The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 22 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 119 147 92
Rank change year-on-year
+28 -55
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 80 43 80
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.590% 0.932% 1.964%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.914% 3.970% 9.281%
Number of salaries quoted 65 40 68
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £39,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +14.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £16,700
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £52,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.40%
All Operating Systems
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1157 1083 862
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 23.00% 23.47% 21.16%
Number of salaries quoted 987 978 761
Average salary £37,000 £34,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.82% -2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,300 £22,650 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Solaris
England

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Midlands Solaris Salary Histogram

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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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
Coventry +16 35 £45,000 +15.38%
Birmingham -9 28 £37,500 -16.66%
Warwickshire +8 5 £35,000 -26.31%
Worcestershire - 5 £35,000 -
Shropshire - 3 - -
Solaris
England

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 164 (86.77%) UNIX
2 93 (49.21%) Linux
3 81 (42.86%) Microsoft
4 77 (40.74%) Oracle
5 66 (34.92%) SharePoint
6 62 (32.80%) Windows
7 60 (31.75%) SAP
8 51 (26.98%) Finance
9 50 (26.46%) SAP Business One
9 50 (26.46%) OpenVMS
10 47 (24.87%) Degree
10 47 (24.87%) VMware
11 44 (23.28%) AIX
12 43 (22.75%) Java
12 43 (22.75%) SQL
13 42 (22.22%) Sun
14 40 (21.16%) SQL Server
15 39 (20.63%) SAN
16 34 (17.99%) Shell Script
16 34 (17.99%) ITIL
16 34 (17.99%) Perl
17 31 (16.40%) MS Exchange
18 30 (15.87%) Active Directory
18 30 (15.87%) DNS
18 30 (15.87%) Data Guard
19 28 (14.81%) Capacity Planning
19 28 (14.81%) Cisco
19 28 (14.81%) .NET
20 27 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
21 26 (13.76%) XML

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 28 (14.81%) .NET
2 26 (13.76%) XML
3 22 (11.64%) XSL
4 21 (11.11%) ASP.NET
5 20 (10.58%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 20 (10.58%) WCF
5 20 (10.58%) WPF
5 20 (10.58%) .NET Framework
5 20 (10.58%) COM
5 20 (10.58%) Web Services
5 20 (10.58%) DHTML
6 13 (6.878%) CSS
7 11 (5.820%) jQuery
7 11 (5.820%) Ajax
8 9 (4.762%) LINQ
8 9 (4.762%) Silverlight
9 7 (3.704%) SAP Basis
10 6 (3.175%) Middleware
10 6 (3.175%) SOAP
10 6 (3.175%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 66 (34.92%) SharePoint
2 31 (16.40%) MS Exchange
3 20 (10.58%) Apache
3 20 (10.58%) Tomcat
3 20 (10.58%) BizTalk Server
4 18 (9.524%) Exchange Server 2010
5 12 (6.349%) IIS
6 11 (5.820%) SAS
7 10 (5.291%) Exchange Server 2007
7 10 (5.291%) Lync
8 9 (4.762%) SharePoint 2010
8 9 (4.762%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (3.704%) TIBCO EMS
10 5 (2.646%) NetWeaver
11 2 (1.058%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (1.058%) WordPress
12 1 (0.529%) MQSeries
Applications
1 24 (12.70%) MS Excel
2 10 (5.291%) MS Office
3 9 (4.762%) InfoPath
4 2 (1.058%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 50 (26.46%) SAP Business One
2 7 (3.704%) TIBCO iProcess
2 7 (3.704%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (0.529%) Summit
3 1 (0.529%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 39 (20.63%) SAN
2 30 (15.87%) DNS
3 20 (10.58%) iSCSI
3 20 (10.58%) Fibre Channel
3 20 (10.58%) DHCP
4 18 (9.524%) Firewall
5 13 (6.878%) VLAN
6 11 (5.820%) Unified Communications
7 5 (2.646%) SSH
7 5 (2.646%) LAN
7 5 (2.646%) WAN
8 4 (2.116%) SSL
9 3 (1.587%) BIG-IP
9 3 (1.587%) HTTP
10 2 (1.058%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (21.16%) SQL Server
2 20 (10.58%) MySQL
3 11 (5.820%) Oracle Exadata
4 9 (4.762%) Oracle 10g
5 8 (4.233%) Oracle 11g
6 6 (3.175%) DB2
7 5 (2.646%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (2.646%) PerformancePoint
7 5 (2.646%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.646%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (2.646%) DB2 UDB
7 5 (2.646%) Data Mining
7 5 (2.646%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.646%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (2.646%) OLAP
7 5 (2.646%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (2.116%) OLTP
8 4 (2.116%) Oracle 9i
9 3 (1.587%) GIS
10 2 (1.058%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 4 (2.116%) Ant
1 4 (2.116%) Maven
2 3 (1.587%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.587%) Hudson
2 3 (1.587%) JIRA
2 3 (1.587%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (1.587%) Eclipse
3 2 (1.058%) ProC
4 1 (0.529%) Introscope
General
1 51 (26.98%) Finance
2 14 (7.407%) Banking
2 14 (7.407%) Investment Banking
3 4 (2.116%) Publishing
4 3 (1.587%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (1.587%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.058%) Back Office
6 1 (0.529%) Automotive
6 1 (0.529%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.529%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 39 (20.63%) Administrator
2 36 (19.05%) DBA
2 36 (19.05%) Developer
3 27 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
4 25 (13.23%) Consultant
5 22 (11.64%) UNIX Systems Administrator
6 20 (10.58%) .NET Developer
6 20 (10.58%) Technical Specialist
7 19 (10.05%) Analyst
8 11 (5.820%) .NET Web Developer
8 11 (5.820%) Senior Developer
8 11 (5.820%) Web Developer
8 11 (5.820%) Architect
9 10 (5.291%) Infrastructure Architect
10 9 (4.762%) Senior SharePoint Developer
10 9 (4.762%) SharePoint Developer
10 9 (4.762%) Technical Analyst
10 9 (4.762%) Senior .NET Developer
10 9 (4.762%) Senior Technical Analyst
10 9 (4.762%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.466%) Replication
2 14 (7.407%) Symmetrix DMX
3 11 (5.820%) Wiki
4 10 (5.291%) Blackberry
4 10 (5.291%) iPhone
5 6 (3.175%) Computer Science
6 5 (2.646%) Clustering
7 4 (2.116%) Speech Recognition
7 4 (2.116%) iSeries
8 2 (1.058%) HACMP
8 2 (1.058%) Visualisation
8 2 (1.058%) LPAR
9 1 (0.529%) CMDB
9 1 (0.529%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 164 (86.77%) UNIX
2 93 (49.21%) Linux
3 62 (32.80%) Windows
4 50 (26.46%) OpenVMS
5 44 (23.28%) AIX
6 22 (11.64%) SUSE
7 21 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
8 16 (8.466%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (6.878%) Windows Server 2003
10 10 (5.291%) HPUX
10 10 (5.291%) Windows Phone
11 8 (4.233%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (17.99%) ITIL
2 28 (14.81%) Capacity Planning
3 26 (13.76%) Service Delivery
4 24 (12.70%) Disaster Recovery
5 23 (12.17%) MVC
6 21 (11.11%) Problem Management
7 15 (7.937%) Change Management
8 14 (7.407%) RDF
9 11 (5.820%) Risk Analysis
9 11 (5.820%) Web Development
9 11 (5.820%) Migration
9 11 (5.820%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (4.233%) Data Protection
11 6 (3.175%) ETL
11 6 (3.175%) SOA
11 6 (3.175%) Security Architecture
11 6 (3.175%) Business Transformation
12 5 (2.646%) TOGAF
12 5 (2.646%) Network Design
12 5 (2.646%) OO
Programming Languages
1 43 (22.75%) Java
1 43 (22.75%) SQL
2 34 (17.99%) Shell Script
2 34 (17.99%) Perl
3 22 (11.64%) JavaScript
4 20 (10.58%) C#
5 17 (8.995%) PHP
6 16 (8.466%) C++
6 16 (8.466%) Korn
7 11 (5.820%) XAML
7 11 (5.820%) Delphi
7 11 (5.820%) VB
7 11 (5.820%) Python
8 8 (4.233%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.646%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.058%) C
11 1 (0.529%) COBOL
11 1 (0.529%) ABAP
11 1 (0.529%) JCL
Qualifications
1 47 (24.87%) Degree
2 22 (11.64%) Microsoft Certification
3 20 (10.58%) MCSE
4 18 (9.524%) MCITP
5 7 (3.704%) Security Cleared
6 6 (3.175%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (2.116%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.646%) QA
2 4 (2.116%) SLA
3 1 (0.529%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 30 (15.87%) Active Directory
2 27 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
3 23 (12.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (8.466%) Microsoft App-V
4 16 (8.466%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 14 (7.407%) Oracle RAC
5 14 (7.407%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 12 (6.349%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 12 (6.349%) Veritas File System
6 12 (6.349%) vSphere
7 8 (4.233%) Hyper-V
7 8 (4.233%) PowerHA
8 1 (0.529%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 30 (15.87%) Data Guard
2 19 (10.05%) SCCM
3 16 (8.466%) SCOM
4 9 (4.762%) NetBackup
5 8 (4.233%) Control-M
5 8 (4.233%) SCVMM
6 3 (1.587%) Foglight
7 2 (1.058%) Tivoli
7 2 (1.058%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 2 (1.058%) YUM
8 1 (0.529%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.529%) Netcool/Webtop
8 1 (0.529%) Netcool
8 1 (0.529%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 81 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 77 (40.74%) Oracle
3 60 (31.75%) SAP
4 47 (24.87%) VMware
5 42 (22.22%) Sun
6 28 (14.81%) Cisco
7 21 (11.11%) Red Hat
8 20 (10.58%) IBM
9 18 (9.524%) HP
10 16 (8.466%) Veritas
11 15 (7.937%) EMC
11 15 (7.937%) Sybase
12 12 (6.349%) DataCore
13 11 (5.820%) Avaya
14 10 (5.291%) Nortel
14 10 (5.291%) Mitel
14 10 (5.291%) Dialogic
15 8 (4.233%) Symantec
16 7 (3.704%) TIBCO
16 7 (3.704%) Citrix
Birmingham, West Midlands
Knowledge of Oracle, SQL, Unix, Linux, Perl Scripting and Sun Solaris are beneficial but not essential as is a background in bespoke application support... In this role, you...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + + bonus + benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Senior Unix Systems Administrator - £45-55,000 + Bonus + BenefitsOur prestigious Central Birmingham client is looking to recruit an experienced Unix Systems Administrator with a strong technical background and...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
West Midlands
Netbackup... (HP-UX, SUN Solaris, Linux & Windows). Good understanding of Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and LTO technologies... Key Words: Senior Technical Analyst, Netbackup, HP-UX, SUN Solaris, Linux & Windows.
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum + Oncall + Bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
The successful candidate should have experience of supporting Unix, Solaris and Linux Operating systems within large scale production environments. They should also have strong experience of Veritas (VxVM,...
TEKsystems
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
The successful candidate should have experience of supporting Unix, Solaris and Linux Operating systems within large scale production environments. They should also have strong experience of Veritas (VxVM,...
Aston Carter
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Skills required: - Solaris 10 (and earlier releases) - Solaris 10 Zones - Linux (Red hat, SUSE, VMware) - Veritas Cluster Server (Support & Architecture/Deployments) - Veritas Volume Manager (including advanced troubleshooting) - Veritas...
Scope AT Ltd
Salary: £45 - £55 per annum + benefits, bonus
Posted: 22 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
From a technical perspective, candidates will need strong experience working with Unix/Solaris, Oracle and Sybase. Any skills with scripting (Shell or Perl/Python) would be extremely beneficial,...
Aston Carter
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus & Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
Prepare and execute test scripts... Manual testing... In addition, we also deliver services and solutions on non Microsoft Products and Technologies, such as SAP Business One, OpenVMS, Solaris...
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum (dep on exp), plus bonus & benefits
Posted: 3 May 2013