The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 17 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 St Albans region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 30 30 34
Rank change year-on-year
0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 5 1 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 2.778% 0.752% 1.676%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.333% 4.167% 4.412%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 2
Average salary £45,000 - £33,250
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
60 24 68
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 33.33% 18.05% 37.99%
Number of salaries quoted 38 13 36
Average salary £28,500 £28,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.78% -30.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £25,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £43,750
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
Hertfordshire

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 5 (62.50%) C
1 5 (62.50%) C++
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
1 5 (62.50%) HTTP
2 4 (50.00%) Project Management
2 4 (50.00%) SMPP
2 4 (50.00%) Windows NT
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) CSS
2 4 (50.00%) UNIX
2 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (50.00%) TDD
2 4 (50.00%) Taleo
2 4 (50.00%) XMPP
2 4 (50.00%) Erlang
2 4 (50.00%) Mac OS X
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle
3 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) PL/SQL
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) Dell
4 1 (12.50%) SAN
4 1 (12.50%) NetApp
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (12.50%) Process Management
4 1 (12.50%) Wireless
4 1 (12.50%) Kerberos

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 4 (50.00%) CSS
1 4 (50.00%) XMPP
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
Business Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) HTTP
2 4 (50.00%) SMPP
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
3 1 (12.50%) SSH
3 1 (12.50%) VLAN
3 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
3 1 (12.50%) iSCSI
3 1 (12.50%) tcpdump
3 1 (12.50%) snoop
3 1 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (12.50%) Kerberos
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) IPv4
3 1 (12.50%) IPv6
3 1 (12.50%) SAN
3 1 (12.50%) WLAN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Development Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst Programmer
2 1 (12.50%) Programmer
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) UNIX
2 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Windows NT
2 4 (50.00%) Mac OS X
3 1 (12.50%) Debian
3 1 (12.50%) OpenBSD
3 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
3 1 (12.50%) CentOS
3 1 (12.50%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Project Management
1 4 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (50.00%) TDD
2 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) CAD
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) C
1 5 (62.50%) C++
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) Erlang
3 3 (37.50%) PL/SQL
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (12.50%) Ruby
4 1 (12.50%) Perl
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) NFS
1 1 (12.50%) Samba
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESX
1 1 (12.50%) Nmap
1 1 (12.50%) Squid
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) Postfix
1 1 (12.50%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Cacti
1 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
1 3 (37.50%) Dell
2 1 (12.50%) NetApp
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Sun