Buckinghamshire Solaris Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Sun Microsystems Solaris skills within the Buckinghamshire region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Sun Microsystems Solaris
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Aldershot Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clydebank Colchester Corby County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Driffield Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Elgin Enfield England Essex Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hertfordshire Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hull Inverness Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Moray Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	61
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	33	36
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.036 %
As % of the category below	7.051 %	7.200 %
Daily rates quoted	9	2
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£400
Average daily rate	£302	£488
% change on same period last year	-38.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£575
UK excluding London average daily rate	£375	£369
% change on same period last year	+1.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£26.41
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£27.79
% change on same period last year	+7.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£29.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.32	£30.68
% change on same period last year	+5.32 %
Operating Systems Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	468	500
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.624 %	0.506 %
Daily rates quoted	96	118
Average minimum daily rate	£351	£278
Average daily rate	£359	£296
% change on same period last year	+21.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£314
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	117	72
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.47	£21.59
Average hourly rate	£17.23	£22.77
% change on same period last year	-24.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.00	£23.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Solaris South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Solaris
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Solaris across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend

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

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solaris across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Solaris
Contract Locations

This section 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 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Milton Keynes	+5	24	£299	-33.56 %
Aylesbury	+5	1	£325	-

Solaris South East

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 45 (67.16 %) UNIX 2 29 (43.28 %) FreeBSD 2 29 (43.28 %) Sun 3 22 (32.84 %) Linux 4 18 (26.87 %) VERITAS 4 18 (26.87 %) NetBackup 5 14 (20.90 %) HPUX 6 12 (17.91 %) IPTV 7 11 (16.42 %) Clustering 8 9 (13.43 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 8 9 (13.43 %) HP 8 9 (13.43 %) Oracle 9 8 (11.94 %) IBM 10 7 (10.45 %) EMC 10 7 (10.45 %) Tivoli Storage Manager

10 7 (10.45 %) Telecoms 11 6 (8.955 %) Cisco 11 6 (8.955 %) Internet 11 6 (8.955 %) Unicenter 11 6 (8.955 %) SAN 11 6 (8.955 %) SAP 11 6 (8.955 %) AIX 11 6 (8.955 %) LLU 12 5 (7.463 %) Windows 12 5 (7.463 %) Java 12 5 (7.463 %) NetApp 12 5 (7.463 %) Apache 13 4 (5.970 %) DNS 13 4 (5.970 %) Red Hat 13 4 (5.970 %) C

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 4 (5.970 %) J2EE 2 2 (2.985 %) Servlets 2 2 (2.985 %) XML 2 2 (2.985 %) SAP XI 2 2 (2.985 %) .NET 3 1 (1.493 %) SAP Basis 3 1 (1.493 %) JNI 3 1 (1.493 %) Java RMI 3 1 (1.493 %) JCE 3 1 (1.493 %) SOAP 3 1 (1.493 %) WebServices 3 1 (1.493 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 5 (7.463 %) Apache 2 2 (2.985 %) Tomcat 2 2 (2.985 %) CICS 2 2 (2.985 %) ESB 3 1 (1.493 %) JBoss 3 1 (1.493 %) NetWeaver
Applications 1 2 (2.985 %) MS Office 1 2 (2.985 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (1.493 %) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking 1 6 (8.955 %) SAN 1 6 (8.955 %) Internet 1 6 (8.955 %) LLU 2 4 (5.970 %) LDAP 2 4 (5.970 %) DNS 3 3 (4.478 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (1.493 %) Ethernet 4 1 (1.493 %) TELNET 4 1 (1.493 %) BSS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (4.478 %) MySQL 1 3 (4.478 %) SQL Server 2 2 (2.985 %) DB2 3 1 (1.493 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (1.493 %) Ingres 3 1 (1.493 %) Oracle 10g
General 1 7 (10.45 %) Telecoms 2 1 (1.493 %) Finance 2 1 (1.493 %) Billing 2 1 (1.493 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 15 (22.39 %) Administrator 2 13 (19.40 %) Systems Administrator 3 10 (14.93 %) Consultant 3 10 (14.93 %) UNIX Administrator 4 9 (13.43 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 5 5 (7.463 %) Architect 5 5 (7.463 %) Senior Systems Administrator 5 5 (7.463 %) NOC Engineer 6 4 (5.970 %) Senior UNIX Administrator 6 4 (5.970 %) Senior UNIX Systems Administrator 6 4 (5.970 %) Analyst 7 3 (4.478 %) Project Manager 7 3 (4.478 %) Applications Support 7 3 (4.478 %) Network Technician 7 3 (4.478 %) UNIX Support 7 3 (4.478 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 7 3 (4.478 %) Senior NOC Engineer 7 3 (4.478 %) UNIX Consultant 7 3 (4.478 %) UNIX Specialist 8 2 (2.985 %) Solaris Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 12 (17.91 %) IPTV 2 11 (16.42 %) Clustering 3 2 (2.985 %) Mainframe 3 2 (2.985 %) IBM Mainframe 4 1 (1.493 %) Computer Science 4 1 (1.493 %) Replication 4 1 (1.493 %) CLARiiON 4 1 (1.493 %) Symmetrix 4 1 (1.493 %) PKI 4 1 (1.493 %) EMV 4 1 (1.493 %) Smartcard	Operating Systems 1 45 (67.16 %) UNIX 2 29 (43.28 %) FreeBSD 3 22 (32.84 %) Linux 4 14 (20.90 %) HPUX 5 6 (8.955 %) AIX 6 5 (7.463 %) Windows 7 2 (2.985 %) zOS 8 1 (1.493 %) Windows Server 2003 8 1 (1.493 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (4.478 %) PRINCE2 1 3 (4.478 %) Project Management 1 3 (4.478 %) Data Protection 2 2 (2.985 %) SOA 2 2 (2.985 %) TOGAF 2 2 (2.985 %) Enterprise Architecture 3 1 (1.493 %) Fault Management 3 1 (1.493 %) Time Management 3 1 (1.493 %) UML 3 1 (1.493 %) OO 3 1 (1.493 %) CRM 3 1 (1.493 %) Change Management 3 1 (1.493 %) Agile Software Development	Programming Languages 1 5 (7.463 %) Java 2 4 (5.970 %) C 3 2 (2.985 %) COBOL 3 2 (2.985 %) Perl 3 2 (2.985 %) PHP 4 1 (1.493 %) SQL 4 1 (1.493 %) C++
Qualifications 1 2 (2.985 %) MCP 1 2 (2.985 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (2.985 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (13.43 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 3 (4.478 %) GxP 3 1 (1.493 %) SLA
System Software 1 18 (26.87 %) NetBackup 2 2 (2.985 %) RACF 3 1 (1.493 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 3 1 (1.493 %) Oracle RMAN	Systems Management 1 7 (10.45 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 6 (8.955 %) Unicenter 3 1 (1.493 %) Tivoli 3 1 (1.493 %) HP Data Protector 3 1 (1.493 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 29 (43.28 %) Sun 2 18 (26.87 %) VERITAS 3 9 (13.43 %) HP 3 9 (13.43 %) Oracle 4 8 (11.94 %) IBM 5 7 (10.45 %) EMC 6 6 (8.955 %) SAP 6 6 (8.955 %) Cisco 7 5 (7.463 %) NetApp 8 4 (5.970 %) Red Hat 9 3 (4.478 %) StorageTek 10 2 (2.985 %) Altiris 10 2 (2.985 %) BladeLogic 10 2 (2.985 %) Citrix 10 2 (2.985 %) Microsoft 11 1 (1.493 %) Intel 11 1 (1.493 %) VMware