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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 48 53 35
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -18
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 8 11 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 1.538% 1.786% 4.679%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.897% 8.397% 20.77%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 10
Average salary £38,750 £37,500 £23,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.33% +63.04%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
116 131 130
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 22.31% 21.27% 22.53%
Number of salaries quoted 98 111 102
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,650 £18,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £65,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
South Yorkshire

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

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

Sheffield Solaris Salary Histogram

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 19 (95.00%) UNIX
2 15 (75.00%) Linux
3 14 (70.00%) SAN
4 10 (50.00%) AIX
5 9 (45.00%) HPUX
5 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
6 6 (30.00%) Banking
7 5 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
7 5 (25.00%) Data Guard
7 5 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
7 5 (25.00%) C
7 5 (25.00%) Oracle
7 5 (25.00%) SLA
7 5 (25.00%) IBM
7 5 (25.00%) OCP
7 5 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (10.00%) Spring
9 2 (10.00%) Test Strategy
9 2 (10.00%) Hibernate
9 2 (10.00%) Veritas
9 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
9 2 (10.00%) OOP
9 2 (10.00%) HTTP
9 2 (10.00%) JUnit
9 2 (10.00%) JSP
9 2 (10.00%) SOAP
9 2 (10.00%) XML
9 2 (10.00%) HTML

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 2 (10.00%) HTML
1 2 (10.00%) J2EE
1 2 (10.00%) JSP
1 2 (10.00%) SOAP
1 2 (10.00%) XML
1 2 (10.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (10.00%) Spring
Communications & Networking
1 14 (70.00%) SAN
2 2 (10.00%) HTTP
3 1 (5.000%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.000%) LAN
3 1 (5.000%) WAN
3 1 (5.000%) Internet
3 1 (5.000%) Firewall
3 1 (5.000%) Wireshark
3 1 (5.000%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JUnit
General
1 6 (30.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (85.00%) Administrator
1 17 (85.00%) UNIX Administrator
2 5 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
2 5 (25.00%) DBA
3 3 (15.00%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (15.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Security Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) IT Security Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) UNIX Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) UNIX Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 19 (95.00%) UNIX
2 15 (75.00%) Linux
3 10 (50.00%) AIX
4 9 (45.00%) HPUX
5 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (5.000%) SUSE
6 1 (5.000%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (10.00%) OOP
1 2 (10.00%) OOD
1 2 (10.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (5.000%) Information Security
2 1 (5.000%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) C
2 2 (10.00%) Java
2 2 (10.00%) Perl
2 2 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (5.000%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) OCP
2 5 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (5.000%) Snort
2 1 (5.000%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 1 (5.000%) Samba
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (5.000%) Nessus
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle
1 5 (25.00%) IBM
2 2 (10.00%) Veritas
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.000%) ArcSight
3 1 (5.000%) Sun