England Sun Jobs

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT jobs within the England region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sun over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Aylesbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheshire Chessington Chesterfield Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dumbarton Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Feltham Filton Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Goole Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Pudsey Reading Rickmansworth Rochdale Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tewkesbury Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear Uckfield UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	165	158
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching permanent IT job ads	2264	2655
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.110 %	1.175 %
As % of the category below	2.735 %	2.999 %
Salaries quoted	1675	1885
Average minimum salary	£43,629	£44,020
Average salary	£46,724	£47,980
% change on same period last year	-2.61 %
Average maximum salary	£49,819	£51,940
UK excluding London average salary	£42,135	£43,534
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Vendors England
Matching permanent IT job ads	82770	88515
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	40.58 %	39.19 %
Salaries quoted	67737	68970
Average minimum salary	£40,175	£41,898
Average salary	£43,798	£45,609
% change on same period last year	-3.97 %
Average maximum salary	£47,421	£49,319
UK excluding London average salary	£40,116	£41,444
% change on same period last year	-3.20 %
Sun UK

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Sun across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Sun across the England region over the past 3 months.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sun within the England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	London	-22	853	£54,734	-0.59 %
2	South East	+17	716	£45,003	-0.49 %
3	East of England	-21	184	£40,124	-16.01 %
4	Yorkshire	-11	165	£41,102	-3.82 %
5	North West	-18	95	£37,402	+1.28 %
6	West Midlands	-29	93	£40,583	+19.54 %
7	South West	-77	82	£39,339	+2.17 %
8	East Midlands	+14	74	£38,100	-2.32 %
9	Midlands	-30	10	£32,938	-39.25 %
10	North East	+3	6	£29,000	-15.63 %
11	South Coast	+4	1	£52,500	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing Sun also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Sun.

1 2712 (59.99 %) Solaris 2 2526 (55.87 %) Unix 3 1476 (32.65 %) Oracle 4 1283 (28.38 %) Linux 5 1031 (22.80 %) IBM 6 1020 (22.56 %) Windows 7 1014 (22.43 %) Finance 8 910 (20.13 %) Java 9 902 (19.95 %) HP 10 822 (18.18 %) SQL 11 736 (16.28 %) SAN 12 685 (15.15 %) AIX 13 613 (13.56 %) VERITAS 14 603 (13.34 %) J2EE 15 519 (11.48 %) Red Hat

16 509 (11.26 %) Microsoft 17 486 (10.75 %) Banking 18 448 (9.909 %) Sun Certification 19 443 (9.799 %) Perl 20 439 (9.710 %) Apache 21 429 (9.489 %) WebSphere 22 417 (9.224 %) Cisco 23 414 (9.157 %) EMC 23 414 (9.157 %) Shell Script 24 396 (8.759 %) SQL Server 25 393 (8.693 %) XML 26 366 (8.096 %) Internet 27 357 (7.896 %) Degree 28 352 (7.786 %) DNS 29 317 (7.012 %) ITIL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing Sun also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Sun. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 603 (13.34 %) J2EE 2 429 (9.489 %) WebSphere 3 393 (8.693 %) XML 4 302 (6.680 %) HTML 5 274 (6.061 %) JSP 6 244 (5.397 %) .NET 7 195 (4.313 %) Struts 8 188 (4.158 %) Servlets 9 167 (3.694 %) WebServices 9 167 (3.694 %) Hibernate 10 161 (3.561 %) CSS 11 160 (3.539 %) EJB 12 142 (3.141 %) Spring 13 131 (2.898 %) XSLT 13 131 (2.898 %) JMS 14 114 (2.522 %) JDBC 15 102 (2.256 %) Middleware 16 93 (2.057 %) XHTML 17 72 (1.593 %) AJAX 18 57 (1.261 %) J2SE	Application Platforms 1 439 (9.710 %) Apache 2 288 (6.370 %) WebLogic 3 231 (5.109 %) Tomcat 4 181 (4.004 %) JBoss 5 129 (2.853 %) IIS 6 121 (2.676 %) MS Exchange 7 81 (1.792 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 68 (1.504 %) MQSeries 9 66 (1.460 %) WebSphere Application Server 10 65 (1.438 %) Oracle Application Server 11 45 (0.995 %) WPS 12 41 (0.907 %) SharePoint 13 38 (0.841 %) WebSphere MQ 13 38 (0.841 %) WebLogic Portal 14 37 (0.818 %) ESB 15 32 (0.708 %) iPlanet 16 30 (0.664 %) Oracle 10gAS 17 29 (0.641 %) SharePoint Server 2007 17 29 (0.641 %) Exchange Server 2000 17 29 (0.641 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 252 (5.574 %) MS Excel 2 51 (1.128 %) MS Visio 3 43 (0.951 %) MS Office 4 14 (0.310 %) MS PowerPoint 5 4 (0.088 %) MS Project 6 3 (0.066 %) CA Clarity 7 2 (0.044 %) MATLAB 8 1 (0.022 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 67 (1.482 %) Oracle Applications 2 51 (1.128 %) Oracle EBS 2 51 (1.128 %) Oracle 11i 3 29 (0.641 %) Navision 4 14 (0.310 %) Movex 4 14 (0.310 %) SAP Retail 4 14 (0.310 %) HiPortfolio 5 11 (0.243 %) Great Plains 6 8 (0.177 %) RMDS 7 7 (0.155 %) ADP Wilco Gloss 8 6 (0.133 %) MarketView 9 5 (0.111 %) SAP Business One 9 5 (0.111 %) Fidessa 10 4 (0.088 %) Axapta 10 4 (0.088 %) Summit 11 3 (0.066 %) BASE24 11 3 (0.066 %) MAXIMO 11 3 (0.066 %) Murex MxG2000 11 3 (0.066 %) Kondor+ 12 2 (0.044 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 736 (16.28 %) SAN 2 366 (8.096 %) Internet 3 352 (7.786 %) DNS 4 269 (5.950 %) TCP/IP 5 256 (5.662 %) Firewall 6 127 (2.809 %) LDAP 7 108 (2.389 %) VPN 8 100 (2.212 %) LAN 9 86 (1.902 %) WAN 10 84 (1.858 %) DHCP 11 83 (1.836 %) SMTP 12 82 (1.814 %) HTTP 13 65 (1.438 %) SSL 14 44 (0.973 %) Network Security 15 42 (0.929 %) VoIP 15 42 (0.929 %) Cisco PIX 16 39 (0.863 %) Wireless 17 34 (0.752 %) FTP 18 33 (0.730 %) SSH 19 30 (0.664 %) NetScreen	Database & Business Intelligence 1 396 (8.759 %) SQL Server 2 251 (5.552 %) Oracle 10g 3 224 (4.955 %) Oracle 9i 4 201 (4.446 %) MySQL 5 184 (4.070 %) DB2 6 173 (3.827 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 151 (3.340 %) RDBMS 8 62 (1.371 %) SQL Server 2000 9 52 (1.150 %) Oracle Reports 10 50 (1.106 %) BusinessObjects 10 50 (1.106 %) SQL Server 2005 11 48 (1.062 %) SQL Server 7 12 43 (0.951 %) Informix 13 36 (0.796 %) Sybase ASE 14 24 (0.531 %) SQLPlus 15 22 (0.487 %) Datawarehouse 16 15 (0.332 %) Ingres 17 14 (0.310 %) MS Access 18 13 (0.288 %) Crystal Reports 19 11 (0.243 %) PostgreSQL
Development Applications 1 92 (2.035 %) JUnit 2 89 (1.969 %) Ant 3 86 (1.902 %) Eclipse 4 50 (1.106 %) Oracle Forms 5 36 (0.796 %) Log4j 6 27 (0.597 %) JDeveloper 7 23 (0.509 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 7 23 (0.509 %) Subversion 8 18 (0.398 %) JBuilder 9 16 (0.354 %) Flash 10 13 (0.288 %) Selenium 11 12 (0.265 %) LoadRunner 12 11 (0.243 %) WinRunner 13 10 (0.221 %) QuickTest Pro 14 8 (0.177 %) MSI 15 7 (0.155 %) HttpUnit 15 7 (0.155 %) CruiseControl 15 7 (0.155 %) IntelliJ 15 7 (0.155 %) ClearCase 16 6 (0.133 %) OpenDeploy	General 1 1014 (22.43 %) Finance 2 486 (10.75 %) Banking 3 225 (4.977 %) Telecoms 4 143 (3.163 %) Pensions 5 120 (2.654 %) Investment Banking 6 119 (2.632 %) Health 7 112 (2.477 %) Financial Institution 8 110 (2.433 %) Insurance 9 104 (2.300 %) Education 10 86 (1.902 %) Back Office 11 71 (1.570 %) Front Office 12 65 (1.438 %) Marketing 13 62 (1.371 %) Retail 14 47 (1.040 %) Government 15 34 (0.752 %) Publishing 16 27 (0.597 %) Construction 17 17 (0.376 %) Electric 18 14 (0.310 %) Games 19 12 (0.265 %) Billing 20 10 (0.221 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 941 (20.81 %) Administrator 2 583 (12.90 %) Systems Administrator 3 554 (12.25 %) Developer 4 509 (11.26 %) UNIX Administrator 5 426 (9.423 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 6 406 (8.980 %) Analyst 7 355 (7.852 %) Architect 8 348 (7.697 %) Java Developer 9 276 (6.105 %) Consultant 10 274 (6.061 %) DBA 11 244 (5.397 %) UNIX Engineer 12 212 (4.689 %) Support Engineer 13 200 (4.424 %) Oracle DBA 14 176 (3.893 %) Support Analyst 15 167 (3.694 %) Project Manager 16 161 (3.561 %) Technical Architect 17 156 (3.451 %) UNIX Support 18 154 (3.406 %) Sun Engineer 19 148 (3.274 %) Solaris Administrator 20 141 (3.119 %) Technical Support	Miscellaneous 1 302 (6.680 %) Clustering 2 107 (2.367 %) HACMP 3 91 (2.013 %) Client/Server 4 85 (1.880 %) Replication 5 81 (1.792 %) Management Information System 6 51 (1.128 %) Mainframe 7 48 (1.062 %) Computer Science 8 43 (0.951 %) Derivative 9 42 (0.929 %) Fixed Income 10 36 (0.796 %) CLARiiON 11 35 (0.774 %) AS400 11 35 (0.774 %) PMI 12 30 (0.664 %) Blackberry 12 30 (0.664 %) IPTV 13 28 (0.619 %) N-Tier 13 28 (0.619 %) SecurID 14 26 (0.575 %) PKI 15 22 (0.487 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 16 21 (0.464 %) VAX 16 21 (0.464 %) Asset Management
Operating Systems 1 2712 (59.99 %) Solaris 2 2526 (55.87 %) Unix 3 1283 (28.38 %) Linux 4 1020 (22.56 %) Windows 5 685 (15.15 %) AIX 6 283 (6.260 %) HPUX 7 156 (3.451 %) Windows NT 8 123 (2.721 %) Windows 2000 9 121 (2.676 %) SUSE 10 90 (1.991 %) Windows Server 2003 11 60 (1.327 %) Tru64 12 53 (1.172 %) FreeBSD 13 41 (0.907 %) Windows XP 14 35 (0.774 %) Debian 15 32 (0.708 %) MVS 16 26 (0.575 %) OpenVMS 17 15 (0.332 %) Fedora 18 11 (0.243 %) VMS 19 10 (0.221 %) Ubuntu 20 4 (0.088 %) OS/400	Processes & Methodologies 1 317 (7.012 %) ITIL 2 252 (5.574 %) UML 3 227 (5.021 %) OO 4 207 (4.579 %) Project Management 5 150 (3.318 %) Disaster Recovery 6 137 (3.030 %) E-Commerce 7 134 (2.964 %) Service Delivery 8 127 (2.809 %) PRINCE2 9 114 (2.522 %) Change Management 10 94 (2.079 %) SOA 11 90 (1.991 %) Load Balancing 12 82 (1.814 %) Software Engineering 13 65 (1.438 %) Configuration Management 13 65 (1.438 %) Performance Management 14 64 (1.416 %) RUP 15 60 (1.327 %) Problem Management 16 59 (1.305 %) MVC 17 55 (1.217 %) Web Development 18 54 (1.194 %) Release Management 18 54 (1.194 %) Content Management
Programming Languages 1 910 (20.13 %) Java 2 822 (18.18 %) SQL 3 443 (9.799 %) Perl 4 414 (9.157 %) Shell Script 5 236 (5.220 %) PL/SQL 6 219 (4.844 %) JavaScript 7 149 (3.296 %) C 8 140 (3.097 %) C# 9 132 (2.920 %) C++ 10 111 (2.455 %) Korn 11 76 (1.681 %) VBA 12 66 (1.460 %) PHP 13 63 (1.393 %) VB 14 60 (1.327 %) Transact-SQL 15 47 (1.040 %) AWK 16 41 (0.907 %) Python 17 36 (0.796 %) Tcl 18 22 (0.487 %) VC++ 19 21 (0.464 %) DHTML 20 20 (0.442 %) XPath	Qualifications 1 448 (9.909 %) Sun Certification 2 357 (7.896 %) Degree 3 118 (2.610 %) Microsoft Certification 4 93 (2.057 %) MCSE 5 86 (1.902 %) Cisco Certification 6 78 (1.725 %) CCNA 7 45 (0.995 %) CCNP 8 42 (0.929 %) ITIL Certification 9 40 (0.885 %) IBM Certification 10 39 (0.863 %) MCP 11 36 (0.796 %) Oracle Certification 12 32 (0.708 %) CISSP 13 29 (0.641 %) IBM AIX Certification 14 28 (0.619 %) RHCE 15 27 (0.597 %) SCJD 16 26 (0.575 %) SCWCD 16 26 (0.575 %) PMP 16 26 (0.575 %) PMI Certification 17 22 (0.487 %) SCNA 18 19 (0.420 %) SCBCD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 116 (2.566 %) SLA 2 57 (1.261 %) QA 3 16 (0.354 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 7 (0.155 %) ISO9001 5 5 (0.111 %) SNOMED CT 5 5 (0.111 %) COBIT 6 4 (0.088 %) BS7799 7 3 (0.066 %) ISO8583 8 2 (0.044 %) ISO9000 9 1 (0.022 %) GAMP 9 1 (0.022 %) GxP	System Software 1 266 (5.884 %) NetBackup 2 218 (4.822 %) Active Directory 3 133 (2.942 %) Oracle RAC 4 108 (2.389 %) Oracle RMAN 5 94 (2.079 %) NFS 6 34 (0.752 %) VMware ESX 7 30 (0.664 %) Samba 8 29 (0.641 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 9 28 (0.619 %) ISA Server 9 28 (0.619 %) Terminal Services 10 19 (0.420 %) Novell eDirectory 11 17 (0.376 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 12 16 (0.354 %) Xen 13 10 (0.221 %) Squid 14 9 (0.199 %) AquaLogic 14 9 (0.199 %) Backup Exec 15 8 (0.177 %) Orbix 16 7 (0.155 %) Snort 17 1 (0.022 %) Citrix Presentation Server 17 1 (0.022 %) VMware Server
Systems Management 1 156 (3.451 %) Tivoli 2 92 (2.035 %) OpenView 3 88 (1.946 %) Legato 4 67 (1.482 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 58 (1.283 %) EMC NetWorker 6 42 (0.929 %) CA SiteMinder 7 36 (0.796 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 8 33 (0.730 %) CONTROL-M 8 33 (0.730 %) AutoSys 9 30 (0.664 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 10 27 (0.597 %) BMC PATROL 10 27 (0.597 %) Netcool 10 27 (0.597 %) Nagios 11 26 (0.575 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 12 23 (0.509 %) Unicenter 13 18 (0.398 %) DirXML 14 15 (0.332 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 15 14 (0.310 %) MOM 16 12 (0.265 %) WSUS 17 11 (0.243 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 1476 (32.65 %) Oracle 2 1031 (22.80 %) IBM 3 902 (19.95 %) HP 4 613 (13.56 %) VERITAS 5 519 (11.48 %) Red Hat 6 509 (11.26 %) Microsoft 7 417 (9.224 %) Cisco 8 414 (9.157 %) EMC 9 247 (5.463 %) Sybase 10 209 (4.623 %) VMware 11 186 (4.114 %) BEA 12 146 (3.229 %) Compaq 13 145 (3.207 %) Intel 14 125 (2.765 %) SAP 15 116 (2.566 %) Dell 16 110 (2.433 %) Remedy 17 98 (2.168 %) Citrix 18 95 (2.101 %) CA 19 86 (1.902 %) NetApp 20 79 (1.747 %) Vignette