The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 20 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 105 88 72
Rank change year-on-year
-17 -16
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 49 75 90
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 1.564% 2.165% 2.649%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.778% 8.855% 10.78%
Number of salaries quoted 31 27 61
Average salary £40,500 £44,500 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.98% +14.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £29,000 £32,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
848 847 835
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 27.08% 24.44% 24.57%
Number of salaries quoted 492 587 584
Average salary £36,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.85% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £22,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
UK

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Scotland Solaris Salary Histogram

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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 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
Glasgow -4 25 £40,250 -5.29%
West Lothian +1 8 - -
Edinburgh -11 7 £52,500 -12.50%
Fife - 3 £32,500 -
Renfrewshire -2 1 - -
Solaris
UK

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 65 (64.36%) UNIX
2 55 (54.46%) Oracle
3 52 (51.49%) Windows
4 49 (48.51%) Linux
5 31 (30.69%) Perl
6 30 (29.70%) SQL
7 28 (27.72%) Java
8 27 (26.73%) SQL Server
8 27 (26.73%) WebSphere
9 26 (25.74%) AIX
10 24 (23.76%) IBM
11 22 (21.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 19 (18.81%) VMware
13 18 (17.82%) EMC
13 18 (17.82%) XML
14 17 (16.83%) HP
14 17 (16.83%) Microsoft
14 17 (16.83%) Finance
15 15 (14.85%) CSS
15 15 (14.85%) J2EE
16 14 (13.86%) Apache
16 14 (13.86%) Tomcat
17 13 (12.87%) ITIL
17 13 (12.87%) SOAP
17 13 (12.87%) Web Services
17 13 (12.87%) Sun
17 13 (12.87%) Shell Script
18 12 (11.88%) SAN
18 12 (11.88%) Cisco
18 12 (11.88%) MySQL

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 27 (26.73%) WebSphere
2 18 (17.82%) XML
3 15 (14.85%) J2EE
3 15 (14.85%) CSS
4 13 (12.87%) SOAP
4 13 (12.87%) Web Services
5 12 (11.88%) DHTML
6 11 (10.89%) HTML
6 11 (10.89%) JMS
7 10 (9.901%) JSP
7 10 (9.901%) Spring
8 9 (8.911%) .NET
9 8 (7.921%) XSLT
9 8 (7.921%) Middleware
10 5 (4.950%) ASP.NET
11 4 (3.960%) JDBC
11 4 (3.960%) WSDL
12 3 (2.970%) ASP
13 2 (1.980%) Servlets
13 2 (1.980%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 14 (13.86%) Apache
1 14 (13.86%) Tomcat
2 11 (10.89%) WebSphere MQ
3 8 (7.921%) WebLogic
4 7 (6.931%) WebSphere Process Server
5 6 (5.941%) WebSphere Portal
6 5 (4.950%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (4.950%) Exchange Server 2007
6 5 (4.950%) WebSphere Message Broker
6 5 (4.950%) MS Exchange
7 4 (3.960%) MQSeries
7 4 (3.960%) WMQI
8 3 (2.970%) IIS
9 2 (1.980%) OpenROAD
9 2 (1.980%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (1.980%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (1.980%) nginx
10 1 (0.990%) CMS
10 1 (0.990%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.950%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.990%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.990%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.980%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (1.980%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (1.980%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (1.980%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.88%) SAN
2 6 (5.941%) NAS
3 5 (4.950%) Firewall
3 5 (4.950%) Broadband
4 4 (3.960%) Internet
4 4 (3.960%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (1.980%) Unified Communications
5 2 (1.980%) HTTP
6 1 (0.990%) LDAP
6 1 (0.990%) WAN
6 1 (0.990%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.990%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.990%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (26.73%) SQL Server
2 12 (11.88%) MySQL
3 11 (10.89%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (7.921%) Oracle 11g
4 8 (7.921%) Oracle 10g
4 8 (7.921%) Oracle 8/8i
5 7 (6.931%) DB2
6 6 (5.941%) Data Mining
6 6 (5.941%) RDBMS
7 5 (4.950%) Oracle 9i
8 4 (3.960%) SQLPlus
9 3 (2.970%) Ingres
9 3 (2.970%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (2.970%) Informix
9 3 (2.970%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.980%) Sybase ASE
11 1 (0.990%) SQL Server 2005
11 1 (0.990%) SQL Server 2008
11 1 (0.990%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 5 (4.950%) Subversion
1 5 (4.950%) Ant
2 4 (3.960%) Hudson
2 4 (3.960%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.970%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.990%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.990%) ClearQuest
4 1 (0.990%) JMeter
4 1 (0.990%) Maven
4 1 (0.990%) HttpUnit
4 1 (0.990%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.990%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.990%) JUnit
General
1 17 (16.83%) Finance
2 5 (4.950%) Banking
2 5 (4.950%) Billing
3 2 (1.980%) Telecoms
3 2 (1.980%) Marketing
4 1 (0.990%) Local Government
4 1 (0.990%) Advertising
4 1 (0.990%) Games
Job Titles
1 18 (17.82%) Developer
2 12 (11.88%) Analyst
3 11 (10.89%) Java Developer
4 10 (9.901%) Support Engineer
5 9 (8.911%) Systems Administrator
5 9 (8.911%) Administrator
6 8 (7.921%) Applications Support
6 8 (7.921%) DBA
6 8 (7.921%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 7 (6.931%) Middleware Engineer
7 7 (6.931%) J2EE Developer
8 6 (5.941%) Support Specialist
8 6 (5.941%) Consultant
8 6 (5.941%) Applications Support Engineer
9 5 (4.950%) UNIX Administrator
9 5 (4.950%) UNIX Systems Administrator
10 4 (3.960%) Oracle DBA
10 4 (3.960%) Technical Consultant
10 4 (3.960%) Systems Engineer
10 4 (3.960%) Deployment Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.901%) Clustering
1 10 (9.901%) Computer Science
2 7 (6.931%) SWIFT
3 6 (5.941%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.941%) Replication
4 4 (3.960%) IPTV
5 3 (2.970%) Mathematics
5 3 (2.970%) Celerra
5 3 (2.970%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.980%) EMC Centera
6 2 (1.980%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.980%) CLARiiON
6 2 (1.980%) Physics
6 2 (1.980%) Open Source
7 1 (0.990%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (0.990%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.990%) Symmetrix DMX
7 1 (0.990%) Symmetrix
7 1 (0.990%) W3C
7 1 (0.990%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 65 (64.36%) UNIX
2 52 (51.49%) Windows
3 49 (48.51%) Linux
4 26 (25.74%) AIX
5 22 (21.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (11.88%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (7.921%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (5.941%) CentOS
9 5 (4.950%) HPUX
10 4 (3.960%) Windows XP
11 2 (1.980%) VMS
11 2 (1.980%) OpenVMS
11 2 (1.980%) zOS
11 2 (1.980%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (12.87%) ITIL
2 9 (8.911%) Service Management
3 8 (7.921%) UML
4 7 (6.931%) Configuration Management
4 7 (6.931%) Migration
4 7 (6.931%) Asset Management
4 7 (6.931%) Analytics
5 6 (5.941%) Incident Management
5 6 (5.941%) Predictive Analytics
6 5 (4.950%) Release Management
6 5 (4.950%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (3.960%) SOA
7 4 (3.960%) Risk Management
7 4 (3.960%) Information Security
7 4 (3.960%) Performance Testing
7 4 (3.960%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (3.960%) Load Balancing
8 3 (2.970%) Business Continuity
8 3 (2.970%) Problem Management
8 3 (2.970%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 31 (30.69%) Perl
2 30 (29.70%) SQL
3 28 (27.72%) Java
4 13 (12.87%) Shell Script
5 10 (9.901%) JavaScript
6 9 (8.911%) Korn
7 7 (6.931%) Bash shell
8 6 (5.941%) VB.NET
9 5 (4.950%) C#
9 5 (4.950%) PL/SQL
10 4 (3.960%) Delphi
10 4 (3.960%) Python
10 4 (3.960%) VBScript
10 4 (3.960%) VB
10 4 (3.960%) XPath
10 4 (3.960%) Bourne shell
10 4 (3.960%) C-shell
11 3 (2.970%) C
12 1 (0.990%) C++
12 1 (0.990%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (9.901%) Degree
2 4 (3.960%) VCP4
2 4 (3.960%) CISSP
2 4 (3.960%) CISM
2 4 (3.960%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (3.960%) CISMP
3 1 (0.990%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.960%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (3.960%) QA
1 4 (3.960%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.970%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.970%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (8.911%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (7.921%) Oracle RMAN
3 6 (5.941%) Samba
4 5 (4.950%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (3.960%) VMware ESX
5 4 (3.960%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.980%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.980%) vSphere
6 2 (1.980%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.990%) SRDF
7 1 (0.990%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.990%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 7 (6.931%) Data Guard
2 6 (5.941%) Tivoli
3 4 (3.960%) NetBackup
4 3 (2.970%) Legato
4 3 (2.970%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.980%) Backup Exec
5 2 (1.980%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (1.980%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (0.990%) Foglight
6 1 (0.990%) EMC TimeFinder
6 1 (0.990%) HP Data Protector
6 1 (0.990%) Cacti
Vendors
1 55 (54.46%) Oracle
2 24 (23.76%) IBM
3 19 (18.81%) VMware
4 18 (17.82%) EMC
5 17 (16.83%) Microsoft
5 17 (16.83%) HP
6 13 (12.87%) Sun
7 12 (11.88%) Cisco
8 11 (10.89%) JBoss
9 9 (8.911%) NetApp
10 8 (7.921%) Veritas
11 7 (6.931%) Red Hat
12 5 (4.950%) Symantec
12 5 (4.950%) Dell
13 4 (3.960%) NetIQ
13 4 (3.960%) Ab Initio
13 4 (3.960%) Lumension
14 3 (2.970%) Brocade
14 3 (2.970%) Sybase
15 2 (1.980%) McAfee
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