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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 58 64 74
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +10
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 11 4 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 1.664% 0.531% 0.625%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.509% 2.116% 3.106%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 5
Average salary £35,000 £60,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-41.66% +33.33%
UK excluding London average salary £43,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+1.17% +2.40%
All Operating Systems
Northamptonshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
169 189 161
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 25.57% 25.10% 20.13%
Number of salaries quoted 149 173 152
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +36.36%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £24,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £44,300 £43,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
East Midlands

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

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

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 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
Northampton +3 3 £35,000 -22.22%
Solaris
East Midlands

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

1 20 (95.24%) UNIX
2 17 (80.95%) Windows
3 14 (66.67%) Oracle
4 13 (61.90%) AIX
5 12 (57.14%) HPUX
6 11 (52.38%) IBM
7 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
7 9 (42.86%) Tivoli
7 9 (42.86%) WebSphere
8 8 (38.10%) VMware
9 7 (33.33%) SAN
9 7 (33.33%) Linux
9 7 (33.33%) Business Continuity
10 6 (28.57%) Tandem
10 6 (28.57%) Oracle 11g
10 6 (28.57%) Data Guard
10 6 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
10 6 (28.57%) SQL Server
10 6 (28.57%) PL/SQL
10 6 (28.57%) SQL
10 6 (28.57%) Oracle 8/8i
10 6 (28.57%) Oracle 9i
10 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
10 6 (28.57%) Oracle 10g
10 6 (28.57%) SSL
10 6 (28.57%) SQL Server 2000
10 6 (28.57%) Shell Script
10 6 (28.57%) Middleware
10 6 (28.57%) Mainframe
11 5 (23.81%) WebSphere MQ

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 9 (42.86%) WebSphere
2 6 (28.57%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 5 (23.81%) WebSphere MQ
1 5 (23.81%) CICS
1 5 (23.81%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
1 5 (23.81%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 4 (19.05%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (14.29%) Tomcat
4 1 (4.762%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (4.762%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) SAN
2 6 (28.57%) SSL
3 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
4 2 (9.524%) NAS
5 1 (4.762%) Internet
5 1 (4.762%) DNS
5 1 (4.762%) DHCP
5 1 (4.762%) LDAP
5 1 (4.762%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Oracle 11g
1 6 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
1 6 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 6 (28.57%) Oracle 8/8i
1 6 (28.57%) Oracle 9i
1 6 (28.57%) Oracle 10g
1 6 (28.57%) SQL Server 2000
2 5 (23.81%) DB2
General
1 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (9.524%) French Language
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Oracle DBA
1 6 (28.57%) DBA
2 3 (14.29%) Technical Consultant
2 3 (14.29%) Consultant
3 2 (9.524%) Senior Technical Consultant
3 2 (9.524%) WebSphere Specialist
3 2 (9.524%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (9.524%) WebSphere Architect
3 2 (9.524%) Middleware Architect
3 2 (9.524%) Architect
3 2 (9.524%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (9.524%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.762%) Administrator
4 1 (4.762%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (4.762%) Middleware Specialist
4 1 (4.762%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 1 (4.762%) UNIX Administrator
4 1 (4.762%) Professional Services Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Tandem
1 6 (28.57%) Mainframe
2 3 (14.29%) HACMP
3 2 (9.524%) Clustering
4 1 (4.762%) Replication
4 1 (4.762%) CLARiiON
4 1 (4.762%) EMC Centera
4 1 (4.762%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 20 (95.24%) UNIX
2 17 (80.95%) Windows
3 13 (61.90%) AIX
4 12 (57.14%) HPUX
5 7 (33.33%) Linux
6 5 (23.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (14.29%) SUSE
7 3 (14.29%) OS/400
8 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 5 (23.81%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
3 4 (19.05%) Validation
4 3 (14.29%) Service Management
4 3 (14.29%) SOA
4 3 (14.29%) High Availability
5 2 (9.524%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (9.524%) ITIL
5 2 (9.524%) CRM
5 2 (9.524%) Service Delivery
5 2 (9.524%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (4.762%) Migration
6 1 (4.762%) Data Migration
6 1 (4.762%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) PL/SQL
1 6 (28.57%) SQL
1 6 (28.57%) Shell Script
2 1 (4.762%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (4.762%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (14.29%) VMware ESX
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (14.29%) PowerHA
4 1 (4.762%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (4.762%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) Tivoli
2 6 (28.57%) Data Guard
3 5 (23.81%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 4 (19.05%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 3 (14.29%) Backup Exec
6 2 (9.524%) OpenView
6 2 (9.524%) Nagios
6 2 (9.524%) NetBackup
7 1 (4.762%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 14 (66.67%) Oracle
2 11 (52.38%) IBM
3 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
4 8 (38.10%) VMware
5 5 (23.81%) EMC
5 5 (23.81%) Red Hat
6 4 (19.05%) Brocade
6 4 (19.05%) JBoss
6 4 (19.05%) HP
7 2 (9.524%) Sun
7 2 (9.524%) Citrix
8 1 (4.762%) Cisco