Derby Solaris Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Derby region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Derby region.

Sun Microsystems Solaris
Location Abingdon Amersham Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chorley City of London Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Surrey Swindon Telford Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 19 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	12	3	12
Rank change year-on-year	-9 +9
Matching contract IT job ads	13	25	18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derby	10.16 %	25.00 %	11.11 %
As % of the Operating Systems category	30.95 %	52.08 %	36.73 %
Daily rates quoted	6	12	4
Average daily rate	£388	£303	£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+28.18 % -24.37 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£325	£375
% change year-on-year	+1.530 % -13.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0	0
Average hourly rate	£32.00	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.00	£28.00	£31.31
% change year-on-year	+10.71 % -10.57 %
All Operating Systems Derby
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Operating Systems category	42	48	49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derby	32.81 %	48.00 %	30.25 %
Daily rates quoted	16	15	6
Average daily rate	£313	£290	£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+7.750 % -27.50 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£313	£310	£335
% change year-on-year	+0.800 % -7.460 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	9	7
Average hourly rate	£14.50	£11.46	£12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	+26.52 % -4.500 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.00	£17.50	£18.00
% change year-on-year	-14.28 % -2.770 %
Solaris Derbyshire

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solaris across the Derby region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Derby 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 (100.00 %) UNIX 2 12 (92.31 %) Windows 3 10 (76.92 %) Data Management 4 9 (69.23 %) Client/Server 4 9 (69.23 %) C 4 9 (69.23 %) C++ 4 9 (69.23 %) Java 4 9 (69.23 %) Manufacturing 5 8 (61.54 %) CAD 5 8 (61.54 %) Perl 5 8 (61.54 %) Oracle 6 7 (53.85 %) SQL 6 7 (53.85 %) Windows XP 6 7 (53.85 %) Requirements Analysis 7 6 (46.15 %) Aerospace

7 6 (46.15 %) PDM 7 6 (46.15 %) Windows Server 2003 8 5 (38.46 %) Degree 9 4 (30.77 %) SC Cleared 9 4 (30.77 %) Security Cleared 9 4 (30.77 %) Active Directory 10 2 (15.38 %) Microsoft 10 2 (15.38 %) SQL Server 11 1 (7.692 %) WebLogic 11 1 (7.692 %) ITIL 11 1 (7.692 %) Documentum 11 1 (7.692 %) Cisco 11 1 (7.692 %) Linux 11 1 (7.692 %) Oracle 8/8i 11 1 (7.692 %) SharePoint

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Derby 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 1 (7.692 %) WebLogic 1 1 (7.692 %) Documentum 1 1 (7.692 %) SharePoint 1 1 (7.692 %) WebLogic Portal	Communications & Networking 1 1 (7.692 %) SAN 1 1 (7.692 %) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (15.38 %) SQL Server 2 1 (7.692 %) Oracle 8/8i	General 1 9 (69.23 %) Manufacturing 2 6 (46.15 %) Aerospace 3 1 (7.692 %) Telecoms 3 1 (7.692 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 9 (69.23 %) Technical Leader 2 1 (7.692 %) UNIX Administrator 2 1 (7.692 %) Infrastructure Architect 2 1 (7.692 %) Architect 2 1 (7.692 %) Administrator 2 1 (7.692 %) Project Leader	Miscellaneous 1 9 (69.23 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 13 (100.00 %) UNIX 2 12 (92.31 %) Windows 3 7 (53.85 %) Windows XP 4 6 (46.15 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (7.692 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (76.92 %) Data Management 2 8 (61.54 %) CAD 3 7 (53.85 %) Requirements Analysis 4 6 (46.15 %) PDM 5 1 (7.692 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 9 (69.23 %) C 1 9 (69.23 %) C++ 1 9 (69.23 %) Java 2 8 (61.54 %) Perl 3 7 (53.85 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 5 (38.46 %) Degree 2 4 (30.77 %) SC Cleared 2 4 (30.77 %) Security Cleared
System Software 1 4 (30.77 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (7.692 %) EMC NetWorker
Vendors 1 8 (61.54 %) Oracle 2 2 (15.38 %) Microsoft 3 1 (7.692 %) Cisco 3 1 (7.692 %) Sun 3 1 (7.692 %) EMC 3 1 (7.692 %) BEA 3 1 (7.692 %) StorageTek 3 1 (7.692 %) Brocade