The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 20 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 South East 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 242 251 210
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -41
Permanent jobs citing Sun 203 201 253
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.910% 0.856% 1.058%
As % of the Vendors category 1.795% 1.755% 2.110%
Number of salaries quoted 159 170 203
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,250 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +1.19%
All Vendors
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
11310 11451 11992
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 50.68% 48.79% 50.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9283 9659 10165
Average salary £42,000 £42,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.17% +2.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sun
England

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Sun Salary Trend

Sun
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Sun across the South East region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

South East Sun Salary Histogram

Sun
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sun within the South East region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Surrey +38 74 £43,000 -20.00% 3
Berkshire -8 73 £30,500 -19.73% 1
Hampshire -8 20 £40,750 -4.11% 3
Middlesex +10 16 £52,500 +64.06%
Kent -30 11 £27,500 -46.34%
Oxfordshire - 4 £58,250 -
Buckinghamshire -2 1 £35,000 +7.69%
West Sussex -27 1 - -
Sun
England

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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.

1 197 (49.00%) Solaris
2 196 (48.76%) UNIX
3 187 (46.52%) Linux
4 145 (36.07%) Windows
5 132 (32.84%) Oracle
5 132 (32.84%) Microsoft
6 121 (30.10%) Cisco
7 104 (25.87%) HP
8 86 (21.39%) Red Hat
9 84 (20.90%) Firewall
10 83 (20.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 75 (18.66%) AIX
12 74 (18.41%) SAN
12 74 (18.41%) Clustering
13 72 (17.91%) SAP
14 71 (17.66%) TCP/IP
15 69 (17.16%) French Language
16 68 (16.92%) DNS
17 65 (16.17%) Java
18 63 (15.67%) EMC
19 62 (15.42%) Risk Management
20 61 (15.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
20 61 (15.17%) DHCP
21 60 (14.93%) Business Intelligence
21 60 (14.93%) CRM
21 60 (14.93%) SAP BW
21 60 (14.93%) Legal
21 60 (14.93%) Business Development
21 60 (14.93%) SAP GRC
21 60 (14.93%) SAP Security

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 39 (9.701%) Web Services
2 34 (8.458%) HTML
3 33 (8.209%) XML
4 30 (7.463%) .NET
5 28 (6.965%) J2EE
6 18 (4.478%) CSS
7 17 (4.229%) Spring
8 15 (3.731%) JMX
8 15 (3.731%) JDBC
8 15 (3.731%) AWT
9 13 (3.234%) Middleware
9 13 (3.234%) JSP
10 10 (2.488%) WebSphere
10 10 (2.488%) XSLT
11 9 (2.239%) Regular Expression
11 9 (2.239%) EJB
11 9 (2.239%) Swing
12 8 (1.990%) JMS
12 8 (1.990%) SOAP
12 8 (1.990%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 36 (8.955%) Apache
2 26 (6.468%) IIS
3 23 (5.721%) Tomcat
3 23 (5.721%) WebLogic
4 13 (3.234%) MS Exchange
4 13 (3.234%) SharePoint
5 11 (2.736%) SAS
6 9 (2.239%) GlassFish
7 7 (1.741%) Lync
7 7 (1.741%) WebSphere Application Server
8 5 (1.244%) Magento
8 5 (1.244%) CMS
9 4 (0.995%) WebSphere Message Broker
9 4 (0.995%) Oracle Application Server
9 4 (0.995%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.746%) JCAPS
10 3 (0.746%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.498%) Documentum
11 2 (0.498%) Confluence
12 1 (0.249%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 52 (12.94%) MS Excel
2 4 (0.995%) MS Project
3 2 (0.498%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 60 (14.93%) SAP GRC
2 8 (1.990%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (1.741%) Oracle Applications
4 5 (1.244%) Oracle 11i
5 4 (0.995%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.498%) Agresso
6 2 (0.498%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.249%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.249%) Lawson
7 1 (0.249%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.249%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.249%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.249%) assyst
7 1 (0.249%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.249%) Oracle BRM
7 1 (0.249%) Remedy AR System
Communications & Networking
1 84 (20.90%) Firewall
2 74 (18.41%) SAN
3 71 (17.66%) TCP/IP
4 68 (16.92%) DNS
5 61 (15.17%) DHCP
6 39 (9.701%) Internet
7 34 (8.458%) WAN
8 26 (6.468%) LAN
9 22 (5.473%) VPN
10 16 (3.980%) HTTP
11 14 (3.483%) Network Security
11 14 (3.483%) Wireshark
11 14 (3.483%) Intrusion Detection
11 14 (3.483%) NAS
11 14 (3.483%) tcpdump
12 13 (3.234%) Ethernet
13 12 (2.985%) LDAP
13 12 (2.985%) ATM
13 12 (2.985%) Frame Relay
14 11 (2.736%) FWSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (14.93%) SAP BW
2 56 (13.93%) RDBMS
3 33 (8.209%) SQL Server
4 30 (7.463%) DB2
5 19 (4.726%) Oracle 11g
6 16 (3.980%) Oracle 10g
6 16 (3.980%) Oracle 9i
7 12 (2.985%) OLTP
8 6 (1.493%) MySQL
8 6 (1.493%) VLDB
9 5 (1.244%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.244%) Oracle 8/8i
9 5 (1.244%) GIS
10 4 (0.995%) Adabas
11 3 (0.746%) SQLPlus
11 3 (0.746%) BODI
11 3 (0.746%) DB2 UDB
12 2 (0.498%) Oracle Discoverer
12 2 (0.498%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.249%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 17 (4.229%) Ant
2 16 (3.980%) Log4j
2 16 (3.980%) JUnit
3 9 (2.239%) Eclipse
4 8 (1.990%) ClearCase
5 5 (1.244%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (1.244%) JIRA
6 4 (0.995%) RequisitePro
6 4 (0.995%) Hudson
7 3 (0.746%) Subversion
7 3 (0.746%) Maven
8 2 (0.498%) Selenium
8 2 (0.498%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.498%) Gradle
8 2 (0.498%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.498%) Git (software)
9 1 (0.249%) Rhino Mocks
9 1 (0.249%) Mockito
9 1 (0.249%) PVCS
9 1 (0.249%) Oracle Forms
General
1 69 (17.16%) French Language
2 60 (14.93%) Legal
3 53 (13.18%) German Language
3 53 (13.18%) Finance
4 36 (8.955%) Italian Language
5 22 (5.473%) Telecoms
6 13 (3.234%) Manufacturing
7 12 (2.985%) Spanish Language
8 11 (2.736%) Banking
8 11 (2.736%) Billing
9 9 (2.239%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.990%) Marketing
11 5 (1.244%) Retail
12 2 (0.498%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.498%) Advertising
12 2 (0.498%) Back Office
13 1 (0.249%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.249%) Games
13 1 (0.249%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.249%) Czech Language
Job Titles
1 94 (23.38%) Consultant
2 79 (19.65%) Support Engineer
3 75 (18.66%) Technical Support
4 62 (15.42%) Technical Engineer
5 61 (15.17%) Technical Support Engineer
6 60 (14.93%) SAP Consultant
6 60 (14.93%) SAP Authorisation Consultant
7 38 (9.453%) Analyst
8 37 (9.204%) Architect
9 36 (8.955%) Administrator
10 30 (7.463%) UNIX Administrator
10 30 (7.463%) Developer
11 28 (6.965%) Support Analyst
12 27 (6.716%) Solutions Architect
13 16 (3.980%) UNIX Support
13 16 (3.980%) Pre Sales Consultant
14 13 (3.234%) Pre Sales Engineer
14 13 (3.234%) Sales Consultant
14 13 (3.234%) Senior Developer
14 13 (3.234%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 74 (18.41%) Clustering
2 33 (8.209%) Replication
3 20 (4.975%) N-Tier
4 15 (3.731%) iSeries
5 14 (3.483%) Client/Server
5 14 (3.483%) Firmware
6 10 (2.488%) SaaS
7 9 (2.239%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.239%) Statistics
8 8 (1.990%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (1.741%) Thin Client
9 7 (1.741%) Fat Client
10 6 (1.493%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.244%) IaaS
11 5 (1.244%) Blackberry
11 5 (1.244%) IVR
11 5 (1.244%) PKI
12 4 (0.995%) Computer Science
12 4 (0.995%) Digital Media
12 4 (0.995%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 197 (49.00%) Solaris
2 196 (48.76%) UNIX
3 187 (46.52%) Linux
4 145 (36.07%) Windows
5 83 (20.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 75 (18.66%) AIX
7 55 (13.68%) HPUX
8 49 (12.19%) SUSE
9 23 (5.721%) Windows Server 2008
10 19 (4.726%) Windows Server 2003
11 9 (2.239%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.746%) VMS
12 3 (0.746%) IRIX
12 3 (0.746%) CentOS
13 1 (0.249%) Windows 2000
13 1 (0.249%) Windows XP
13 1 (0.249%) Windows NT
13 1 (0.249%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (15.42%) Risk Management
2 60 (14.93%) Business Intelligence
2 60 (14.93%) CRM
2 60 (14.93%) Business Development
2 60 (14.93%) SAP Security
3 52 (12.94%) ITIL
4 43 (10.70%) Security Management
5 30 (7.463%) SOA
5 30 (7.463%) Disaster Recovery
6 23 (5.721%) UML
7 22 (5.473%) Project Management
8 20 (4.975%) Service Delivery
9 16 (3.980%) Performance Management
9 16 (3.980%) Problem Management
9 16 (3.980%) Change Management
10 13 (3.234%) E-Commerce
11 12 (2.985%) Web Development
11 12 (2.985%) Capacity Management
12 11 (2.736%) Database Tuning
13 10 (2.488%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 65 (16.17%) Java
2 54 (13.43%) SQL
3 47 (11.69%) Shell Script
4 39 (9.701%) C
5 26 (6.468%) Perl
6 23 (5.721%) PL/SQL
7 15 (3.731%) JavaScript
8 14 (3.483%) C#
9 13 (3.234%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.239%) Korn
11 8 (1.990%) AWK
12 5 (1.244%) Bourne shell
13 4 (0.995%) VB6
13 4 (0.995%) NATURAL
13 4 (0.995%) VB
13 4 (0.995%) Bash shell
14 3 (0.746%) C-shell
14 3 (0.746%) sed
15 2 (0.498%) Ruby
15 2 (0.498%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (12.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 50 (12.44%) MCSE
3 49 (12.19%) CCNA
3 49 (12.19%) Cisco Certification
4 44 (10.95%) MCP
5 43 (10.70%) MCSA
5 43 (10.70%) MCDBA
6 33 (8.209%) Degree
7 24 (5.970%) Sun Certification
8 18 (4.478%) Security Cleared
9 14 (3.483%) SCJP
10 11 (2.736%) CITP
11 8 (1.990%) Server+ Certification
12 6 (1.493%) SC Cleared
13 5 (1.244%) SCWCD
13 5 (1.244%) MBCS
13 5 (1.244%) BC Cleared
14 4 (0.995%) ISEB
15 3 (0.746%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.746%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (15.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 25 (6.219%) SLA
3 4 (0.995%) QA
3 4 (0.995%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.498%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.498%) COBIT
5 1 (0.249%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 50 (12.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (7.214%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 19 (4.726%) Oracle RAC
4 17 (4.229%) Active Directory
5 11 (2.736%) Oracle RMAN
6 10 (2.488%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 9 (2.239%) Veritas File System
8 6 (1.493%) NFS
9 5 (1.244%) OpenSSO
9 5 (1.244%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 4 (0.995%) Xen
11 3 (0.746%) Snort
12 2 (0.498%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.498%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (4.229%) NetBackup
2 12 (2.985%) Data Guard
3 11 (2.736%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 7 (1.741%) Nagios
4 7 (1.741%) SCCM
4 7 (1.741%) SCOM
5 6 (1.493%) EMC NetWorker
5 6 (1.493%) Tivoli
6 5 (1.244%) YUM
6 5 (1.244%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 5 (1.244%) HP Data Protector
7 4 (0.995%) BMC PATROL
7 4 (0.995%) HP Quality Center
8 3 (0.746%) Cobbler
8 3 (0.746%) AppManager
8 3 (0.746%) Oracle Statspack
9 2 (0.498%) OpenView
9 2 (0.498%) HP SIM
9 2 (0.498%) Puppet
10 1 (0.249%) Legato
Vendors
1 132 (32.84%) Oracle
1 132 (32.84%) Microsoft
2 121 (30.10%) Cisco
3 104 (25.87%) HP
4 86 (21.39%) Red Hat
5 72 (17.91%) SAP
6 63 (15.67%) EMC
7 54 (13.43%) IBM
8 52 (12.94%) VMware
9 42 (10.45%) Veritas
10 36 (8.955%) Hitachi
11 26 (6.468%) Sybase
11 26 (6.468%) JBoss
12 25 (6.219%) NetApp
13 23 (5.721%) Citrix
14 19 (4.726%) Juniper
15 15 (3.731%) CheckPoint
16 13 (3.234%) F5
17 11 (2.736%) Foundry
17 11 (2.736%) BMC
Winchester, Hampshire
Your specific knowledge will include:• UNIX operating systems - Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Redhat Linux• UNIX servers - Sun, HP, IBM pSeries, IBM iSeries• UNIX-related industry initiatives.Your experience...
Arqiva
Salary: £35,000 - £45,000
Posted: 13 June 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Focused on helping customers solve their most demanding business and technology challenges by delivering high performance computing (HPC) servers, storage, data center and cloud computing solutions; backed by...
EXCELerate
Salary: From £60,000 to £75,000 per annum Car, Health, Pension, Life
Posted: 17 June 2013
Staines, Middlesex
Background: - They require an excellent understanding of n-tier architecture web applications and their associated infrastructure including Windows 2008/2003, SQL Server, IIS, Cisco, VMware or Redhat Linux,...
Zorba Consulting Limited
Salary: From £55,000 to £62,000 per annum + 15% bonus + excellent benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Surrey
Furthermore extensive experience supporting and maintaining business critical Unix and Linux servers: oInstallation and configuration of Oracle (Sun) hardware, Solaris and RedHat Linux operating system... oVeritas File System...
Mortimer Spinks
Salary: £45000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Southampton, South East
Applicants will have experience in areas such as: Clustering solutions, hardware capacity planning, LAN/WAN, Virtualisation and mobile technologies, Load balancing and Routers/Firewalls... Knowledge of a broad...
Novate IT
Salary: £55000 - £62000 per annum + car allowance + bonus + bens
Posted: 11 June 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
Novate IT Ltd
Salary: £55000 - £62000 per annum + car allowance + bonus + bens
Posted: 18 June 2013
Woking, Surrey
Fidessa
Salary: Highly Competitive
Posted: 13 June 2013
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