Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 9 September 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category.

LinkSun Microsystems Solaris
Location
3 months to
9 Sep 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank1079181
Rank change year-on-year
Down-16Down-10
Matching permanent IT job ads241116564529
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK2.227 %2.435 %2.548 %
As % of the Operating Systems category8.599 %9.612 %10.43 %
Salaries quoted187413113538
Average salary£47,500£45,000£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.550 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,000£28,000£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£69,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£37,500£40,000
% change year-on-year
+6.660 %-6.250 %
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
280371722843443
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK25.90 %25.33 %24.44 %
Salaries quoted234701436736464
Average salary£40,000£36,500£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.580 %+4.280 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,000£22,500£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£32,500£32,500
% change year-on-year
+7.690 %-

Solaris
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Solaris within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Solaris Demand Trend

Solaris
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Solaris within the UK.

Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris over the 3 months to 9 September 2010 within the UK.

Solaris Salary Histogram

Solaris
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 9 September 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-152309£47,500+5.55 %
LondonDown-321365£55,000+4.76 %
City of LondonDown-23517£57,500+4.54 %
South EastUp+4421£42,250+1.80 %
East of EnglandUp+5158£42,500+21.42 %
BerkshireUp+17144£42,000-1.17 %
North WestDown-6110£38,500+6.94 %
SurreyDown-20103£41,500-7.77 %
YorkshireDown-13100£35,000+8.69 %
CheshireUp+680£38,500+6.94 %
West MidlandsUp+3265£35,000+6.06 %
CambridgeshireUp+365£32,500-1.51 %
HertfordshireDown-2658£55,000+64.17 %
ScotlandDown-3356£38,000+7.04 %
ReadingUp+2055£41,000-3.52 %
South WestDown-4251£34,000-2.85 %
KnutsfordDown-450£38,500+6.94 %
HampshireDown-1545£37,500-
MiddlesexDown-541£48,750+17.46 %
West YorkshireDown-841£35,500-30.73 %
CambridgeDown-2338£30,000-8.39 %
BirminghamUp+2137£35,000+4.47 %
LeedsDown-837£35,000-31.70 %
GlasgowUp+636£50,000+28.20 %
North YorkshireUp+531£40,000+14.28 %
WokingUp+229£40,000+14.28 %
Northern IrelandDown-427£32,500+10.16 %
BedfordshireUp+1425£42,500+6.25 %
MaidenheadUp+225£45,000+5.88 %
West SussexDown-523£36,500+12.30 %

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

13274 (76.16 %)UNIX
22584 (60.11 %)Linux
31683 (39.15 %)Windows
41615 (37.57 %)Oracle
51363 (31.71 %)SQL
61316 (30.61 %)Finance
71067 (24.82 %)Java
81018 (23.68 %)Sun
9963 (22.40 %)Perl
10888 (20.66 %)AIX
11866 (20.14 %)Shell Script
12844 (19.63 %)Red Hat Linux
13820 (19.07 %)Red Hat
13820 (19.07 %)Banking
14614 (14.28 %)SAN
15590 (13.72 %)C++
16588 (13.68 %)Apache
17576 (13.40 %)HPUX
18571 (13.28 %)HP
19570 (13.26 %)SQL Server
20536 (12.47 %)TCP/IP
21462 (10.75 %)ITIL
22453 (10.54 %)Sybase
23447 (10.40 %)IBM
24440 (10.23 %)VMware
24440 (10.23 %)Degree
25429 (9.979 %)C
26415 (9.653 %)WebLogic
27412 (9.584 %)Investment Banking
28405 (9.421 %)Microsoft

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1387 (9.002 %)XML
2360 (8.374 %)J2EE
3349 (8.118 %)Middleware
4308 (7.164 %)WebSphere
5198 (4.606 %)HTML
5198 (4.606 %).NET
6172 (4.001 %)JSP
7157 (3.652 %)Web Services
8151 (3.512 %)Spring
9139 (3.233 %)XSLT
10110 (2.559 %)CSS
11106 (2.466 %)Servlets
12102 (2.373 %)Hibernate
1378 (1.814 %)AJAX
1477 (1.791 %)ASP
1575 (1.745 %)SOAP
1658 (1.349 %)JDBC
1658 (1.349 %)Java EE
1756 (1.303 %)STL
1756 (1.303 %)J2SE
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1588 (13.68 %)Apache
2415 (9.653 %)WebLogic
3402 (9.351 %)Tomcat
4182 (4.234 %)IIS
5121 (2.815 %)WebSphere Application Server
681 (1.884 %)MS Exchange
681 (1.884 %)WebSphere MQ
774 (1.721 %)CMS
871 (1.652 %)SharePoint
946 (1.070 %)ESB
1044 (1.023 %)AquaLogic Service Bus
1139 (0.907 %)GlassFish
1236 (0.837 %)MQSeries
1236 (0.837 %)WebSphere Message Broker
1333 (0.768 %)Rendezvous
1431 (0.721 %)Oracle Workflow
1529 (0.675 %)Exchange Server 2007
1628 (0.651 %)SAS
1724 (0.558 %)TIBCO EMS
1724 (0.558 %)NetWeaver
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1221 (5.141 %)MS Excel
283 (1.931 %)MS Visio
361 (1.419 %)MS Office
423 (0.535 %)MS Project
512 (0.279 %)CATIA
68 (0.186 %)MATLAB
77 (0.163 %)MS PowerPoint
84 (0.093 %)Photoshop
84 (0.093 %)S-PLUS
93 (0.070 %)Fireworks
101 (0.023 %)SPSS
101 (0.023 %)ImageReady
101 (0.023 %)PrintSoft PReS
101 (0.023 %)Adobe Illustrator
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
158 (1.349 %)RMDS
243 (1.000 %)Oracle iProcurement
342 (0.977 %)Temenos T24
429 (0.675 %)Oracle Financials
528 (0.651 %)Oracle 11i
627 (0.628 %)Oracle EBS
719 (0.442 %)Oracle EBS R12
818 (0.419 %)Oracle Applications
915 (0.349 %)Siebel Analytics
1011 (0.256 %)ENOVIA
1011 (0.256 %)Global One
1110 (0.233 %)Oracle General Ledger
129 (0.209 %)SAP CRM
138 (0.186 %)SunGard Stream Clearvision
138 (0.186 %)Oracle BPM
147 (0.163 %)Temenos Globus
147 (0.163 %)SoftGrid
147 (0.163 %)SunGard AvantGard
156 (0.140 %)Eagle PACE
156 (0.140 %)SAP SRM
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1614 (14.28 %)SAN
2536 (12.47 %)TCP/IP
3394 (9.165 %)Internet
4334 (7.769 %)Firewall
5332 (7.723 %)DNS
6230 (5.350 %)LDAP
7192 (4.466 %)NAS
8155 (3.605 %)LAN
8155 (3.605 %)WAN
9140 (3.257 %)VPN
10139 (3.233 %)HTTP
1192 (2.140 %)SSL
1287 (2.024 %)SMTP
1375 (1.745 %)FTP
1471 (1.652 %)SNMP
1568 (1.582 %)DHCP
1661 (1.419 %)Network Security
1749 (1.140 %)SSH
1839 (0.907 %)iSCSI
1934 (0.791 %)VoIP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1570 (13.26 %)SQL Server
2302 (7.025 %)MySQL
3262 (6.094 %)Oracle 10g
4215 (5.001 %)RDBMS
5182 (4.234 %)Oracle 8/8i
6152 (3.536 %)DB2
7124 (2.884 %)Oracle 11g
8118 (2.745 %)Oracle 9i
9100 (2.326 %)Informix
1083 (1.931 %)Oracle Reports
1157 (1.326 %)PostgreSQL
1256 (1.303 %)BusinessObjects
1355 (1.279 %)ETL
1452 (1.210 %)SQL Server 2000
1550 (1.163 %)SQL Server 2005
1647 (1.093 %)Data Warehouse (DWH)
1745 (1.047 %)Reference Data
1826 (0.605 %)Oracle OWB
1826 (0.605 %)OLTP
1924 (0.558 %)DTS
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1174 (4.047 %)Subversion
2155 (3.605 %)Ant
3114 (2.652 %)ClearCase
493 (2.163 %)Eclipse
581 (1.884 %)JUnit
674 (1.721 %)Maven
753 (1.233 %)Oracle Forms
841 (0.954 %)VSS/SourceSafe
924 (0.558 %)JIRA
1022 (0.512 %)Selenium
1022 (0.512 %)ClearQuest
1121 (0.488 %)JDeveloper
1220 (0.465 %)PVCS
1318 (0.419 %)NUnit
1417 (0.395 %)LoadRunner
1417 (0.395 %)TestDirector
1515 (0.349 %)Git (software)
1515 (0.349 %)Team Foundation Server
1614 (0.326 %)TeamCity
1614 (0.326 %)Cactus
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11316 (30.61 %)Finance
2820 (19.07 %)Banking
3412 (9.584 %)Investment Banking
4235 (5.466 %)Pensions
5197 (4.582 %)Front Office
6189 (4.396 %)Health
7184 (4.280 %)Telecoms
8154 (3.582 %)Insurance
9148 (3.443 %)Back Office
10136 (3.164 %)Financial Institution
11118 (2.745 %)Education
1288 (2.047 %)Retail
1371 (1.652 %)Government
1468 (1.582 %)Advertising
1552 (1.210 %)Games
1634 (0.791 %)Marketing
1732 (0.744 %)Billing
1831 (0.721 %)General Ledger
1831 (0.721 %)Legal
1926 (0.605 %)Publishing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1665 (15.47 %)Administrator
2662 (15.40 %)Developer
3545 (12.68 %)Analyst
4472 (10.98 %)Systems Administrator
5367 (8.537 %)UNIX Administrator
6312 (7.258 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
7275 (6.397 %)Support Engineer
8274 (6.374 %)Support Analyst
9258 (6.001 %)Applications Support
10242 (5.629 %)Consultant
11237 (5.513 %)Architect
12212 (4.931 %)DBA
13202 (4.699 %)Java Developer
14185 (4.303 %)C++ Developer
15161 (3.745 %)UNIX Engineer
16135 (3.140 %)Technical Support
17133 (3.094 %)Systems Engineer
17133 (3.094 %)UNIX Support
18130 (3.024 %)Oracle DBA
19115 (2.675 %)Linux Administrator
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1285 (6.629 %)Clustering
2214 (4.978 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3191 (4.443 %)Computer Science
4178 (4.140 %)Derivative
5160 (3.722 %)Replication
6142 (3.303 %)Equities
7120 (2.791 %)Fixed Income
8116 (2.698 %)Client/Server
997 (2.256 %)CLARiiON
1092 (2.140 %)HACMP
1181 (1.884 %)Multithreading
1273 (1.698 %)Management Information System
1365 (1.512 %)Open Source
1365 (1.512 %)Hedge funds
1464 (1.489 %)LPAR
1562 (1.442 %)French Language
1658 (1.349 %)German Language
1753 (1.233 %)Mainframe
1849 (1.140 %)Symmetrix DMX
1849 (1.140 %)N-Tier
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
13274 (76.16 %)UNIX
22584 (60.11 %)Linux
31683 (39.15 %)Windows
4888 (20.66 %)AIX
5844 (19.63 %)Red Hat Linux
6576 (13.40 %)HPUX
7338 (7.862 %)Windows Server 2003
8228 (5.304 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9152 (3.536 %)Windows Server 2008
10144 (3.350 %)SUSE
11138 (3.210 %)Windows 2000
12117 (2.722 %)Windows XP
13103 (2.396 %)Windows 2000 Server
1481 (1.884 %)Debian
1546 (1.070 %)VMS
1638 (0.884 %)FreeBSD
1735 (0.814 %)Windows 7
1834 (0.791 %)Windows NT
1932 (0.744 %)CentOS
2028 (0.651 %)IRIX
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1462 (10.75 %)ITIL
2262 (6.094 %)Project Management
3203 (4.722 %)OO
4195 (4.536 %)Change Management
5180 (4.187 %)E-Commerce
6171 (3.978 %)Disaster Recovery
7154 (3.582 %)Agile Software Development
8143 (3.326 %)Configuration Management
9124 (2.884 %)Service Management
10116 (2.698 %)Capacity Planning
11113 (2.629 %)Electronic Trading
12110 (2.559 %)Business Intelligence
1396 (2.233 %)Service Delivery
1495 (2.210 %)Problem Management
1495 (2.210 %)Release Management
1593 (2.163 %)Software Engineering
1684 (1.954 %)Algorithmic Trading
1779 (1.838 %)Unit Testing
1779 (1.838 %)Risk Management
1874 (1.721 %)Migration
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11363 (31.71 %)SQL
21067 (24.82 %)Java
3963 (22.40 %)Perl
4866 (20.14 %)Shell Script
5590 (13.72 %)C++
6429 (9.979 %)C
7271 (6.304 %)PL/SQL
8233 (5.420 %)Bash shell
9218 (5.071 %)JavaScript
10193 (4.489 %)PHP
11191 (4.443 %)Korn
12176 (4.094 %)Python
13130 (3.024 %)VB
14123 (2.861 %)C#
1577 (1.791 %)AWK
1649 (1.140 %)VBScript
1734 (0.791 %)Ruby
1734 (0.791 %)VBA
1829 (0.675 %)T-SQL
1928 (0.651 %)Tcl
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1440 (10.23 %)Degree
2162 (3.768 %)Cisco Certification
3131 (3.047 %)Microsoft Certification
4130 (3.024 %)Security Cleared
5128 (2.977 %)CCNA
6107 (2.489 %)MCSE
766 (1.535 %)SC Cleared
859 (1.372 %)CISSP
958 (1.349 %)ITIL Certification
1052 (1.210 %)CCNP
1151 (1.186 %)RHCE
1243 (1.000 %)Oracle Certification
1339 (0.907 %)MCITP
1432 (0.744 %)Sun Certification
1528 (0.651 %)NCDA
1627 (0.628 %)ISEB
1726 (0.605 %)OCP
1824 (0.558 %)MCP
1923 (0.535 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1923 (0.535 %)NCIE
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1177 (4.117 %)QA
2124 (2.884 %)SLA
342 (0.977 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
422 (0.512 %)ISO/IEC 27001
512 (0.279 %)COBIT
610 (0.233 %)PCI DSS
79 (0.209 %)HL7
79 (0.209 %)DICOM
87 (0.163 %)GxP
93 (0.070 %)TickIT
93 (0.070 %)HMG Infosec
102 (0.047 %)JSP 440
102 (0.047 %)ISO/IEC 17799
102 (0.047 %)ISO 9001
111 (0.023 %)BS7799
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1273 (6.350 %)VMware Infrastructure
2237 (5.513 %)Active Directory
3229 (5.327 %)NFS
4164 (3.815 %)Veritas Volume Manager
5101 (2.349 %)Oracle RAC
689 (2.070 %)Veritas Cluster Server
689 (2.070 %)VMware ESX
781 (1.884 %)Oracle RMAN
875 (1.745 %)Samba
966 (1.535 %)Veritas File System
1033 (0.768 %)Xen
1126 (0.605 %)XenApp
1126 (0.605 %)SRDF
1126 (0.605 %)vSphere
1225 (0.582 %)Sendmail
1225 (0.582 %)Hyper-V
1321 (0.488 %)XenDesktop
1420 (0.465 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1519 (0.442 %)Terminal Services
1519 (0.442 %)OpenLDAP
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1239 (5.559 %)NetBackup
2147 (3.419 %)Tivoli
391 (2.117 %)Data Guard
484 (1.954 %)Nagios
577 (1.791 %)OpenView
666 (1.535 %)Legato
765 (1.512 %)Backup Exec
842 (0.977 %)AutoSys
941 (0.954 %)BMC PATROL
1036 (0.837 %)EMC NetWorker
1132 (0.744 %)Cacti
1231 (0.721 %)HP Quality Center
1330 (0.698 %)Control-M
1428 (0.651 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
1521 (0.488 %)Netcool
1620 (0.465 %)Unicenter
1620 (0.465 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1620 (0.465 %)ARCserve
1719 (0.442 %)EMC Navisphere
1719 (0.442 %)HP Data Protector
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11615 (37.57 %)Oracle
21018 (23.68 %)Sun
3820 (19.07 %)Red Hat
4571 (13.28 %)HP
5453 (10.54 %)Sybase
6447 (10.40 %)IBM
7440 (10.23 %)VMware
8405 (9.421 %)Microsoft
9404 (9.398 %)Veritas
10402 (9.351 %)Cisco
11372 (8.653 %)EMC
12206 (4.792 %)JBoss
13169 (3.931 %)Citrix
14149 (3.466 %)NetApp
15135 (3.140 %)Brocade
16127 (2.954 %)TIBCO
17102 (2.373 %)Symantec
1893 (2.163 %)SAP
1984 (1.954 %)Bloomberg
2073 (1.698 %)BMC