The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Essex region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 87 93 96
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +3
Permanent jobs citing Sun 3 14 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 0.279% 1.098% 0.468%
As % of the Vendors category 0.544% 2.044% 0.873%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 3
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.88%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +1.19%
All Vendors
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
551 685 687
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 51.30% 53.73% 53.63%
Number of salaries quoted 498 575 540
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -11.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sun
East of England

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex Sun Jobs Demand Trend

Sun
Salary Trend

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

Essex Sun Salary Trend

Sun
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sun within the Essex region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Colchester - 2 £45,000 -
Brentwood - 1 - -
Sun
East of England

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region citing Sun 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 Sun.

1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Perl
1 2 (50.00%) PHP
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
1 2 (50.00%) Web Development
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) General Ledger
2 1 (25.00%) MCTS
2 1 (25.00%) MCITP
2 1 (25.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) SCOM
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Lync
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Process Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region citing Sun 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 Sun. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Lync
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) MPLS
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Web Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Perl Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Perl Web Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (25.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Web Development
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Process Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Perl
1 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ACCA
1 1 (25.00%) MCTS
1 1 (25.00%) MCITP
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix