The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sun 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 Vendors for the Leeds 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 145 139 101
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -38
Permanent jobs citing Sun 3 3 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 0.117% 0.137% 0.987%
As % of the Vendors category 0.242% 0.300% 2.230%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 16
Average salary - £31,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -17.33%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +1.19%
All Vendors
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1242 1001 807
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 48.38% 45.67% 44.24%
Number of salaries quoted 992 796 680
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £56,000 £61,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sun
West Yorkshire

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Sun Salary Trend

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 4 (57.14%) Solaris
2 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) UNIX
3 3 (42.86%) WAN
3 3 (42.86%) Novell
3 3 (42.86%) Apple
3 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 3 (42.86%) Problem Management
3 3 (42.86%) Novell eDirectory
3 3 (42.86%) Mac OS X Server
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
4 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
4 2 (28.57%) Wireless
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (28.57%) Citrix
4 2 (28.57%) VPN
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco
4 2 (28.57%) VoIP
4 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
5 1 (14.29%) LAN
5 1 (14.29%) SAN
5 1 (14.29%) HP
5 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
5 1 (14.29%) VMware ESX
5 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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.

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) WAN
2 2 (28.57%) Wireless
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) VoIP
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) SAN
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Systems Administrator
1 3 (42.86%) Systems Support
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Administrator
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Network Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX Engineer
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Solaris
2 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) UNIX
3 3 (42.86%) Mac OS X Server
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Problem Management
2 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Novell eDirectory
3 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
4 1 (14.29%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Novell
1 3 (42.86%) Apple
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Citrix
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat