The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Maidenhead region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 18 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 Maidenhead region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 36 28 38
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +10
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 7 22 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidenhead 2.734% 6.111% 1.706%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.609% 19.64% 4.132%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 4
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -5.66%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Maidenhead
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
92 112 121
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidenhead 35.94% 31.11% 41.30%
Number of salaries quoted 86 88 108
Average salary £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64% -
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £30,100 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £54,200 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
Berkshire

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Maidenhead 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 Maidenhead region.

Maidenhead Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Maidenhead 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 29 (100.00%) UNIX
2 21 (72.41%) Red Hat
3 18 (62.07%) Perl
4 10 (34.48%) Linux
4 10 (34.48%) SQL Server
5 9 (31.03%) Windows
6 6 (20.69%) MySQL
6 6 (20.69%) Oracle
6 6 (20.69%) Shell Script
7 5 (17.24%) Active Directory
7 5 (17.24%) J2EE
7 5 (17.24%) C++
7 5 (17.24%) Java
7 5 (17.24%) XML
7 5 (17.24%) XSLT
7 5 (17.24%) Java EE
7 5 (17.24%) Degree
7 5 (17.24%) Product Management
7 5 (17.24%) SaaS
8 4 (13.79%) Network Security
8 4 (13.79%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (13.79%) Ubuntu
8 4 (13.79%) SQL Server 2005
8 4 (13.79%) Information Security
8 4 (13.79%) Firewall
8 4 (13.79%) Debian
8 4 (13.79%) AIX
8 4 (13.79%) CISSP
8 4 (13.79%) TCP/IP
8 4 (13.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Maidenhead 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 (17.24%) J2EE
1 5 (17.24%) XML
1 5 (17.24%) XSLT
1 5 (17.24%) Java EE
2 1 (3.448%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.897%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) TCP/IP
1 4 (13.79%) Firewall
1 4 (13.79%) Intrusion Detection
1 4 (13.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (34.48%) SQL Server
2 6 (20.69%) MySQL
3 4 (13.79%) SQL Server 2000
3 4 (13.79%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 1 (3.448%) Games
1 1 (3.448%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 5 (17.24%) Support Engineer
1 5 (17.24%) Senior Support Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Sales Engineer
3 2 (6.897%) UNIX Administrator
3 2 (6.897%) Administrator
4 1 (3.448%) Service Manager
4 1 (3.448%) Support Specialist
4 1 (3.448%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (3.448%) Senior DBA
4 1 (3.448%) UNIX Support
4 1 (3.448%) Solaris Administrator
4 1 (3.448%) MySQL DBA
4 1 (3.448%) UNIX Specialist
4 1 (3.448%) Senior MySQL DBA
4 1 (3.448%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) SaaS
2 1 (3.448%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.448%) BBC
2 1 (3.448%) Replication
2 1 (3.448%) Clustering
2 1 (3.448%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 29 (100.00%) UNIX
2 10 (34.48%) Linux
3 9 (31.03%) Windows
4 4 (13.79%) AIX
4 4 (13.79%) Debian
4 4 (13.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.24%) Product Management
2 4 (13.79%) Network Management
2 4 (13.79%) SIEM
2 4 (13.79%) Information Security
3 2 (6.897%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (6.897%) ITIL
3 2 (6.897%) Service Management
3 2 (6.897%) Service Delivery
3 2 (6.897%) Release Management
4 1 (3.448%) Budget Control
4 1 (3.448%) Regression Testing
4 1 (3.448%) E-Commerce
4 1 (3.448%) Migration
4 1 (3.448%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (3.448%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (62.07%) Perl
2 6 (20.69%) Shell Script
3 5 (17.24%) C++
3 5 (17.24%) Java
4 1 (3.448%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.448%) SQL
4 1 (3.448%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 4 (13.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.448%) Squid
2 1 (3.448%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 21 (72.41%) Red Hat
2 6 (20.69%) Oracle
3 1 (3.448%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.448%) VMware