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 West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 19 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 West 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 197 169 191
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +22
Permanent jobs citing Sun 15 45 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.285% 0.806% 0.464%
As % of the Vendors category 0.666% 1.772% 1.131%
Number of salaries quoted 11 33 17
Average salary £28,080 £40,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-29.80% -20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £35,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £59,500 £57,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +1.19%
All Vendors
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2251 2539 2563
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 42.70% 45.45% 41.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1934 2164 2177
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

South West 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 West region.

South West Sun Salary Trend

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 West region over the 3 months to 19 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
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Job
Vacancies
Wiltshire +12 10 £28,080 -53.20%
Gloucestershire +5 4 £26,500 -44.21%
Dorset -21 1 £37,500 -6.25%
Sun
England

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 25 (62.50%) Oracle
2 24 (60.00%) UNIX
3 19 (47.50%) Solaris
4 17 (42.50%) Linux
5 14 (35.00%) Java
5 14 (35.00%) SQL
6 12 (30.00%) JavaScript
6 12 (30.00%) HTML
6 12 (30.00%) Eclipse
7 11 (27.50%) CSS
7 11 (27.50%) Project Management
7 11 (27.50%) Sun Certification
7 11 (27.50%) WebSphere
8 10 (25.00%) Red Hat
8 10 (25.00%) J2EE
9 8 (20.00%) XML
10 7 (17.50%) JDBC
10 7 (17.50%) JUnit
10 7 (17.50%) IBM
10 7 (17.50%) Finance
10 7 (17.50%) Degree
10 7 (17.50%) Network Security
11 6 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (15.00%) CentOS
11 6 (15.00%) Open Source
11 6 (15.00%) Web Development
11 6 (15.00%) Content Management
11 6 (15.00%) Eclipse RCP
11 6 (15.00%) Management Information System
11 6 (15.00%) Shell Script

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 12 (30.00%) HTML
2 11 (27.50%) CSS
2 11 (27.50%) WebSphere
3 10 (25.00%) J2EE
4 8 (20.00%) XML
5 7 (17.50%) JDBC
6 6 (15.00%) JSP
7 5 (12.50%) Struts
7 5 (12.50%) .NET
7 5 (12.50%) ASP.NET
7 5 (12.50%) EJB
7 5 (12.50%) XHTML
7 5 (12.50%) Swing
7 5 (12.50%) SWT
7 5 (12.50%) JSTL
8 3 (7.500%) JMS
9 2 (5.000%) RESTful
9 2 (5.000%) Spring Security
9 2 (5.000%) JNDI
9 2 (5.000%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 6 (15.00%) WebLogic
2 5 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
2 5 (12.50%) GlassFish
3 4 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 4 (10.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (5.000%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.500%) MS Exchange
5 1 (2.500%) Apache
5 1 (2.500%) CMS
5 1 (2.500%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (2.500%) Mule
5 1 (2.500%) DotNetNuke
Applications
1 2 (5.000%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.500%) MS Office
2 1 (2.500%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.500%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.50%) Network Security
2 6 (15.00%) SAN
3 3 (7.500%) TCP/IP
3 3 (7.500%) NAS
4 2 (5.000%) BIG-IP
4 2 (5.000%) VPN
5 1 (2.500%) LAN
5 1 (2.500%) VoIP
5 1 (2.500%) WAN
5 1 (2.500%) Ethernet
5 1 (2.500%) Wireless
5 1 (2.500%) MPLS
5 1 (2.500%) DSL
5 1 (2.500%) Internet
5 1 (2.500%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) DB2
2 3 (7.500%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.500%) MySQL
2 3 (7.500%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (5.000%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.000%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (2.500%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 12 (30.00%) Eclipse
2 7 (17.50%) JUnit
3 6 (15.00%) Eclipse RCP
4 5 (12.50%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Rational Application Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Visual Studio
6 3 (7.500%) QuickTest Pro
7 2 (5.000%) Maven
7 2 (5.000%) Jenkins
7 2 (5.000%) Ant
8 1 (2.500%) Selenium
8 1 (2.500%) ANTLR
8 1 (2.500%) Git (software)
General
1 7 (17.50%) Finance
2 5 (12.50%) Retail
2 5 (12.50%) Games
3 1 (2.500%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.500%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (45.00%) Developer
2 11 (27.50%) Java Developer
3 6 (15.00%) UNIX Specialist
4 5 (12.50%) J2EE Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Database Specialist
4 5 (12.50%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 4 (10.00%) SharePoint Developer
6 3 (7.500%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (7.500%) Support Analyst
6 3 (7.500%) Java Consultant
6 3 (7.500%) Analyst
6 3 (7.500%) Consultant
6 3 (7.500%) DBA
6 3 (7.500%) Support Consultant
6 3 (7.500%) J2EE Consultant
7 2 (5.000%) Storage Engineer
7 2 (5.000%) Support Engineer
7 2 (5.000%) Developer Analyst
7 2 (5.000%) Administrator
7 2 (5.000%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Open Source
1 6 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (12.50%) Mathematics
3 2 (5.000%) Clustering
4 1 (2.500%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.500%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.500%) Mobile Computing
4 1 (2.500%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (2.500%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (2.500%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 24 (60.00%) UNIX
2 19 (47.50%) Solaris
3 17 (42.50%) Linux
4 6 (15.00%) CentOS
5 3 (7.500%) HPUX
5 3 (7.500%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (5.000%) AIX
7 1 (2.500%) Windows XP
7 1 (2.500%) Windows
7 1 (2.500%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (2.500%) BlackBerry OS
7 1 (2.500%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.500%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (2.500%) Windows 7
7 1 (2.500%) Android
7 1 (2.500%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (27.50%) Project Management
2 6 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (15.00%) Web Development
2 6 (15.00%) Content Management
2 6 (15.00%) E-Commerce
3 5 (12.50%) RAD
3 5 (12.50%) Data Management
3 5 (12.50%) MVC
4 3 (7.500%) ITIL
4 3 (7.500%) Automated Testing
5 2 (5.000%) Manual Testing
6 1 (2.500%) RDF
6 1 (2.500%) PRINCE2
6 1 (2.500%) Business Continuity
6 1 (2.500%) Workflow
6 1 (2.500%) Migration
6 1 (2.500%) PRINCE
6 1 (2.500%) Change Management
6 1 (2.500%) ITIL V3
6 1 (2.500%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) Java
1 14 (35.00%) SQL
2 12 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (15.00%) Shell Script
3 6 (15.00%) Perl
4 5 (12.50%) C#
4 5 (12.50%) Bash shell
5 3 (7.500%) VBScript
6 2 (5.000%) VB
7 1 (2.500%) VB.NET
7 1 (2.500%) PHP
7 1 (2.500%) xBase
7 1 (2.500%) Clojure
7 1 (2.500%) Groovy
7 1 (2.500%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (27.50%) Sun Certification
2 7 (17.50%) Degree
3 5 (12.50%) SCJP
3 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.000%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.000%) CCNA
5 1 (2.500%) CCNP
5 1 (2.500%) SCSA
5 1 (2.500%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.500%) MCTS
5 1 (2.500%) MCITP
5 1 (2.500%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (2.500%) SLA
2 1 (2.500%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (5.000%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (5.000%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (2.500%) NFS
2 1 (2.500%) Samba
2 1 (2.500%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.500%) Terminal Services
2 1 (2.500%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.500%) Legato
1 1 (2.500%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 1 (2.500%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 25 (62.50%) Oracle
2 10 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 7 (17.50%) IBM
4 6 (15.00%) JBoss
5 5 (12.50%) Sybase
5 5 (12.50%) HP
5 5 (12.50%) EMC
6 2 (5.000%) Veritas
6 2 (5.000%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.500%) Symbian
7 1 (2.500%) Cisco
7 1 (2.500%) VMware
7 1 (2.500%) Intel
7 1 (2.500%) NetApp
7 1 (2.500%) Mitel
7 1 (2.500%) Brocade
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