The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheltenham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 17 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 Cheltenham 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank - 24 -
Contract jobs citing Solaris 0 23 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham - 8.487% -
As % of the Operating Systems category - 21.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 23 0
Average daily rate - £500 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £430 £375
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +14.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £31.00 £35.47
% change year-on-year
-8.06% -12.58%
All Operating Systems
Cheltenham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
19 109 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham 25.68% 40.22% 35.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 61 19
Average daily rate £310 £500 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-38.00% +61.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £400 £293
10% offered a daily rate of more than £387 £500 £335
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £11.00 £20.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.34% +13.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Solaris
Gloucestershire

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham Solaris Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) Sun
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
3 3 (60.00%) Linux
4 2 (40.00%) Windows
4 2 (40.00%) ITIL
4 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (40.00%) Sun Certification
4 2 (40.00%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (40.00%) SAN
4 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (40.00%) Project Management
4 2 (40.00%) Service Management
4 2 (40.00%) Firewall
4 2 (40.00%) ITSM
4 2 (40.00%) Data Security
4 2 (40.00%) DHCP
4 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (40.00%) DNS
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
4 2 (40.00%) Middleware

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 2 (40.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
3 2 (40.00%) GlassFish
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
4 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 5.5
4 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
1 2 (40.00%) MPLS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle 11g
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) UNIX Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Solaris Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Solaris Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) PaaS
1 2 (40.00%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (40.00%) Project Management
1 2 (40.00%) Service Management
1 2 (40.00%) ITSM
1 2 (40.00%) Data Security
1 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Sun Certification
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (40.00%) SCSA
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Sun
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (40.00%) VMware