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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 82 90 70
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -20
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 9 1 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Nottingham 0.937% 0.092% 2.068%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.980% 0.442% 9.363%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 22
Average salary £42,500 £32,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+30.76% -12.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,500 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £54,500 £32,500 £50,200
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Nottingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
302 226 267
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Nottingham 31.43% 20.73% 22.08%
Number of salaries quoted 263 205 231
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +6.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £48,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
Nottinghamshire

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the Nottingham region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Nottingham Solaris Salary Histogram

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Nottingham 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 16 (84.21%) UNIX
2 15 (78.95%) Linux
3 13 (68.42%) Windows
4 10 (52.63%) Oracle
4 10 (52.63%) Red Hat
5 8 (42.11%) Windows Server 2003
5 8 (42.11%) Windows Server 2008
5 8 (42.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (36.84%) VMware
6 7 (36.84%) Cisco
7 6 (31.58%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (31.58%) PL/SQL
7 6 (31.58%) SQL
7 6 (31.58%) Oracle 11g
8 5 (26.32%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (26.32%) DMVPN
8 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Management
8 5 (26.32%) MPLS
8 5 (26.32%) OSPF
8 5 (26.32%) Firewall
9 4 (21.05%) Finance
9 4 (21.05%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (21.05%) Business Continuity
9 4 (21.05%) BGP
9 4 (21.05%) Project Management
9 4 (21.05%) Oracle 10g
9 4 (21.05%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (21.05%) Data Guard
9 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
9 4 (21.05%) Oracle RAC

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Nottingham 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 (21.05%) Middleware
2 2 (10.53%) JDBC
2 2 (10.53%) XML
3 1 (5.263%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) CMS
2 1 (5.263%) OpenROAD
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (5.263%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) MPLS
1 5 (26.32%) OSPF
1 5 (26.32%) Firewall
1 5 (26.32%) DMVPN
2 4 (21.05%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (21.05%) Cisco IOS
2 4 (21.05%) BGP
3 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
4 2 (10.53%) VPN
4 2 (10.53%) SAN
4 2 (10.53%) Network Security
4 2 (10.53%) VLAN
4 2 (10.53%) FTP
5 1 (5.263%) Internet
5 1 (5.263%) LAN
5 1 (5.263%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (15.79%) RDBMS
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
4 2 (10.53%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (10.53%) Oracle 9i
4 2 (10.53%) Ingres
4 2 (10.53%) VLDB
5 1 (5.263%) DB2
General
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) DBA
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (10.53%) Senior DBA
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle Applications DBA
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Oracle DBA
3 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 1 (5.263%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.263%) Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) Network Consultant
4 1 (5.263%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) Sales Executive
4 1 (5.263%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (5.263%) Network Specialist
4 1 (5.263%) UNIX Support
4 1 (5.263%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Network Infrastructure Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) PKI
1 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
2 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.263%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 16 (84.21%) UNIX
2 15 (78.95%) Linux
3 13 (68.42%) Windows
4 8 (42.11%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (42.11%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (42.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
5 2 (10.53%) SUSE
5 2 (10.53%) AIX
6 1 (5.263%) CentOS
6 1 (5.263%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Capacity Planning
1 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (21.05%) Business Continuity
2 4 (21.05%) Project Management
3 2 (10.53%) ERP
3 2 (10.53%) SOA
3 2 (10.53%) Performance Management
3 2 (10.53%) Security Architecture
4 1 (5.263%) High Availability
4 1 (5.263%) Service Delivery
4 1 (5.263%) Migration
4 1 (5.263%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) PL/SQL
1 6 (31.58%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
2 2 (10.53%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (10.53%) CCNP
2 2 (10.53%) CCNA
3 1 (5.263%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) SLA
2 2 (10.53%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle RMAN
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (5.263%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Data Guard
2 2 (10.53%) CA Wily
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (5.263%) Nagios
3 1 (5.263%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Oracle
1 10 (52.63%) Red Hat
2 7 (36.84%) VMware
2 7 (36.84%) Cisco
3 3 (15.79%) Sun
4 2 (10.53%) CA
5 1 (5.263%) NCR
5 1 (5.263%) Veritas
5 1 (5.263%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.263%) Sybase
5 1 (5.263%) Computacenter
5 1 (5.263%) CheckPoint
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