The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Livingston region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 20 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 Vendors for the Livingston 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 23 18 37
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +19
Permanent jobs citing Sun 6 3 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Livingston 6.186% 3.093% 1.224%
As % of the Vendors category 9.231% 6.250% 2.055%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 0
Average salary £52,500 £55,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.54% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £44,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-15.73% +4.70%
All Vendors
Livingston
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
65 48 146
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Livingston 67.01% 49.48% 59.59%
Number of salaries quoted 22 42 95
Average salary £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sun
West Lothian

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Livingston 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 Livingston region.

Livingston Sun Salary Trend

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Livingston 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 14 (100.00%) UNIX
2 13 (92.86%) SQL
2 13 (92.86%) Oracle
3 11 (78.57%) Degree
4 7 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
4 7 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (50.00%) Oracle 9i
4 7 (50.00%) RDBMS
4 7 (50.00%) PL/SQL
4 7 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
4 7 (50.00%) Shell Script
5 6 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (42.86%) Replication
5 6 (42.86%) StorageTek
5 6 (42.86%) Cisco
5 6 (42.86%) IBM
5 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
5 6 (42.86%) Windows
5 6 (42.86%) Analytics
5 6 (42.86%) NetBackup
6 5 (35.71%) QA
6 5 (35.71%) Data Management
6 5 (35.71%) Brocade
6 5 (35.71%) Incident Management
6 5 (35.71%) Project Planning
6 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Management
6 5 (35.71%) Volume Testing
6 5 (35.71%) Performance Management
6 5 (35.71%) Data Protection

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Livingston 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 1 (7.143%) COM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) SAN
1 5 (35.71%) NAS
2 1 (7.143%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle 9i
1 7 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (35.71%) OLTP
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) DBA
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
2 5 (35.71%) Technical Leader
3 1 (7.143%) Server Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Field Support Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Server Support Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Server Support
3 1 (7.143%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Replication
2 5 (35.71%) Symmetrix
2 5 (35.71%) Symmetrix DMX
2 5 (35.71%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) UNIX
2 6 (42.86%) Windows
3 4 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (42.86%) Analytics
2 6 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (35.71%) Data Management
3 5 (35.71%) Incident Management
3 5 (35.71%) Project Planning
3 5 (35.71%) Service Delivery
3 5 (35.71%) Change Management
3 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Management
3 5 (35.71%) Volume Testing
3 5 (35.71%) Performance Management
3 5 (35.71%) Data Protection
3 5 (35.71%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (14.29%) CRM
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Testing
5 1 (7.143%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) SQL
2 7 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 7 (50.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) QA
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (7.143%) NFS
3 1 (7.143%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) NetBackup
2 1 (7.143%) Ionix
2 1 (7.143%) EMC TimeFinder
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Oracle
2 6 (42.86%) Cisco
2 6 (42.86%) IBM
2 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (42.86%) StorageTek
3 5 (35.71%) EMC
3 5 (35.71%) NetApp
3 5 (35.71%) Brocade
4 4 (28.57%) Symantec
5 1 (7.143%) HP
5 1 (7.143%) ZyXEL
5 1 (7.143%) Draytek
5 1 (7.143%) NETGEAR