The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the West Lothian region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sun over the 3 months to 20 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 West Lothian 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun
Rank 24 25 42
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +17
Permanent jobs citing Sun 6 3 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Lothian 5.455% 2.439% 1.031%
As % of the Vendors category 8.000% 4.348% 1.695%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 0
Average salary £52,500 £55,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.54% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £44,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-15.73% +4.70%
All Vendors
West Lothian
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
75 69 177
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Lothian 68.18% 56.10% 60.82%
Number of salaries quoted 25 52 122
Average salary £36,000 £40,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% -2.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,400 £27,500 £32,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sun
Scotland

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Lothian 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 West Lothian region.

West Lothian Sun Salary Trend

Sun
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sun within the West Lothian region over the 3 months to 20 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
Livingston -5 6 £52,500 -4.54%
Sun
Scotland

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Lothian 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 14 (100.00%) UNIX
2 13 (92.86%) SQL
2 13 (92.86%) Oracle
3 11 (78.57%) Degree
4 7 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
4 7 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (50.00%) Oracle 9i
4 7 (50.00%) RDBMS
4 7 (50.00%) PL/SQL
4 7 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
4 7 (50.00%) Shell Script
5 6 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (42.86%) Replication
5 6 (42.86%) StorageTek
5 6 (42.86%) Cisco
5 6 (42.86%) IBM
5 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
5 6 (42.86%) Windows
5 6 (42.86%) Analytics
5 6 (42.86%) NetBackup
6 5 (35.71%) QA
6 5 (35.71%) Data Management
6 5 (35.71%) Brocade
6 5 (35.71%) Incident Management
6 5 (35.71%) Project Planning
6 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Management
6 5 (35.71%) Volume Testing
6 5 (35.71%) Performance Management
6 5 (35.71%) Data Protection

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Lothian 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 1 (7.143%) COM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) SAN
1 5 (35.71%) NAS
2 1 (7.143%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle 9i
1 7 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (35.71%) OLTP
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) DBA
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
2 5 (35.71%) Technical Leader
3 1 (7.143%) Server Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Field Support Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Server Support Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Server Support
3 1 (7.143%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Replication
2 5 (35.71%) Symmetrix
2 5 (35.71%) Symmetrix DMX
2 5 (35.71%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) UNIX
2 6 (42.86%) Windows
3 4 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (42.86%) Analytics
2 6 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (35.71%) Data Management
3 5 (35.71%) Incident Management
3 5 (35.71%) Project Planning
3 5 (35.71%) Service Delivery
3 5 (35.71%) Change Management
3 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Management
3 5 (35.71%) Volume Testing
3 5 (35.71%) Performance Management
3 5 (35.71%) Data Protection
3 5 (35.71%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (14.29%) CRM
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Testing
5 1 (7.143%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) SQL
2 7 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 7 (50.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) QA
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (7.143%) NFS
3 1 (7.143%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) NetBackup
2 1 (7.143%) Ionix
2 1 (7.143%) EMC TimeFinder
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Oracle
2 6 (42.86%) Cisco
2 6 (42.86%) IBM
2 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (42.86%) StorageTek
3 5 (35.71%) EMC
3 5 (35.71%) NetApp
3 5 (35.71%) Brocade
4 4 (28.57%) Symantec
5 1 (7.143%) HP
5 1 (7.143%) ZyXEL
5 1 (7.143%) Draytek
5 1 (7.143%) NETGEAR