The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sun 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 Vendors for the Watford region.

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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 35 25 33
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +8
Permanent jobs citing Sun 12 45 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 4.167% 12.61% 8.178%
As % of the Vendors category 7.273% 19.74% 13.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 22
Average salary £30,500 £35,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.85% -26.31%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £44,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-15.73% +4.70%
All Vendors
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
165 228 268
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 57.29% 63.87% 62.62%
Number of salaries quoted 135 134 199
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £30,000 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,500 £61,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sun
Hertfordshire

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Sun across the Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Watford Sun Jobs Demand Trend

Sun
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Sun across the Watford region.

Watford Sun Salary Trend

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region citing Sun 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 Sun.

1 39 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 39 (100.00%) Finance
1 39 (100.00%) Retail
2 38 (97.44%) WebSphere
2 38 (97.44%) IBM
2 38 (97.44%) Oracle
2 38 (97.44%) DB2
2 38 (97.44%) WebSphere Application Server
3 28 (71.79%) HTTP
3 28 (71.79%) Windows
3 28 (71.79%) AIX
3 28 (71.79%) Linux
3 28 (71.79%) Tomcat
4 27 (69.23%) UNIX
4 27 (69.23%) Web Development
5 22 (56.41%) Games
6 21 (53.85%) SQL
6 21 (53.85%) J2EE
6 21 (53.85%) Java
7 18 (46.15%) Perl
8 17 (43.59%) IIS
8 17 (43.59%) ITIL
8 17 (43.59%) MQSeries
8 17 (43.59%) HP
8 17 (43.59%) Dell
8 17 (43.59%) SUSE
8 17 (43.59%) IBM HTTP Server
8 17 (43.59%) Red Hat
8 17 (43.59%) Project Management
8 17 (43.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region citing Sun 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 Sun. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 38 (97.44%) WebSphere
2 21 (53.85%) J2EE
3 10 (25.64%) CSS
3 10 (25.64%) JDBC
3 10 (25.64%) JSP
3 10 (25.64%) JSTL
3 10 (25.64%) Struts
3 10 (25.64%) XML
3 10 (25.64%) XHTML
3 10 (25.64%) HTML
4 7 (17.95%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 38 (97.44%) WebSphere Application Server
2 28 (71.79%) Tomcat
3 17 (43.59%) MQSeries
3 17 (43.59%) IBM HTTP Server
3 17 (43.59%) IIS
4 1 (2.564%) Apache Solr
Communications & Networking
1 28 (71.79%) HTTP
2 12 (30.77%) Internet
3 11 (28.21%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (97.44%) DB2
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) JUnit
1 10 (25.64%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 10 (25.64%) Eclipse
1 10 (25.64%) Rational Application Developer
2 1 (2.564%) Ant
General
1 39 (100.00%) Finance
1 39 (100.00%) Retail
2 22 (56.41%) Games
3 14 (35.90%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.564%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (43.59%) Analyst
2 10 (25.64%) Support Analyst
2 10 (25.64%) Services Delivery Manager
2 10 (25.64%) Service Manager
2 10 (25.64%) Java Developer
2 10 (25.64%) J2EE Developer
2 10 (25.64%) Technical Services Manager
2 10 (25.64%) Developer Analyst
2 10 (25.64%) Technical Manager
2 10 (25.64%) Delivery Manager
2 10 (25.64%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 10 (25.64%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 10 (25.64%) Developer
3 9 (23.08%) Performance Tester
3 9 (23.08%) Tester
4 7 (17.95%) Junior
4 7 (17.95%) Project Manager
4 7 (17.95%) Performance Analyst
4 7 (17.95%) Junior Analyst
4 7 (17.95%) Junior Tester
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 28 (71.79%) Windows
1 28 (71.79%) AIX
1 28 (71.79%) Linux
2 27 (69.23%) UNIX
3 17 (43.59%) SUSE
3 17 (43.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 27 (69.23%) Web Development
3 17 (43.59%) Project Management
3 17 (43.59%) ITIL
4 16 (41.03%) Performance Testing
5 12 (30.77%) Service Delivery
6 10 (25.64%) MVC
6 10 (25.64%) Content Management
6 10 (25.64%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (25.64%) RAD
7 8 (20.51%) Capacity Planning
8 7 (17.95%) Data Analysis
9 5 (12.82%) Performance Management
10 3 (7.692%) Automated Testing
10 3 (7.692%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 21 (53.85%) Java
1 21 (53.85%) SQL
2 18 (46.15%) Perl
3 10 (25.64%) Bash shell
3 10 (25.64%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.564%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.564%) AWK
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 38 (97.44%) IBM
1 38 (97.44%) Oracle
2 17 (43.59%) HP
2 17 (43.59%) Dell
2 17 (43.59%) Red Hat
3 11 (28.21%) JBoss
4 1 (2.564%) Endeca