle Certification 8 83 (0.816 %) OCP 9 78 (0.767 %) CCNP 9 78 (0.767 %) RHCE 10 72 (0.708 %) ITIL Certification 11 71 (0.698 %) IBM AIX Certification 12 60 (0.590 %) ISEB 13 48 (0.472 %) CISSP 14 47 (0.462 %) MCP 15 45 (0.443 %) SCSA 16 41 (0.403 %) MCSA 17 40 (0.393 %) SCNA 18 25 (0.246 %) HND 18 25 (0.246 %) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 235 (2.311 %) SLA 2 126 (1.239 %) QA 3 28 (0.275 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 22 (0.216 %) ISO8583 5 20 (0.197 %) ISO27001 6 11 (0.108 %) MiFID 7 9 (0.089 %) ISO9001 8 5 (0.049 %) HMG Infosec 9 3 (0.030 %) JSP 440 9 3 (0.030 %) GCP 10 2 (0.020 %) BS7799 11 1 (0.010 %) SNOMED CT 11 1 (0.010 %) ISO9000 11 1 (0.010 %) ISO17799	System Software 1 478 (4.701 %) NetBackup 2 338 (3.324 %) Oracle RAC 3 307 (3.019 %) Active Directory 4 276 (2.714 %) Oracle RMAN 5 196 (1.927 %) NFS 6 173 (1.701 %) VMware Infrastructure 7 107 (1.052 %) VMware ESX 8 68 (0.669 %) Backup Exec 9 54 (0.531 %) Samba 10 38 (0.374 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 11 34 (0.334 %) Terminal Services 12 32 (0.315 %) Squid 13 24 (0.236 %) MetaFrame 14 20 (0.197 %) ISA Server 14 20 (0.197 %) Xen 15 14 (0.138 %) Citrix Presentation Server 16 10 (0.098 %) MSMQ 16 10 (0.098 %) Terminal Server 17 6 (0.059 %) Orbix 18 3 (0.030 %) NDS
Systems Management 1 318 (3.127 %) Tivoli 2 163 (1.603 %) OpenView 3 130 (1.278 %) Legato 4 115 (1.131 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 103 (1.013 %) Nagios 6 88 (0.865 %) BMC PATROL 7 87 (0.856 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 8 70 (0.688 %) EMC NetWorker 9 58 (0.570 %) Netcool 10 57 (0.561 %) AutoSys 11 51 (0.502 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 12 49 (0.482 %) Unicenter 13 48 (0.472 %) CA SiteMinder 14 45 (0.443 %) CONTROL-M 14 45 (0.443 %) Oracle Statspack 15 32 (0.315 %) CiscoWorks 16 26 (0.256 %) MOM 17 24 (0.236 %) Tivoli Monitoring 18 21 (0.207 %) HP Data Protector 19 13 (0.128 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 3736 (36.74 %) Oracle 2 2651 (26.07 %) Sun 3 1406 (13.83 %) Red Hat 4 1140 (11.21 %) HP 5 1071 (10.53 %) Sybase 6 1069 (10.51 %) VERITAS 7 945 (9.293 %) IBM 8 841 (8.270 %) Cisco 9 719 (7.071 %) Microsoft 10 419 (4.120 %) EMC 11 416 (4.091 %) VMware 12 364 (3.580 %) Remedy 13 349 (3.432 %) Citrix 14 270 (2.655 %) TIBCO 15 195 (1.918 %) BEA 16 183 (1.800 %) Reuters 17 153 (1.505 %) BMC 18 144 (1.416 %) NetApp 19 137 (1.347 %) SAP 20 135 (1.328 %) CheckPoint