Solaris Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 City of London 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 116 97 93
Rank change year-on-year
-19 -4
Contract jobs citing Solaris 89 132 186
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.414% 1.697% 1.890%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.177% 8.555% 9.915%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 105 151
Average daily rate £450 £430 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.65% -9.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £322 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £430 £375
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +14.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £25.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +16.27%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £31.00 £35.47
% change year-on-year
-8.06% -12.58%
All Operating Systems
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 1240 1543 1876
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 19.70% 19.83% 19.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 850 964 1245
Average daily rate £400 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 97 108
Average hourly rate £31.25 £20.00 £19.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.25% +1.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.80 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £37.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Solaris
London

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Solaris Daily Rate Trend

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solaris across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Solaris Daily Rate Histogram

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Solaris Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

1 112 (66.67%) Linux
2 107 (63.69%) UNIX
3 73 (43.45%) Oracle
4 68 (40.48%) Red Hat
4 68 (40.48%) Banking
5 63 (37.50%) Finance
6 55 (32.74%) Windows
7 44 (26.19%) SAN
8 43 (25.60%) Sun
9 41 (24.40%) Investment Banking
10 39 (23.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 36 (21.43%) Perl
12 35 (20.83%) SQL
13 32 (19.05%) HP
14 30 (17.86%) Java
15 28 (16.67%) Sybase
16 27 (16.07%) Veritas
16 27 (16.07%) Shell Script
17 26 (15.48%) VMware
18 25 (14.88%) ITIL
19 24 (14.29%) EMC
19 24 (14.29%) SUSE
20 20 (11.90%) SQL Server
21 19 (11.31%) AIX
21 19 (11.31%) Windows Server 2003
22 18 (10.71%) Migration
22 18 (10.71%) Software Deployment
23 17 (10.12%) DNS
24 16 (9.524%) HPUX
24 16 (9.524%) LDAP

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 11 (6.548%) WebSphere
2 10 (5.952%) XML
3 9 (5.357%) HTML
4 8 (4.762%) Middleware
5 6 (3.571%) XSLT
5 6 (3.571%) .NET
6 4 (2.381%) Software Packaging
7 3 (1.786%) SOAP
7 3 (1.786%) Web Services
8 2 (1.190%) CSS
8 2 (1.190%) JSP
8 2 (1.190%) Servlets
8 2 (1.190%) XHTML
8 2 (1.190%) jQuery
8 2 (1.190%) OSGi
8 2 (1.190%) REST
9 1 (0.595%) JAX-WS
9 1 (0.595%) RESTful
9 1 (0.595%) Spring MVC
9 1 (0.595%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 9 (5.357%) Apache
2 8 (4.762%) WebLogic
2 8 (4.762%) IIS
3 4 (2.381%) MS Exchange
3 4 (2.381%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (1.786%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.786%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (1.190%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.190%) Amazon AWS
5 2 (1.190%) CMS
5 2 (1.190%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (1.190%) ESB
5 2 (1.190%) Oracle 10gAS
5 2 (1.190%) Lotus Domino
6 1 (0.595%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.595%) SAS
6 1 (0.595%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (0.595%) WebLogic Portal
6 1 (0.595%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.595%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.786%) MS Project
2 2 (1.190%) MS Office
2 2 (1.190%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.595%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (4.167%) RMDS
2 2 (1.190%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (1.190%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.190%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.595%) SunGard Stream Clearvision
3 1 (0.595%) Summit
3 1 (0.595%) Remedy AR System
Communications & Networking
1 44 (26.19%) SAN
2 17 (10.12%) DNS
3 16 (9.524%) LDAP
4 13 (7.738%) NAS
5 10 (5.952%) TCP/IP
6 6 (3.571%) DHCP
6 6 (3.571%) HTTP
6 6 (3.571%) Firewall
7 5 (2.976%) Internet
8 3 (1.786%) SSL
9 2 (1.190%) VPN
9 2 (1.190%) FTP
9 2 (1.190%) Cisco PIX
9 2 (1.190%) NetScreen
10 1 (0.595%) Network Security
10 1 (0.595%) Junos
10 1 (0.595%) SNMP
10 1 (0.595%) OSPF
10 1 (0.595%) BGP
10 1 (0.595%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.90%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.548%) Oracle 10g
3 7 (4.167%) Oracle 9i
4 5 (2.976%) Oracle 8/8i
4 5 (2.976%) Oracle 11g
4 5 (2.976%) SQLPlus
5 4 (2.381%) OLAP
5 4 (2.381%) Oracle OLAP
5 4 (2.381%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (1.786%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.595%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.595%) DTS
7 1 (0.595%) MySQL
7 1 (0.595%) DB2
7 1 (0.595%) InterBase
7 1 (0.595%) Sybase IQ
7 1 (0.595%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.595%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (0.595%) DB2 UDB
7 1 (0.595%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (2.381%) ClearCase
2 3 (1.786%) Subversion
3 2 (1.190%) JIRA
3 2 (1.190%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.595%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.595%) FishEye
4 1 (0.595%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.595%) JDeveloper
4 1 (0.595%) Ant
4 1 (0.595%) JUnit
4 1 (0.595%) Maven
General
1 68 (40.48%) Banking
2 63 (37.50%) Finance
3 41 (24.40%) Investment Banking
4 10 (5.952%) Financial Institution
5 9 (5.357%) Back Office
6 5 (2.976%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (1.786%) Retail
7 3 (1.786%) Front Office
7 3 (1.786%) Advertising
8 2 (1.190%) Marketing
8 2 (1.190%) French Language
8 2 (1.190%) German Language
9 1 (0.595%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.595%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (22.02%) Administrator
2 31 (18.45%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 29 (17.26%) Systems Administrator
4 19 (11.31%) UNIX Administrator
5 14 (8.333%) Developer
6 13 (7.738%) Analyst
7 11 (6.548%) Architect
7 11 (6.548%) UNIX Engineer
8 10 (5.952%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 10 (5.952%) Support Analyst
8 10 (5.952%) Linux Administrator
9 9 (5.357%) Project Manager
10 8 (4.762%) Linux Engineer
11 7 (4.167%) DBA
11 7 (4.167%) Release Manager
11 7 (4.167%) Infrastructure Architect
12 6 (3.571%) C++ Developer
12 6 (3.571%) Systems Engineer
12 6 (3.571%) Consultant
13 5 (2.976%) Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.762%) SWIFT
2 6 (3.571%) CLARiiON
2 6 (3.571%) Equities
3 5 (2.976%) Clustering
3 5 (2.976%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (2.976%) LPAR
3 5 (2.976%) Symmetrix DMX
4 4 (2.381%) Open Source
5 3 (1.786%) Celerra
5 3 (1.786%) Symmetrix
6 2 (1.190%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.190%) Computer Science
6 2 (1.190%) New Media
6 2 (1.190%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.595%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (0.595%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.595%) Wiki
7 1 (0.595%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.595%) FMCG
7 1 (0.595%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 112 (66.67%) Linux
2 107 (63.69%) UNIX
3 55 (32.74%) Windows
4 39 (23.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (14.29%) SUSE
6 19 (11.31%) Windows Server 2003
6 19 (11.31%) AIX
7 16 (9.524%) HPUX
8 12 (7.143%) Windows XP
9 6 (3.571%) Windows 2000
9 6 (3.571%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (2.381%) Debian
11 3 (1.786%) Windows 7
11 3 (1.786%) VMS
12 2 (1.190%) CentOS
13 1 (0.595%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.595%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.595%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (14.88%) ITIL
2 18 (10.71%) Migration
2 18 (10.71%) Software Deployment
3 10 (5.952%) Capacity Management
4 9 (5.357%) Project Management
5 8 (4.762%) Service Management
6 7 (4.167%) Change Management
6 7 (4.167%) Configuration Management
7 6 (3.571%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (2.976%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (2.976%) Complex Event Processing
8 5 (2.976%) Release Management
8 5 (2.976%) Benchmarking
8 5 (2.976%) PRINCE2
8 5 (2.976%) ITSM
9 4 (2.381%) Validation
9 4 (2.381%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (2.381%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (2.381%) Problem Management
10 3 (1.786%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 36 (21.43%) Perl
2 35 (20.83%) SQL
3 30 (17.86%) Java
4 27 (16.07%) Shell Script
5 14 (8.333%) C++
6 9 (5.357%) C
6 9 (5.357%) PL/SQL
7 8 (4.762%) Bash shell
8 7 (4.167%) Python
8 7 (4.167%) Korn
9 6 (3.571%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.381%) VB
11 3 (1.786%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.190%) Bourne shell
12 2 (1.190%) AWK
12 2 (1.190%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.190%) sed
13 1 (0.595%) VBScript
13 1 (0.595%) LotusScript
13 1 (0.595%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (8.929%) SCSA
2 13 (7.738%) Sun Certification
3 8 (4.762%) Degree
4 6 (3.571%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.381%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.786%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.786%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 3 (1.786%) RHCE
6 3 (1.786%) MCSE
6 3 (1.786%) CCNA
7 1 (0.595%) CCDA
7 1 (0.595%) CCSP
7 1 (0.595%) CCNP
7 1 (0.595%) PMP
7 1 (0.595%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.595%) IBM AIX Certification
7 1 (0.595%) CCSA
7 1 (0.595%) CCSE
7 1 (0.595%) RHCT
7 1 (0.595%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.571%) QA
2 4 (2.381%) Basel III
3 1 (0.595%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.595%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (9.524%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 12 (7.143%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 11 (6.548%) NFS
4 10 (5.952%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.976%) vSphere
6 4 (2.381%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (1.786%) VMware ESX
7 3 (1.786%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (1.786%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.190%) Veritas File System
9 1 (0.595%) ClearTrust
9 1 (0.595%) Active Directory
9 1 (0.595%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.595%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 9 (5.357%) Legato
2 8 (4.762%) Tivoli
3 7 (4.167%) NetBackup
4 6 (3.571%) BladeLogic
5 5 (2.976%) SCOM
6 4 (2.381%) McAfee ePO
6 4 (2.381%) HP SIM
6 4 (2.381%) Nagios
7 3 (1.786%) Backup Exec
7 3 (1.786%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (1.190%) Splunk
8 2 (1.190%) CFEngine
8 2 (1.190%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 2 (1.190%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (1.190%) BMC PATROL
9 1 (0.595%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.595%) CA SiteMinder
9 1 (0.595%) Foglight
9 1 (0.595%) EMC TimeFinder
9 1 (0.595%) Puppet
Vendors
1 73 (43.45%) Oracle
2 68 (40.48%) Red Hat
3 43 (25.60%) Sun
4 32 (19.05%) HP
5 28 (16.67%) Sybase
6 27 (16.07%) Veritas
7 26 (15.48%) VMware
8 24 (14.29%) EMC
9 15 (8.929%) Cisco
10 10 (5.952%) NetApp
11 8 (4.762%) Microsoft
11 8 (4.762%) Misys
12 7 (4.167%) IBM
12 7 (4.167%) Dell
13 6 (3.571%) GoldenSource
13 6 (3.571%) Thunderhead
14 5 (2.976%) 29West
14 5 (2.976%) DataSynapse
14 5 (2.976%) Murex
14 5 (2.976%) Business Objects
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