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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 58 - 53
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 3 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 0.620% - 0.800%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.061% - 2.609%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
Average salary £35,000 - £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
98 79 115
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 20.25% 13.93% 30.67%
Number of salaries quoted 84 74 103
Average salary £30,000 £28,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -25.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,000 £17,006 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £47,000 £42,400
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
North West

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire Solaris Salary Trend

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 Lancashire 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
Lytham St Annes - 2 £35,000 -
Solaris
North West

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 4 (80.00%) SharePoint
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) SLA
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) Change Management
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) SAN
2 3 (60.00%) UNIX
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) C
3 2 (40.00%) IIS
3 2 (40.00%) SAP
3 2 (40.00%) COM
3 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (40.00%) MS Exchange
3 2 (40.00%) LAN
3 2 (40.00%) VoIP
3 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 2 (40.00%) OpenVMS
3 2 (40.00%) DHCP
3 2 (40.00%) NetApp
3 2 (40.00%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) DNS

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 2 (40.00%) COM
Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (40.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (40.00%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (40.00%) Lync
2 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (40.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) SAP Business One
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) SAN
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) Wireless
2 2 (40.00%) VLAN
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) VoIP
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) NAS
3 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Coordinator
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery Coordinator
1 2 (40.00%) Storage Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Implementation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (20.00%) Celerra
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) CLARiiON
2 1 (20.00%) EMC Centera
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) UNIX
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) OpenVMS
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) AIX
3 1 (20.00%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) EMC Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 2 (40.00%) XenApp
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
2 1 (20.00%) NFS
2 1 (20.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
1 2 (40.00%) SCOM
1 2 (40.00%) WhatsUp Gold
1 2 (40.00%) HP SIM
2 1 (20.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (20.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (40.00%) SAP
3 2 (40.00%) HP
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 2 (40.00%) Juniper
3 2 (40.00%) NetApp
3 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (20.00%) EMC
Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire
Hardware support including thin client terminals / laptops, iPad / iPhone / BlackBerry, Printers and peripherals. Software and hardware asset management / configuration management... In addition, we also deliver services and solutions...
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £24,000 to £28,000 per annum (dep on exp) plus bonus & benefits
Posted: 22 April 2013