The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oldham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Oldham region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oldham - - -
As % of the Operating Systems category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Oldham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
4 19 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oldham 8.333% 38.00% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3 19 6
Average salary £22,500 £29,000 £24,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.41% +20.83%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,900 £23,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £26,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
Manchester

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oldham 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 Oldham region.

Oldham Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oldham 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%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) Sun
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
1 5 (100.00%) NetApp
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 5 (100.00%) XenApp
1 5 (100.00%) vSphere
2 4 (80.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) Clustering
2 4 (80.00%) Change Management
2 4 (80.00%) AppSense
2 4 (80.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 4 (80.00%) MS Exchange
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (60.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco
3 3 (60.00%) Degree
4 2 (40.00%) SCCM
4 2 (40.00%) SCOM
5 1 (20.00%) NAS
5 1 (20.00%) VMware ESX
5 1 (20.00%) Problem Management

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oldham 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 Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 4 (80.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 4 (80.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) NAS
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Support
3 1 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
2 4 (80.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) MCTS
2 1 (20.00%) MCITP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) MCSA
2 1 (20.00%) MCP
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) XenApp
1 5 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (20.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
1 2 (40.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) Sun
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
1 5 (100.00%) NetApp
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) AppSense
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco