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 Midlands 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 West Midlands 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 178 164 118
Rank change year-on-year
-14 -46
Permanent jobs citing Sun 29 25 52
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.584% 0.555% 1.253%
As % of the Vendors category 1.152% 1.156% 2.567%
Number of salaries quoted 29 25 42
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -27.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £25,000 £37,050
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £46,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £44,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-15.73% +4.70%
All Vendors
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2518 2163 2026
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 50.72% 48.03% 48.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2063 1807 1675
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -1.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sun
England

Sun
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 Midlands region.

West Midlands Sun Salary Trend

Sun
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Sun across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

West Midlands Sun Salary Histogram

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 Midlands 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
Coventry -3 13 £37,500 +15.38%
Birmingham -25 8 £50,000 +11.11%
Worcestershire +7 2 £41,250 +26.92%
Warwickshire +1 2 £45,000 +80.00%
Sun
England

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 42 (58.33%) Solaris
2 37 (51.39%) Linux
3 36 (50.00%) UNIX
4 33 (45.83%) VMware
5 28 (38.89%) Oracle
6 27 (37.50%) Java
6 27 (37.50%) ITIL
7 23 (31.94%) SAN
8 22 (30.56%) Windows
9 20 (27.78%) SharePoint
10 19 (26.39%) Microsoft
10 19 (26.39%) Spring
11 18 (25.00%) Change Management
11 18 (25.00%) Red Hat
11 18 (25.00%) Sun Certification
11 18 (25.00%) Struts
12 17 (23.61%) AIX
12 17 (23.61%) J2EE
12 17 (23.61%) Sybase
12 17 (23.61%) Apache
12 17 (23.61%) Shell Script
12 17 (23.61%) Investment Banking
12 17 (23.61%) Banking
12 17 (23.61%) SCJP
12 17 (23.61%) SCJD
12 17 (23.61%) SCJA
13 16 (22.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 16 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (22.22%) SCWCD
13 16 (22.22%) Veritas

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 19 (26.39%) Spring
2 18 (25.00%) Struts
3 17 (23.61%) J2EE
4 16 (22.22%) EJB
5 6 (8.333%) .NET
6 2 (2.778%) XML
7 1 (1.389%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.389%) SAP Basis
7 1 (1.389%) JSF
7 1 (1.389%) WebSphere
7 1 (1.389%) HTML
7 1 (1.389%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.389%) COM
7 1 (1.389%) JSP
7 1 (1.389%) Servlets
7 1 (1.389%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 20 (27.78%) SharePoint
2 17 (23.61%) Apache
3 11 (15.28%) SAS
4 1 (1.389%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (1.389%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.389%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 13 (18.06%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.556%) SAP Business One
2 1 (1.389%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.389%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 23 (31.94%) SAN
2 8 (11.11%) iSCSI
2 8 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (6.944%) LAN
3 5 (6.944%) WAN
4 4 (5.556%) VPN
5 2 (2.778%) NAS
6 1 (1.389%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.67%) Oracle Exadata
2 5 (6.944%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.944%) Oracle 10g
2 5 (6.944%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (1.389%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.778%) JUnit
2 1 (1.389%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.389%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 1 (1.389%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.389%) Rational Application Developer
General
1 17 (23.61%) Banking
1 17 (23.61%) Investment Banking
2 15 (20.83%) Finance
3 4 (5.556%) Publishing
4 3 (4.167%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.389%) Billing
Job Titles
1 22 (30.56%) Developer
2 20 (27.78%) Java Developer
3 17 (23.61%) J2EE Developer
3 17 (23.61%) Analyst
3 17 (23.61%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 16 (22.22%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 10 (13.89%) Technical Analyst
6 9 (12.50%) Senior Technical Analyst
6 9 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (6.944%) Administrator
8 4 (5.556%) Service Analyst
8 4 (5.556%) IT Consultant
8 4 (5.556%) Consultant
8 4 (5.556%) DBA
8 4 (5.556%) Service Desk Analyst
8 4 (5.556%) Oracle DBA
8 4 (5.556%) Designer
8 4 (5.556%) Configuration Engineer
9 3 (4.167%) Technical Designer
9 3 (4.167%) Database Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (19.44%) Symmetrix DMX
3 11 (15.28%) Wiki
4 8 (11.11%) Replication
5 5 (6.944%) Clustering
6 1 (1.389%) Computer Science
6 1 (1.389%) CMDB
6 1 (1.389%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 42 (58.33%) Solaris
2 37 (51.39%) Linux
3 36 (50.00%) UNIX
4 22 (30.56%) Windows
5 17 (23.61%) AIX
6 16 (22.22%) SUSE
7 14 (19.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (11.11%) HPUX
9 4 (5.556%) Windows XP
9 4 (5.556%) OpenVMS
9 4 (5.556%) Windows 7
9 4 (5.556%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (37.50%) ITIL
2 18 (25.00%) Change Management
3 15 (20.83%) Problem Management
4 14 (19.44%) RDF
5 11 (15.28%) Risk Analysis
6 5 (6.944%) Time Management
6 5 (6.944%) Network Design
6 5 (6.944%) Project Management
6 5 (6.944%) Service Delivery
7 4 (5.556%) Change Control
7 4 (5.556%) Technical Architecture
7 4 (5.556%) ITIL V3
8 3 (4.167%) Fund Management
8 3 (4.167%) Wealth Management
8 3 (4.167%) Business Transformation
9 2 (2.778%) Supplier Management
9 2 (2.778%) Incident Management
9 2 (2.778%) QMS
9 2 (2.778%) Release Management
9 2 (2.778%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (37.50%) Java
2 17 (23.61%) Shell Script
3 15 (20.83%) Korn
4 13 (18.06%) Perl
5 8 (11.11%) SQL
6 1 (1.389%) ABAP
6 1 (1.389%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.389%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.389%) C#
6 1 (1.389%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 18 (25.00%) Sun Certification
2 17 (23.61%) SCJP
2 17 (23.61%) SCJD
2 17 (23.61%) SCJA
3 16 (22.22%) SCWCD
4 14 (19.44%) Degree
5 2 (2.778%) MCSE
5 2 (2.778%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.389%) IBM Certification
6 1 (1.389%) CIW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.556%) SLA
1 4 (5.556%) QA
System Software
1 16 (22.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 14 (19.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 12 (16.67%) Veritas File System
4 5 (6.944%) Active Directory
4 5 (6.944%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (5.556%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (5.556%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (5.556%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (12.50%) NetBackup
2 6 (8.333%) SCCM
3 4 (5.556%) Data Guard
3 4 (5.556%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (2.778%) Control-M
Vendors
1 33 (45.83%) VMware
2 28 (38.89%) Oracle
3 19 (26.39%) Microsoft
4 18 (25.00%) Red Hat
5 17 (23.61%) Sybase
6 16 (22.22%) Veritas
7 15 (20.83%) EMC
8 10 (13.89%) IBM
9 8 (11.11%) Symantec
10 7 (9.722%) SAP
11 5 (6.944%) Cisco
11 5 (6.944%) Citrix
12 4 (5.556%) NetApp
12 4 (5.556%) HP
12 4 (5.556%) Dell
12 4 (5.556%) LANDesk
12 4 (5.556%) Acronis
Birmingham, West Midlands
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Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + + bonus + benefits
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Posted: 15 May 2013
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Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
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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.
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Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum + Oncall + Bens
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