The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Solihull region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Solihull region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank - 35 27
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 0 2 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Solihull - 1.235% 4.082%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 8.696% 22.22%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 3
Average salary - £40,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £43,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+1.17% +2.40%
All Operating Systems
Solihull
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
48 23 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Solihull 19.43% 14.20% 18.37%
Number of salaries quoted 44 17 30
Average salary £35,500 £30,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.33% -9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,950 £20,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
West Midlands

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Solihull 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 Solihull region.

Solihull Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Solihull 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 4 (100.00%) DB2
1 4 (100.00%) Business Objects
1 4 (100.00%) SAP
1 4 (100.00%) UNIX
1 4 (100.00%) AIX
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) HP
1 4 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (100.00%) NetWeaver
1 4 (100.00%) SAP Basis
1 4 (100.00%) DB2 UDB

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Solihull 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 4 (100.00%) SAP Basis
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) NetWeaver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) DB2
1 4 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (100.00%) DB2 UDB
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) SAP Consultant
1 3 (75.00%) Consultant
1 3 (75.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) UNIX
1 4 (100.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Business Objects
1 4 (100.00%) SAP
1 4 (100.00%) HP