The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sun 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 Vendors for the Glasgow 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 84 73 78
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +5
Permanent jobs citing Sun 11 3 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.957% 0.357% 0.926%
As % of the Vendors category 1.890% 0.732% 1.775%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 8
Average salary £40,000 - £43,750
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 - £36,450
10% offered a salary of more than £42,000 - £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £44,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-15.73% +4.70%
All Vendors
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
582 410 507
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 50.61% 48.81% 52.16%
Number of salaries quoted 319 269 397
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,903 £22,500 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £54,000 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sun
Scotland

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Sun Salary Trend

Sun
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Sun across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Glasgow Sun Salary Histogram

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 8 (53.33%) Solaris
1 8 (53.33%) HP
1 8 (53.33%) IBM
1 8 (53.33%) VMware
2 6 (40.00%) NetApp
2 6 (40.00%) Oracle
3 5 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (33.33%) EMC
3 5 (33.33%) Linux
3 5 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (26.67%) Degree
4 4 (26.67%) Change Control
4 4 (26.67%) Capacity Management
4 4 (26.67%) Banking
4 4 (26.67%) Knowledge Management
4 4 (26.67%) Reuters
4 4 (26.67%) Bloomberg
4 4 (26.67%) Workflow
4 4 (26.67%) Finance
5 3 (20.00%) AIX
5 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (13.33%) Tradeweb
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (13.33%) JSTL
6 2 (13.33%) MarketAxess
6 2 (13.33%) vSphere
6 2 (13.33%) J2EE
6 2 (13.33%) Eclipse
6 2 (13.33%) Sun Certification

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 (13.33%) JSP
1 2 (13.33%) Servlets
1 2 (13.33%) HTML
1 2 (13.33%) J2EE
1 2 (13.33%) XML
1 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
1 2 (13.33%) Spring
1 2 (13.33%) JSF
1 2 (13.33%) Tapestry
1 2 (13.33%) JSTL
2 1 (6.667%) JMS
2 1 (6.667%) WSDL
2 1 (6.667%) EJB
2 1 (6.667%) Struts
2 1 (6.667%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) MS Exchange
1 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 1 (6.667%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Ant
1 2 (13.33%) PVCS
1 2 (13.33%) Eclipse
1 2 (13.33%) Subversion
1 2 (13.33%) Maven
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
1 4 (26.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
1 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
1 2 (13.33%) Developer
1 2 (13.33%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (6.667%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (6.667%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 1 (6.667%) UNIX Administrator
2 1 (6.667%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (6.667%) UNIX Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Blackberry
2 1 (6.667%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Solaris
2 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 5 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (20.00%) AIX
4 2 (13.33%) UNIX
5 1 (6.667%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Workflow
1 4 (26.67%) Knowledge Management
1 4 (26.67%) Change Control
1 4 (26.67%) Capacity Management
2 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
2 2 (13.33%) ITIL
2 2 (13.33%) Service Management
2 2 (13.33%) Change Management
3 1 (6.667%) MVC
3 1 (6.667%) Data Modelling
3 1 (6.667%) Test Scripting
3 1 (6.667%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Java
1 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (6.667%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Sun Certification
3 1 (6.667%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (6.667%) VCP4
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) vSphere
2 1 (6.667%) NFS
2 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) IBM
1 8 (53.33%) HP
1 8 (53.33%) VMware
2 6 (40.00%) Oracle
2 6 (40.00%) NetApp
3 5 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 5 (33.33%) EMC
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (26.67%) Reuters
4 4 (26.67%) Bloomberg
5 2 (13.33%) Radianz
5 2 (13.33%) eSpeed
5 2 (13.33%) CQG
5 2 (13.33%) Tradeweb
5 2 (13.33%) MarketAxess
6 1 (6.667%) Hitachi