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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 70 79 54
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -25
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 5 4 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warwickshire 0.635% 0.501% 0.799%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.976% 1.914% 3.497%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 5
Average salary £35,000 £47,500 £23,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-26.31% +106.52%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Operating Systems
Warwickshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
168 209 143
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warwickshire 21.35% 26.19% 22.84%
Number of salaries quoted 152 189 141
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,150 £25,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
West Midlands

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire region.

Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire 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
Warwick -5 3 £35,000 -27.46%
Kenilworth - 3 £35,000 -
Leamington Spa - 3 £35,000 -
Stratford-upon-Avon - 3 £35,000 -
Solaris
West Midlands

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warwickshire 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 27 (100.00%) UNIX
2 23 (85.19%) Degree
3 22 (81.48%) Disaster Recovery
4 21 (77.78%) Finance
4 21 (77.78%) Oracle
4 21 (77.78%) Capacity Planning
5 20 (74.07%) Data Guard
5 20 (74.07%) Oracle RMAN
6 7 (25.93%) SAN
7 6 (22.22%) Windows
7 6 (22.22%) Linux
8 5 (18.52%) VMware
9 4 (14.81%) Replication
9 4 (14.81%) Symantec
9 4 (14.81%) SQL
9 4 (14.81%) HPUX
9 4 (14.81%) Sun
9 4 (14.81%) iSCSI
9 4 (14.81%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (14.81%) Fibre Channel
9 4 (14.81%) NetBackup
10 2 (7.407%) Visualisation
10 2 (7.407%) PLM
10 2 (7.407%) Asset Management
10 2 (7.407%) Siemens
10 2 (7.407%) CAD
10 2 (7.407%) CAE
10 2 (7.407%) CATIA
11 1 (3.704%) Automotive
11 1 (3.704%) Manufacturing

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warwickshire 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 Development
1 1 (3.704%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.704%) Apache
1 1 (3.704%) Tomcat
1 1 (3.704%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 2 (7.407%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 1 (3.704%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) SAN
2 4 (14.81%) iSCSI
2 4 (14.81%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.704%) SQL Server
General
1 21 (77.78%) Finance
2 1 (3.704%) Automotive
2 1 (3.704%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (74.07%) DBA
1 20 (74.07%) Administrator
2 16 (59.26%) Oracle DBA
3 6 (22.22%) Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Technical Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Technical Analyst
5 2 (7.407%) Developer
5 2 (7.407%) Analyst Developer
5 2 (7.407%) Systems Developer
5 2 (7.407%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (3.704%) Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Replication
2 2 (7.407%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 27 (100.00%) UNIX
2 6 (22.22%) Windows
2 6 (22.22%) Linux
3 4 (14.81%) HPUX
4 1 (3.704%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (81.48%) Disaster Recovery
2 21 (77.78%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (7.407%) PLM
3 2 (7.407%) Asset Management
3 2 (7.407%) CAD
3 2 (7.407%) CAE
4 1 (3.704%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) SQL
2 1 (3.704%) Korn
2 1 (3.704%) C
Qualifications
1 23 (85.19%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.704%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 20 (74.07%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (3.704%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (74.07%) Data Guard
2 4 (14.81%) NetBackup
3 1 (3.704%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (3.704%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (77.78%) Oracle
2 5 (18.52%) VMware
3 4 (14.81%) Symantec
3 4 (14.81%) Sun
4 2 (7.407%) Siemens
5 1 (3.704%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.704%) EMC
5 1 (3.704%) NetApp