Oxfordshire Solaris Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Sun Microsystems Solaris skills within the Oxfordshire 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Sun Microsystems Solaris
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clydebank Corsham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Evesham Fareham Farnborough Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Hull Humberside Kent Knaresborough Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Lewisham Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romsey Rotherham Rugby Saffron Walden Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Tetbury Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thatcham Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	100	106
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching permanent IT job ads	27	35
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	4.891 %	4.242 %
Salaries quoted	18	29
Average minimum salary	£32,080	£28,810
Average salary	£35,680	£30,690
% change on same period last year	+16.26 %
Average maximum salary	£39,280	£32,569
UK excluding London average salary	£38,680	£40,943
% change on same period last year	-5.52 %
Operating Systems Oxfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	552	825
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.369 %	0.368 %
Salaries quoted	494	749
Average minimum salary	£31,835	£31,831
Average salary	£34,811	£34,090
% change on same period last year	+2.11 %
Average maximum salary	£37,787	£36,350
UK excluding London average salary	£34,399	£34,145
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Solaris South East

Solaris
Demand Trend

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

Solaris
Salary Trend

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

Solaris
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Oxford	+10	16	£34,357	+0.31 %
Wallingford	+5	6	£26,000	+6.12 %
Bicester	-	5	£37,333	-
Banbury	+3	3	£37,333	+14.87 %
Abingdon	+7	2	£38,500	+16.08 %

Solaris South East

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 58 (80.56 %) UNIX 2 52 (72.22 %) Linux 3 43 (59.72 %) Sun 4 34 (47.22 %) Oracle 5 33 (45.83 %) Cisco 6 30 (41.67 %) SQL 7 26 (36.11 %) LAN 8 25 (34.72 %) Red Hat 8 25 (34.72 %) Windows 8 25 (34.72 %) Red Hat Linux 9 24 (33.33 %) Debian 9 24 (33.33 %) Apache 10 21 (29.17 %) VoIP 11 20 (27.78 %) Hummingbird 12 16 (22.22 %) Microsoft

13 12 (16.67 %) Citrix 14 10 (13.89 %) Pegasus 14 10 (13.89 %) Sage 14 10 (13.89 %) HPUX 14 10 (13.89 %) VB 15 9 (12.50 %) HP 16 8 (11.11 %) Perl 17 7 (9.722 %) Pensions 18 6 (8.333 %) Spring 18 6 (8.333 %) Integration Testing 18 6 (8.333 %) Tcl 18 6 (8.333 %) Education 18 6 (8.333 %) C# 18 6 (8.333 %) VB.NET 18 6 (8.333 %) .NET

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 6 (8.333 %) .NET 1 6 (8.333 %) Spring 2 2 (2.778 %) AJAX 2 2 (2.778 %) CSS 2 2 (2.778 %) HTML 3 1 (1.389 %) JSP 3 1 (1.389 %) Servlets 3 1 (1.389 %) XML 3 1 (1.389 %) Middleware 3 1 (1.389 %) WebSphere 3 1 (1.389 %) J2EE 3 1 (1.389 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 24 (33.33 %) Apache 2 1 (1.389 %) JBoss 2 1 (1.389 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 6 (8.333 %) MS Excel 2 2 (2.778 %) MS PowerPoint 2 2 (2.778 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 26 (36.11 %) LAN 2 21 (29.17 %) VoIP 3 5 (6.944 %) WAN 3 5 (6.944 %) DHCP 4 4 (5.556 %) SAN 5 2 (2.778 %) DSL 5 2 (2.778 %) Firewall 5 2 (2.778 %) VPN 6 1 (1.389 %) Intranet 6 1 (1.389 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (6.944 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 3 (4.167 %) MySQL 3 2 (2.778 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 2 (2.778 %) Subversion
General 1 7 (9.722 %) Pensions 2 6 (8.333 %) Education	Job Titles 1 10 (13.89 %) Systems Administrator 1 10 (13.89 %) Applications Support 1 10 (13.89 %) Administrator 1 10 (13.89 %) Systems Manager 2 7 (9.722 %) Linux Systems Administrator 2 7 (9.722 %) Linux Administrator 2 7 (9.722 %) Linux Support 3 6 (8.333 %) Test Engineer 4 5 (6.944 %) Systems Support 4 5 (6.944 %) Senior Test Engineer 5 4 (5.556 %) UNIX Engineer 5 4 (5.556 %) Network Manager 5 4 (5.556 %) IT Support Engineer 5 4 (5.556 %) Developer 5 4 (5.556 %) Support Engineer 6 3 (4.167 %) Senior Developer 6 3 (4.167 %) Consultant 6 3 (4.167 %) Senior Systems Administrator 6 3 (4.167 %) Storage Consultant 6 3 (4.167 %) Data Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.167 %) CLARiiON	Operating Systems 1 58 (80.56 %) UNIX 2 52 (72.22 %) Linux 3 25 (34.72 %) Windows 3 25 (34.72 %) Red Hat Linux 4 24 (33.33 %) Debian 5 10 (13.89 %) HPUX 6 6 (8.333 %) FreeBSD 6 6 (8.333 %) AIX 7 1 (1.389 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (1.389 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (8.333 %) Integration Testing 2 4 (5.556 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (5.556 %) Logistics 3 3 (4.167 %) ITIL 3 3 (4.167 %) E-Commerce 4 2 (2.778 %) PRINCE 4 2 (2.778 %) Project Management 5 1 (1.389 %) OO 5 1 (1.389 %) RAD	Programming Languages 1 30 (41.67 %) SQL 2 10 (13.89 %) VB 3 8 (11.11 %) Perl 4 6 (8.333 %) C# 4 6 (8.333 %) VB.NET 4 6 (8.333 %) Python 4 6 (8.333 %) Tcl 5 2 (2.778 %) PHP 6 1 (1.389 %) PL/SQL 6 1 (1.389 %) Java
Qualifications 1 3 (4.167 %) MCSA 1 3 (4.167 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (2.778 %) HNC 2 2 (2.778 %) HND 2 2 (2.778 %) MCSE 2 2 (2.778 %) Degree 3 1 (1.389 %) MCP 3 1 (1.389 %) CNE 3 1 (1.389 %) Novell Certification	System Software 1 6 (8.333 %) Active Directory 2 4 (5.556 %) Oracle RAC 3 3 (4.167 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 3 (4.167 %) Legato 1 3 (4.167 %) Tivoli 1 3 (4.167 %) EMC NetWorker	Vendors 1 43 (59.72 %) Sun 2 34 (47.22 %) Oracle 3 33 (45.83 %) Cisco 4 25 (34.72 %) Red Hat 5 20 (27.78 %) Hummingbird 6 16 (22.22 %) Microsoft 7 12 (16.67 %) Citrix 8 10 (13.89 %) Sage 8 10 (13.89 %) Pegasus 9 9 (12.50 %) HP 10 3 (4.167 %) EMC 10 3 (4.167 %) IBM 10 3 (4.167 %) CommVault 10 3 (4.167 %) VERITAS 11 2 (2.778 %) Novell 11 2 (2.778 %) Zend 12 1 (1.389 %) Lotus