The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Luton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 22 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 Luton region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 39 37 34
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 9 10 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 2.413% 2.625% 0.851%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.911% 11.76% 4.444%
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 2
Average salary £54,500 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.11% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.40%
All Operating Systems
Luton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
101 85 45
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 27.08% 22.31% 19.15%
Number of salaries quoted 84 78 41
Average salary £42,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.17% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £30,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £54,500 £56,250 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
Bedfordshire

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 14 (93.33%) UNIX
2 10 (66.67%) Oracle
3 8 (53.33%) Linux
3 8 (53.33%) Oracle RMAN
3 8 (53.33%) Banking
3 8 (53.33%) Oracle 11g
3 8 (53.33%) Data Guard
4 6 (40.00%) Finance
5 5 (33.33%) SAN
5 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 5 (33.33%) SLA
5 5 (33.33%) OCP
5 5 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
5 5 (33.33%) MS Excel
5 5 (33.33%) C
6 4 (26.67%) ITIL
6 4 (26.67%) PRINCE2
6 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
6 4 (26.67%) SSL
6 4 (26.67%) Juniper
6 4 (26.67%) Cisco
6 4 (26.67%) CCNP
6 4 (26.67%) CCNA
6 4 (26.67%) CCDA
6 4 (26.67%) Firewall
6 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (26.67%) F5
6 4 (26.67%) Change Control
6 4 (26.67%) Cisco Nexus

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (6.667%) Exstream Dialogue
2 1 (6.667%) Papyrus
2 1 (6.667%) StreamWeaver
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (6.667%) DOC1
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Exstream
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) SAN
2 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (26.67%) SSL
2 4 (26.67%) Firewall
2 4 (26.67%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) PROIV
General
1 8 (53.33%) Banking
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
4 1 (6.667%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) DBA
1 8 (53.33%) Oracle DBA
2 5 (33.33%) Administrator
2 5 (33.33%) Architect
3 4 (26.67%) UNIX Administrator
3 4 (26.67%) Network Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Consultant
5 1 (6.667%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (93.33%) UNIX
2 8 (53.33%) Linux
3 2 (13.33%) AIX
4 1 (6.667%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) ITIL
1 4 (26.67%) PRINCE2
1 4 (26.67%) Change Control
2 3 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (6.667%) Document Management
3 1 (6.667%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) C
2 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (6.667%) Korn
4 1 (6.667%) AWK
4 1 (6.667%) C-shell
4 1 (6.667%) Bash shell
4 1 (6.667%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) OCP
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (26.67%) CCNP
2 4 (26.67%) CCNA
2 4 (26.67%) CCDA
2 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (6.667%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Data Guard
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Oracle
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (26.67%) Juniper
3 4 (26.67%) Cisco
3 4 (26.67%) F5
4 1 (6.667%) HP