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 12 July 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
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 768 647
Rank change year-on-year +327 -121 +52
Permanent jobs citing Sun 320 131 253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.13% 0.29%
As % of the Vendors category 1.26% 0.37% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 63 71 97
10th Percentile £12,704 £21,718 £40,000
25th Percentile £31,599 £32,500 £46,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £47,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -27.32% +28.53%
75th Percentile £55,250 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £87,500 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £37,500 £61,043
% change year-on-year +42.67% -38.57% +38.73%

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 25,459 35,370 35,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.37% 34.16% 40.82%
Number of salaries quoted 13,850 23,410 22,836
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,500 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +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 12 July 2025.

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 12 July 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
England +321 291 £53,500 +13.83% 100
Work from Home +294 262 £33,198 -53.57% 40
UK excluding London +193 129 £53,500 +42.67% 67
London +157 105 £53,500 -33.13% 43
South East +93 48 £53,500 +18.89% 23
East of England +64 29 £53,500 +3.88% 1
Scotland +119 24 £12,535 -82.47% 5
North of England +37 15 £30,000 +35.47% 20
Yorkshire +48 9 £30,000 +33.33% 7
South West +104 6 - - 9
Midlands +73 5 £95,000 +163.89% 6
West Midlands +72 3 £95,000 +163.89% 6
North West -4 3 - - 13
North East - 3 £33,198 - 2
East Midlands +35 2 - -
Wales +4 2 - - 3

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 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (0.63%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.31%) CMS
2 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.56%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (2.50%) Azure
2 8 (2.50%) Google Workspace
3 5 (1.56%) AWS
4 4 (1.25%) GCP
5 3 (0.94%) Google Sheets
6 2 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (0.63%) SaaS
7 1 (0.31%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.31%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.31%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.31%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 242 (75.63%) Broadband
2 4 (1.25%) Firewall
3 3 (0.94%) WAN
4 2 (0.63%) Internet
4 2 (0.63%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.63%) Wireless
5 1 (0.31%) BGP
5 1 (0.31%) IGMP
5 1 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.31%) Multicast
5 1 (0.31%) OSPF
5 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.88%) Tableau
2 3 (0.94%) BigQuery
2 3 (0.94%) Looker
2 3 (0.94%) Mixpanel
3 2 (0.63%) EDMS
4 1 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.31%) GIS
4 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.31%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (0.94%) JIRA
General
1 232 (72.50%) Social Skills
2 27 (8.44%) Banking
3 11 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (3.13%) Finance
5 6 (1.88%) Marketing
5 6 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (1.56%) Retail
7 4 (1.25%) Billing
7 4 (1.25%) Games
8 3 (0.94%) Advertising
8 3 (0.94%) Law
8 3 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.31%) Front Office
9 1 (0.31%) Legal
Job Titles
1 217 (67.81%) Support Engineer
2 33 (10.31%) Auditor
2 33 (10.31%) Consultant
3 15 (4.69%) Analyst
4 6 (1.88%) IT Analyst
5 5 (1.56%) Help Desk Analyst
6 4 (1.25%) Business Development Manager
6 4 (1.25%) Business Manager
6 4 (1.25%) Development Manager
7 3 (0.94%) Customer Service Advisor
7 3 (0.94%) Product Analyst
7 3 (0.94%) Sales Representative
7 3 (0.94%) Senior
8 2 (0.63%) Blazor Developer
8 2 (0.63%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 2 (0.63%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (0.63%) IMAC Engineer
8 2 (0.63%) IMAC Support
8 2 (0.63%) Lead
8 2 (0.63%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.63%) .NET
1 2 (0.63%) .NET Core
1 2 (0.63%) Blazor
1 2 (0.63%) PostGIS
1 2 (0.63%) Razor View Engine
1 2 (0.63%) React
2 1 (0.31%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.31%) Entity Framework
2 1 (0.31%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (0.31%) Google Maps API
2 1 (0.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.31%) Driving Licence
2 13 (4.06%) Social Media
3 6 (1.88%) Podcast
3 6 (1.88%) Social Network
4 4 (1.25%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.25%) Data Centre
5 3 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.63%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.63%) CMDB
6 2 (0.63%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (0.63%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.31%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.31%) Equities
7 1 (0.31%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.31%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.31%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.31%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.31%) TWAP
7 1 (0.31%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 226 (70.63%) Windows
2 215 (67.19%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (1.56%) Linux
4 2 (0.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (67.19%) Broadcast Engineering
1 215 (67.19%) Coaching
1 215 (67.19%) Post-Production
1 215 (67.19%) Proactive Maintenance
1 215 (67.19%) Proactive Monitoring
1 215 (67.19%) Procure-to-Pay
2 38 (11.88%) Service Delivery
3 35 (10.94%) Time Management
4 34 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 33 (10.31%) Internal Audit
6 13 (4.06%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (3.13%) ITIL
7 10 (3.13%) SEO
8 8 (2.50%) ITSM
9 7 (2.19%) Analytics
9 7 (2.19%) Collaborative Culture
9 7 (2.19%) Customer Service
10 6 (1.88%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (1.56%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (1.56%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 8 (2.50%) SQL
2 3 (0.94%) Python
3 2 (0.63%) C#
3 2 (0.63%) JavaScript
3 2 (0.63%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.63%) Progress 4GL
4 1 (0.31%) Bash
4 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 215 (67.19%) Degree
2 2 (0.63%) AWS Certification
2 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
2 2 (0.63%) CISSP
3 1 (0.31%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.31%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.94%) SLA
2 2 (0.63%) GDPR
2 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.63%) NIST
2 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 225 (70.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.94%) Terraform
2 2 (0.63%) Ansible
2 2 (0.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 217 (67.81%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.44%) BT
3 11 (3.44%) Google
4 6 (1.88%) YouTube
5 5 (1.56%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.56%) SAP
6 3 (0.94%) Amplitude
6 3 (0.94%) Dell
6 3 (0.94%) IBM
7 2 (0.63%) Capita
7 2 (0.63%) Progress
7 2 (0.63%) Snow
8 1 (0.31%) Cisco
8 1 (0.31%) EMC
8 1 (0.31%) Fujitsu
8 1 (0.31%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.31%) HP
8 1 (0.31%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.31%) NetApp
8 1 (0.31%) Splunk