The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 24 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 Glasgow region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 73 63 54
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -9
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 22 11 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 1.879% 1.297% 3.080%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.875% 5.189% 11.67%
Number of salaries quoted 13 4 17
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +16.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,200 £40,750 £33,200
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £43,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+1.17% +2.40%
All Operating Systems
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
320 212 257
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 27.33% 25.00% 26.39%
Number of salaries quoted 177 132 179
Average salary £38,500 £37,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.66% +4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £23,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,250 £45,000
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 Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Glasgow Solaris Salary Histogram

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 26 (55.32%) UNIX
2 25 (53.19%) Oracle
3 23 (48.94%) Linux
4 21 (44.68%) Windows
5 18 (38.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (34.04%) SQL Server
6 16 (34.04%) VMware
7 14 (29.79%) SQL
7 14 (29.79%) CSS
8 13 (27.66%) AIX
8 13 (27.66%) EMC
9 12 (25.53%) HP
10 11 (23.40%) Apache
10 11 (23.40%) Tomcat
10 11 (23.40%) MySQL
10 11 (23.40%) Java
11 10 (21.28%) JavaScript
11 10 (21.28%) HTML
11 10 (21.28%) SAN
11 10 (21.28%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (19.15%) Spring
12 9 (19.15%) IBM
12 9 (19.15%) DHTML
12 9 (19.15%) XML
13 8 (17.02%) XSLT
13 8 (17.02%) WebLogic
13 8 (17.02%) JSP
13 8 (17.02%) SOAP
13 8 (17.02%) UML
13 8 (17.02%) JBoss

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 14 (29.79%) CSS
2 10 (21.28%) HTML
3 9 (19.15%) Spring
3 9 (19.15%) DHTML
3 9 (19.15%) XML
4 8 (17.02%) XSLT
4 8 (17.02%) JSP
4 8 (17.02%) SOAP
4 8 (17.02%) J2EE
4 8 (17.02%) WebSphere
5 7 (14.89%) JMS
6 2 (4.255%) Web Services
7 1 (2.128%) Spring MVC
7 1 (2.128%) Oracle Streams
7 1 (2.128%) Java EE
7 1 (2.128%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.128%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.128%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 11 (23.40%) Apache
1 11 (23.40%) Tomcat
2 8 (17.02%) WebLogic
3 4 (8.511%) MS Exchange
3 4 (8.511%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (8.511%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (4.255%) IIS
4 2 (4.255%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (6.383%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (21.28%) SAN
2 5 (10.64%) NAS
2 5 (10.64%) Firewall
3 4 (8.511%) Internet
3 4 (8.511%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (2.128%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.128%) Unified Communications
4 1 (2.128%) WAN
4 1 (2.128%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.04%) SQL Server
2 11 (23.40%) MySQL
3 10 (21.28%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (12.77%) Data Mining
5 5 (10.64%) Oracle 8/8i
6 4 (8.511%) DB2
6 4 (8.511%) Oracle 10g
6 4 (8.511%) Oracle 11g
7 3 (6.383%) Oracle 9i
8 2 (4.255%) RDBMS
8 2 (4.255%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (2.128%) SQL Server 2008
9 1 (2.128%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (2.128%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (2.128%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (2.128%) Maven
General
1 5 (10.64%) Finance
2 3 (6.383%) Banking
3 2 (4.255%) Marketing
4 1 (2.128%) Billing
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Developer
1 10 (21.28%) Java Developer
2 7 (14.89%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 6 (12.77%) DBA
3 6 (12.77%) J2EE Developer
4 4 (8.511%) Administrator
4 4 (8.511%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (6.383%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (6.383%) UNIX Specialist
5 3 (6.383%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.383%) Applications Support
5 3 (6.383%) Technical Consultant
5 3 (6.383%) Analyst
5 3 (6.383%) Consultant
6 2 (4.255%) Author
6 2 (4.255%) Technical Author
6 2 (4.255%) Lead Developer
6 2 (4.255%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.255%) UNIX Systems Administrator
6 2 (4.255%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) Computer Science
2 7 (14.89%) Clustering
3 4 (8.511%) Replication
3 4 (8.511%) IPTV
4 2 (4.255%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.128%) Mathematics
5 1 (2.128%) Celerra
5 1 (2.128%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (2.128%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.128%) CLARiiON
5 1 (2.128%) EMC Centera
5 1 (2.128%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 26 (55.32%) UNIX
2 23 (48.94%) Linux
3 21 (44.68%) Windows
4 18 (38.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (27.66%) AIX
6 6 (12.77%) CentOS
7 2 (4.255%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (4.255%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (2.128%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (17.02%) UML
2 6 (12.77%) ITIL
2 6 (12.77%) Predictive Analytics
2 6 (12.77%) Analytics
3 4 (8.511%) Migration
3 4 (8.511%) Service Management
3 4 (8.511%) Load Balancing
4 3 (6.383%) Problem Management
4 3 (6.383%) Incident Management
5 2 (4.255%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (4.255%) Software Engineering
5 2 (4.255%) Product Management
5 2 (4.255%) Data Migration
5 2 (4.255%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (2.128%) Change Control
6 1 (2.128%) High Availability
6 1 (2.128%) Change Data Capture
6 1 (2.128%) Web Development
6 1 (2.128%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (2.128%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.79%) SQL
2 11 (23.40%) Java
3 10 (21.28%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.255%) Perl
4 2 (4.255%) Shell Script
4 2 (4.255%) Korn
5 1 (2.128%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.128%) C#
5 1 (2.128%) Delphi
5 1 (2.128%) VB
5 1 (2.128%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (6.383%) VCP4
1 3 (6.383%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (2.128%) Degree
2 1 (2.128%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.128%) SLA
1 1 (2.128%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 7 (14.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (8.511%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (8.511%) VMware ESX
3 2 (4.255%) vSphere
3 2 (4.255%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (2.128%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (2.128%) SRDF
4 1 (2.128%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (2.128%) Samba
4 1 (2.128%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (6.383%) Red Hat Satellite
1 3 (6.383%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.128%) NetBackup
2 1 (2.128%) Backup Exec
2 1 (2.128%) Foglight
2 1 (2.128%) Legato
Vendors
1 25 (53.19%) Oracle
2 16 (34.04%) VMware
3 13 (27.66%) EMC
4 12 (25.53%) HP
5 9 (19.15%) IBM
6 8 (17.02%) JBoss
6 8 (17.02%) Microsoft
6 8 (17.02%) Cisco
6 8 (17.02%) Sun
7 7 (14.89%) NetApp
8 5 (10.64%) Dell
8 5 (10.64%) Veritas
9 4 (8.511%) Red Hat
10 3 (6.383%) Sybase
11 1 (2.128%) Brocade
11 1 (2.128%) CommVault
11 1 (2.128%) Citrix
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Good understanding and working knowledge of Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 Enterprise Architecture, Windows XP/7 Desktop and supporting products... - Scripting experience (Bourne/Korn shell, perl 5/6, VBScript,...
EXCELerate
Salary: Up to £60,000 per annum Corporate Benefits incl. Health, Pension
Posted: 21 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Good understanding and working knowledge of Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 Enterprise Architecture, Windows XP/7 Desktop and supporting products... - Also of advatange is scripting experience (Bourne/Korn shell,...
EXCELerate
Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum Corporate Benefits incl. Health, Pension
Posted: 21 May 2013