The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 89 62 78
Rank change year-on-year
-27 +16
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 13 22 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 1.013% 2.113% 1.175%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.266% 8.594% 3.470%
Number of salaries quoted 12 22 11
Average salary £37,500 £35,750 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.89% -20.55%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Milton Keynes
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
398 256 317
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 31.02% 24.59% 33.87%
Number of salaries quoted 348 217 283
Average salary £39,000 £35,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.85% -2.73%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
Buckinghamshire

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

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

Milton Keynes Solaris Salary Histogram

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 27 (87.10%) Linux
2 23 (74.19%) Oracle
3 22 (70.97%) UNIX
4 21 (67.74%) AIX
5 16 (51.61%) Perl
6 15 (48.39%) IBM
6 15 (48.39%) Shell Script
7 13 (41.94%) Symantec
7 13 (41.94%) Red Hat
7 13 (41.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (38.71%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (35.48%) VMware
9 11 (35.48%) SQL
10 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
10 10 (32.26%) Cisco
10 10 (32.26%) SAN
10 10 (32.26%) HTTP
10 10 (32.26%) TCP/IP
10 10 (32.26%) Clustering
10 10 (32.26%) Finance
10 10 (32.26%) Veritas
10 10 (32.26%) VMware Infrastructure
11 9 (29.03%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 9 (29.03%) Cobbler
11 9 (29.03%) AWK
11 9 (29.03%) Windows
12 8 (25.81%) VoIP
12 8 (25.81%) Service Delivery
12 8 (25.81%) Bash shell
12 8 (25.81%) sed

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 4 (12.90%) WebSphere
2 3 (9.677%) JSON
2 3 (9.677%) Dojo
2 3 (9.677%) DHTML
2 3 (9.677%) J2EE
2 3 (9.677%) EJB
2 3 (9.677%) CSS
2 3 (9.677%) JDBC
2 3 (9.677%) JSP
2 3 (9.677%) Servlets
2 3 (9.677%) Struts
2 3 (9.677%) Web Services
2 3 (9.677%) XML
2 3 (9.677%) JMS
2 3 (9.677%) Hibernate
2 3 (9.677%) Spring
2 3 (9.677%) Ajax
3 1 (3.226%) COM
Application Platforms
1 3 (9.677%) Tomcat
1 3 (9.677%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.226%) Apache
2 1 (3.226%) MQSeries
2 1 (3.226%) MS Exchange
2 1 (3.226%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (3.226%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (3.226%) Office Communications Server
2 1 (3.226%) Lync
2 1 (3.226%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 6 (19.35%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (32.26%) HTTP
1 10 (32.26%) TCP/IP
1 10 (32.26%) SAN
2 8 (25.81%) VoIP
3 7 (22.58%) DHCP
3 7 (22.58%) FTP
3 7 (22.58%) ISDN
3 7 (22.58%) PBX
3 7 (22.58%) PSTN
3 7 (22.58%) ISUP
3 7 (22.58%) DNS
3 7 (22.58%) Softswitch
4 5 (16.13%) Broadband
5 2 (6.452%) NAS
6 1 (3.226%) FCoE
6 1 (3.226%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (3.226%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.677%) Crystal Reports
2 3 (9.677%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.226%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (3.226%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (9.677%) Ant
1 3 (9.677%) Eclipse
1 3 (9.677%) Maven
General
1 10 (32.26%) Finance
2 4 (12.90%) Banking
3 1 (3.226%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) Administrator
2 13 (41.94%) Systems Administrator
3 12 (38.71%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 12 (38.71%) UNIX Administrator
4 7 (22.58%) Support Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) Voice Engineer
6 4 (12.90%) Voice Support Engineer
7 3 (9.677%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 3 (9.677%) Cisco Support Engineer
7 3 (9.677%) Cisco Voice Engineer
7 3 (9.677%) Cisco Engineer
7 3 (9.677%) Support Manager
7 3 (9.677%) Linux Administrator
7 3 (9.677%) AIX Administrator
7 3 (9.677%) Cisco Support
7 3 (9.677%) Senior Software Developer
7 3 (9.677%) Senior Developer
7 3 (9.677%) Software Developer
7 3 (9.677%) Architect
7 3 (9.677%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Clustering
2 7 (22.58%) Handset
3 6 (19.35%) HACMP
3 6 (19.35%) Mainframe
4 3 (9.677%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.226%) CLARiiON
5 1 (3.226%) Symmetrix
5 1 (3.226%) Computer Science
5 1 (3.226%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 27 (87.10%) Linux
2 22 (70.97%) UNIX
3 21 (67.74%) AIX
4 13 (41.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (29.03%) Windows
6 6 (19.35%) VMS
7 2 (6.452%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (6.452%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (6.452%) HPUX
8 1 (3.226%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (25.81%) Service Delivery
3 7 (22.58%) Change Management
4 3 (9.677%) Project Management
4 3 (9.677%) UML
4 3 (9.677%) OOA/OOD
4 3 (9.677%) OO
4 3 (9.677%) Supplier Management
4 3 (9.677%) Incident Management
4 3 (9.677%) Resource Management
4 3 (9.677%) Use Case
4 3 (9.677%) Software Architecture
5 2 (6.452%) Migration
5 2 (6.452%) ITIL
6 1 (3.226%) Configuration Management
6 1 (3.226%) Business Continuity
6 1 (3.226%) Load Balancing
6 1 (3.226%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (3.226%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (51.61%) Perl
2 15 (48.39%) Shell Script
3 11 (35.48%) SQL
4 9 (29.03%) AWK
5 8 (25.81%) Bash shell
5 8 (25.81%) sed
6 7 (22.58%) Python
6 7 (22.58%) PHP
7 4 (12.90%) PL/SQL
8 3 (9.677%) Java
8 3 (9.677%) JavaScript
8 3 (9.677%) T-SQL
9 1 (3.226%) Korn
9 1 (3.226%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 2 (6.452%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.226%) Degree
2 1 (3.226%) MCSE
2 1 (3.226%) MCT
2 1 (3.226%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) SLA
2 4 (12.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (32.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (29.03%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (9.677%) Veritas File System
4 2 (6.452%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.452%) VMware ESX
5 1 (3.226%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (3.226%) Active Directory
5 1 (3.226%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (29.03%) Cobbler
2 6 (19.35%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 6 (19.35%) YUM
3 4 (12.90%) NetBackup
4 3 (9.677%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (3.226%) SCOM
5 1 (3.226%) Data Guard
5 1 (3.226%) Backup Exec
5 1 (3.226%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (3.226%) MOM
Vendors
1 23 (74.19%) Oracle
2 15 (48.39%) IBM
3 13 (41.94%) Red Hat
3 13 (41.94%) Symantec
4 11 (35.48%) VMware
5 10 (32.26%) Veritas
5 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
5 10 (32.26%) Cisco
6 7 (22.58%) Polycom
6 7 (22.58%) Acme Packet
7 6 (19.35%) Sun
8 4 (12.90%) JBoss
9 3 (9.677%) HP
9 3 (9.677%) EMC
10 2 (6.452%) NetApp
10 2 (6.452%) Brocade
11 1 (3.226%) Riverbed
11 1 (3.226%) 3PAR
11 1 (3.226%) Sonus
11 1 (3.226%) BroadSoft
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