Sun
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Sun over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Sun Microsystems, Inc.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 719 717 863
Rank change year-on-year -2 +146 -82
Permanent jobs citing Sun 177 258 380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.25% 0.25%
As % of the Vendors category 0.48% 0.59% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 111 108 162
10th Percentile £26,000 £35,531 £33,775
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +15.24% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £73,438
90th Percentile £102,500 £121,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £44,345 £50,845
% change year-on-year -5.29% -12.78% -3.15%

All Vendors
UK

Sun is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,515 43,852 60,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.25% 41.90% 38.94%
Number of salaries quoted 25,094 24,954 33,291
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +4.40%

Sun
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Sun as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Sun in the UK

Sun
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Sun.

Salary trend for Sun in the UK

Sun
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Sun over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Sun in the UK

Sun
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sun within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +47 145 £50,000 -4.76% 60
UK excluding London -56 111 £42,000 -5.29% 52
London +149 65 £85,000 -20.93% 13
Work from Home +81 57 £85,000 +13.33% 15
South East +9 49 £46,293 -7.37% 20
Wales +36 30 - -
North of England +30 24 £22,145 -44.64% 13
North West +10 15 £22,145 -59.74% 10
Yorkshire +81 7 £22,501 -49.26% 3
Midlands -20 4 £44,500 -5.32% 3
South West -3 3 £28,500 -50.43% 8
West Midlands +1 2 £44,500 -5.32% 3
North East -9 2 - -
East Midlands -17 2 - -
Scotland -70 1 £72,000 - 5

Sun
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 45 (25.42%) Oracle Service Bus
1 45 (25.42%) WebLogic
2 24 (13.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (7.91%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) CMS
Applications
1 53 (29.94%) Microsoft Office
2 48 (27.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (25.99%) MS Visio
4 9 (5.08%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 45 (25.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (5.08%) Primavera
3 6 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.69%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (1.69%) Infor SunSystems
4 3 (1.69%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.56%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.56%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 38 (21.47%) Microsoft 365
2 36 (20.34%) Azure
3 20 (11.30%) Entra ID
4 14 (7.91%) AWS
5 13 (7.34%) GitHub
6 7 (3.95%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.39%) Power Automate
7 6 (3.39%) PowerApps
8 5 (2.82%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.13%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.56%) SaaS
11 1 (0.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.52%) Firewall
2 4 (2.26%) VPN
3 3 (1.69%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (1.69%) Network Security
3 3 (1.69%) VLAN
4 2 (1.13%) DHCP
4 2 (1.13%) DNS
4 2 (1.13%) LAN
4 2 (1.13%) SMTP
4 2 (1.13%) WAN
4 2 (1.13%) Wireless
5 1 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.56%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.56%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.56%) DMZ
5 1 (0.56%) HTTP
5 1 (0.56%) MPLS
5 1 (0.56%) NX-OS
5 1 (0.56%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (25.42%) Oracle Database
1 45 (25.42%) Oracle Database 10g
1 45 (25.42%) Oracle Database 11g
1 45 (25.42%) VLDB
2 9 (5.08%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (3.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (1.69%) Tableau
5 1 (0.56%) MySQL
5 1 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (10.73%) JIRA
2 13 (7.34%) Git
2 13 (7.34%) GitLab
3 6 (3.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (31.07%) Social Skills
2 49 (27.68%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (23.16%) Finance
4 16 (9.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (8.47%) Banking
6 14 (7.91%) Investment Banking
7 10 (5.65%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.13%) Law
8 2 (1.13%) Retail
9 1 (0.56%) Back Office
9 1 (0.56%) Billing
9 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Legal
9 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (41.24%) Analyst
2 50 (28.25%) Applications Support
3 48 (27.12%) Applications Support Analyst
3 48 (27.12%) Support Analyst
4 45 (25.42%) Oracle Analyst
4 45 (25.42%) Oracle Support Analyst
4 45 (25.42%) SQL Analyst
4 45 (25.42%) SQL Support Analyst
5 20 (11.30%) Lead
6 16 (9.04%) Systems Analyst
7 13 (7.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (5.65%) Server Engineer
8 10 (5.65%) Windows Engineer
8 10 (5.65%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (5.65%) Windows Server Engineer
9 8 (4.52%) Infrastructure Manager
9 8 (4.52%) Project Planner
9 8 (4.52%) Senior
10 7 (3.95%) Support Engineer
11 6 (3.39%) Database Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.91%) EDI
2 6 (3.39%) Web Services
3 2 (1.13%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.56%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.56%) XML
4 1 (0.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.17%) Clustering
2 9 (5.08%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.82%) Driving Licence
3 5 (2.82%) iPad
4 3 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.13%) Grid Computing
5 2 (1.13%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.13%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.13%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.56%) Blackberry
6 1 (0.56%) CCTV
6 1 (0.56%) Derivative
6 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.56%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.56%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.56%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 65 (36.72%) Linux
2 49 (27.68%) Unix
2 49 (27.68%) Windows
3 46 (25.99%) Solaris
4 37 (20.90%) Windows Server
5 14 (7.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (5.65%) Apple iOS
7 9 (5.08%) Android
8 5 (2.82%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.13%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.56%) AIX
10 1 (0.56%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (29.94%) ITSM
2 47 (26.55%) Artificial Intelligence
3 45 (25.42%) Capacity Management
3 45 (25.42%) Capacity Planning
3 45 (25.42%) Incident Management
3 45 (25.42%) Performance Monitoring
3 45 (25.42%) Performance Tuning
3 45 (25.42%) Release Management
4 44 (24.86%) Actionable Insight
5 25 (14.12%) Asset Management
6 22 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (11.86%) Information Security
8 20 (11.30%) Backlog Management
8 20 (11.30%) Resource Management
8 20 (11.30%) Systems Engineering
9 18 (10.17%) Performance Management
10 17 (9.60%) Customer Service
11 14 (7.91%) DevOps
11 14 (7.91%) ITIL
12 13 (7.34%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (32.20%) SQL
2 45 (25.42%) PL/SQL
3 36 (20.34%) PowerShell
4 18 (10.17%) Python
5 15 (8.47%) Bash
6 13 (7.34%) Korn
6 13 (7.34%) Perl
6 13 (7.34%) Ruby
7 9 (5.08%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 55 (31.07%) Degree
2 47 (26.55%) Security Cleared
3 46 (25.99%) SC Cleared
4 26 (14.69%) DBS Check
5 14 (7.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (5.65%) ACCA
6 10 (5.65%) CIMA
7 8 (4.52%) APMG
8 7 (3.95%) A+ Certification
9 5 (2.82%) Server+ Certification
10 2 (1.13%) HNC
11 1 (0.56%) CCNP
11 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (31.07%) SLA
2 3 (1.69%) ISO 14001
2 3 (1.69%) ISO 9001
2 3 (1.69%) QA
3 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 45 (25.42%) Oracle RAC
2 39 (22.03%) Active Directory
3 20 (11.30%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 45 (25.42%) Data Guard
1 45 (25.42%) Oracle RMAN
2 25 (14.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (11.30%) Single Sign-On
3 20 (11.30%) vCenter Server
4 18 (10.17%) Microsoft Clustering
5 14 (7.91%) Ansible
6 13 (7.34%) Puppet
6 13 (7.34%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (1.13%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.56%) CASB
Vendors
1 54 (30.51%) Oracle
2 45 (25.42%) Remedy
3 38 (21.47%) Microsoft
4 25 (14.12%) VMware
5 20 (11.30%) Commvault
5 20 (11.30%) ServiceNow
6 14 (7.91%) Red Hat
7 13 (7.34%) TOWER Software
8 9 (5.08%) Dell
9 8 (4.52%) Apple
10 5 (2.82%) IBM
11 4 (2.26%) Cisco
11 4 (2.26%) EMC
12 3 (1.69%) Epicor
12 3 (1.69%) HP
12 3 (1.69%) IFS
12 3 (1.69%) Infor
12 3 (1.69%) JD Edwards
12 3 (1.69%) Sage
12 3 (1.69%) SAP