The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 19 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 Leeds region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 140 130 96
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -34
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 8 12 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 0.312% 0.547% 1.261%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.305% 2.335% 5.516%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 16
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +69.49%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,165
% change year-on-year
- +3.24%
All Operating Systems
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
613 514 417
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 23.88% 23.45% 22.86%
Number of salaries quoted 493 407 341
Average salary £30,000 £34,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.76% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,500 £19,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
West Yorkshire

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 16 (94.12%) Linux
2 14 (82.35%) UNIX
3 8 (47.06%) Windows
3 8 (47.06%) Configuration Management
4 6 (35.29%) VMware ESX
4 6 (35.29%) Apache
4 6 (35.29%) Tomcat
4 6 (35.29%) Oracle
5 5 (29.41%) JBoss
5 5 (29.41%) Client/Server
5 5 (29.41%) SLA
5 5 (29.41%) AWK
5 5 (29.41%) ATG
5 5 (29.41%) ATG Dynamo
5 5 (29.41%) Shell Script
5 5 (29.41%) WebSphere
5 5 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (23.53%) Sun
6 4 (23.53%) Finance
6 4 (23.53%) SQL
6 4 (23.53%) WebLogic
7 3 (17.65%) CSS
7 3 (17.65%) JSP
7 3 (17.65%) Struts
7 3 (17.65%) Web Services
7 3 (17.65%) XML
7 3 (17.65%) J2EE
7 3 (17.65%) JUnit
7 3 (17.65%) HTML

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 5 (29.41%) WebSphere
2 3 (17.65%) CSS
2 3 (17.65%) JSP
2 3 (17.65%) Struts
2 3 (17.65%) Web Services
2 3 (17.65%) XML
2 3 (17.65%) J2EE
2 3 (17.65%) HTML
2 3 (17.65%) XHTML
2 3 (17.65%) Hibernate
2 3 (17.65%) Java EE
2 3 (17.65%) Ajax
2 3 (17.65%) jQuery
2 3 (17.65%) Spring
2 3 (17.65%) Struts2
Application Platforms
1 6 (35.29%) Apache
1 6 (35.29%) Tomcat
2 5 (29.41%) ATG Dynamo
3 4 (23.53%) WebLogic
4 3 (17.65%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (11.76%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) LAN
1 2 (11.76%) WAN
2 1 (5.882%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.882%) Firewall
2 1 (5.882%) SAN
2 1 (5.882%) Internet
2 1 (5.882%) Network Security
2 1 (5.882%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JUnit
1 3 (17.65%) Maven
1 3 (17.65%) Subversion
1 3 (17.65%) Hudson
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) UNIX Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Release Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Configuration Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Programmer
3 3 (17.65%) Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Java Programmer
3 3 (17.65%) Java Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Account Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Network Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Network Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Account Manager
5 1 (5.882%) DBA
5 1 (5.882%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (5.882%) Security Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 16 (94.12%) Linux
2 14 (82.35%) UNIX
3 8 (47.06%) Windows
4 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (17.65%) Mac OS X Server
6 2 (11.76%) Ubuntu
6 2 (11.76%) CentOS
6 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (11.76%) SUSE
7 1 (5.882%) AIX
7 1 (5.882%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Configuration Management
2 5 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (17.65%) Change Control
4 2 (11.76%) Identity Management
5 1 (5.882%) ITIL
5 1 (5.882%) PRINCE2
5 1 (5.882%) Change Management
5 1 (5.882%) Migration
5 1 (5.882%) Information Security
5 1 (5.882%) Project Management
5 1 (5.882%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) AWK
1 5 (29.41%) Shell Script
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.882%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.882%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (5.882%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) SLA
2 1 (5.882%) COBIT
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) VMware ESX
2 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) Novell eDirectory
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.882%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (5.882%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) Nessus
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle
2 5 (29.41%) JBoss
2 5 (29.41%) ATG
3 4 (23.53%) Sun
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
4 3 (17.65%) VMware
4 3 (17.65%) Novell
4 3 (17.65%) Apple
5 2 (11.76%) Lotus
5 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.882%) HP
6 1 (5.882%) ArcSight
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Posted: 17 June 2013