Sun
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 23 October 2024, 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
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 728 566 656
Rank change year-on-year -162 +90 +269
Permanent jobs citing Sun 50 201 582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.34% 0.41%
As % of the Vendors category 0.20% 0.81% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 35 77 147
10th Percentile £33,100 £39,123 £33,950
25th Percentile - £52,500 £36,953
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £65,351 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -47.97% +36.15% -10.28%
75th Percentile £38,060 £75,415 £78,125
90th Percentile £52,276 £95,050 £108,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £63,856 £44,345
% change year-on-year -46.76% +44.00% -1.46%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 24,446 24,905 55,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 41.89% 39.81%
Number of salaries quoted 12,032 17,966 30,925
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £56,392 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% -0.19% +2.73%
75th Percentile £76,000 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,975 £91,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

Sun
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Sun as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Sun in the UK

Sun
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Sun.

Salary trend for Sun in the UK

Sun
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Sun over the 6 months to 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Sun in the UK

Sun
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sun within the UK over the 6 months to 23 October 2024. 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
UK excluding London -153 41 £34,000 -46.76% 15
England -145 40 £34,000 -47.97% 27
Work from Home +9 26 £34,000 -47.97% 34
North of England -64 12 £34,000 -47.97% 3
Midlands -29 10 £34,000 +18.26% 1
North West -44 8 £34,000 -47.97% 2
East Midlands -27 7 - -
South West -10 6 £34,000 -47.97% 6
London -20 6 £50,000 -26.12% 11
South East -63 5 £36,310 -43.14% 5
Yorkshire +15 4 £34,000 -43.33% 1
Scotland -22 3 £34,000 -47.97%
West Midlands - 3 £34,000 - 1
Wales +32 2 £34,000 -12.82%
Northern Ireland +21 2 £34,000 -
East of England - 1 £51,500 -

Sun
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.00%) Apache
2 1 (2.00%) IBM Domino
2 1 (2.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) AutoCAD
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.00%) Azure
2 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) SAN
2 1 (2.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.00%) LAN
2 1 (2.00%) Network Security
2 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) MySQL
1 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 7 (14.00%) Finance
2 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.00%) Banking
4 3 (6.00%) Investment Banking
4 3 (6.00%) Law
5 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Prime Brokerage
6 1 (2.00%) Back Office
6 1 (2.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (44.00%) Campaign Specialist
2 5 (10.00%) Consultant
2 5 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
3 4 (8.00%) Analyst
3 4 (8.00%) Data Scientist
4 3 (6.00%) Administrator
4 3 (6.00%) Lead
5 2 (4.00%) Applications Support
5 2 (4.00%) Data Modeller
5 2 (4.00%) Developer
5 2 (4.00%) Lead Data Scientist
5 2 (4.00%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (4.00%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.00%) Senior Data Scientist
5 2 (4.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Technical Support
5 2 (4.00%) Technical Support Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) IT Analyst
6 1 (2.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) EDI
2 1 (2.00%) .NET
2 1 (2.00%) Blazor
2 1 (2.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (2.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.00%) XML
2 1 (2.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Algorithms
1 4 (8.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (8.00%) Grid Computing
2 3 (6.00%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.00%) EPoS
3 2 (4.00%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.00%) Clustering
4 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.00%) iPhone
4 1 (2.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.00%) Windows
2 5 (10.00%) Linux
2 5 (10.00%) Solaris
2 5 (10.00%) Unix
3 1 (2.00%) AIX
3 1 (2.00%) Android
3 1 (2.00%) HPUX
3 1 (2.00%) NetWare
3 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.00%) SUSE
3 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (8.00%) Data Science
2 4 (8.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (8.00%) Mathematics
3 3 (6.00%) Agile
3 3 (6.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (6.00%) Information Security
3 3 (6.00%) Project Management
3 3 (6.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (6.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (4.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (4.00%) Cash Management
4 2 (4.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (4.00%) IT Strategy
4 2 (4.00%) Migration
4 2 (4.00%) Physics
4 2 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (4.00%) Straight-Through Processing
4 2 (4.00%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (4.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.00%) C++
1 5 (10.00%) SQL
2 4 (8.00%) C
2 4 (8.00%) Fortran
2 4 (8.00%) Julia
2 4 (8.00%) Python
2 4 (8.00%) R
3 3 (6.00%) Java
3 3 (6.00%) Rust
4 2 (4.00%) VB
5 1 (2.00%) ActionScript
5 1 (2.00%) Bash
5 1 (2.00%) C#
5 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.00%) VC++
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) Degree
2 5 (10.00%) DBS Check
3 4 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.00%) A+ Certification
4 1 (2.00%) Dell Certification
4 1 (2.00%) HNC
4 1 (2.00%) HND
4 1 (2.00%) IBM Certification
4 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.00%) PhD
4 1 (2.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (2.00%) Server+ Certification
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Dell DRAC
1 1 (2.00%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 6 (12.00%) Oracle
2 3 (6.00%) HP
3 2 (4.00%) IBM
4 1 (2.00%) Dell
4 1 (2.00%) iManage
4 1 (2.00%) Lotus
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.00%) Murex
4 1 (2.00%) Novell
4 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.00%) Sybase
4 1 (2.00%) Unisys