The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 90 70 79
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +9
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 56 84 112
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 2.332% 3.325% 3.065%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.320% 10.14% 10.81%
Number of salaries quoted 46 51 72
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £39,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% +25.78%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £23,500 £29,550
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £70,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
765 828 1036
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 31.86% 32.78% 28.35%
Number of salaries quoted 569 633 802
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £23,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
East of England

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Hertfordshire Solaris Salary Histogram

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 Hertfordshire 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
Rickmansworth +5 18 £54,500 +3.80% 3
St Albans +3 10 £45,000 -
Hemel Hempstead +8 7 £53,500 +52.85% 1
Royston - 4 £50,000 -
Watford -7 1 - -
Borehamwood -8 1 £23,000 +4.54%
Solaris
East of England

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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.

1 101 (62.73%) Oracle
2 93 (57.76%) Finance
3 88 (54.66%) UNIX
4 79 (49.07%) WebLogic
5 68 (42.24%) Linux
6 62 (38.51%) Cisco
7 60 (37.27%) Java
8 57 (35.40%) Middleware
9 51 (31.68%) Sun
10 48 (29.81%) TCP/IP
11 43 (26.71%) EMC
12 42 (26.09%) Apache
13 41 (25.47%) ITIL
13 41 (25.47%) HP
13 41 (25.47%) Shell Script
14 37 (22.98%) J2EE
15 34 (21.12%) IBM
15 34 (21.12%) Tivoli
16 32 (19.88%) Red Hat
17 31 (19.25%) HTTP
17 31 (19.25%) WebSphere
18 30 (18.63%) VMware
19 28 (17.39%) Project Management
20 26 (16.15%) PRINCE2
21 23 (14.29%) vSphere
21 23 (14.29%) AIX
22 22 (13.66%) Python
23 21 (13.04%) Perl
23 21 (13.04%) Ant
23 21 (13.04%) SAN

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 57 (35.40%) Middleware
2 37 (22.98%) J2EE
3 31 (19.25%) WebSphere
4 9 (5.590%) XMPP
4 9 (5.590%) CSS
5 7 (4.348%) XML
5 7 (4.348%) Spring
6 6 (3.727%) WebSphere MQ
6 6 (3.727%) Hibernate
7 5 (3.106%) JDBC
8 2 (1.242%) Web Services
8 2 (1.242%) REST
9 1 (0.621%) RESTful
9 1 (0.621%) XSLT
9 1 (0.621%) SAML
Application Platforms
1 79 (49.07%) WebLogic
2 42 (26.09%) Apache
3 16 (9.938%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 15 (9.317%) Tomcat
5 14 (8.696%) MQSeries
6 8 (4.969%) SharePoint Server
6 8 (4.969%) WebSphere Application Server
7 5 (3.106%) IBM HTTP Server
7 5 (3.106%) IIS
8 1 (0.621%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 6 (3.727%) MS Office
1 6 (3.727%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 15 (9.317%) BASE24
2 9 (5.590%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 48 (29.81%) TCP/IP
2 31 (19.25%) HTTP
3 21 (13.04%) SAN
4 17 (10.56%) NAS
5 15 (9.317%) SSH
5 15 (9.317%) DNS
6 14 (8.696%) LDAP
7 10 (6.211%) Firewall
8 9 (5.590%) SMPP
9 7 (4.348%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (4.348%) SSL
10 6 (3.727%) FTP
11 4 (2.484%) WAN
12 3 (1.863%) LAN
13 2 (1.242%) Unified Communications
14 1 (0.621%) Fibre Channel
14 1 (0.621%) tcpdump
14 1 (0.621%) snoop
14 1 (0.621%) VLAN
14 1 (0.621%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.18%) Oracle 8/8i
1 18 (11.18%) Oracle 10g
2 14 (8.696%) Oracle 11g
3 6 (3.727%) DB2
4 4 (2.484%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.621%) OLTP
5 1 (0.621%) MySQL
5 1 (0.621%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (13.04%) Ant
2 2 (1.242%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.621%) JUnit
3 1 (0.621%) LoadRunner
General
1 93 (57.76%) Finance
2 9 (5.590%) Telecoms
3 6 (3.727%) Retail
4 5 (3.106%) Legal
4 5 (3.106%) Games
5 3 (1.863%) Banking
6 1 (0.621%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 44 (27.33%) Architect
2 24 (14.91%) Technical Architect
2 24 (14.91%) UNIX Engineer
3 19 (11.80%) Project Manager
3 19 (11.80%) Service Manager
4 16 (9.938%) Infrastructure Architect
5 14 (8.696%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 14 (8.696%) Technical Services Manager
5 14 (8.696%) Infrastructure Manager
5 14 (8.696%) Technical Manager
5 14 (8.696%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 13 (8.075%) Senior UNIX Engineer
7 12 (7.453%) Middleware Engineer
8 9 (5.590%) Development Engineer
8 9 (5.590%) Network Architect
9 7 (4.348%) Analyst
10 6 (3.727%) Support Engineer
10 6 (3.727%) UNIX Support
10 6 (3.727%) Build Engineer
11 5 (3.106%) Operations Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.56%) CLARiiON
1 17 (10.56%) Celerra
2 15 (9.317%) Symmetrix
3 9 (5.590%) PKI
4 6 (3.727%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.106%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.863%) HACMP
7 2 (1.242%) SWIFT
7 2 (1.242%) Replication
7 2 (1.242%) EMC Centera
8 1 (0.621%) Computer Science
8 1 (0.621%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.621%) SaaS
8 1 (0.621%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 88 (54.66%) UNIX
2 68 (42.24%) Linux
3 23 (14.29%) AIX
4 20 (12.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (9.938%) Windows
6 9 (5.590%) Mac OS X
7 4 (2.484%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (2.484%) Windows NT
7 4 (2.484%) VMS
8 3 (1.863%) OS/400
8 3 (1.863%) SUSE
9 2 (1.242%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (1.242%) HPUX
9 2 (1.242%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.621%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.621%) Windows 2000
10 1 (0.621%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.621%) CentOS
10 1 (0.621%) Debian
10 1 (0.621%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (25.47%) ITIL
2 28 (17.39%) Project Management
3 26 (16.15%) PRINCE2
4 15 (9.317%) Capacity Management
5 14 (8.696%) Performance Improvement
6 12 (7.453%) Process Management
6 12 (7.453%) Service Delivery
6 12 (7.453%) Load Balancing
7 11 (6.832%) Change Control
8 9 (5.590%) Agile Software Development
8 9 (5.590%) TDD
8 9 (5.590%) Technical Architecture
8 9 (5.590%) Migration
9 8 (4.969%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (4.969%) Capacity Planning
10 7 (4.348%) Risk Management
10 7 (4.348%) SOA
11 6 (3.727%) Knowledge Management
12 5 (3.106%) Software Architecture
12 5 (3.106%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (37.27%) Java
2 41 (25.47%) Shell Script
3 22 (13.66%) Python
4 21 (13.04%) Perl
5 15 (9.317%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
6 14 (8.696%) SQL
7 10 (6.211%) C++
7 10 (6.211%) C
8 9 (5.590%) C#
8 9 (5.590%) Erlang
9 8 (4.969%) AWK
9 8 (4.969%) PL/SQL
10 7 (4.348%) Bash shell
11 5 (3.106%) Bourne shell
11 5 (3.106%) C-shell
12 2 (1.242%) Ruby
12 2 (1.242%) Korn
13 1 (0.621%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (5.590%) CCNP
1 9 (5.590%) CCNA
1 9 (5.590%) CCDA
1 9 (5.590%) Cisco Certification
1 9 (5.590%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 3 (1.863%) PMP
2 3 (1.863%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.242%) ISEB
4 1 (0.621%) Degree
4 1 (0.621%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.621%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.621%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.453%) SLA
2 5 (3.106%) QA
3 1 (0.621%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 23 (14.29%) vSphere
2 14 (8.696%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 13 (8.075%) VMware ESX
4 10 (6.211%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (4.969%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.863%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (1.863%) PowerHA
7 2 (1.242%) NFS
7 2 (1.242%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.621%) Samba
8 1 (0.621%) Nmap
8 1 (0.621%) Squid
8 1 (0.621%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.621%) Postfix
8 1 (0.621%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 34 (21.12%) Tivoli
2 10 (6.211%) NetBackup
3 7 (4.348%) BMC PATROL
4 3 (1.863%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 3 (1.863%) Backup Exec
5 2 (1.242%) ServiceCenter
5 2 (1.242%) Nagios
5 2 (1.242%) OpenView
6 1 (0.621%) Cacti
6 1 (0.621%) Puppet
Vendors
1 101 (62.73%) Oracle
2 62 (38.51%) Cisco
3 51 (31.68%) Sun
4 43 (26.71%) EMC
5 41 (25.47%) HP
6 34 (21.12%) IBM
7 32 (19.88%) Red Hat
8 30 (18.63%) VMware
9 18 (11.18%) Brocade
10 14 (8.696%) Microsoft
11 13 (8.075%) Juniper
12 10 (6.211%) Veritas
13 9 (5.590%) F5
13 9 (5.590%) BEA
14 8 (4.969%) CommVault
15 7 (4.348%) BMC
16 6 (3.727%) Hitachi
17 5 (3.106%) JBoss
18 3 (1.863%) Dell
19 2 (1.242%) VocaLink
Hertfordshire, South East
ExperienceThis role will require knowledge and experience of the following:- Experience in a enterprise high availability environment Solaris 8 & 9 & 10 RedHat and/or OEL HP Chassis / Blade...
Volt
Salary: £50000 per annum + Total value Package £56,000
Posted: 14 June 2013
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Detailed understanding of UNIX (Solaris, AIX, Linux), Network and Security, Oracle Databases and SAN (Mainly SVC and IBM storage preferably with Cisco SAN Switches)... Exposure Middleware Technologies like...
Networking People
Posted: 13 June 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
This role will include liaisons with other technical teams under IT infrastructure and Networks such as Unix services, Database services, Application Support and Capacity as well as liaison...
Volt
Salary: £48000 - £50000 per annum + Total package £59,000
Posted: 14 June 2013
Rickmansworth, South East
As an experienced Middleware Engineer you will be asked to deliver an outstanding level of Middleware Administration support across all live payment systems, ensuring that the systems meet...
Claremont Consulting
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire
Implement and test Middleware installs and upgrades. Provide strategy guidance and deliver future Middleware solutions... Oracle Weblogic administration ( 8,9,10). Oracle Weblogic Scripting Tool. Apache HTTP Server...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire
RDF Resources
Salary: £50000 per annum + £59,000 package
Posted: 14 June 2013