The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Crawley 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 27 33 25
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -8
Contract jobs citing Solaris 2 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 1.212% 0.373% 0.685%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.250% 4.000% 4.348%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £339 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £37.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-16.92% -7.14%
All Operating Systems
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
32 25 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 19.39% 9.328% 15.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 13 5
Average daily rate £400 £350 £485
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.83%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
Average hourly rate £17.50 £25.81 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.20% +22.91%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Solaris
West Sussex

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley 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 Crawley region.

Crawley 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 Crawley region.

Crawley Solaris Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (100.00%) EMC
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Budget Control
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) MS Project
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Project
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 11i
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Project Manager
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Budget Control
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) EMC
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) VMware