The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 18 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 72 85 67
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -18
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 14 4 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 1.586% 0.432% 0.315%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.944% 1.153% 0.926%
Number of salaries quoted 14 4 2
Average salary £47,500 £65,000 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-26.92% +120.33%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
355 347 216
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 40.20% 37.51% 34.07%
Number of salaries quoted 333 327 198
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £21,350 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
Hampshire

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the Southampton region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Southampton Solaris Salary Histogram

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 43 (97.73%) Linux
2 39 (88.64%) Windows
3 31 (70.45%) TCP/IP
4 30 (68.18%) Internet
5 29 (65.91%) Incident Management
5 29 (65.91%) SIEM
6 28 (63.64%) LAN
6 28 (63.64%) WAN
7 26 (59.09%) Change Control
7 26 (59.09%) tcpdump
8 25 (56.82%) Security Cleared
8 25 (56.82%) SC Cleared
9 24 (54.55%) DV Cleared
9 24 (54.55%) Information Assurance
10 22 (50.00%) Snort
10 22 (50.00%) Client/Server
10 22 (50.00%) DNS
10 22 (50.00%) Firewall
11 21 (47.73%) GIAC
11 21 (47.73%) GCIA
11 21 (47.73%) CESG
11 21 (47.73%) Security Testing
12 20 (45.45%) Wireshark
12 20 (45.45%) Management Information System
12 20 (45.45%) FTP
12 20 (45.45%) HTTP
12 20 (45.45%) SMTP
12 20 (45.45%) LDAP
13 18 (40.91%) Information Security
14 17 (38.64%) Microsoft

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 11 (25.00%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 16 (36.36%) MS Exchange
2 1 (2.273%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (29.55%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 31 (70.45%) TCP/IP
2 30 (68.18%) Internet
3 28 (63.64%) LAN
3 28 (63.64%) WAN
4 26 (59.09%) tcpdump
5 22 (50.00%) Firewall
5 22 (50.00%) DNS
6 20 (45.45%) SMTP
6 20 (45.45%) FTP
6 20 (45.45%) HTTP
6 20 (45.45%) LDAP
6 20 (45.45%) Wireshark
7 12 (27.27%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (11.36%) IPsec
8 5 (11.36%) SSL
9 1 (2.273%) VPN
9 1 (2.273%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.091%) MySQL
1 4 (9.091%) OLAP
1 4 (9.091%) OLTP
General
1 4 (9.091%) Games
2 2 (4.545%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.273%) Law
Job Titles
1 31 (70.45%) Analyst
2 30 (68.18%) Security Analyst
3 13 (29.55%) Systems Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) Administrator
5 4 (9.091%) DBA
5 4 (9.091%) Operations Analyst
5 4 (9.091%) IT Security Analyst
5 4 (9.091%) Database Engineer
5 4 (9.091%) MySQL DBA
5 4 (9.091%) Security Operations Analyst
6 3 (6.818%) Forensic Analyst
6 3 (6.818%) Operations Team Leader
6 3 (6.818%) Security Operations Manager
6 3 (6.818%) Team Leader
6 3 (6.818%) Security Manager
6 3 (6.818%) Operations Manager
7 2 (4.545%) Principle Engineer
7 2 (4.545%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.545%) C++ Software Engineer
7 2 (4.545%) Data Centre Technician
Miscellaneous
1 22 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 21 (47.73%) CESG
3 20 (45.45%) Management Information System
4 14 (31.82%) Firmware
5 7 (15.91%) Cryptography
6 5 (11.36%) PKI
7 4 (9.091%) Statistics
7 4 (9.091%) Replication
8 2 (4.545%) Mathematics
8 2 (4.545%) Physics
8 2 (4.545%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 43 (97.73%) Linux
2 39 (88.64%) Windows
3 13 (29.55%) UNIX
4 2 (4.545%) AIX
4 2 (4.545%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.273%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.273%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.273%) SUSE
5 1 (2.273%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (65.91%) Incident Management
1 29 (65.91%) SIEM
2 26 (59.09%) Change Control
3 24 (54.55%) Information Assurance
4 21 (47.73%) Security Testing
5 18 (40.91%) Information Security
6 17 (38.64%) Ethical Hacking
7 14 (31.82%) Penetration Testing
8 9 (20.45%) Change Management
9 8 (18.18%) ITIL
10 7 (15.91%) Disaster Recovery
11 4 (9.091%) Computer Forensics
11 4 (9.091%) Load Testing
11 4 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
11 4 (9.091%) Game Development
11 4 (9.091%) Analytics
12 2 (4.545%) PRINCE2
13 1 (2.273%) ERP
13 1 (2.273%) Service Delivery
13 1 (2.273%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.36%) Perl
1 5 (11.36%) Python
2 3 (6.818%) C++
3 1 (2.273%) C
3 1 (2.273%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (56.82%) SC Cleared
1 25 (56.82%) Security Cleared
2 24 (54.55%) DV Cleared
3 21 (47.73%) GIAC
3 21 (47.73%) GCIA
4 12 (27.27%) GCIH
5 8 (18.18%) CEH
6 4 (9.091%) Degree
7 1 (2.273%) GPEN
7 1 (2.273%) MCITP
7 1 (2.273%) Postgraduate
7 1 (2.273%) MCSE
7 1 (2.273%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (25.00%) JSP 440
2 3 (6.818%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 22 (50.00%) Snort
2 3 (6.818%) Samba
3 1 (2.273%) VMware ESX
3 1 (2.273%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (2.273%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (38.64%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.91%) Sourcefire
3 3 (6.818%) Sun
4 2 (4.545%) VMware
5 1 (2.273%) Red Hat