The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 108 87 117
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +30
Permanent jobs citing Sun 36 63 50
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.467% 2.516% 1.522%
As % of the Vendors category 2.944% 5.068% 2.962%
Number of salaries quoted 15 21 35
Average salary £53,500 £52,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.90% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £69,000 £70,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £44,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-15.73% +4.70%
All Vendors
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1223 1243 1688
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 49.84% 49.64% 51.39%
Number of salaries quoted 959 984 1317
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £26,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sun
East of England

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Sun Salary Trend

Sun
Salary Histogram

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

Hertfordshire Sun Salary Histogram

Sun
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sun within the Hertfordshire 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
Watford -10 12 £30,500 -12.85%
Stevenage - 7 - -
Hemel Hempstead - 4 £53,500 -
Rickmansworth -11 2 £47,500 -
St Albans - 1 - -
Sun
East of England

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 81 (71.05%) Oracle
2 78 (68.42%) Finance
3 62 (54.39%) UNIX
4 61 (53.51%) Linux
5 55 (48.25%) Solaris
6 46 (40.35%) IBM
6 46 (40.35%) Red Hat
7 44 (38.60%) Perl
8 43 (37.72%) WebSphere
9 42 (36.84%) Project Management
10 39 (34.21%) E-Commerce
10 39 (34.21%) Retail
11 38 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 38 (33.33%) DB2
11 38 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
11 38 (33.33%) AIX
12 37 (32.46%) HP
12 37 (32.46%) EMC
13 31 (27.19%) Windows
13 31 (27.19%) Java
13 31 (27.19%) VMware
14 30 (26.32%) Cisco
14 30 (26.32%) HTTP
15 29 (25.44%) WebLogic
16 28 (24.56%) SQL
16 28 (24.56%) J2EE
16 28 (24.56%) Tomcat
17 27 (23.68%) vSphere
17 27 (23.68%) Web Development
18 22 (19.30%) ITIL

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 43 (37.72%) WebSphere
2 28 (24.56%) J2EE
3 16 (14.04%) XML
4 11 (9.649%) Middleware
5 10 (8.772%) XHTML
5 10 (8.772%) JSTL
5 10 (8.772%) HTML
5 10 (8.772%) Struts
5 10 (8.772%) CSS
5 10 (8.772%) JDBC
5 10 (8.772%) JSP
6 7 (6.140%) Servlets
7 6 (5.263%) Spring
7 6 (5.263%) Hibernate
8 5 (4.386%) Web Services
9 3 (2.632%) Swing
10 2 (1.754%) REST
11 1 (0.877%) OpenMP
11 1 (0.877%) SAML
Application Platforms
1 38 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
2 29 (25.44%) WebLogic
3 28 (24.56%) Tomcat
4 22 (19.30%) MQSeries
5 17 (14.91%) IBM HTTP Server
5 17 (14.91%) IIS
6 16 (14.04%) Apache
7 10 (8.772%) SharePoint Server
8 5 (4.386%) Amazon AWS
9 1 (0.877%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 5 (4.386%) Temenos Globus
2 1 (0.877%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 30 (26.32%) HTTP
2 19 (16.67%) SSH
2 19 (16.67%) DNS
3 18 (15.79%) LDAP
3 18 (15.79%) Internet
3 18 (15.79%) TCP/IP
4 17 (14.91%) NAS
5 11 (9.649%) HTTPS
6 8 (7.018%) SAN
7 5 (4.386%) Network Security
8 1 (0.877%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.877%) tcpdump
8 1 (0.877%) snoop
8 1 (0.877%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.877%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.877%) Wireless
8 1 (0.877%) VLAN
8 1 (0.877%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.877%) IPv4
8 1 (0.877%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (33.33%) DB2
2 5 (4.386%) Oracle 8/8i
3 4 (3.509%) Oracle 10g
3 4 (3.509%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.877%) OLTP
4 1 (0.877%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.772%) JUnit
1 10 (8.772%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 10 (8.772%) Eclipse
1 10 (8.772%) Rational DOORS
1 10 (8.772%) Rational Application Developer
2 2 (1.754%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.877%) Ant
General
1 78 (68.42%) Finance
2 39 (34.21%) Retail
3 22 (19.30%) Games
4 14 (12.28%) Manufacturing
5 10 (8.772%) Aerospace
6 7 (6.140%) Banking
7 4 (3.509%) Marketing
8 1 (0.877%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (34.21%) Architect
2 18 (15.79%) Technical Architect
2 18 (15.79%) UNIX Engineer
3 17 (14.91%) Analyst
4 16 (14.04%) Project Manager
4 16 (14.04%) Senior UNIX Engineer
5 15 (13.16%) Software Architect
6 13 (11.40%) Developer
6 13 (11.40%) Java Developer
6 13 (11.40%) Infrastructure Architect
7 12 (10.53%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
8 10 (8.772%) Technical Delivery Manager
8 10 (8.772%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 10 (8.772%) Lead Architect
8 10 (8.772%) Lead Software Architect
8 10 (8.772%) Service Manager
8 10 (8.772%) J2EE Developer
8 10 (8.772%) Technical Manager
8 10 (8.772%) Delivery Manager
8 10 (8.772%) Technical Services Manager
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.16%) CLARiiON
1 15 (13.16%) Symmetrix
1 15 (13.16%) Celerra
2 9 (7.895%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.140%) PKI
4 5 (4.386%) Statistics
4 5 (4.386%) Grid Computing
4 5 (4.386%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.632%) Computer Science
6 1 (0.877%) Mobile Payment
6 1 (0.877%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 62 (54.39%) UNIX
2 61 (53.51%) Linux
3 55 (48.25%) Solaris
4 38 (33.33%) AIX
4 38 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (27.19%) Windows
6 22 (19.30%) SUSE
7 6 (5.263%) Debian
8 4 (3.509%) VMS
9 3 (2.632%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.877%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.877%) Windows NT
10 1 (0.877%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.877%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.877%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (36.84%) Project Management
2 39 (34.21%) E-Commerce
3 27 (23.68%) Web Development
4 22 (19.30%) ITIL
5 17 (14.91%) Performance Testing
6 13 (11.40%) Capacity Planning
7 12 (10.53%) Service Delivery
8 10 (8.772%) MVC
8 10 (8.772%) Validation
8 10 (8.772%) Content Management
8 10 (8.772%) Data Analysis
8 10 (8.772%) PRINCE2
8 10 (8.772%) RAD
8 10 (8.772%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (6.140%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (4.386%) Software Architecture
10 5 (4.386%) Performance Management
10 5 (4.386%) Parallel Computing
10 5 (4.386%) Load Balancing
10 5 (4.386%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 44 (38.60%) Perl
2 31 (27.19%) Java
3 28 (24.56%) SQL
4 22 (19.30%) Shell Script
5 17 (14.91%) Python
6 14 (12.28%) C-shell
7 13 (11.40%) Bourne shell
8 12 (10.53%) C
9 10 (8.772%) JavaScript
9 10 (8.772%) Bash shell
9 10 (8.772%) AWK
9 10 (8.772%) Embedded C
10 4 (3.509%) PL/SQL
10 4 (3.509%) C#
11 3 (2.632%) PHP
12 2 (1.754%) C++
13 1 (0.877%) Fortran
13 1 (0.877%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (14.04%) Degree
2 13 (11.40%) Sun Certification
3 6 (5.263%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 5 (4.386%) RHCE
5 3 (2.632%) PMP
5 3 (2.632%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.28%) QA
2 2 (1.754%) SLA
3 1 (0.877%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 27 (23.68%) vSphere
2 14 (12.28%) VMware ESX
3 12 (10.53%) Hyper-V
4 7 (6.140%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (4.386%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.877%) Postfix
6 1 (0.877%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.877%) Nmap
6 1 (0.877%) Squid
6 1 (0.877%) NFS
6 1 (0.877%) Samba
Systems Management
1 13 (11.40%) BMC PATROL
2 10 (8.772%) NetBackup
3 9 (7.895%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.877%) Cacti
4 1 (0.877%) Puppet
Vendors
1 81 (71.05%) Oracle
2 46 (40.35%) IBM
2 46 (40.35%) Red Hat
3 37 (32.46%) HP
3 37 (32.46%) EMC
4 31 (27.19%) VMware
5 30 (26.32%) Cisco
6 18 (15.79%) Dell
7 13 (11.40%) Brocade
7 13 (11.40%) BMC
8 11 (9.649%) JBoss
9 10 (8.772%) Veritas
10 8 (7.018%) BEA
10 8 (7.018%) CommVault
10 8 (7.018%) Hitachi
11 5 (4.386%) Intel
12 3 (2.632%) NetApp
13 2 (1.754%) VocaLink
14 1 (0.877%) Endeca