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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 55 42 48
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +6
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 9 15 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 1.601% 2.551% 1.835%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.556% 9.375% 7.194%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 10
Average salary £32,500 £28,500 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.03% -25.97%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Tyne and Wear
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
162 160 139
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 28.83% 27.21% 25.50%
Number of salaries quoted 147 131 125
Average salary £34,000 £30,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £22,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £38,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
North East

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear Solaris Salary Trend

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -9 9 £32,500 +21.49%
Solaris
North East

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 14 (93.33%) Cisco
2 12 (80.00%) Oracle
2 12 (80.00%) WAN
2 12 (80.00%) SAN
2 12 (80.00%) Firewall
2 12 (80.00%) Cisco IOS
2 12 (80.00%) Network Management
2 12 (80.00%) Fibre Channel
3 10 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
3 10 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
3 10 (66.67%) Hyper-V
3 10 (66.67%) Cisco PIX
3 10 (66.67%) Network Design
3 10 (66.67%) VLAN
3 10 (66.67%) VPN
3 10 (66.67%) MS Excel
3 10 (66.67%) MS Visio
3 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 10 (66.67%) HP
4 4 (26.67%) Windows
5 3 (20.00%) Linux
6 2 (13.33%) VMware
6 2 (13.33%) VMware ESX
6 2 (13.33%) Veritas
6 2 (13.33%) ITIL
6 2 (13.33%) UNIX
6 2 (13.33%) LAN
6 2 (13.33%) EMC
6 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (13.33%) CCNA

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (66.67%) MS Excel
1 10 (66.67%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 12 (80.00%) WAN
1 12 (80.00%) SAN
1 12 (80.00%) Firewall
1 12 (80.00%) Cisco IOS
1 12 (80.00%) Fibre Channel
2 10 (66.67%) Cisco PIX
2 10 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 10 (66.67%) VLAN
2 10 (66.67%) VPN
3 2 (13.33%) LAN
4 1 (6.667%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (20.00%) Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) SAN Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (6.667%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (6.667%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Linux Support
4 1 (6.667%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Solaris Support Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Linux Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Clustering
2 1 (6.667%) Celerra
2 1 (6.667%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (6.667%) Symmetrix DMX
2 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.667%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (13.33%) UNIX
4 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (6.667%) SUSE
4 1 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Network Management
2 10 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 10 (66.67%) Network Design
3 2 (13.33%) Problem Management
3 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 1 (6.667%) Service Management
4 1 (6.667%) Performance Management
4 1 (6.667%) Capacity Management
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) CCNA
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.667%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (13.33%) VMware ESX
3 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.667%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.667%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 1 (6.667%) Tivoli
1 1 (6.667%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 14 (93.33%) Cisco
2 12 (80.00%) Oracle
3 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 10 (66.67%) HP
4 2 (13.33%) EMC
4 2 (13.33%) Veritas
4 2 (13.33%) VMware
5 1 (6.667%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.667%) Sun
5 1 (6.667%) IBM
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