The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Knutsford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 17 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 Vendors for the Knutsford 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank - 25 32
Permanent jobs citing Sun 0 15 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Knutsford - 8.108% 2.469%
As % of the Vendors category - 12.50% 4.545%
Number of salaries quoted 0 15 4
Average salary - £39,000 £39,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +1.19%
All Vendors
Knutsford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
78 120 88
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Knutsford 42.62% 64.86% 54.32%
Number of salaries quoted 75 111 77
Average salary £42,500 £39,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.97% -13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £31,500 £31,250
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £62,500 £57,900
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sun
Cheshire

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Knutsford 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 Knutsford region.

Knutsford Sun Salary Trend

Sun
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Knutsford 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 5 (71.43%) UNIX
1 5 (71.43%) Solaris
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Intel
1 5 (71.43%) Veritas
1 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
1 5 (71.43%) Shell Script
1 5 (71.43%) Benchmarking
1 5 (71.43%) Software Packaging
1 5 (71.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Acrobat
2 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Adobe
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) MS Project
2 2 (28.57%) MS Office
3 1 (14.29%) COM

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Knutsford 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 5 (71.43%) Software Packaging
2 1 (14.29%) COM
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Project
1 2 (28.57%) MS Office
1 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
1 2 (28.57%) Acrobat
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) UNIX
1 5 (71.43%) Solaris
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Benchmarking
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Shell Script
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Veritas Volume Manager
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Intel
1 5 (71.43%) Veritas
1 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Adobe