The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 205 185 151
Rank change year-on-year
-20 -34
Permanent jobs citing Sun 15 17 52
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.271% 0.326% 1.037%
As % of the Vendors category 0.576% 0.713% 2.122%
Number of salaries quoted 9 11 45
Average salary £45,000 £42,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +29.23%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £44,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-15.73% +4.70%
All Vendors
Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2603 2385 2451
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 46.99% 45.73% 48.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2068 1881 2056
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Sun Salary Trend

Sun
Salary Histogram

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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
North Yorkshire +2 12 £45,000 -30.76%
South Yorkshire - 1 £48,500 -
Sun
England

Sun
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire 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 49 (100.00%) Solaris
2 47 (95.92%) Linux
3 42 (85.71%) UNIX
4 33 (67.35%) SAN
5 30 (61.22%) Java
6 28 (57.14%) Oracle
7 26 (53.06%) XML
8 24 (48.98%) WebSphere
9 23 (46.94%) REST
10 21 (42.86%) NAS
10 21 (42.86%) Perl
10 21 (42.86%) TCP/IP
11 20 (40.82%) HTTP
11 20 (40.82%) Tomcat
11 20 (40.82%) Python
11 20 (40.82%) LDAP
11 20 (40.82%) ITIL
11 20 (40.82%) SOAP
11 20 (40.82%) JBoss
11 20 (40.82%) Internet
11 20 (40.82%) Service Management
11 20 (40.82%) Workflow
11 20 (40.82%) Bash shell
11 20 (40.82%) Enterprise Storage
11 20 (40.82%) Load Balancing
11 20 (40.82%) SSH
11 20 (40.82%) Cloud Computing
12 15 (30.61%) VMware
13 13 (26.53%) Windows
14 8 (16.33%) iSCSI

Sun
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire 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 26 (53.06%) XML
2 24 (48.98%) WebSphere
3 23 (46.94%) REST
4 20 (40.82%) SOAP
5 6 (12.24%) Hibernate
5 6 (12.24%) Spring
5 6 (12.24%) J2EE
6 4 (8.163%) Middleware
7 1 (2.041%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 20 (40.82%) Tomcat
2 6 (12.24%) WebLogic
3 4 (8.163%) Apache
3 4 (8.163%) IBM HTTP Server
3 4 (8.163%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (2.041%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (4.082%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 33 (67.35%) SAN
2 21 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 21 (42.86%) NAS
3 20 (40.82%) LDAP
3 20 (40.82%) HTTP
3 20 (40.82%) Internet
3 20 (40.82%) SSH
4 8 (16.33%) iSCSI
4 8 (16.33%) Fibre Channel
5 5 (10.20%) DNS
6 4 (8.163%) SSL
6 4 (8.163%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.122%) Oracle 10g
1 3 (6.122%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.122%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 7 (14.29%) Finance
2 5 (10.20%) Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (44.90%) UNIX Engineer
2 20 (40.82%) Linux Engineer
3 17 (34.69%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 17 (34.69%) Senior UNIX Engineer
4 12 (24.49%) Analyst
5 10 (20.41%) Senior Analyst
6 9 (18.37%) Technical Analyst
7 8 (16.33%) Senior Technical Analyst
8 6 (12.24%) Architect
8 6 (12.24%) Software Architect
9 5 (10.20%) Administrator
10 4 (8.163%) Applications Specialist
10 4 (8.163%) WebSphere Specialist
10 4 (8.163%) Server Specialist
11 3 (6.122%) Systems Administrator
11 3 (6.122%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 2 (4.082%) Network Analyst
12 2 (4.082%) Senior Network Analyst
12 2 (4.082%) Systems Support
12 2 (4.082%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 20 (40.82%) Cloud Computing
1 20 (40.82%) Enterprise Storage
2 8 (16.33%) Replication
3 4 (8.163%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.082%) New Media
4 2 (4.082%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 49 (100.00%) Solaris
2 47 (95.92%) Linux
3 42 (85.71%) UNIX
4 13 (26.53%) Windows
5 8 (16.33%) HPUX
6 4 (8.163%) AIX
6 4 (8.163%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (6.122%) Mac OS X Server
8 2 (4.082%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (2.041%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.82%) ITIL
1 20 (40.82%) Service Management
1 20 (40.82%) Workflow
1 20 (40.82%) Load Balancing
2 4 (8.163%) Validation
3 3 (6.122%) Software Architecture
4 2 (4.082%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (61.22%) Java
2 21 (42.86%) Perl
3 20 (40.82%) Python
3 20 (40.82%) Bash shell
4 6 (12.24%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.122%) PL/SQL
5 3 (6.122%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.163%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.163%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.163%) VMware ESX
2 3 (6.122%) Novell eDirectory
2 3 (6.122%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.122%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.082%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (2.041%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (2.041%) Samba
Systems Management
1 8 (16.33%) NetBackup
2 4 (8.163%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 28 (57.14%) Oracle
2 20 (40.82%) JBoss
3 15 (30.61%) VMware
4 8 (16.33%) Symantec
5 6 (12.24%) Red Hat
6 5 (10.20%) HP
7 3 (6.122%) Apple
7 3 (6.122%) Novell
7 3 (6.122%) Microsoft
8 2 (4.082%) Akamai
8 2 (4.082%) Veritas
9 1 (2.041%) EMC
9 1 (2.041%) Hitachi
9 1 (2.041%) IBM
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Our Client, based in Leeds, are look to add a Lead Java Web Developer to their eCommerce team... Qualifications in Sun, Microsoft or CIW certification would be an...
D Tech Recruitment
Salary: From £38,000 to £55,000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Our Client, based in Leeds, are look to add a Lead Java Web Developer to their eCommerce team... Qualifications in Sun, Microsoft or CIW certification would be an...
D Tech Recruitment
Salary: From £38,000 to £55,000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013