The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 23 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 Vendors for the Swindon 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 45 57 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Permanent jobs citing Sun 7 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 1.471% 0.192% -
As % of the Vendors category 3.553% 0.388% -
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 0
Average salary £33,125 £42,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.05% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-11.76% -
All Vendors
Swindon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
197 258 232
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 41.39% 49.62% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 167 219 215
Average salary £36,000 £38,472 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.42% +16.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £48,100 £45,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sun
Wiltshire

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Sun Salary Trend

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 11 (100.00%) Solaris
2 9 (81.82%) Linux
3 8 (72.73%) UNIX
4 7 (63.64%) Red Hat
5 6 (54.55%) Oracle
6 4 (36.36%) SQL
6 4 (36.36%) SAN
6 4 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (27.27%) QA
7 3 (27.27%) Oracle 11g
7 3 (27.27%) HP
7 3 (27.27%) EMC
7 3 (27.27%) Clustering
8 2 (18.18%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
8 2 (18.18%) QuickTest Pro
8 2 (18.18%) Project Management
8 2 (18.18%) VBScript
8 2 (18.18%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (18.18%) Data Management
8 2 (18.18%) Automated Testing
8 2 (18.18%) Open Source
8 2 (18.18%) Network Security
8 2 (18.18%) Oracle 10g
8 2 (18.18%) CentOS
8 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
9 1 (9.091%) PCI DSS
9 1 (9.091%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (9.091%) ITIL V3
9 1 (9.091%) Data Guard

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) Apache
1 1 (9.091%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) SAN
2 2 (18.18%) Network Security
3 1 (9.091%) NAS
3 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) QuickTest Pro
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) DBA
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (18.18%) UNIX Specialist
2 2 (18.18%) QA Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Database Specialist
2 2 (18.18%) Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Graduate
3 1 (9.091%) Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Support Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) UNIX Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior DBA
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Clustering
2 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 2 (18.18%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Solaris
2 9 (81.82%) Linux
3 8 (72.73%) UNIX
4 4 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (18.18%) CentOS
6 1 (9.091%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (9.091%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Project Management
1 2 (18.18%) Data Management
1 2 (18.18%) Automated Testing
1 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (9.091%) ITIL V3
2 1 (9.091%) Incident Management
2 1 (9.091%) Fault Management
2 1 (9.091%) ITIL
2 1 (9.091%) Service Delivery
2 1 (9.091%) Change Management
2 1 (9.091%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) VBScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
2 1 (9.091%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle RMAN
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Red Hat
2 6 (54.55%) Oracle
3 3 (27.27%) HP
3 3 (27.27%) EMC
4 1 (9.091%) Brocade
4 1 (9.091%) NetApp
4 1 (9.091%) Intel
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