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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 47 57 53
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -4
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 7 2 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 1.357% 0.401% 3.116%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.828% 1.408% 12.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 21
Average salary £37,000 £42,500 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.94% -19.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
10% offered a salary of more than £51,700 £42,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
145 142 182
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 28.10% 28.46% 25.78%
Number of salaries quoted 121 123 128
Average salary £47,500 £40,000 £43,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75% -6.97%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £60,000 £58,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
South East

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

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

Middlesex Solaris Salary Histogram

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 18 (94.74%) UNIX
2 17 (89.47%) Linux
3 14 (73.68%) Apache
3 14 (73.68%) Oracle
4 13 (68.42%) Red Hat
5 10 (52.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (47.37%) Java
6 9 (47.37%) Windows
6 9 (47.37%) ITIL
7 8 (42.11%) Tomcat
7 8 (42.11%) Sun
8 7 (36.84%) J2EE
9 6 (31.58%) SQL
9 6 (31.58%) XML
9 6 (31.58%) LAN
9 6 (31.58%) WAN
9 6 (31.58%) Hibernate
10 5 (26.32%) SAN
10 5 (26.32%) Nagios
10 5 (26.32%) DNS
10 5 (26.32%) AIX
10 5 (26.32%) MySQL
10 5 (26.32%) Brocade
10 5 (26.32%) JIRA
10 5 (26.32%) Windows 7
10 5 (26.32%) Bash shell
10 5 (26.32%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (21.05%) nginx
11 4 (21.05%) Oracle 11g
11 4 (21.05%) CentOS

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 7 (36.84%) J2EE
2 6 (31.58%) XML
2 6 (31.58%) Hibernate
3 4 (21.05%) HTML
3 4 (21.05%) LAMP
4 1 (5.263%) Spring
4 1 (5.263%) Ajax
4 1 (5.263%) JSTL
4 1 (5.263%) FreeMarker
4 1 (5.263%) GWT
4 1 (5.263%) Ehcache
4 1 (5.263%) XSD
4 1 (5.263%) XSLT
4 1 (5.263%) WSDL
4 1 (5.263%) CSS
4 1 (5.263%) JDBC
4 1 (5.263%) JSP
4 1 (5.263%) Servlets
4 1 (5.263%) SOAP
4 1 (5.263%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 14 (73.68%) Apache
2 8 (42.11%) Tomcat
3 4 (21.05%) CMS
3 4 (21.05%) nginx
4 2 (10.53%) MS Exchange
5 1 (5.263%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (5.263%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) LAN
1 6 (31.58%) WAN
2 5 (26.32%) DNS
2 5 (26.32%) SAN
3 2 (10.53%) SSH
4 1 (5.263%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) MySQL
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (15.79%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) JIRA
2 1 (5.263%) Hudson
2 1 (5.263%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.263%) Ant
2 1 (5.263%) Maven
General
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Team Leader
2 7 (36.84%) UNIX Team Leader
3 5 (26.32%) Applications Support Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 5 (26.32%) Linux Administrator
3 5 (26.32%) Support Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Applications Support
3 5 (26.32%) Administrator
3 5 (26.32%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (21.05%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 4 (21.05%) UNIX Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) Solaris Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Oracle Team Leader
5 1 (5.263%) Solaris Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) Developer
5 1 (5.263%) DBA
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Video on Demand
2 2 (10.53%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 18 (94.74%) UNIX
2 17 (89.47%) Linux
3 10 (52.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (47.37%) Windows
5 5 (26.32%) AIX
5 5 (26.32%) Windows 7
5 5 (26.32%) Oracle Linux
6 4 (21.05%) CentOS
7 2 (10.53%) SUSE
7 2 (10.53%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) ITIL
2 4 (21.05%) PRINCE2
3 2 (10.53%) Problem Management
3 2 (10.53%) Service Delivery
3 2 (10.53%) ITIL V3
4 1 (5.263%) Change Management
4 1 (5.263%) Workflow
4 1 (5.263%) Load Testing
4 1 (5.263%) Unit Testing
4 1 (5.263%) Multithreading
4 1 (5.263%) OO
4 1 (5.263%) OOD
4 1 (5.263%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Java
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 5 (26.32%) Bash shell
4 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.263%) Uniface
5 1 (5.263%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.263%) PHP
5 1 (5.263%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.263%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) COBIT
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.263%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Xen
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.263%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (5.263%) NFS
2 1 (5.263%) Samba
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Nagios
2 1 (5.263%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (73.68%) Oracle
2 13 (68.42%) Red Hat
3 8 (42.11%) Sun
4 5 (26.32%) Brocade
5 4 (21.05%) VMware
5 4 (21.05%) HP
5 4 (21.05%) IBM
6 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
6 2 (10.53%) Dell