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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 31 16 13
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -3
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 1 13 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wakefield 0.699% 13.00% 17.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.852% 27.08% 28.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 18
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Wakefield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
54 48 64
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wakefield 37.76% 48.00% 61.54%
Number of salaries quoted 49 26 64
Average salary £23,500 £34,250 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-31.38% -14.37%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
West Yorkshire

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wakefield 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 Wakefield region.

Wakefield Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wakefield 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 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) Snort
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) ArcSight
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wakefield 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Security Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ArcSight