The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 21 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 Vendors for the Nottingham region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 88 77 74
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -3
Permanent jobs citing Sun 3 16 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Nottingham 0.313% 1.491% 1.855%
As % of the Vendors category 0.598% 3.368% 4.089%
Number of salaries quoted 2 16 16
Average salary £36,750 £36,000 £43,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.08% -16.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,350 £27,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,150 £36,250 £50,750
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £44,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-15.73% +4.70%
All Vendors
Nottingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
502 475 538
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Nottingham 52.29% 44.27% 45.36%
Number of salaries quoted 436 399 443
Average salary £40,000 £36,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -6.49%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £26,150
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sun
Nottinghamshire

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham Sun Jobs Demand Trend

Sun
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Sun across the Nottingham region.

Nottingham Sun Salary Trend

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Nottingham region citing Sun 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 Sun.

1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
1 4 (66.67%) UNIX
2 3 (50.00%) J2EE
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Solaris
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (50.00%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) VLAN
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) IBM
3 2 (33.33%) Sun Certification
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (33.33%) SUSE
3 2 (33.33%) WebSphere
3 2 (33.33%) UML
3 2 (33.33%) OO
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (33.33%) XHTML
3 2 (33.33%) RAD
3 2 (33.33%) Ingres
3 2 (33.33%) Eclipse
3 2 (33.33%) FTP
3 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) EJB

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Nottingham region citing Sun 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 Sun. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) J2EE
2 2 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 2 (33.33%) XHTML
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) EJB
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) JDBC
2 2 (33.33%) JSP
2 2 (33.33%) Servlets
2 2 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Axis
3 1 (16.67%) Spring MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Web Flow
3 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) RichFaces
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (16.67%) WebLogic
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
1 1 (16.67%) WebLogic Portal
1 1 (16.67%) TeamSite
1 1 (16.67%) OpenROAD
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) VLAN
1 2 (33.33%) FTP
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) LDAP
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (33.33%) Ingres
3 1 (16.67%) MySQL
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
General
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Team Leader
1 1 (16.67%) IT Architect
1 1 (16.67%) UNIX Support
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
1 1 (16.67%) Credit Risk
1 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Open Source
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) UNIX
2 3 (50.00%) Solaris
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (33.33%) SUSE
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
4 1 (16.67%) Debian
4 1 (16.67%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (33.33%) UML
2 2 (33.33%) OO
2 2 (33.33%) RAD
3 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
3 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Use Case
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Content Management
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) Web Application Development
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Perl
3 1 (16.67%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Sun Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) JBoss
3 1 (16.67%) webMethods
3 1 (16.67%) Interwoven
3 1 (16.67%) NCR
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat