The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 24 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 Vendors for the Sheffield 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 55 - 50
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Sun 2 0 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 0.382% - 2.087%
As % of the Vendors category 0.980% - 5.172%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 6
Average salary £28,975 - £23,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-11.76% -
All Vendors
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
204 254 232
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 38.93% 41.37% 40.35%
Number of salaries quoted 182 230 181
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,950 £22,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £67,000 £54,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sun
South Yorkshire

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield Sun Salary Trend

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 3 (100.00%) Veritas
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Solaris
1 3 (100.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (33.33%) Control-M
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (33.33%) Symantec
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) SUSE
3 1 (33.33%) Samba
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) NAS
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) EMC
3 1 (33.33%) Sun Certification
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) BMC
3 1 (33.33%) Hitachi
3 1 (33.33%) Veritas Cluster Server

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX Support
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Solaris
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Sun Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Samba
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
2 1 (33.33%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (33.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Veritas
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) Symantec
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) EMC
3 1 (33.33%) BMC
3 1 (33.33%) Hitachi
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle