The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 24 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 201 197 194
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 42 50 40
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.585% 0.704% 0.582%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.283% 2.569% 2.514%
Number of salaries quoted 32 42 38
Average salary £40,000 £40,750 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.84% +8.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £33,200 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £62,250 £56,950
UK excluding London average salary £43,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+1.17% +2.40%
All Operating Systems
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1840 1946 1591
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 25.61% 27.42% 23.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1564 1702 1414
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £22,500 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
England

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Manchester -21 21 £40,000 +3.22%
Cheshire +6 16 £40,000 -11.11%
Merseyside +15 4 £40,000 -
Lancashire - 3 £35,000 -
Solaris
England

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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.

1 118 (79.19%) Linux
2 109 (73.15%) UNIX
3 87 (58.39%) AIX
4 59 (39.60%) Windows
5 58 (38.93%) Red Hat
6 57 (38.26%) HPUX
7 53 (35.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 52 (34.90%) Oracle
9 43 (28.86%) Java
9 43 (28.86%) Finance
10 41 (27.52%) SQL Server
11 35 (23.49%) Sun
12 34 (22.82%) SQL
13 30 (20.13%) ITIL
14 28 (18.79%) HP
15 27 (18.12%) Shell Script
16 24 (16.11%) IBM
17 23 (15.44%) SLA
18 21 (14.09%) Windows Server 2003
18 21 (14.09%) DB2
19 20 (13.42%) Service Delivery
19 20 (13.42%) SQL Server 2008
20 19 (12.75%) XML
21 18 (12.08%) .NET
21 18 (12.08%) SAP
21 18 (12.08%) ERP
21 18 (12.08%) Degree
22 16 (10.74%) Resource Management
22 16 (10.74%) Performance Management
22 16 (10.74%) Project Management

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 19 (12.75%) XML
2 18 (12.08%) .NET
3 13 (8.725%) HTML
4 11 (7.383%) Web Services
5 10 (6.711%) SOAP
6 9 (6.040%) Hibernate
6 9 (6.040%) Software Packaging
7 8 (5.369%) Flash
7 8 (5.369%) CSS
7 8 (5.369%) Spring
8 7 (4.698%) Ruby on Rails
9 6 (4.027%) JAXB
9 6 (4.027%) JDBC
9 6 (4.027%) JSP
9 6 (4.027%) Servlets
9 6 (4.027%) Struts
9 6 (4.027%) XSLT
9 6 (4.027%) JMS
9 6 (4.027%) Ajax
9 6 (4.027%) REST
Application Platforms
1 15 (10.07%) Apache
2 9 (6.040%) Tomcat
3 6 (4.027%) WebSphere Application Server
3 6 (4.027%) MS Exchange
3 6 (4.027%) Exchange Server 2010
3 6 (4.027%) Jetty
3 6 (4.027%) Exchange Server 2007
4 5 (3.356%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.685%) WebLogic
6 3 (2.013%) GlassFish
6 3 (2.013%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.013%) IBM HTTP Server
6 3 (2.013%) Oracle Application Server
6 3 (2.013%) CICS
7 2 (1.342%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (1.342%) IIS
7 2 (1.342%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (1.342%) Lync
8 1 (0.671%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 11 (7.383%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.342%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 15 (10.07%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.342%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.671%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.671%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.671%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.671%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.671%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.383%) Firewall
2 9 (6.040%) HTTP
3 7 (4.698%) TCP/IP
3 7 (4.698%) SAN
4 6 (4.027%) DNS
4 6 (4.027%) LDAP
5 5 (3.356%) SSL
5 5 (3.356%) LAN
5 5 (3.356%) WAN
6 4 (2.685%) VPN
6 4 (2.685%) NAS
7 3 (2.013%) IMAP
7 3 (2.013%) Wireless
7 3 (2.013%) Internet
7 3 (2.013%) SMTP
7 3 (2.013%) VoIP
8 2 (1.342%) SMS
8 2 (1.342%) DHCP
8 2 (1.342%) VLAN
8 2 (1.342%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (27.52%) SQL Server
2 21 (14.09%) DB2
3 20 (13.42%) SQL Server 2008
4 16 (10.74%) Oracle 8/8i
5 15 (10.07%) Informix
6 14 (9.396%) MySQL
7 10 (6.711%) SQL Server 2005
8 8 (5.369%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (4.698%) SQL Server 2000
10 5 (3.356%) Oracle 11g
10 5 (3.356%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 12 (8.054%) Subversion
2 11 (7.383%) JUnit
3 6 (4.027%) Ant
3 6 (4.027%) Log4j
3 6 (4.027%) Maven
3 6 (4.027%) JIRA
4 5 (3.356%) Redmine
5 3 (2.013%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.671%) Git (software)
6 1 (0.671%) NetBeans
6 1 (0.671%) Eclipse
General
1 43 (28.86%) Finance
2 15 (10.07%) Manufacturing
3 7 (4.698%) Telecoms
4 4 (2.685%) Financial Institution
4 4 (2.685%) Advertising
5 2 (1.342%) Local Government
5 2 (1.342%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (20.81%) Analyst
2 27 (18.12%) Administrator
3 22 (14.77%) Team Leader
4 18 (12.08%) Systems Administrator
4 18 (12.08%) DBA
5 16 (10.74%) Linux Administrator
5 16 (10.74%) UNIX Team Leader
6 15 (10.07%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 15 (10.07%) Business Analyst
7 14 (9.396%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 12 (8.054%) SQL DBA
8 12 (8.054%) Linux Engineer
9 11 (7.383%) Developer
10 9 (6.040%) Linux Support
11 8 (5.369%) SQL Server DBA
11 8 (5.369%) Infrastructure Manager
12 7 (4.698%) UNIX Support
12 7 (4.698%) Technical Support
12 7 (4.698%) Support Engineer
13 6 (4.027%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.07%) Computer Science
2 12 (8.054%) Clustering
3 6 (4.027%) Mainframe
3 6 (4.027%) Handset
4 3 (2.013%) IBM Mainframe
4 3 (2.013%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.013%) Tandem
5 2 (1.342%) HACMP
5 2 (1.342%) Replication
5 2 (1.342%) CLARiiON
5 2 (1.342%) EMC Centera
5 2 (1.342%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.342%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.342%) Celerra
6 1 (0.671%) Open Source
6 1 (0.671%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.671%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 118 (79.19%) Linux
2 109 (73.15%) UNIX
3 87 (58.39%) AIX
4 59 (39.60%) Windows
5 57 (38.26%) HPUX
6 53 (35.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (14.09%) Windows Server 2003
8 12 (8.054%) Windows Server 2008
9 11 (7.383%) Ubuntu
9 11 (7.383%) SUSE
10 10 (6.711%) Fedora
11 8 (5.369%) CentOS
12 3 (2.013%) Debian
12 3 (2.013%) zOS
13 2 (1.342%) OpenVMS
13 2 (1.342%) Windows 2000
13 2 (1.342%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.671%) Android
14 1 (0.671%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.671%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (20.13%) ITIL
2 20 (13.42%) Service Delivery
3 18 (12.08%) ERP
4 16 (10.74%) Resource Management
4 16 (10.74%) Performance Management
4 16 (10.74%) Project Management
5 15 (10.07%) Business Analysis
5 15 (10.07%) Strategic Planning
5 15 (10.07%) Process Management
5 15 (10.07%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (10.07%) Problem Management
6 11 (7.383%) High Availability
7 9 (6.040%) Change Management
7 9 (6.040%) Benchmarking
8 8 (5.369%) Agile Software Development
9 6 (4.027%) RAD
9 6 (4.027%) Scrum
9 6 (4.027%) TDD
9 6 (4.027%) Unit Testing
10 5 (3.356%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 43 (28.86%) Java
2 34 (22.82%) SQL
3 27 (18.12%) Shell Script
4 10 (6.711%) PL/SQL
5 9 (6.040%) JavaScript
5 9 (6.040%) Bash shell
6 8 (5.369%) C
6 8 (5.369%) Ruby
7 7 (4.698%) PHP
8 4 (2.685%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.013%) Python
10 2 (1.342%) Perl
10 2 (1.342%) VBA
11 1 (0.671%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.671%) C++
11 1 (0.671%) VBScript
11 1 (0.671%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 18 (12.08%) Degree
2 3 (2.013%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.342%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.342%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.671%) MCITP
4 1 (0.671%) MCTS
4 1 (0.671%) MCSA
4 1 (0.671%) MCP
4 1 (0.671%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.671%) SAP Certification
4 1 (0.671%) EMC Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.44%) SLA
2 6 (4.027%) QA
System Software
1 9 (6.040%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 8 (5.369%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (5.369%) XenApp
2 8 (5.369%) vSphere
3 6 (4.027%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.685%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (2.013%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 2 (1.342%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.671%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.671%) VMware ESX
7 1 (0.671%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (2.685%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 4 (2.685%) Tivoli
1 4 (2.685%) CA Wily
1 4 (2.685%) SCCM
1 4 (2.685%) SCOM
1 4 (2.685%) Data Guard
2 3 (2.013%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 2 (1.342%) Nagios
3 2 (1.342%) HP SIM
3 2 (1.342%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (0.671%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.671%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.671%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 58 (38.93%) Red Hat
2 52 (34.90%) Oracle
3 35 (23.49%) Sun
4 28 (18.79%) HP
5 24 (16.11%) IBM
6 18 (12.08%) SAP
7 15 (10.07%) Baan
7 15 (10.07%) JD Edwards
7 15 (10.07%) Veritas
8 13 (8.725%) VMware
9 11 (7.383%) Microsoft
10 9 (6.040%) Intel
11 8 (5.369%) Citrix
11 8 (5.369%) Cisco
12 7 (4.698%) NetApp
13 5 (3.356%) Zend
13 5 (3.356%) EMC
14 4 (2.685%) JBoss
14 4 (2.685%) AppSense
14 4 (2.685%) SolarWinds
Altrincham, North West
My client based in Cheshire is looking for a Linux consultant to join their existing team on some exciting projects... These systems run both Solaris (up to 10)...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Greater Manchester, North West
My international client is now urgently looking for a Product Support Manager to join their team. This is a fantastic opportunity to work for a well established company...
Computer Futures
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Greater Manchester, North West
My client based in Greater Manchester is looking for a Linux consultant to join their existing team on some exciting projects... These systems run both Solaris (up to...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Stockport, North West
This is a fantastic opportunity to work for a well established and growing company. This role is responsible for the management of the 3rd and 4th Line support...
Computer Futures
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Java Developer, Web development, Web services, DB2, Flex, XML, SOAP, Windows, UNIX, Hibernate, programmer, engineer/ Manchester / up to 38K... Web Services (XML / SOAP) XML. Windows. UNIX (Solaris/AIX/...
Ascent People Ltd
Salary: £27000 - £38000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Java Developer, Web development, Web services, DB2, Flex, Hibernate, programmer, engineer/ Manchester / up to 38K Are you interested in a new exciting Java Developer opportunity?... Methodologies/Tools/Platforms:...
Salary: £28000 - £38000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 25 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Java Developer, Web development, Web services, DB2, Flex, Hibernate, programmer, engineer/ Manchester / up to 38K... Web Services (XML / SOAP) XML. Windows. UNIX (Solaris/AIX/HP, Shell Scripts) Source...
Ascent People Ltd
Salary: £28000 - £38000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Stockport, North West
Senior Java / Web Developer -Stockport- £40,000 - £47,000 My international client is now urgently looking for an experienced Java software developer to join their team of highly...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £47000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013