The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Camberley region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 23 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 Camberley 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 2 13 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Contract jobs citing Solaris 17 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Camberley 34.00% 5.455% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 85.00% 21.43% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 0
Average daily rate £425 £385 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.38% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £410 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £30.50 £33.72
% change year-on-year
-11.47% -9.53%
All Operating Systems
Camberley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
20 14 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Camberley 40.00% 25.45% 47.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 6
Average daily rate £425 £385 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.38% +6.20%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £375 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £8.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +112.12%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Solaris
Surrey

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Camberley 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 Camberley region.

Camberley 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 Camberley region.

Camberley Solaris Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Camberley 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 13 (56.52%) Linux
1 13 (56.52%) NAS
2 12 (52.17%) SAN
3 11 (47.83%) Veritas
3 11 (47.83%) UNIX
3 11 (47.83%) Firewall
3 11 (47.83%) Finance
4 10 (43.48%) Telecoms
4 10 (43.48%) Intrusion Detection
4 10 (43.48%) Cisco
4 10 (43.48%) McAfee
4 10 (43.48%) Juniper
5 9 (39.13%) AIX
5 9 (39.13%) Banking
5 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
5 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
5 9 (39.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 8 (34.78%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 8 (34.78%) Investment Banking
7 7 (30.43%) Network Load Balancing
7 7 (30.43%) Migration
7 7 (30.43%) HPUX
7 7 (30.43%) SMTP
7 7 (30.43%) EMC
7 7 (30.43%) Radware
7 7 (30.43%) Internet
7 7 (30.43%) Shell Script
8 6 (26.09%) CRM
9 5 (21.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (21.74%) Oracle

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Camberley 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 Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 13 (56.52%) NAS
2 12 (52.17%) SAN
3 11 (47.83%) Firewall
4 10 (43.48%) Intrusion Detection
5 7 (30.43%) SMTP
5 7 (30.43%) Internet
6 3 (13.04%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (13.04%) NetScreen
6 3 (13.04%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.696%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (8.696%) Oracle 11g
General
1 11 (47.83%) Finance
2 10 (43.48%) Telecoms
3 9 (39.13%) Banking
4 8 (34.78%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Solutions Architect
1 7 (30.43%) Architect
2 6 (26.09%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 5 (21.74%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (13.04%) UNIX Specialist
4 3 (13.04%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Linux Specialist
5 2 (8.696%) Systems Integration Engineer
5 2 (8.696%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (8.696%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (8.696%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (8.696%) DBA
5 2 (8.696%) Administrator
6 1 (4.348%) Consultant
6 1 (4.348%) UNIX Engineer
6 1 (4.348%) UNIX Administrator
6 1 (4.348%) Linux Administrator
6 1 (4.348%) UNIX Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Firmware
1 4 (17.39%) Equities
2 1 (4.348%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Linux
2 11 (47.83%) UNIX
3 9 (39.13%) AIX
4 7 (30.43%) HPUX
5 5 (21.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (8.696%) Windows
7 1 (4.348%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Network Load Balancing
1 7 (30.43%) Migration
2 6 (26.09%) CRM
3 3 (13.04%) Configuration Management
3 3 (13.04%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (8.696%) Data Modelling
4 2 (8.696%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) Shell Script
2 3 (13.04%) Java
3 2 (8.696%) Perl
3 2 (8.696%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
1 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 8 (34.78%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 5 (21.74%) NFS
4 3 (13.04%) Sendmail
5 2 (8.696%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Veritas
2 10 (43.48%) Cisco
2 10 (43.48%) McAfee
2 10 (43.48%) Juniper
3 7 (30.43%) EMC
3 7 (30.43%) Radware
4 5 (21.74%) Oracle
4 5 (21.74%) Sun
4 5 (21.74%) NetApp
5 3 (13.04%) Blue Coat
6 2 (8.696%) Red Hat
6 2 (8.696%) Hitachi
6 2 (8.696%) HP
7 1 (4.348%) Microsoft
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