The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Northampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Northampton region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 50 52 57
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 4 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 1.020% 0.468% 0.208%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.636% 2.532% 0.730%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 1
Average salary £35,000 £52,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-33.33% +50.00%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,165
% change year-on-year
- +3.24%
All Operating Systems
Northampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
110 79 137
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 28.06% 18.50% 28.48%
Number of salaries quoted 106 75 125
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% +27.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £24,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £35,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
Northamptonshire

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northampton 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 Northampton region.

Northampton Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 5 (100.00%) UNIX
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) AIX
2 4 (80.00%) HPUX
2 4 (80.00%) SSL
2 4 (80.00%) IBM
2 4 (80.00%) CICS
2 4 (80.00%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (80.00%) Tivoli
2 4 (80.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 4 (80.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (80.00%) Middleware
2 4 (80.00%) Mainframe
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) DB2
2 4 (80.00%) Business Continuity
2 4 (80.00%) Tandem
2 4 (80.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 4 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (80.00%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
2 4 (80.00%) WebSphere
3 3 (60.00%) QA
3 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) Validation
3 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 3 (60.00%) Service Management
3 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) SOA
4 2 (40.00%) EAI

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 (80.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 4 (80.00%) Middleware
1 4 (80.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) CICS
1 4 (80.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 4 (80.00%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) SSL
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) DB2
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) WebSphere Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware Architect
2 1 (20.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) UNIX Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Mainframe
1 4 (80.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) AIX
2 4 (80.00%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Continuity
1 4 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Service Management
2 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (60.00%) SOA
3 2 (40.00%) EAI
4 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Tivoli
1 4 (80.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) IBM
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Sun