The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hounslow 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 Hounslow region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank - 13 17
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 0 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hounslow - 3.571% 3.750%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 10.00% 13.04%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 3
Average salary - £35,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -21.11%
UK excluding London average salary £43,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+1.17% +2.40%
All Operating Systems
Hounslow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
34 20 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hounslow 50.00% 35.71% 28.75%
Number of salaries quoted 28 20 23
Average salary £37,500 £42,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.76% -5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,750 £37,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
London

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region.

Hounslow Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hounslow 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 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) SUSE
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) EMC
2 2 (66.67%) RHCE
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) HPUX
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) AIX
3 1 (33.33%) Sun
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Linux

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hounslow 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.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Administrator
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 2 (66.67%) Storage Systems Administrator
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX Administrator
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) SUSE
2 2 (66.67%) HPUX
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) AIX
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (66.67%) RHCE
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) EMC
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Sun