The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Fife region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 17 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 Fife region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 12 - 18
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 3 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Fife 7.317% - 1.515%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.08% - 3.030%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
Average salary £32,500 - £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Fife
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
13 20 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Fife 31.71% 27.78% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 10 13 21
Average salary £36,500 £30,000 £20,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.66% +50.00%
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 Fife region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Fife 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 Fife region.

Fife 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 Fife region over the 3 months to 17 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
Kirkcaldy - 1 £32,500 -
Solaris
Scotland

Solaris
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Fife 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Cacti
3 1 (33.33%) IIS
3 1 (33.33%) EJB
3 1 (33.33%) JSP
3 1 (33.33%) Servlets
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) JBoss
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (33.33%) Sun
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Fife 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 1 (33.33%) J2EE
1 1 (33.33%) EJB
1 1 (33.33%) JSP
1 1 (33.33%) Servlets
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Cacti
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss
2 1 (33.33%) Sun
2 1 (33.33%) HP