The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 21 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 Essex region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 78 78 92
Rank change year-on-year
0 +14
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 3 38 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 0.307% 2.728% 0.797%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.929% 9.572% 3.378%
Number of salaries quoted 2 31 6
Average salary £32,500 £42,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.52% +21.42%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
323 397 296
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 33.06% 28.50% 23.59%
Number of salaries quoted 265 323 251
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £54,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
East of England

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Solaris Salary Trend

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 Essex region over the 3 months to 21 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
Colchester - 2 £32,500 -
Solaris
East of England

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Content Management
3 2 (40.00%) Legal
3 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco
4 1 (20.00%) EMC
4 1 (20.00%) Citrix
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Replication
4 1 (20.00%) Law
4 1 (20.00%) AIX
4 1 (20.00%) Brocade
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) Celerra
4 1 (20.00%) SCCM
4 1 (20.00%) SCOM
4 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (20.00%) CLARiiON
4 1 (20.00%) EMC Centera
4 1 (20.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (20.00%) vSphere
4 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
General
1 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Server Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) EMC Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Server Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Professional Services Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
1 1 (20.00%) Celerra
1 1 (20.00%) CLARiiON
1 1 (20.00%) EMC Centera
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (20.00%) AIX
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (20.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Content Management
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
1 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
1 1 (20.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) EMC
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) Brocade