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The table below looks at the demand for Sun Microsystems Solaris skills within the Northamptonshire region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkSun Microsystems Solaris
Location
3 months to
15 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank7668
Rank change on same period last yearDown-8
Matching permanent IT job ads68
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.004 %0.004 %
As % of the category below3.141 %3.042 %
Salaries quoted66
Average minimum salary£52,333£31,167
Average salary£52,333£34,417
% change on same period last year+52.05 %
Average maximum salary£52,333£37,667
UK excluding London average salary£39,463£40,897
% change on same period last year-3.50 %
Northamptonshire IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
Northamptonshire
Matching permanent IT job ads191263
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.112 %0.116 %
Salaries quoted184219
Average minimum salary£27,644£28,114
Average salary£29,719£29,922
% change on same period last year-0.67 %
Average maximum salary£31,794£31,729
UK excluding London average salary£34,279£34,448
% change on same period last year-0.49 %
Solaris East MidlandsSolaris
East Midlands

Solaris
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Solaris across the Northamptonshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Northamptonshire Solaris Demand Trend

Solaris
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Solaris across the Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
NorthamptonDown-85£51,800+42.69 %
Solaris East MidlandsSolaris
East Midlands

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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.

122 (100.00 %)UNIX
213 (59.09 %)Linux
311 (50.00 %)Sun
49 (40.91 %)AIX
58 (36.36 %)HPUX
58 (36.36 %)SAN
67 (31.82 %)VERITAS
67 (31.82 %)Oracle
67 (31.82 %)HP
67 (31.82 %)NetBackup
67 (31.82 %)French Language
67 (31.82 %)Italian Language
67 (31.82 %)Spanish Language
76 (27.27 %)Sun Certification
76 (27.27 %)Oracle 10g
76 (27.27 %)Oracle 9i
76 (27.27 %)IRIX
85 (22.73 %)Clustering
85 (22.73 %)Telecoms
85 (22.73 %)Oracle RMAN
85 (22.73 %)Shell Script
85 (22.73 %)Internet
85 (22.73 %)FreeBSD
85 (22.73 %)MySQL
85 (22.73 %)SLA
85 (22.73 %)Microsoft
85 (22.73 %)SQL
93 (13.64 %)Windows
93 (13.64 %)German Language
102 (9.091 %)Finance

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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.

Northamptonshire IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
11 (4.545 %).NET
11 (4.545 %)J2EE
11 (4.545 %)ASP.NET
11 (4.545 %)XML
Northamptonshire IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11 (4.545 %)Apache
11 (4.545 %)iPlanet
Northamptonshire IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
11 (4.545 %)MS Excel
Northamptonshire IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
18 (36.36 %)SAN
25 (22.73 %)Internet
31 (4.545 %)HTTP
Northamptonshire IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
16 (27.27 %)Oracle 9i
16 (27.27 %)Oracle 10g
25 (22.73 %)MySQL
31 (4.545 %)SQL Server
31 (4.545 %)DB2
31 (4.545 %)Ingres
31 (4.545 %)Data Mining
31 (4.545 %)TOAD
Northamptonshire IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
15 (22.73 %)Telecoms
22 (9.091 %)Finance
31 (4.545 %)Government
31 (4.545 %)Health
31 (4.545 %)Police
31 (4.545 %)Pensions
Northamptonshire IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
16 (27.27 %)Analyst
16 (27.27 %)DBA
16 (27.27 %)Support Analyst
16 (27.27 %)Administrator
16 (27.27 %)UNIX Support
25 (22.73 %)Senior DBA
25 (22.73 %)UNIX Support Analyst
25 (22.73 %)Support Engineer
34 (18.18 %)Systems Engineer
34 (18.18 %)Senior Analyst
34 (18.18 %)Senior Support Analyst
34 (18.18 %)Senior UNIX Support
34 (18.18 %)Senior UNIX Support Analyst
43 (13.64 %)Linux Engineer
43 (13.64 %)Linux Support
52 (9.091 %)Storage Engineer
61 (4.545 %)Senior Storage Engineer
61 (4.545 %)UNIX Support Engineer
61 (4.545 %)Linux Systems Administrator
61 (4.545 %)Linux Administrator
Northamptonshire IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
17 (31.82 %)French Language
17 (31.82 %)Italian Language
17 (31.82 %)Spanish Language
25 (22.73 %)Clustering
33 (13.64 %)German Language
Northamptonshire IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
122 (100.00 %)UNIX
213 (59.09 %)Linux
39 (40.91 %)AIX
48 (36.36 %)HPUX
56 (27.27 %)IRIX
65 (22.73 %)FreeBSD
73 (13.64 %)Windows
81 (4.545 %)Windows XP
81 (4.545 %)Red Hat Linux
Northamptonshire IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
11 (4.545 %)Service Delivery
11 (4.545 %)Disaster Recovery
11 (4.545 %)Stakeholder Management
11 (4.545 %)Software Testing
11 (4.545 %)Security Cleared
Northamptonshire IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
15 (22.73 %)SQL
15 (22.73 %)Shell Script
21 (4.545 %)VB6
21 (4.545 %)VB
21 (4.545 %)VC++
21 (4.545 %)C++
21 (4.545 %)Java
21 (4.545 %)JavaScript
21 (4.545 %)Perl
Northamptonshire IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
16 (27.27 %)Sun Certification
Northamptonshire IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
15 (22.73 %)SLA
Northamptonshire IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
17 (31.82 %)NetBackup
25 (22.73 %)Oracle RMAN
31 (4.545 %)Backup Exec
Northamptonshire IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
11 (4.545 %)Legato
11 (4.545 %)EMC NetWorker
Northamptonshire IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
111 (50.00 %)Sun
27 (31.82 %)HP
27 (31.82 %)VERITAS
27 (31.82 %)Oracle
35 (22.73 %)Microsoft
41 (4.545 %)Red Hat