Sun Jobs in the UK excluding London

Sun
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Sun products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Sun over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Sun Microsystems, Inc.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 453 653 557
Rank change year-on-year +200 -96 +79
Permanent jobs citing Sun 126 109 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.15% 0.34%
As % of the Vendors category 0.82% 0.43% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 43 46 60
10th Percentile £12,535 £21,484 £33,853
25th Percentile £27,500 £26,188 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £33,631 £49,976
Median % change year-on-year +59.08% -32.71% +12.70%
75th Percentile £55,250 £50,000 £62,971
90th Percentile - £55,000 £63,798
UK median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £61,043
% change year-on-year +7.00% -18.09% +16.27%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Sun falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,429 25,405 24,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 38.88% 33.92% 42.06%
Number of salaries quoted 8,340 17,285 12,825
10th Percentile £25,087 £25,760 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,773 £45,543 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -8.91% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,625 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £54,793 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.59% -13.04% +4.55%

Sun
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Sun as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Sun in the UK excluding London

Sun
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Sun in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Sun in the UK excluding London

Sun
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Sun in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Sun in the UK excluding London

Sun
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sun within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +82 48 £53,500 +15.57% 12
East of England +78 29 £53,500 +3.88% 1
Scotland - 24 £12,535 - 7
North of England +26 13 £30,000 +35.47% 7
Yorkshire +56 7 £30,000 +33.33% 5
South West +113 6 - - 8
Midlands +65 4 - - 3
North East +51 3 £33,198 -
North West -11 3 - - 2
West Midlands +57 2 - - 3
East Midlands +42 2 - -
Wales +13 2 - - 2
Sun
UK

Sun
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.59%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.38%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 5 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (2.38%) Google Workspace
3 2 (1.59%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 92 (73.02%) Broadband
2 2 (1.59%) Firewall
2 2 (1.59%) Internet
2 2 (1.59%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.59%) WAN
2 2 (1.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.59%) EDMS
General
1 68 (53.97%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.43%) Banking
3 4 (3.17%) Billing
3 4 (3.17%) Games
4 3 (2.38%) Retail
5 2 (1.59%) Finance
Job Titles
1 65 (51.59%) Support Engineer
2 28 (22.22%) Auditor
2 28 (22.22%) Consultant
3 3 (2.38%) Analyst
3 3 (2.38%) Customer Service Advisor
3 3 (2.38%) Help Desk Analyst
3 3 (2.38%) IT Analyst
3 3 (2.38%) Sales Representative
4 2 (1.59%) Applications Support
4 2 (1.59%) Customer Service Representative
5 1 (0.79%) Field Engineer
5 1 (0.79%) Field Service Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 28 (22.22%) Driving Licence
2 2 (1.59%) Housing Association
3 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 68 (53.97%) Windows
2 65 (51.59%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (51.59%) Broadcast Engineering
1 65 (51.59%) Coaching
1 65 (51.59%) Post-Production
1 65 (51.59%) Proactive Maintenance
1 65 (51.59%) Proactive Monitoring
1 65 (51.59%) Procure-to-Pay
2 29 (23.02%) Continuous Improvement
3 28 (22.22%) Internal Audit
3 28 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 28 (22.22%) Time Management
4 7 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (4.76%) Customer Service
6 3 (2.38%) ITIL
6 3 (2.38%) ITSM
7 2 (1.59%) Change Control
7 2 (1.59%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (1.59%) IT Strategy
7 2 (1.59%) Project Management
7 2 (1.59%) Trend Analysis
8 1 (0.79%) Hardware Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.59%) PowerShell
1 2 (1.59%) Progress 4GL
1 2 (1.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (51.59%) Degree
System Software
1 70 (55.56%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 65 (51.59%) Microsoft
2 27 (21.43%) BT
3 3 (2.38%) Google
3 3 (2.38%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.38%) SAP
4 2 (1.59%) Capita
4 2 (1.59%) Progress
5 1 (0.79%) Cisco
5 1 (0.79%) Dell
5 1 (0.79%) EMC
5 1 (0.79%) Fujitsu
5 1 (0.79%) Hitachi
5 1 (0.79%) HP
5 1 (0.79%) IBM
5 1 (0.79%) NetApp