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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 65 67 37
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -30
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 8 11 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 1.055% 1.251% 4.137%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.188% 5.069% 17.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 22
Average salary £37,500 £28,000 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.92% -18.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,450 £23,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,700 £37,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,165
% change year-on-year
- +3.24%
All Operating Systems
South Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
191 217 204
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 25.20% 24.69% 24.11%
Number of salaries quoted 171 180 162
Average salary £32,000 £30,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £16,500 £20,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £45,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
Yorkshire

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Sheffield -2 7 £31,500 +12.50% 2
Barnsley - 1 £48,500 - 3
Doncaster - 1 £37,500 -
Solaris
Yorkshire

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 23 (95.83%) UNIX
2 16 (66.67%) Linux
2 16 (66.67%) SAN
3 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
4 9 (37.50%) AIX
5 8 (33.33%) HPUX
5 8 (33.33%) IBM
6 7 (29.17%) Veritas
6 7 (29.17%) Oracle
7 6 (25.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 5 (20.83%) Oracle 11g
8 5 (20.83%) Data Guard
8 5 (20.83%) C
8 5 (20.83%) Oracle 8/8i
8 5 (20.83%) OCP
8 5 (20.83%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (20.83%) Sun
8 5 (20.83%) Oracle RMAN
8 5 (20.83%) Banking
8 5 (20.83%) SLA
9 4 (16.67%) NetBackup
10 3 (12.50%) Symantec
10 3 (12.50%) Change Management
10 3 (12.50%) HP
10 3 (12.50%) Sun Certification
10 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
10 3 (12.50%) Perl
10 3 (12.50%) NAS
10 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (12.50%) Veritas Cluster Server

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 2 (8.333%) J2EE
1 2 (8.333%) HTML
1 2 (8.333%) JSP
1 2 (8.333%) SOAP
1 2 (8.333%) XML
1 2 (8.333%) Hibernate
1 2 (8.333%) Spring
2 1 (4.167%) CSS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (66.67%) SAN
2 3 (12.50%) NAS
3 2 (8.333%) HTTP
3 2 (8.333%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.167%) Wireshark
4 1 (4.167%) Firewall
4 1 (4.167%) DNS
4 1 (4.167%) Internet
4 1 (4.167%) LAN
4 1 (4.167%) WAN
4 1 (4.167%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle 11g
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (8.333%) JUnit
General
1 5 (20.83%) Banking
2 2 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (66.67%) Administrator
1 16 (66.67%) UNIX Administrator
2 5 (20.83%) Oracle DBA
2 5 (20.83%) DBA
3 3 (12.50%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 3 (12.50%) UNIX Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) UNIX Support Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) UNIX Support
3 3 (12.50%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (8.333%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.333%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.333%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (8.333%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (8.333%) Developer
5 1 (4.167%) Security Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) IT Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.167%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 23 (95.83%) UNIX
2 16 (66.67%) Linux
3 9 (37.50%) AIX
4 8 (33.33%) HPUX
5 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (4.167%) SUSE
6 1 (4.167%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (12.50%) Change Management
2 2 (8.333%) Test Strategy
2 2 (8.333%) OOD
2 2 (8.333%) OOP
3 1 (4.167%) Information Security
3 1 (4.167%) Project Management
3 1 (4.167%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) C
2 3 (12.50%) Perl
3 2 (8.333%) Java
3 2 (8.333%) Python
4 1 (4.167%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) OCP
2 5 (20.83%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (12.50%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 5 (20.83%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (12.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (8.333%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (4.167%) Snort
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Data Guard
2 4 (16.67%) NetBackup
3 1 (4.167%) Nessus
3 1 (4.167%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (4.167%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) IBM
2 7 (29.17%) Veritas
2 7 (29.17%) Oracle
3 5 (20.83%) Sun
4 3 (12.50%) Symantec
4 3 (12.50%) HP
4 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
5 2 (8.333%) EMC
5 2 (8.333%) VMware
5 2 (8.333%) Hitachi
6 1 (4.167%) BMC
6 1 (4.167%) ArcSight