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This section looks at the demand for Sun Microsystems Solaris skills across the UK with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the last 3 months to 9 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkSun Microsystems Solaris
Location
3 months to 9 May 2008Same period last year
Rank7367
Rank change on same period last yearDown-6
Matching permanent IT job ads54946194
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled2.678 %2.768 %
As % of the category below10.83 %11.32 %
Salaries quoted42204565
Average minimum salary£43,318£43,707
Average salary£46,402£47,044
% change on same period last year-1.36 %
Average maximum salary£49,486£50,381
UK excluding London average salary£40,716£41,107
% change on same period last year-0.95 %
Operating Systems UKOperating Systems
UK
Matching permanent IT job ads5071054739
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled24.72 %24.46 %
Salaries quoted4199242964
Average minimum salary£36,809£37,383
Average salary£39,810£40,487
% change on same period last year-1.67 %
Average maximum salary£42,812£43,591
UK excluding London average salary£34,732£34,919
% change on same period last year-0.53 %

Solaris
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Solaris across 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 ads citing Solaris across the UK.

Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the UK over the past 3 months.

Solaris Salary Histogram

Solaris
Top 30 Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the UK over the past 3 months.

RankLocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
1EnglandDown-85280£46,545-1.58 %
2LondonDown-42687£52,311-2.61 %
3South EastNo change01361£42,023-6.04 %
4City of LondonUp+14981£54,743-7.38 %
5HampshireUp+28427£40,966-14.50 %
6BerkshireUp+9390£41,289-5.38 %
7East of EnglandDown-36306£39,374-2.85 %
8YorkshireUp+35279£40,425+10.34 %
9South WestDown-34247£42,890+12.76 %
10SurreyDown-35203£41,920-11.84 %
11North WestDown-10190£36,302-8.06 %
12BasingstokeUp+9184£45,158-19.62 %
13West MidlandsDown-26134£36,673+11.03 %
14BuckinghamshireUp+17131£42,191+5.71 %
15ManchesterUp+69130£35,362-7.47 %
16HertfordshireDown-18124£39,511-9.14 %
17ScotlandDown-16120£35,362-2.18 %
18South YorkshireUp+50113£43,200+41.25 %
19East MidlandsDown-26106£39,154+13.71 %
20CambridgeshireDown-42105£35,050-7.17 %
21ReadingUp+9101£38,934-6.02 %
22MiddlesexUp+1497£42,734-1.41 %
23DorsetDown-1191£50,809+16.69 %
24North YorkshireUp+490£40,760-9.36 %
25West YorkshireUp+189£37,031+14.18 %
26LeedsDown-774£36,616+18.92 %
27Docklands, LondonDown-570£59,173+2.78 %
28CambridgeDown-4169£34,895-10.95 %
29BournemouthDown-1668£54,217+24.56 %
29BirminghamUp+1568£38,202-1.61 %

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the UK citing Solaris also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Solaris.

17847 (71.87 %)Unix
25404 (49.49 %)Linux
33948 (36.16 %)Oracle
43290 (30.13 %)Windows
53000 (27.48 %)Finance
62830 (25.92 %)Sun
72431 (22.26 %)SQL
82414 (22.11 %)AIX
92081 (19.06 %)Java
101963 (17.98 %)Perl
111733 (15.87 %)Shell Script
121631 (14.94 %)Banking
131544 (14.14 %)HPUX
141478 (13.54 %)Red Hat
151407 (12.89 %)Apache
161383 (12.67 %)HP
171352 (12.38 %)SAN
181240 (11.36 %)SQL Server
191229 (11.26 %)VERITAS
201196 (10.95 %)Sybase
211080 (9.891 %)TCP/IP
221028 (9.415 %)C++
231024 (9.378 %)J2EE
24945 (8.655 %)IBM
25863 (7.904 %)WebLogic
26853 (7.812 %)WebSphere
27835 (7.647 %)C
28831 (7.611 %)DNS
29814 (7.455 %)Internet
30811 (7.427 %)Firewall

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the UK citing Solaris also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Solaris. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
11024 (9.378 %)J2EE
2853 (7.812 %)WebSphere
3717 (6.567 %)XML
4470 (4.304 %)HTML
5342 (3.132 %)JSP
6333 (3.050 %).NET
7305 (2.793 %)Middleware
8231 (2.116 %)WebServices
9227 (2.079 %)JMS
10194 (1.777 %)Servlets
11162 (1.484 %)Spring
12152 (1.392 %)SOAP
13149 (1.365 %)Hibernate
14147 (1.346 %)ASP
15146 (1.337 %)CSS
16140 (1.282 %)Struts
17137 (1.255 %)EJB
18124 (1.136 %)JDBC
19118 (1.081 %)XSLT
2092 (0.843 %)AJAX
Application Platforms
11407 (12.89 %)Apache
2863 (7.904 %)WebLogic
3699 (6.402 %)Tomcat
4339 (3.105 %)IIS
5271 (2.482 %)JBoss
6225 (2.061 %)WebSphere Application Server
7215 (1.969 %)Oracle Application Server
8200 (1.832 %)MQSeries
9190 (1.740 %)WebSphere MQ
10186 (1.703 %)MS Exchange
11115 (1.053 %)Exchange Server 2003
1283 (0.760 %)Exchange Server 2000
1378 (0.714 %)CMS
1464 (0.586 %)iPlanet
1544 (0.403 %)Oracle 10gAS
1641 (0.375 %)SharePoint
1641 (0.375 %)SAS
1736 (0.330 %)Tuxedo
1835 (0.321 %)WebLogic Integration
1929 (0.266 %)Documentum
Applications
1439 (4.021 %)MS Excel
2171 (1.566 %)MS Office
333 (0.302 %)MS Visio
428 (0.256 %)MATLAB
511 (0.101 %)MS PowerPoint
68 (0.073 %)MS Project
75 (0.046 %)Photoshop
84 (0.037 %)Fireworks
84 (0.037 %)SPSS
84 (0.037 %)S-PLUS
93 (0.027 %)CA Clarity
102 (0.018 %)FrameMaker
102 (0.018 %)RoboHelp
Business Applications
1180 (1.649 %)RMDS
2136 (1.246 %)Oracle EBS
3108 (0.989 %)Oracle Applications
485 (0.778 %)Oracle 11i
525 (0.229 %)Fidessa
623 (0.211 %)Summit
715 (0.137 %)Navision
813 (0.119 %)Movex
813 (0.119 %)SAP Retail
911 (0.101 %)MarketView
911 (0.101 %)WebTrends
1010 (0.092 %)Oracle CRM
119 (0.082 %)Eagle PACE
128 (0.073 %)Kondor+
135 (0.046 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
135 (0.046 %)MAXIMO
135 (0.046 %)Teamcenter
144 (0.037 %)Misys Midas
153 (0.027 %)SMARTEAM
153 (0.027 %)ENOVIA
Communications & Networking
11352 (12.38 %)SAN
21080 (9.891 %)TCP/IP
3831 (7.611 %)DNS
4814 (7.455 %)Internet
5811 (7.427 %)Firewall
6370 (3.389 %)WAN
7368 (3.370 %)LAN
8317 (2.903 %)VPN
9290 (2.656 %)HTTP
10259 (2.372 %)LDAP
11210 (1.923 %)DHCP
12177 (1.621 %)SMTP
13153 (1.401 %)FTP
13153 (1.401 %)Network Security
14138 (1.264 %)SSH
15114 (1.044 %)SNMP
16113 (1.035 %)VoIP
17107 (0.980 %)SSL
1881 (0.742 %)Wireless
1980 (0.733 %)MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
11240 (11.36 %)SQL Server
2737 (6.750 %)Oracle 10g
3614 (5.623 %)Oracle 9i
4593 (5.431 %)RDBMS
5554 (5.074 %)MySQL
6439 (4.021 %)DB2
7387 (3.544 %)Oracle 8/8i
8206 (1.887 %)SQL Server 2000
9195 (1.786 %)Sybase ASE
10157 (1.438 %)Informix
11127 (1.163 %)Oracle Reports
12125 (1.145 %)BusinessObjects
13122 (1.117 %)Ingres
14102 (0.934 %)SQL Server 2005
1597 (0.888 %)Datawarehouse
1658 (0.531 %)SQL Server 7
1757 (0.522 %)SQLPlus
1757 (0.522 %)PostgreSQL
1854 (0.495 %)DB2 UDB
1950 (0.458 %)ETL
Development Applications
1251 (2.299 %)ClearCase
2114 (1.044 %)Oracle Forms
3112 (1.026 %)Ant
4103 (0.943 %)Eclipse
573 (0.669 %)Visual Studio
672 (0.659 %)VSS/SourceSafe
762 (0.568 %)Subversion
851 (0.467 %)JUnit
948 (0.440 %)Telelogic Synergy
1043 (0.394 %)ProC
1135 (0.321 %)PVCS
1135 (0.321 %)LoadRunner
1233 (0.302 %)JIRA
1332 (0.293 %)WinRunner
1424 (0.220 %)TestDirector
1522 (0.201 %)Log4j
1621 (0.192 %)QuickTest Pro
1621 (0.192 %)Flash
1717 (0.156 %)Introscope
1816 (0.147 %)ClearQuest
General
13000 (27.48 %)Finance
21631 (14.94 %)Banking
3638 (5.843 %)Telecoms
4477 (4.369 %)Investment Banking
5410 (3.755 %)Pensions
6392 (3.590 %)Financial Institution
7316 (2.894 %)Health
8265 (2.427 %)Front Office
9169 (1.548 %)Back Office
10144 (1.319 %)Insurance
11123 (1.126 %)Retail
12121 (1.108 %)Education
13111 (1.017 %)Marketing
14107 (0.980 %)Government
1584 (0.769 %)Publishing
1671 (0.650 %)Games
1756 (0.513 %)Billing
1837 (0.339 %)Online Games
1934 (0.311 %)Legal
2029 (0.266 %)Auditing
Job Titles
12393 (21.92 %)Administrator
21493 (13.67 %)Systems Administrator
31267 (11.60 %)Developer
41220 (11.17 %)Analyst
51195 (10.94 %)UNIX Administrator
61008 (9.232 %)DBA
7945 (8.655 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
8692 (6.338 %)Oracle DBA
9614 (5.623 %)Support Analyst
10563 (5.156 %)Support Engineer
11518 (4.744 %)Consultant
12517 (4.735 %)Architect
13486 (4.451 %)UNIX Support
14481 (4.405 %)Applications Support
15469 (4.295 %)UNIX Engineer
16404 (3.700 %)Team Leader
17379 (3.471 %)Java Developer
18362 (3.315 %)Technical Support
19324 (2.967 %)Linux Administrator
20316 (2.894 %)Solaris Administrator
Miscellaneous
1677 (6.200 %)Clustering
2326 (2.986 %)Replication
3274 (2.509 %)Derivative
4259 (2.372 %)Equities
5174 (1.594 %)Client/Server
6167 (1.529 %)HACMP
7165 (1.511 %)Fixed Income
8154 (1.410 %)Computer Science
9110 (1.007 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
1093 (0.852 %)Mainframe
1192 (0.843 %)Asset Management
1284 (0.769 %)French Language
1378 (0.714 %)German Language
1468 (0.623 %)Management Information System
1566 (0.604 %)CLARiiON
1664 (0.586 %)PKI
1748 (0.440 %)Spread Betting
1748 (0.440 %)Multithreading
1845 (0.412 %)N-Tier
1944 (0.403 %)AS400
Operating Systems
17847 (71.87 %)Unix
25404 (49.49 %)Linux
33290 (30.13 %)Windows
42414 (22.11 %)AIX
51544 (14.14 %)HPUX
6513 (4.698 %)Windows 2000
7500 (4.579 %)Windows NT
8312 (2.857 %)SUSE
8312 (2.857 %)Windows Server 2003
9191 (1.749 %)VMS
10148 (1.355 %)Windows XP
11147 (1.346 %)Debian
12138 (1.264 %)FreeBSD
13132 (1.209 %)Tru64
1474 (0.678 %)Fedora
1558 (0.531 %)OpenVMS
1647 (0.430 %)Ubuntu
1730 (0.275 %)zOS
1828 (0.256 %)MVS
1924 (0.220 %)OS/400
Processes & Methodologies
1702 (6.429 %)ITIL
2453 (4.149 %)OO
3421 (3.856 %)Project Management
4315 (2.885 %)Disaster Recovery
5203 (1.859 %)Service Delivery
6202 (1.850 %)Change Management
7192 (1.758 %)Configuration Management
8189 (1.731 %)E-Commerce
9181 (1.658 %)Software Engineering
10178 (1.630 %)Load Balancing
11160 (1.465 %)Web Development
12148 (1.355 %)Problem Management
13146 (1.337 %)OOD
14138 (1.264 %)Migration
15136 (1.246 %)Release Management
16117 (1.072 %)UML
17114 (1.044 %)PRINCE2
18109 (0.998 %)Risk Management
19103 (0.943 %)Content Management
2099 (0.907 %)OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
12431 (22.26 %)SQL
22081 (19.06 %)Java
31963 (17.98 %)Perl
41733 (15.87 %)Shell Script
51028 (9.415 %)C++
6835 (7.647 %)C
7620 (5.678 %)PL/SQL
8348 (3.187 %)VB
9346 (3.169 %)C#
10341 (3.123 %)Korn
11328 (3.004 %)JavaScript
12275 (2.519 %)PHP
13274 (2.509 %)Python
14149 (1.365 %)Transact-SQL
15134 (1.227 %)VBA
16129 (1.181 %)AWK
17111 (1.017 %)Ruby
1877 (0.705 %)Tcl
1960 (0.550 %)DHTML
2059 (0.540 %)VC++
Qualifications
1779 (7.134 %)Degree
2176 (1.612 %)Microsoft Certification
3171 (1.566 %)Cisco Certification
4156 (1.429 %)Sun Certification
5152 (1.392 %)MCSE
6144 (1.319 %)CCNA
7105 (0.962 %)Oracle Certification
878 (0.714 %)CCNP
969 (0.632 %)MCP
1061 (0.559 %)OCP
1160 (0.550 %)ITIL Certification
1258 (0.531 %)ISEB
1355 (0.504 %)CISSP
1452 (0.476 %)MCSA
1551 (0.467 %)RHCE
1632 (0.293 %)IBM AIX Certification
1729 (0.266 %)SCSA
1826 (0.238 %)CCSA
1924 (0.220 %)CCSE
2022 (0.201 %)PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1278 (2.546 %)SLA
2128 (1.172 %)QA
316 (0.147 %)ISO27001
414 (0.128 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
513 (0.119 %)ISO8583
68 (0.073 %)ISO9001
76 (0.055 %)BS7799
76 (0.055 %)ISO9000
85 (0.046 %)COBIT
85 (0.046 %)SNOMED CT
85 (0.046 %)HMG Infosec
94 (0.037 %)JSP 440
94 (0.037 %)TickIT
102 (0.018 %)ISO17799
102 (0.018 %)MiFID
111 (0.009 %)PCI DSS
System Software
1550 (5.037 %)NetBackup
2359 (3.288 %)Oracle RAC
3330 (3.022 %)Active Directory
4236 (2.161 %)Oracle RMAN
5199 (1.823 %)NFS
679 (0.724 %)Samba
761 (0.559 %)VMware ESX
859 (0.540 %)Backup Exec
950 (0.458 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1031 (0.284 %)Terminal Services
1126 (0.238 %)ISA Server
1224 (0.220 %)Squid
1321 (0.192 %)Xen
1420 (0.183 %)MSMQ
1510 (0.092 %)Citrix Presentation Server
169 (0.082 %)Terminal Server
177 (0.064 %)NDS
186 (0.055 %)MetaFrame
195 (0.046 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
195 (0.046 %)Novell eDirectory
Systems Management
1315 (2.885 %)Tivoli
2234 (2.143 %)OpenView
3166 (1.520 %)Legato
3166 (1.520 %)BMC PATROL
4103 (0.943 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
594 (0.861 %)Netcool
686 (0.788 %)AutoSys
780 (0.733 %)EMC NetWorker
876 (0.696 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
974 (0.678 %)Nagios
1068 (0.623 %)CONTROL-M
1165 (0.595 %)Unicenter
1251 (0.467 %)CA SiteMinder
1346 (0.421 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
1445 (0.412 %)CiscoWorks
1533 (0.302 %)MOM
1627 (0.247 %)Oracle Statspack
1723 (0.211 %)Netcool/Proviso
1820 (0.183 %)OpenView Configuration Management
1918 (0.165 %)AppManager
Vendors
13948 (36.16 %)Oracle
22830 (25.92 %)Sun
31478 (13.54 %)Red Hat
41383 (12.67 %)HP
51229 (11.26 %)VERITAS
61196 (10.95 %)Sybase
7945 (8.655 %)IBM
8788 (7.217 %)Microsoft
9737 (6.750 %)Cisco
10503 (4.607 %)EMC
11384 (3.517 %)Remedy
12336 (3.077 %)VMware
13303 (2.775 %)Citrix
14271 (2.482 %)TIBCO
15250 (2.290 %)BEA
16196 (1.795 %)BMC
17175 (1.603 %)Reuters
18150 (1.374 %)SAP
19144 (1.319 %)Bloomberg
20143 (1.310 %)Intel
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