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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 124 133 125
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -8
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 93 83 96
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 1.773% 1.500% 1.591%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.374% 5.792% 6.004%
Number of salaries quoted 85 57 85
Average salary £42,500 £50,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.00% +19.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,750 £37,200 £30,200
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £50,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £43,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+1.17% +2.40%
All Operating Systems
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1459 1433 1599
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 27.81% 25.89% 26.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1305 1221 1379
Average salary £36,750 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.00% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
England

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the South West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Gloucestershire +11 67 £45,000 -10.00%
Wiltshire +10 17 £29,040 -28.29%
Devon +6 4 £27,127 +20.56%
Dorset - 4 £50,125 -
Solaris
England

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 146 (88.48%) Linux
2 109 (66.06%) UNIX
3 102 (61.82%) Security Cleared
4 94 (56.97%) HPUX
5 86 (52.12%) SQL
6 80 (48.48%) Windows
7 78 (47.27%) HP
8 76 (46.06%) Symantec
9 73 (44.24%) SAN
9 73 (44.24%) Perl
10 68 (41.21%) DV Cleared
11 65 (39.39%) DHCP
11 65 (39.39%) NetApp
12 60 (36.36%) NetBackup
13 58 (35.15%) Citrix
13 58 (35.15%) Shell Script
14 56 (33.94%) ITIL
15 54 (32.73%) Veritas
16 52 (31.52%) Cisco
16 52 (31.52%) J2EE
17 50 (30.30%) Java
17 50 (30.30%) VMware
18 49 (29.70%) Oracle
19 46 (27.88%) Apache
20 44 (26.67%) JBoss
20 44 (26.67%) MySQL
20 44 (26.67%) vSphere
21 42 (25.45%) Brocade
22 41 (24.85%) Web Development
22 41 (24.85%) VMware ESX

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 52 (31.52%) J2EE
2 15 (9.091%) CGI
3 10 (6.061%) WebSphere
4 9 (5.455%) Middleware
5 8 (4.848%) JDBC
6 6 (3.636%) XML
7 2 (1.212%) SOAP
7 2 (1.212%) Zend Framework
7 2 (1.212%) XML-RPC
8 1 (0.606%) JRules
8 1 (0.606%) Web Services
8 1 (0.606%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 46 (27.88%) Apache
2 41 (24.85%) WebLogic
3 13 (7.879%) Tomcat
4 9 (5.455%) SharePoint
5 8 (4.848%) WebSphere Application Server
5 8 (4.848%) IIS
5 8 (4.848%) MQSeries
5 8 (4.848%) IBM HTTP Server
6 6 (3.636%) MS Exchange
7 2 (1.212%) WebSphere MQ
8 1 (0.606%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (0.606%) ESB
8 1 (0.606%) DotNetNuke
Applications
1 16 (9.697%) MS Office
2 5 (3.030%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.212%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.606%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 73 (44.24%) SAN
2 65 (39.39%) DHCP
3 25 (15.15%) DNS
4 12 (7.273%) FTP
5 10 (6.061%) HTTP
6 7 (4.242%) NAS
6 7 (4.242%) TCP/IP
7 5 (3.030%) Network Security
8 4 (2.424%) iSCSI
8 4 (2.424%) VLAN
8 4 (2.424%) Firewall
9 3 (1.818%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (1.212%) WAN
10 2 (1.212%) LAN
10 2 (1.212%) SSL
10 2 (1.212%) VPN
10 2 (1.212%) BIG-IP
11 1 (0.606%) SWIFTNet
11 1 (0.606%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.606%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (26.67%) MySQL
2 8 (4.848%) DB2
2 8 (4.848%) Oracle 11g
3 7 (4.242%) Oracle 10g
4 6 (3.636%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.818%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (1.818%) Oracle 9i
5 3 (1.818%) OLTP
5 3 (1.818%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.212%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (0.606%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 5 (3.030%) ClearCase
2 4 (2.424%) QuickTest Pro
3 3 (1.818%) Git (software)
3 3 (1.818%) ClearQuest
4 2 (1.212%) Subversion
5 1 (0.606%) Hudson
5 1 (0.606%) Ant
General
1 14 (8.485%) Finance
2 10 (6.061%) Military
3 8 (4.848%) Retail
3 8 (4.848%) Games
4 3 (1.818%) Banking
4 3 (1.818%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.606%) Legal
5 1 (0.606%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.606%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 28 (16.97%) Systems Engineer
2 26 (15.76%) Software Engineer
3 24 (14.55%) UNIX Engineer
4 20 (12.12%) Linux Engineer
5 18 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (7.879%) Storage Engineer
7 12 (7.273%) Analyst
8 11 (6.667%) Support Analyst
9 10 (6.061%) Consultant
9 10 (6.061%) Operations Analyst
9 10 (6.061%) Operations Support Analyst
10 9 (5.455%) QA Tester
10 9 (5.455%) Team Leader
10 9 (5.455%) Support Engineer
10 9 (5.455%) Technical Consultant
10 9 (5.455%) Tester
11 8 (4.848%) DBA
11 8 (4.848%) Oracle DBA
12 6 (3.636%) Developer
12 6 (3.636%) Linux Support
Miscellaneous
1 39 (23.64%) Clustering
2 15 (9.091%) Mathematics
3 4 (2.424%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.424%) Open Source
4 3 (1.818%) SWIFT
4 3 (1.818%) Speech Recognition
4 3 (1.818%) Replication
5 2 (1.212%) NHS
5 2 (1.212%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.212%) Computer Science
6 1 (0.606%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (0.606%) Economics
6 1 (0.606%) CMDB
6 1 (0.606%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 146 (88.48%) Linux
2 109 (66.06%) UNIX
3 94 (56.97%) HPUX
4 80 (48.48%) Windows
5 28 (16.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (14.55%) AIX
7 11 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
8 10 (6.061%) Windows Server 2008
9 8 (4.848%) CentOS
10 7 (4.242%) Ubuntu
11 4 (2.424%) Windows 2000
11 4 (2.424%) Mac OS
11 4 (2.424%) Fedora
12 2 (1.212%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.606%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.606%) BlackBerry OS
13 1 (0.606%) Windows Mobile
13 1 (0.606%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.606%) Android
13 1 (0.606%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (33.94%) ITIL
2 41 (24.85%) Web Development
2 41 (24.85%) Software Architecture
3 25 (15.15%) Root Cause Analysis
4 14 (8.485%) Identity Management
5 11 (6.667%) Unit Testing
5 11 (6.667%) Performance Testing
6 10 (6.061%) User Acceptance Testing
6 10 (6.061%) Software Engineering
7 9 (5.455%) Test Automation
7 9 (5.455%) Load Testing
7 9 (5.455%) Integration Testing
7 9 (5.455%) Test Scripting
8 5 (3.030%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (3.030%) Service Delivery
8 5 (3.030%) PRINCE2
8 5 (3.030%) Configuration Management
9 4 (2.424%) Project Management
9 4 (2.424%) OO
9 4 (2.424%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 86 (52.12%) SQL
2 73 (44.24%) Perl
3 58 (35.15%) Shell Script
4 50 (30.30%) Java
5 36 (21.82%) C#
5 36 (21.82%) C++
6 13 (7.879%) Python
7 12 (7.273%) VB
7 12 (7.273%) JavaScript
8 9 (5.455%) C
9 8 (4.848%) PL/SQL
9 8 (4.848%) Bash shell
10 4 (2.424%) Fortran
10 4 (2.424%) VBScript
11 2 (1.212%) PHP
Qualifications
1 102 (61.82%) Security Cleared
2 68 (41.21%) DV Cleared
3 32 (19.39%) SC Cleared
4 22 (13.33%) Degree
5 10 (6.061%) ISEB
6 2 (1.212%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.212%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.212%) OCP
6 2 (1.212%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.212%) CCNA
7 1 (0.606%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.606%) SCSA
7 1 (0.606%) MCTS
7 1 (0.606%) MCITP
7 1 (0.606%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.606%) CCNP
7 1 (0.606%) RHCE
7 1 (0.606%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.73%) QA
2 2 (1.212%) SLA
3 1 (0.606%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.606%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 44 (26.67%) vSphere
2 41 (24.85%) VMware ESX
3 12 (7.273%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 9 (5.455%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (3.636%) NFS
6 5 (3.030%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (3.030%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (1.818%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.212%) Active Directory
9 1 (0.606%) XenApp
9 1 (0.606%) XenServer
9 1 (0.606%) Samba
9 1 (0.606%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.606%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.606%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 60 (36.36%) NetBackup
2 10 (6.061%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 4 (2.424%) Nagios
3 4 (2.424%) Ganglia
3 4 (2.424%) Data Guard
4 3 (1.818%) Backup Exec
4 3 (1.818%) WSUS
5 2 (1.212%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (0.606%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.606%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.606%) SCCM
6 1 (0.606%) Legato
6 1 (0.606%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 78 (47.27%) HP
2 76 (46.06%) Symantec
3 65 (39.39%) NetApp
4 58 (35.15%) Citrix
5 54 (32.73%) Veritas
6 52 (31.52%) Cisco
7 50 (30.30%) VMware
8 49 (29.70%) Oracle
9 44 (26.67%) JBoss
10 42 (25.45%) Brocade
11 33 (20.00%) Red Hat
12 19 (11.52%) Sun
13 17 (10.30%) Microsoft
14 10 (6.061%) IBM
15 6 (3.636%) EMC
15 6 (3.636%) 3PAR
16 3 (1.818%) Perforce
16 3 (1.818%) SolarWinds
16 3 (1.818%) Dell
16 3 (1.818%) webMethods
Swindon, South West
You don't need Oracle University accreditation such as OCP/OCM if you can demonstrate that you can easily cover the skillsets without such things.- Good UNIX skills,...
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + private medical cover, pension
Posted: 10 May 2013
Swindon
The role of the Oracle Database and Unix Specialist: Information, Systems & Technology (IST) is a division of NERC providing IT support, project management, information systems and data management...
Natural Environment Research Council
Salary: £26,450 - £29,710
Posted: 24 May 2013
Swindon, Wiltshire
The successful Oracle/Unix specialist will work on the design and second/third-line support of large Oracle 11 databases as well as supporting and managing the clients...
Experis IT
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bath, Avon
Key knowledge, skills, experience required; Understanding of Unix server operating systems, for example, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, or OS X Server. Working knowledge of networking and Internet protocols, such...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Bath, Avon
Bath - £40,000 depending on experience plus exceptional benefits, career progression and autonomy Apple Mac, Solaris, CentOS, Redhat, VMWare, Server, Design, Implementation Market leading organisation is looking for...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Somerset
Suitable candidates will have the following experience: * An understanding of Unix/Linux server operating systems such as Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, or OS X Server. * A working knowledge of...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £28000 - £35000 per annum + Great Benefits Package
Posted: 23 May 2013
South West
Responsibilities will include design, implementation of security solutions including Checkpoint, Fortinet, Websense, Trustwave and Bluecoat... Essential skills - familiarity and experience of design and implementation in: o Check Point /...
Premier Group Recruitment
Salary: £35000.00 - £55000.00
Posted: 21 May 2013