The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 17 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 Manchester 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 191 160 169
Rank change year-on-year
-31 +9
Permanent jobs citing Sun 3 15 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.074% 0.414% 0.101%
As % of the Vendors category 0.163% 0.915% 0.203%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 4
Average salary £32,000 £42,500 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-24.70% +9.67%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £44,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-15.73% +4.70%
All Vendors
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1845 1640 1966
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 45.47% 45.23% 49.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1544 1404 1769
Average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73% -2.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £24,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sun
North West

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Sun Salary Trend

Sun
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Sun across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Manchester Sun Salary Histogram

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 12 (92.31%) Windows
2 11 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 11 (84.62%) VMware
3 9 (69.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (69.23%) Citrix
3 9 (69.23%) UNIX
4 8 (61.54%) MS Exchange
4 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
4 8 (61.54%) NetApp
4 8 (61.54%) Exchange Server 2010
5 7 (53.85%) XenApp
5 7 (53.85%) Solaris
6 6 (46.15%) SQL Server
6 6 (46.15%) ITIL
6 6 (46.15%) AppSense
6 6 (46.15%) Degree
6 6 (46.15%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (38.46%) vSphere
7 5 (38.46%) Change Management
7 5 (38.46%) SQL
7 5 (38.46%) Oracle
7 5 (38.46%) Cisco
8 4 (30.77%) Clustering
8 4 (30.77%) Exchange Server 2007
8 4 (30.77%) SQL Server 2008
9 3 (23.08%) Oracle 8/8i
9 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
10 2 (15.38%) MS Visio
10 2 (15.38%) IIS
10 2 (15.38%) MS Project

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 (7.692%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 8 (61.54%) MS Exchange
1 8 (61.54%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (30.77%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (15.38%) Lync
3 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (15.38%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
2 2 (15.38%) MS Visio
2 2 (15.38%) MS Project
2 2 (15.38%) MS Office
3 1 (7.692%) Acrobat
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) SAN
1 2 (15.38%) VLAN
2 1 (7.692%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) SQL Server
2 4 (30.77%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (7.692%) Oracle 9i
4 1 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.692%) RDBMS
4 1 (7.692%) Oracle 10g
General
1 1 (7.692%) Finance
1 1 (7.692%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Technical Support
3 1 (7.692%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Account Manager
3 1 (7.692%) DBA
3 1 (7.692%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (7.692%) Team Leader
3 1 (7.692%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Sales Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Technical Team Leader
3 1 (7.692%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Business Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Applications Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Citrix Support
3 1 (7.692%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Operations Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Clustering
2 1 (7.692%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Windows
2 9 (69.23%) UNIX
3 7 (53.85%) Solaris
4 6 (46.15%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) ITIL
2 5 (38.46%) Change Management
3 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
4 1 (7.692%) Release Management
4 1 (7.692%) High Availability
4 1 (7.692%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (7.692%) Capacity Management
4 1 (7.692%) Database Security
4 1 (7.692%) Migration
4 1 (7.692%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (7.692%) Incident Management
4 1 (7.692%) Business Development
4 1 (7.692%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 1 (7.692%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
2 1 (7.692%) VTSP
2 1 (7.692%) MCP
2 1 (7.692%) MCSA
2 1 (7.692%) CCSP
2 1 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.692%) OCP
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (7.692%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (7.692%) MCTS
2 1 (7.692%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
3 7 (53.85%) XenApp
4 5 (38.46%) vSphere
5 2 (15.38%) Terminal Services
5 2 (15.38%) VMware ESX
6 1 (7.692%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (7.692%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (7.692%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (7.692%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) SCCM
1 2 (15.38%) SCOM
2 1 (7.692%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft
1 11 (84.62%) VMware
2 9 (69.23%) Citrix
3 8 (61.54%) NetApp
4 6 (46.15%) AppSense
5 5 (38.46%) Oracle
5 5 (38.46%) Cisco
6 1 (7.692%) Adobe
6 1 (7.692%) Veritas
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