The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Buckinghamshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 66 57 54
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -3
Contract jobs citing Solaris 3 16 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.369% 1.595% 1.890%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.765% 5.674% 7.353%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 6
Average daily rate - £339 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.81%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £410 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £31.00 £35.47
% change year-on-year
-12.90% -12.58%
All Operating Systems
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
170 282 272
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 20.94% 28.12% 25.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 107 80
Average daily rate £300 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £148 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £446
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 30 43
Average hourly rate £13.75 £13.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.85% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £10.30 £10.41
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £15.00 £36.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Solaris
South East

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Solaris across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Buckinghamshire Solaris Jobs Demand Trend

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Solaris across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Solaris Daily Rate Trend

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Solaris across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Solaris Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Amersham - 3 - -
Solaris
South East

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Solaris also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Solaris.

1 9 (75.00%) UNIX
2 8 (66.67%) Oracle
3 7 (58.33%) Linux
4 6 (50.00%) HPUX
5 5 (41.67%) SQL
6 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
6 4 (33.33%) Shell Script
6 4 (33.33%) Windows
6 4 (33.33%) AIX
6 4 (33.33%) VMware
6 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (25.00%) HP SIM
7 3 (25.00%) NAS
7 3 (25.00%) Finance
7 3 (25.00%) Clustering
7 3 (25.00%) HP Data Protector
7 3 (25.00%) Sun
7 3 (25.00%) HP
7 3 (25.00%) SAN
7 3 (25.00%) Six Sigma
7 3 (25.00%) Tivoli
7 3 (25.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 3 (25.00%) ITIL
7 3 (25.00%) Oracle 11i
8 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
8 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
8 2 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
8 2 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
9 1 (8.333%) Replication
9 1 (8.333%) Oracle RMAN

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Solaris also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Solaris. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (8.333%) Spring
1 1 (8.333%) Ajax
1 1 (8.333%) WebSphere
1 1 (8.333%) Dojo
1 1 (8.333%) J2EE
1 1 (8.333%) DHTML
1 1 (8.333%) EJB
1 1 (8.333%) CSS
1 1 (8.333%) JDBC
1 1 (8.333%) JSP
1 1 (8.333%) Servlets
1 1 (8.333%) Struts
1 1 (8.333%) Web Services
1 1 (8.333%) XML
1 1 (8.333%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) Drupal
1 1 (8.333%) Moodle
1 1 (8.333%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (8.333%) WebLogic
1 1 (8.333%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) NAS
1 3 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (8.333%) HTTP
2 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (8.333%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (8.333%) DB2 UDB
3 1 (8.333%) DB2
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Git (software)
1 1 (8.333%) Maven
1 1 (8.333%) Ant
1 1 (8.333%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Administrator
1 6 (50.00%) UNIX Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 3 (25.00%) DBA
4 2 (16.67%) Developer
4 2 (16.67%) SQL DBA
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (8.333%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (8.333%) SQL Server DBA
5 1 (8.333%) Java Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Database Developer
5 1 (8.333%) SQL Developer
5 1 (8.333%) PL/SQL Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Oracle Database Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (8.333%) Replication
2 1 (8.333%) Open Source
2 1 (8.333%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) UNIX
2 7 (58.33%) Linux
3 6 (50.00%) HPUX
4 4 (33.33%) Windows
4 4 (33.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (25.00%) Six Sigma
2 3 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (8.333%) Use Case
3 1 (8.333%) Database Tuning
3 1 (8.333%) Software Architecture
3 1 (8.333%) High Availability
3 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (8.333%) Load Balancing
3 1 (8.333%) Service Delivery
3 1 (8.333%) CRM
3 1 (8.333%) UML
3 1 (8.333%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (8.333%) OO
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 1 (8.333%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.333%) Bash shell
4 1 (8.333%) Korn
4 1 (8.333%) Java
4 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.333%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) SCSA
1 1 (8.333%) Degree
1 1 (8.333%) RHCE
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) HP SIM
1 3 (25.00%) HP Data Protector
1 3 (25.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (8.333%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Oracle
2 4 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (25.00%) Sun
3 3 (25.00%) HP
4 1 (8.333%) Red Hat
4 1 (8.333%) Siebel
4 1 (8.333%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.333%) JBoss