Sun
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Sun products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Sun over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 730 695 815
Rank change year-on-year -35 +120 -24
Permanent jobs citing Sun 172 283 436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the Vendors category 0.47% 0.67% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 104 108 166
10th Percentile £26,000 £33,853 £33,375
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £61,543 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.76% +17.22% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £74,235
90th Percentile £102,500 £121,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,500 £44,345 £48,750
% change year-on-year -8.67% -9.04% -7.14%

All Vendors
UK

Sun is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,515 42,452 61,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.84% 41.89% 38.90%
Number of salaries quoted 25,000 24,240 32,762
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,294 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +4.40%

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 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Sun in the UK

Sun
Top 14 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 9 May 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
England +23 141 £50,000 -4.76% 63
UK excluding London -86 111 £40,500 -8.67% 50
London +113 60 £85,000 -20.93% 15
Work from Home +60 50 £85,000 +13.33% 26
South East -22 47 £46,293 -7.37% 24
Wales +25 30 - -
North of England +25 25 £22,145 -44.64% 7
North West +7 16 £22,145 -59.74% 6
Yorkshire +75 7 £22,501 -49.26% 1
South West -24 5 £28,500 -50.43% 9
Midlands -39 4 £44,500 -5.32% 3
North East -11 2 - -
West Midlands -11 2 £44,500 -5.32% 2
East Midlands -22 2 - - 1

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 44 (25.58%) Oracle Service Bus
1 44 (25.58%) WebLogic
2 23 (13.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (8.14%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.58%) CMS
Applications
1 51 (29.65%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (27.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (26.16%) MS Visio
4 9 (5.23%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.58%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.58%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 44 (25.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (5.23%) Primavera
3 6 (3.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.74%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (1.74%) Infor SunSystems
4 3 (1.74%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.58%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.58%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.58%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 35 (20.35%) Microsoft 365
2 34 (19.77%) Azure
3 20 (11.63%) Entra ID
4 11 (6.40%) AWS
5 10 (5.81%) GitHub
6 7 (4.07%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.49%) Power Automate
7 6 (3.49%) PowerApps
8 5 (2.91%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.58%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.58%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.49%) Firewall
2 3 (1.74%) Network Security
2 3 (1.74%) VPN
3 2 (1.16%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.16%) LAN
3 2 (1.16%) SMTP
3 2 (1.16%) VLAN
3 2 (1.16%) WAN
3 2 (1.16%) Wireless
4 1 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.58%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (0.58%) DHCP
4 1 (0.58%) DMZ
4 1 (0.58%) DNS
4 1 (0.58%) HTTP
4 1 (0.58%) MPLS
4 1 (0.58%) NX-OS
4 1 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.58%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (25.58%) Oracle Database
1 44 (25.58%) Oracle Database 10g
1 44 (25.58%) Oracle Database 11g
1 44 (25.58%) VLDB
2 9 (5.23%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (3.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (1.74%) Tableau
5 1 (0.58%) MySQL
5 1 (0.58%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (11.05%) JIRA
2 10 (5.81%) Git
2 10 (5.81%) GitLab
3 6 (3.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 56 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 48 (27.91%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (22.67%) Finance
4 18 (10.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (8.14%) Banking
6 13 (7.56%) Investment Banking
7 9 (5.23%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.74%) Law
9 2 (1.16%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (1.16%) Retail
10 1 (0.58%) Back Office
10 1 (0.58%) Billing
10 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (42.44%) Analyst
2 49 (28.49%) Applications Support
3 47 (27.33%) Applications Support Analyst
3 47 (27.33%) Support Analyst
4 44 (25.58%) Oracle Analyst
4 44 (25.58%) Oracle Support Analyst
4 44 (25.58%) SQL Analyst
4 44 (25.58%) SQL Support Analyst
5 19 (11.05%) Lead
6 15 (8.72%) Systems Analyst
7 10 (5.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (4.65%) Infrastructure Manager
8 8 (4.65%) Project Planner
8 8 (4.65%) Server Engineer
8 8 (4.65%) Windows Engineer
8 8 (4.65%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (4.65%) Windows Server Engineer
9 7 (4.07%) Senior
10 6 (3.49%) Support Technician
10 6 (3.49%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.14%) EDI
2 6 (3.49%) Web Services
3 2 (1.16%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.58%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.58%) XML
4 1 (0.58%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.47%) Clustering
2 9 (5.23%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.91%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.33%) iPad
5 3 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.16%) Grid Computing
6 2 (1.16%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.58%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.58%) CCTV
7 1 (0.58%) Derivative
7 1 (0.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.58%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.58%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.58%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 61 (35.47%) Linux
2 48 (27.91%) Unix
3 45 (26.16%) Solaris
4 44 (25.58%) Windows
5 33 (19.19%) Windows Server
6 11 (6.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (5.23%) Android
7 9 (5.23%) Apple iOS
8 4 (2.33%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.16%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.58%) AIX
10 1 (0.58%) HPUX
10 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (30.23%) ITSM
2 46 (26.74%) Artificial Intelligence
3 44 (25.58%) Capacity Management
3 44 (25.58%) Capacity Planning
3 44 (25.58%) Performance Monitoring
3 44 (25.58%) Performance Tuning
3 44 (25.58%) Release Management
4 43 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 43 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 22 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (12.21%) Asset Management
7 20 (11.63%) Backlog Management
7 20 (11.63%) Information Security
7 20 (11.63%) Resource Management
7 20 (11.63%) Systems Engineering
8 18 (10.47%) Performance Management
9 17 (9.88%) Customer Service
10 13 (7.56%) ITIL
10 13 (7.56%) Project Management
11 12 (6.98%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 56 (32.56%) SQL
2 44 (25.58%) PL/SQL
3 34 (19.77%) PowerShell
4 15 (8.72%) Python
5 12 (6.98%) Bash
6 10 (5.81%) Korn
6 10 (5.81%) Perl
6 10 (5.81%) Ruby
7 9 (5.23%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.58%) Java
Qualifications
1 54 (31.40%) Degree
2 46 (26.74%) Security Cleared
3 45 (26.16%) SC Cleared
4 26 (15.12%) DBS Check
5 14 (8.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (5.23%) ACCA
6 9 (5.23%) CIMA
7 8 (4.65%) APMG
8 7 (4.07%) A+ Certification
9 5 (2.91%) Server+ Certification
10 2 (1.16%) HNC
11 1 (0.58%) CCNP
11 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (30.81%) SLA
2 3 (1.74%) ISO 14001
2 3 (1.74%) ISO 9001
2 3 (1.74%) QA
3 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.58%) NIST
System Software
1 44 (25.58%) Oracle RAC
2 35 (20.35%) Active Directory
3 20 (11.63%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 44 (25.58%) Data Guard
1 44 (25.58%) Oracle RMAN
2 24 (13.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (11.63%) Single Sign-On
3 20 (11.63%) vCenter Server
4 18 (10.47%) Microsoft Clustering
5 11 (6.40%) Ansible
6 10 (5.81%) Puppet
6 10 (5.81%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.58%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 53 (30.81%) Oracle
2 44 (25.58%) Remedy
3 34 (19.77%) Microsoft
4 24 (13.95%) VMware
5 20 (11.63%) Commvault
5 20 (11.63%) ServiceNow
6 11 (6.40%) Red Hat
7 10 (5.81%) TOWER Software
8 9 (5.23%) Dell
9 7 (4.07%) Apple
10 5 (2.91%) IBM
11 4 (2.33%) Cisco
11 4 (2.33%) EMC
12 3 (1.74%) Epicor
12 3 (1.74%) HP
12 3 (1.74%) IFS
12 3 (1.74%) Infor
12 3 (1.74%) JD Edwards
12 3 (1.74%) Sage
12 3 (1.74%) SAP