The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Rickmansworth region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Rickmansworth 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 23 21 9
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -12
Permanent jobs citing Sun 4 4 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Rickmansworth 3.670% 4.938% 7.143%
As % of the Vendors category 7.407% 8.333% 11.76%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 2
Average salary £47,500 £47,500 £71,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -33.33%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +1.19%
All Vendors
Rickmansworth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
54 48 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Rickmansworth 49.54% 59.26% 60.71%
Number of salaries quoted 49 30 15
Average salary £30,000 £47,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-36.84% +18.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £37,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £54,500 £72,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sun
Hertfordshire

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Rickmansworth 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 Rickmansworth region.

Rickmansworth Sun Salary Trend

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Rickmansworth 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 19 (100.00%) Solaris
2 14 (73.68%) EMC
2 14 (73.68%) Finance
2 14 (73.68%) VMware
3 13 (68.42%) vSphere
4 11 (57.89%) UNIX
4 11 (57.89%) Oracle
5 10 (52.63%) Perl
5 10 (52.63%) LDAP
5 10 (52.63%) TCP/IP
5 10 (52.63%) DNS
5 10 (52.63%) Cisco
5 10 (52.63%) HP
5 10 (52.63%) SSH
5 10 (52.63%) Red Hat
5 10 (52.63%) Shell Script
6 8 (42.11%) CLARiiON
6 8 (42.11%) Symmetrix
6 8 (42.11%) NAS
6 8 (42.11%) Brocade
6 8 (42.11%) Celerra
6 8 (42.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (36.84%) AWK
7 7 (36.84%) NetBackup
7 7 (36.84%) CommVault
7 7 (36.84%) Veritas
7 7 (36.84%) Apache
8 6 (31.58%) Linux
8 6 (31.58%) VMware ESX
9 5 (26.32%) Hyper-V

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Rickmansworth 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 (15.79%) Middleware
2 1 (5.263%) J2EE
2 1 (5.263%) SAML
Application Platforms
1 7 (36.84%) Apache
2 2 (10.53%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 10 (52.63%) LDAP
1 10 (52.63%) TCP/IP
1 10 (52.63%) DNS
1 10 (52.63%) SSH
2 8 (42.11%) NAS
General
1 14 (73.68%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) UNIX Engineer
2 9 (47.37%) Architect
3 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure Architect
3 7 (36.84%) Technical Architect
4 6 (31.58%) Senior UNIX Engineer
4 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 3 (15.79%) UNIX Support
5 3 (15.79%) Build Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Software Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) CLARiiON
1 8 (42.11%) Symmetrix
1 8 (42.11%) Celerra
2 1 (5.263%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.263%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Solaris
2 11 (57.89%) UNIX
3 8 (42.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (31.58%) Linux
5 1 (5.263%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.79%) Operations Management
2 1 (5.263%) SOA
2 1 (5.263%) Security Architecture
2 1 (5.263%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) Perl
1 10 (52.63%) Shell Script
2 7 (36.84%) AWK
3 3 (15.79%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) Bourne shell
3 3 (15.79%) C-shell
4 1 (5.263%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (68.42%) vSphere
2 6 (31.58%) VMware ESX
3 5 (26.32%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.263%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 14 (73.68%) EMC
1 14 (73.68%) VMware
2 11 (57.89%) Oracle
3 10 (52.63%) Cisco
3 10 (52.63%) HP
3 10 (52.63%) Red Hat
4 8 (42.11%) Brocade
5 7 (36.84%) CommVault
5 7 (36.84%) Veritas
6 1 (5.263%) VocaLink