The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 48 39 47
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +8
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 9 10 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.837% 2.208% 0.732%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.081% 9.524% 3.448%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 3
Average salary £32,500 £26,750 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.49% -17.69%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Newcastle upon Tyne
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
148 105 87
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 30.20% 23.18% 21.22%
Number of salaries quoted 135 80 78
Average salary £35,000 £28,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.80% -12.30%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £21,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £37,950 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
Tyne and Wear

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 14 (93.33%) Cisco
2 12 (80.00%) Oracle
2 12 (80.00%) WAN
2 12 (80.00%) SAN
2 12 (80.00%) Firewall
2 12 (80.00%) Cisco IOS
2 12 (80.00%) Network Management
2 12 (80.00%) Fibre Channel
3 10 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
3 10 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
3 10 (66.67%) Hyper-V
3 10 (66.67%) Cisco PIX
3 10 (66.67%) Network Design
3 10 (66.67%) VLAN
3 10 (66.67%) VPN
3 10 (66.67%) MS Excel
3 10 (66.67%) MS Visio
3 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 10 (66.67%) HP
4 4 (26.67%) Windows
5 3 (20.00%) Linux
6 2 (13.33%) VMware
6 2 (13.33%) VMware ESX
6 2 (13.33%) Veritas
6 2 (13.33%) ITIL
6 2 (13.33%) UNIX
6 2 (13.33%) LAN
6 2 (13.33%) EMC
6 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (13.33%) CCNA

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (66.67%) MS Excel
1 10 (66.67%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 12 (80.00%) WAN
1 12 (80.00%) SAN
1 12 (80.00%) Firewall
1 12 (80.00%) Cisco IOS
1 12 (80.00%) Fibre Channel
2 10 (66.67%) Cisco PIX
2 10 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 10 (66.67%) VLAN
2 10 (66.67%) VPN
3 2 (13.33%) LAN
4 1 (6.667%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (20.00%) Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) SAN Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (6.667%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (6.667%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Linux Support
4 1 (6.667%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Solaris Support Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Linux Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Clustering
2 1 (6.667%) Celerra
2 1 (6.667%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (6.667%) Symmetrix DMX
2 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.667%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (13.33%) UNIX
4 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (6.667%) SUSE
4 1 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Network Management
2 10 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 10 (66.67%) Network Design
3 2 (13.33%) Problem Management
3 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 1 (6.667%) Service Management
4 1 (6.667%) Performance Management
4 1 (6.667%) Capacity Management
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) CCNA
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.667%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (13.33%) VMware ESX
3 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.667%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.667%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 1 (6.667%) Tivoli
1 1 (6.667%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 14 (93.33%) Cisco
2 12 (80.00%) Oracle
3 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 10 (66.67%) HP
4 2 (13.33%) EMC
4 2 (13.33%) Veritas
4 2 (13.33%) VMware
5 1 (6.667%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.667%) Sun
5 1 (6.667%) IBM
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Part of your responsibilities will be setting and ensuring that your team adheres to KPI's and SLA's. You will need experience giving appraisals, recruiting, giving disciplinaries...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £40000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013