The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT jobs advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 168 137 97
Rank change year-on-year
-31 -40
Permanent jobs citing Solaris 39 81 107
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.718% 1.537% 2.110%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.808% 6.240% 8.143%
Number of salaries quoted 33 57 84
Average salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.89% +2.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,875 £21,547 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,050 £65,000 £47,800
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,165
% change year-on-year
- +3.24%
All Operating Systems
Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1389 1298 1314
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 25.58% 24.63% 25.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1085 1030 1100
Average salary £31,000 £34,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.82% +7.93%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,500 £20,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Solaris Salary Trend

Solaris
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Solaris across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
North Yorkshire +5 22 £45,000 -30.76% 1
West Yorkshire -36 9 £44,250 +10.62% 2
South Yorkshire +2 8 £37,500 +33.92% 6
East Yorkshire -15 1 £31,250 +45.03%
Solaris
England

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire 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 82 (89.13%) Linux
2 79 (85.87%) UNIX
3 43 (46.74%) Sun
4 40 (43.48%) SAN
5 35 (38.04%) Oracle
6 30 (32.61%) Java
7 27 (29.35%) TCP/IP
8 26 (28.26%) XML
8 26 (28.26%) ITIL
9 24 (26.09%) Tomcat
9 24 (26.09%) WebSphere
10 20 (21.74%) Finance
11 19 (20.65%) JBoss
11 19 (20.65%) Windows
12 18 (19.57%) HPUX
12 18 (19.57%) Perl
12 18 (19.57%) Load Balancing
13 17 (18.48%) NAS
13 17 (18.48%) REST
14 16 (17.39%) Internet
14 16 (17.39%) SOAP
14 16 (17.39%) Python
14 16 (17.39%) HTTP
15 15 (16.30%) Apache
15 15 (16.30%) Firewall
15 15 (16.30%) Security Cleared
16 14 (15.22%) Cloud Computing
16 14 (15.22%) SSH
16 14 (15.22%) Bash shell
16 14 (15.22%) Enterprise Storage

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire 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 26 (28.26%) XML
2 24 (26.09%) WebSphere
3 17 (18.48%) REST
4 16 (17.39%) SOAP
5 12 (13.04%) Spring
5 12 (13.04%) Hibernate
6 11 (11.96%) J2EE
7 6 (6.522%) HTML
8 5 (5.435%) JSP
9 4 (4.348%) CSS
9 4 (4.348%) Web Services
9 4 (4.348%) Middleware
9 4 (4.348%) Java EE
10 3 (3.261%) Ajax
10 3 (3.261%) jQuery
10 3 (3.261%) Struts2
10 3 (3.261%) XHTML
10 3 (3.261%) Struts
11 1 (1.087%) Grails
11 1 (1.087%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 24 (26.09%) Tomcat
2 15 (16.30%) Apache
3 10 (10.87%) WebLogic
4 5 (5.435%) ATG Dynamo
5 4 (4.348%) WebSphere Application Server
5 4 (4.348%) IIS
5 4 (4.348%) IBM HTTP Server
6 3 (3.261%) Oracle Application Server
6 3 (3.261%) Lotus Domino
7 1 (1.087%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (1.087%) GlassFish
7 1 (1.087%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (9.783%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.087%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 40 (43.48%) SAN
2 27 (29.35%) TCP/IP
3 17 (18.48%) NAS
4 16 (17.39%) Internet
4 16 (17.39%) HTTP
5 15 (16.30%) Firewall
6 14 (15.22%) SSH
6 14 (15.22%) LDAP
7 11 (11.96%) SSL
8 9 (9.783%) iSCSI
8 9 (9.783%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (6.522%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (5.435%) DNS
11 3 (3.261%) LAN
11 3 (3.261%) WAN
12 2 (2.174%) Network Security
12 2 (2.174%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.696%) Oracle 11g
2 7 (7.609%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (3.261%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.261%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 6 (6.522%) JUnit
2 3 (3.261%) Hudson
2 3 (3.261%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (3.261%) Subversion
2 3 (3.261%) Maven
General
1 20 (21.74%) Finance
2 9 (9.783%) Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (23.91%) UNIX Engineer
2 21 (22.83%) Administrator
3 17 (18.48%) UNIX Administrator
3 17 (18.48%) Analyst
4 15 (16.30%) Architect
5 14 (15.22%) Senior UNIX Engineer
5 14 (15.22%) Linux Engineer
5 14 (15.22%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 11 (11.96%) Senior Analyst
6 11 (11.96%) Technical Analyst
7 9 (9.783%) Senior Technical Analyst
7 9 (9.783%) Network Architect
8 8 (8.696%) Systems Administrator
9 6 (6.522%) Software Architect
9 6 (6.522%) DBA
9 6 (6.522%) Oracle DBA
10 5 (5.435%) Configuration Engineer
10 5 (5.435%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 5 (5.435%) Linux Administrator
10 5 (5.435%) Release Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.22%) Cloud Computing
1 14 (15.22%) Enterprise Storage
2 9 (9.783%) Replication
3 5 (5.435%) Client/Server
4 4 (4.348%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.087%) Clustering
5 1 (1.087%) NHS
5 1 (1.087%) W3C
5 1 (1.087%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 82 (89.13%) Linux
2 79 (85.87%) UNIX
3 19 (20.65%) Windows
4 18 (19.57%) HPUX
5 14 (15.22%) AIX
6 8 (8.696%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (8.696%) SUSE
7 4 (4.348%) Debian
8 3 (3.261%) Ubuntu
8 3 (3.261%) CentOS
8 3 (3.261%) Mac OS X Server
9 2 (2.174%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (1.087%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (28.26%) ITIL
2 18 (19.57%) Load Balancing
3 14 (15.22%) Service Management
3 14 (15.22%) Workflow
4 13 (14.13%) Change Control
5 10 (10.87%) PRINCE2
6 8 (8.696%) Configuration Management
7 6 (6.522%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (6.522%) Network Management
8 4 (4.348%) Validation
8 4 (4.348%) Change Management
9 3 (3.261%) Software Architecture
9 3 (3.261%) Project Management
10 2 (2.174%) OOD
10 2 (2.174%) OOP
10 2 (2.174%) Identity Management
10 2 (2.174%) Information Security
10 2 (2.174%) Network Architecture
10 2 (2.174%) SIEM
10 2 (2.174%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 30 (32.61%) Java
2 18 (19.57%) Perl
3 16 (17.39%) Python
4 14 (15.22%) Bash shell
5 10 (10.87%) Shell Script
6 8 (8.696%) SQL
7 5 (5.435%) AWK
7 5 (5.435%) C
8 4 (4.348%) JavaScript
8 4 (4.348%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.087%) Ruby
9 1 (1.087%) Uniface
9 1 (1.087%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.87%) CCDA
2 10 (10.87%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (9.783%) CCNP
3 9 (9.783%) CCNA
4 6 (6.522%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (5.435%) OCP
6 3 (3.261%) Sun Certification
7 2 (2.174%) HND
7 2 (2.174%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.174%) Degree
8 1 (1.087%) CCDP
8 1 (1.087%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.87%) SLA
2 4 (4.348%) QA
3 1 (1.087%) COBIT
System Software
1 6 (6.522%) VMware ESX
1 6 (6.522%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 5 (5.435%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (4.348%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.261%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (3.261%) Novell eDirectory
4 3 (3.261%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 3 (3.261%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.174%) Snort
Systems Management
1 13 (14.13%) NetBackup
2 5 (5.435%) Data Guard
3 4 (4.348%) CA Wily
4 2 (2.174%) Nessus
5 1 (1.087%) BMC PATROL
5 1 (1.087%) Control-M
Vendors
1 43 (46.74%) Sun
2 35 (38.04%) Oracle
3 19 (20.65%) JBoss
4 14 (15.22%) VMware
4 14 (15.22%) Juniper
4 14 (15.22%) Cisco
5 13 (14.13%) Microsoft
6 12 (13.04%) Symantec
7 9 (9.783%) Red Hat
7 9 (9.783%) F5
8 8 (8.696%) IBM
9 7 (7.609%) Veritas
10 6 (6.522%) HP
11 5 (5.435%) ATG
12 3 (3.261%) Lotus
12 3 (3.261%) Apple
12 3 (3.261%) Novell
13 2 (2.174%) EMC
13 2 (2.174%) Hitachi
13 2 (2.174%) ArcSight
York, North Yorkshire
Senior Unix Engineer, Linux Engineer required by global market leader based in York, North Yorkshire (commutable from Leeds). In order to be considered you should have experience in...
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: Benefits
Posted: 15 June 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Established and successful full life cycle IT solutions and managed services provider to SME/corporate clients is recruiting a technical account manager to add to the team, to...
Venturi
Salary: £42000 - £45000 per annum + 5% bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Woking, Surrey or Wetherby
The correct person for this role must have; solid Solaris, Linux and Domino experience... SCCM, WSUS.•Good experience with networking and firewall/switch concepts.•5-10 years' experience...
Tectre Limited
Salary: £45,000 Max per annum
Posted: 10 June 2013
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