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 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 421 751 680
Rank change year-on-year +330 -71 +76
Permanent jobs citing Sun 305 161 289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.16% 0.30%
As % of the Vendors category 1.38% 0.44% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 61 92 101
10th Percentile £12,535 £22,146 £33,853
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,815 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £55,250 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £56,500 £89,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £33,631 £47,488
% change year-on-year +59.08% -29.18% +7.09%

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 22,055 36,622 40,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 39.80% 35.46% 41.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11,937 24,877 23,438
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,863 £45,673 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.80% -8.66% +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 30 May 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 30 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
England +287 276 £53,500 +7.00% 124
Work from Home +299 254 £13,380 -84.26% 44
UK excluding London +211 126 £53,500 +59.08% 118
London +155 92 £53,500 -37.06% 22
South East +92 48 £53,500 +15.57% 44
East of England +75 29 £53,500 +3.88% 12
Scotland - 24 £12,535 - 4
North of England +40 13 £30,000 +35.47% 21
Yorkshire +60 7 £30,000 +33.33% 11
South West +106 6 - - 24
Midlands +86 4 - - 17
North East +48 3 £33,198 - 2
North West -4 3 - - 8
West Midlands +59 2 - - 8
East Midlands +45 2 - - 6
Wales +19 2 - - 4

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 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.33%) CMS
2 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Infor SunSystems
1 3 (0.98%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (1.97%) Google Workspace
3 5 (1.64%) Azure
4 3 (0.98%) Google Sheets
5 2 (0.66%) AWS
5 2 (0.66%) GCP
6 1 (0.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.33%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 242 (79.34%) Broadband
2 4 (1.31%) Firewall
3 2 (0.66%) Internet
3 2 (0.66%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.66%) WAN
3 2 (0.66%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.31%) Tableau
2 3 (0.98%) Looker
3 2 (0.66%) EDMS
4 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.33%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.33%) GIS
4 1 (0.33%) Mixpanel
4 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.33%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (0.33%) JIRA
General
1 228 (74.75%) Social Skills
2 27 (8.85%) Banking
3 8 (2.62%) Finance
4 7 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (1.31%) Billing
5 4 (1.31%) Games
6 3 (0.98%) Advertising
6 3 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (0.98%) Retail
7 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.33%) Front Office
7 1 (0.33%) Law
7 1 (0.33%) Legal
7 1 (0.33%) Marketing
7 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 217 (71.15%) Support Engineer
2 33 (10.82%) Auditor
2 33 (10.82%) Consultant
3 13 (4.26%) Analyst
4 4 (1.31%) IT Analyst
5 3 (0.98%) Customer Service Advisor
5 3 (0.98%) Data Analyst
5 3 (0.98%) Financial Analyst
5 3 (0.98%) Help Desk Analyst
5 3 (0.98%) Sales Representative
6 2 (0.66%) Applications Support
6 2 (0.66%) C# Developer
6 2 (0.66%) Customer Service Representative
6 2 (0.66%) Developer
6 2 (0.66%) IMAC Support
6 2 (0.66%) React Developer
6 2 (0.66%) Service Desk Manager
6 2 (0.66%) Service Manager
6 2 (0.66%) Support Team Leader
6 2 (0.66%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.66%) .NET
1 2 (0.66%) .NET Core
1 2 (0.66%) Blazor
1 2 (0.66%) PostGIS
1 2 (0.66%) Razor View Engine
1 2 (0.66%) React
2 1 (0.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.33%) Entity Framework
2 1 (0.33%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (0.33%) Google Maps API
2 1 (0.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.82%) Driving Licence
2 8 (2.62%) Social Media
3 4 (1.31%) Algorithms
4 3 (0.98%) Management Information System
4 3 (0.98%) Podcast
4 3 (0.98%) Social Network
5 2 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (0.66%) Data Centre
5 2 (0.66%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (0.66%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.33%) Equities
6 1 (0.33%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.33%) TWAP
6 1 (0.33%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 223 (73.11%) Windows
2 215 (70.49%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (0.98%) Linux
4 2 (0.66%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (70.49%) Broadcast Engineering
1 215 (70.49%) Coaching
1 215 (70.49%) Post-Production
1 215 (70.49%) Proactive Maintenance
1 215 (70.49%) Proactive Monitoring
1 215 (70.49%) Procure-to-Pay
2 36 (11.80%) Service Delivery
3 34 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
4 33 (10.82%) Internal Audit
4 33 (10.82%) Time Management
5 9 (2.95%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (2.30%) Customer Service
6 7 (2.30%) SEO
7 5 (1.64%) ITIL
8 4 (1.31%) ITSM
8 4 (1.31%) Trend Analysis
9 3 (0.98%) Agile
9 3 (0.98%) B2B
9 3 (0.98%) ERP
9 3 (0.98%) Financial Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (1.97%) SQL
2 3 (0.98%) VBA
3 2 (0.66%) C#
3 2 (0.66%) JavaScript
3 2 (0.66%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.66%) Progress 4GL
3 2 (0.66%) Python
4 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 215 (70.49%) Degree
2 1 (0.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.98%) SLA
System Software
1 223 (73.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 217 (71.15%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.85%) BT
3 8 (2.62%) Google
4 4 (1.31%) YouTube
5 3 (0.98%) Dell
5 3 (0.98%) IBM
5 3 (0.98%) Infor
5 3 (0.98%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.98%) SAP
6 2 (0.66%) Capita
6 2 (0.66%) Progress
6 2 (0.66%) Snow
7 1 (0.33%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.33%) Cisco
7 1 (0.33%) EMC
7 1 (0.33%) Fujitsu
7 1 (0.33%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.33%) HP
7 1 (0.33%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.33%) NetApp