The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 52 73 67
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -6
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 2 9 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.446% 1.343% 0.218%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.626% 3.614% 0.847%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 1
Average salary £55,000 £40,000 £43,503
Average salary % change year-on-year
+37.50% -8.05%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
123 249 118
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 27.46% 37.16% 25.71%
Number of salaries quoted 97 228 101
Average salary £30,000 £37,500 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +8.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
North West

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Merseyside Solaris Salary Histogram

Solaris
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Liverpool +20 2 £55,000 +29.41%
Solaris
North West

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 16 (100.00%) Java
1 16 (100.00%) Oracle
1 16 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 16 (100.00%) SQL
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (93.75%) Informix
2 15 (93.75%) AIX
2 15 (93.75%) HPUX
2 15 (93.75%) .NET
2 15 (93.75%) DB2
2 15 (93.75%) SAP
2 15 (93.75%) ERP
2 15 (93.75%) Baan
2 15 (93.75%) JD Edwards
2 15 (93.75%) Project Management
2 15 (93.75%) IBM
2 15 (93.75%) Sun
2 15 (93.75%) Finance
2 15 (93.75%) Manufacturing
2 15 (93.75%) Process Management
2 15 (93.75%) Business Analysis
2 15 (93.75%) Strategic Planning
2 15 (93.75%) Dynamics AX
2 15 (93.75%) Degree
2 15 (93.75%) Resource Management
2 15 (93.75%) Computer Science
3 1 (6.250%) Android
3 1 (6.250%) Bash shell
3 1 (6.250%) Apple iOS

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 15 (93.75%) .NET
2 1 (6.250%) XML
2 1 (6.250%) Flash
2 1 (6.250%) XHTML
2 1 (6.250%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.250%) Apache
Business Applications
1 15 (93.75%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) VoIP
1 1 (6.250%) SNMP
1 1 (6.250%) VPN
1 1 (6.250%) DNS
1 1 (6.250%) SSL
1 1 (6.250%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 15 (93.75%) DB2
2 15 (93.75%) Informix
3 1 (6.250%) MySQL
General
1 15 (93.75%) Finance
1 15 (93.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (93.75%) Business Analyst
1 15 (93.75%) Analyst
2 1 (6.250%) Penetration Tester
2 1 (6.250%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 15 (93.75%) Computer Science
2 1 (6.250%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 15 (93.75%) AIX
2 15 (93.75%) HPUX
3 1 (6.250%) Android
3 1 (6.250%) Apple iOS
3 1 (6.250%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) ERP
1 15 (93.75%) Project Management
1 15 (93.75%) Process Management
1 15 (93.75%) Business Analysis
1 15 (93.75%) Strategic Planning
1 15 (93.75%) Resource Management
2 1 (6.250%) Information Security
2 1 (6.250%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (6.250%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
1 16 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.250%) Python
2 1 (6.250%) Ruby
2 1 (6.250%) Bash shell
2 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.250%) Perl
2 1 (6.250%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) Degree
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Oracle
2 15 (93.75%) SAP
2 15 (93.75%) IBM
2 15 (93.75%) Sun
2 15 (93.75%) Baan
2 15 (93.75%) JD Edwards
3 1 (6.250%) HP