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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 44 55 51
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -4
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 11 3 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 2.287% 0.584% 1.044%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.483% 2.055% 3.846%
Number of salaries quoted 10 1 5
Average salary £31,250 £32,500 £48,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.84% -32.98%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,022 £32,500 £47,400
10% offered a salary of more than £39,850 £32,500 £49,600
UK excluding London average salary £43,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
+1.17% +2.40%
All Operating Systems
Swindon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
116 146 130
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 24.12% 28.40% 27.14%
Number of salaries quoted 107 112 124
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £47,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
Wiltshire

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

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

Swindon Solaris Salary Histogram

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 17 (85.00%) Linux
2 16 (80.00%) UNIX
3 13 (65.00%) Sun
4 12 (60.00%) Oracle
4 12 (60.00%) Red Hat
5 8 (40.00%) SQL
6 6 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (20.00%) Project Management
7 4 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (20.00%) SAN
7 4 (20.00%) ITIL
7 4 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
7 4 (20.00%) Network Security
7 4 (20.00%) CentOS
7 4 (20.00%) Open Source
8 3 (15.00%) QA
8 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
8 3 (15.00%) HP
8 3 (15.00%) EMC
8 3 (15.00%) Oracle 11g
8 3 (15.00%) Data Management
8 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
8 3 (15.00%) Clustering
8 3 (15.00%) Finance
9 2 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (10.00%) Automated Testing
9 2 (10.00%) Fault Management
9 2 (10.00%) Degree
9 2 (10.00%) Google
9 2 (10.00%) QuickTest Pro

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 1 (5.000%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.000%) Apache
1 1 (5.000%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) SAN
1 4 (20.00%) Network Security
2 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.000%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (5.000%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.000%) Legal
2 1 (5.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) DBA
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
2 4 (20.00%) UNIX Specialist
3 3 (15.00%) Database Specialist
3 3 (15.00%) Support Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) UNIX Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) UNIX Support
4 2 (10.00%) UNIX Support Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) QA Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Linux Support
4 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (10.00%) Administrator
4 2 (10.00%) Quality Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Operations Support Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Graduate
5 1 (5.000%) Senior DBA
5 1 (5.000%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Open Source
2 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.00%) Clustering
3 1 (5.000%) Economics
Operating Systems
1 17 (85.00%) Linux
2 16 (80.00%) UNIX
3 6 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (20.00%) CentOS
5 2 (10.00%) Windows
5 2 (10.00%) AIX
6 1 (5.000%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (5.000%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (20.00%) Project Management
1 4 (20.00%) ITIL
2 3 (15.00%) Data Management
3 2 (10.00%) Automated Testing
3 2 (10.00%) Fault Management
3 2 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (5.000%) ITIL V3
4 1 (5.000%) Service Delivery
4 1 (5.000%) Change Management
4 1 (5.000%) Incident Management
4 1 (5.000%) Migration
4 1 (5.000%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) VBScript
3 1 (5.000%) Perl
3 1 (5.000%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
1 2 (10.00%) OCP
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.000%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 1 (5.000%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (5.000%) NFS
3 1 (5.000%) Samba
Systems Management
1 1 (5.000%) Data Guard
1 1 (5.000%) Legato
1 1 (5.000%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Sun
2 12 (60.00%) Oracle
2 12 (60.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (15.00%) HP
3 3 (15.00%) EMC
4 2 (10.00%) Google
5 1 (5.000%) NetApp
5 1 (5.000%) Intel
5 1 (5.000%) Brocade
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: 23 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