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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 103 88 95
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +7
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 21 14 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 1.130% 0.953% 0.627%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.312% 3.836% 2.770%
Number of salaries quoted 12 10 10
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £44,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +12.99%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £45,000 £41,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,611 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
487 365 361
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 26.20% 24.85% 22.65%
Number of salaries quoted 432 320 336
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £27,500 £22,270
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
South East

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Solaris Salary Trend

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 21 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
Oxford -11 13 £43,000 -14.00%
Banbury - 1 - -
Bicester - 1 - -
Solaris
South East

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 33 (97.06%) Linux
2 22 (64.71%) UNIX
2 22 (64.71%) Windows
3 15 (44.12%) Oracle
4 13 (38.24%) AIX
5 11 (32.35%) SQL Server
5 11 (32.35%) SAN
5 11 (32.35%) Firewall
6 10 (29.41%) VMware
7 9 (26.47%) Red Hat
7 9 (26.47%) HPUX
8 7 (20.59%) Active Directory
8 7 (20.59%) TCP/IP
8 7 (20.59%) VMware Infrastructure
9 6 (17.65%) MongoDB
9 6 (17.65%) Veritas
9 6 (17.65%) Management Information System
9 6 (17.65%) MOLAP
9 6 (17.65%) VMS
10 5 (14.71%) DNS
10 5 (14.71%) IBM
10 5 (14.71%) BMC
10 5 (14.71%) C++
10 5 (14.71%) ITIL
10 5 (14.71%) Python
10 5 (14.71%) Business Continuity
10 5 (14.71%) Tivoli
10 5 (14.71%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 5 (14.71%) Service Management
10 5 (14.71%) IaaS

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 3 (8.824%) STL
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.824%) Apache
2 2 (5.882%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (5.882%) Lync
2 2 (5.882%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 11 (32.35%) SAN
1 11 (32.35%) Firewall
2 7 (20.59%) TCP/IP
3 5 (14.71%) DNS
4 4 (11.76%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (11.76%) Network Security
5 3 (8.824%) LAN
5 3 (8.824%) WAN
6 2 (5.882%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (5.882%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (32.35%) SQL Server
2 6 (17.65%) MongoDB
2 6 (17.65%) MOLAP
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (11.76%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (11.76%) SQL Server 2000
5 3 (8.824%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (2.941%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 2 (5.882%) Subversion
General
1 3 (8.824%) Publishing
2 2 (5.882%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.941%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Administrator
2 9 (26.47%) DBA
3 7 (20.59%) Analyst
4 6 (17.65%) Senior DBA
4 6 (17.65%) Oracle DBA
5 5 (14.71%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (14.71%) Systems Administrator
5 5 (14.71%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 5 (14.71%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (11.76%) Senior Oracle DBA
6 4 (11.76%) UNIX Systems Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) UNIX Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Sales Engineer
7 3 (8.824%) C++ Software Engineer
7 3 (8.824%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.882%) Security Analyst
9 1 (2.941%) Team Leader
9 1 (2.941%) UNIX Administrator
9 1 (2.941%) Oracle Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Management Information System
2 5 (14.71%) IaaS
2 5 (14.71%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 33 (97.06%) Linux
2 22 (64.71%) UNIX
2 22 (64.71%) Windows
3 13 (38.24%) AIX
4 9 (26.47%) HPUX
5 6 (17.65%) VMS
6 4 (11.76%) Ubuntu
6 4 (11.76%) Debian
7 2 (5.882%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (14.71%) ITIL
1 5 (14.71%) Business Continuity
1 5 (14.71%) Service Management
1 5 (14.71%) Asset Management
2 4 (11.76%) Problem Management
2 4 (11.76%) Information Security
2 4 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (11.76%) Network Management
2 4 (11.76%) SIEM
2 4 (11.76%) Change Management
3 3 (8.824%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (8.824%) Project Management
3 3 (8.824%) Automated Testing
3 3 (8.824%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (2.941%) SOA
4 1 (2.941%) Security Management
4 1 (2.941%) Embedded Software Development
4 1 (2.941%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (2.941%) Software Testing
4 1 (2.941%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.71%) C++
1 5 (14.71%) Python
2 2 (5.882%) Bash shell
2 2 (5.882%) Java
2 2 (5.882%) C
3 1 (2.941%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) CISSP
2 3 (8.824%) RHCE
3 1 (2.941%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (11.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Active Directory
1 7 (20.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.824%) VMware ESX
3 2 (5.882%) Samba
3 2 (5.882%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Tivoli
1 5 (14.71%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (8.824%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (44.12%) Oracle
2 10 (29.41%) VMware
3 9 (26.47%) Red Hat
4 6 (17.65%) Veritas
5 5 (14.71%) IBM
5 5 (14.71%) BMC
6 3 (8.824%) 3PAR
7 2 (5.882%) CheckPoint
7 2 (5.882%) Cadence
7 2 (5.882%) Cisco
7 2 (5.882%) Citrix