The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hemel Hempstead region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 23 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 Hemel Hempstead region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 37 41 24
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -17
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 6 2 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 2.655% 0.909% 2.994%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.451% 2.667% 9.091%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 5
Average salary £53,500 £35,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+52.85% +22.80%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.40%
All Operating Systems
Hemel Hempstead
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
71 75 55
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 31.42% 34.09% 32.93%
Number of salaries quoted 64 74 46
Average salary £32,500 £33,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £21,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £53,500 £42,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
Hertfordshire

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hemel Hempstead 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 Hemel Hempstead region.

Hemel Hempstead Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 11 (84.62%) Linux
2 9 (69.23%) UNIX
3 8 (61.54%) Oracle
4 7 (53.85%) SAN
5 6 (46.15%) Cisco
5 6 (46.15%) IBM
5 6 (46.15%) Middleware
5 6 (46.15%) MQSeries
5 6 (46.15%) WebLogic
5 6 (46.15%) AIX
5 6 (46.15%) WebSphere
5 6 (46.15%) Load Balancing
6 5 (38.46%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (38.46%) Technical Architecture
6 5 (38.46%) Migration
6 5 (38.46%) Project Management
7 4 (30.77%) Red Hat
7 4 (30.77%) ITIL
7 4 (30.77%) Sun
7 4 (30.77%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (15.38%) BDD
8 2 (15.38%) Bourne shell
8 2 (15.38%) Bash shell
8 2 (15.38%) QA
8 2 (15.38%) WCF
8 2 (15.38%) WPF
8 2 (15.38%) jQuery
8 2 (15.38%) MVC
8 2 (15.38%) WinForms
8 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 6 (46.15%) Middleware
1 6 (46.15%) WebSphere
2 2 (15.38%) WCF
2 2 (15.38%) WPF
2 2 (15.38%) jQuery
2 2 (15.38%) WinForms
2 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
2 2 (15.38%) Ajax
2 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
2 2 (15.38%) CSS
2 2 (15.38%) Web Services
2 2 (15.38%) XML
2 2 (15.38%) HTML
2 2 (15.38%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (46.15%) MQSeries
1 6 (46.15%) WebLogic
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) SAN
2 1 (7.692%) LAN
2 1 (7.692%) WAN
2 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.692%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Crystal Reports
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
1 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Architect
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
2 5 (38.46%) Technical Architect
3 2 (15.38%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Developer
3 2 (15.38%) .NET Developer
3 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Server Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Data Centre Technician
4 1 (7.692%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Linux
2 9 (69.23%) UNIX
3 6 (46.15%) AIX
4 2 (15.38%) Windows
5 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Load Balancing
2 5 (38.46%) Capacity Planning
2 5 (38.46%) Technical Architecture
2 5 (38.46%) Migration
2 5 (38.46%) Project Management
3 4 (30.77%) ITIL
3 4 (30.77%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) BDD
4 2 (15.38%) MVC
4 2 (15.38%) TDD
4 2 (15.38%) SOA
4 2 (15.38%) OO
5 1 (7.692%) Business Continuity
5 1 (7.692%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (7.692%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Bourne shell
1 2 (15.38%) Bash shell
1 2 (15.38%) Korn
1 2 (15.38%) C#
1 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
1 2 (15.38%) Perl
1 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
1 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.692%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Oracle
2 6 (46.15%) Cisco
2 6 (46.15%) IBM
3 4 (30.77%) Red Hat
3 4 (30.77%) Sun