The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes 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 101 88 77
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -11
Permanent jobs citing Sun 1 3 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.078% 0.283% 0.952%
As % of the Vendors category 0.156% 0.626% 1.940%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 9
Average salary £28,500 £32,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.30% -18.75%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £44,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-15.73% +4.70%
All Vendors
Milton Keynes
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
641 479 464
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 49.73% 45.19% 49.10%
Number of salaries quoted 561 405 396
Average salary £40,000 £36,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.58% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £23,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sun
Buckinghamshire

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Sun Salary Trend

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 7 (87.50%) Oracle
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) UNIX
2 6 (75.00%) AIX
2 6 (75.00%) Solaris
2 6 (75.00%) VMS
2 6 (75.00%) SLA
2 6 (75.00%) IBM
2 6 (75.00%) Veritas
2 6 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (75.00%) HACMP
2 6 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 6 (75.00%) Symantec
2 6 (75.00%) Mainframe
2 6 (75.00%) Change Management
2 6 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 6 (75.00%) Clustering
2 6 (75.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (75.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 6 (75.00%) YUM
2 6 (75.00%) Cobbler
3 5 (62.50%) SAN
3 5 (62.50%) Broadband
4 4 (50.00%) Perl
4 4 (50.00%) AWK
4 4 (50.00%) sed
5 3 (37.50%) Resource Management

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 (12.50%) J2EE
1 1 (12.50%) Struts
1 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
1 1 (12.50%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
1 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Broadband
1 5 (62.50%) SAN
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Systems Administrator
1 6 (75.00%) Administrator
1 6 (75.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
1 6 (75.00%) UNIX Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) J2EE Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Software Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) HACMP
1 6 (75.00%) Mainframe
1 6 (75.00%) Clustering
2 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) VMS
2 6 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (75.00%) UNIX
2 6 (75.00%) AIX
2 6 (75.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Change Management
1 6 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (37.50%) Project Management
2 3 (37.50%) Supplier Management
2 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
2 3 (37.50%) Resource Management
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (50.00%) AWK
2 4 (50.00%) sed
2 4 (50.00%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Sun Certification
1 1 (12.50%) SCJP
1 1 (12.50%) SCJD
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SCJA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) SLA
2 3 (37.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (75.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
1 6 (75.00%) YUM
1 6 (75.00%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle
2 6 (75.00%) IBM
2 6 (75.00%) Veritas
2 6 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (75.00%) Symantec
2 6 (75.00%) VMware