Solaris Contracts in the East Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 22 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 East Midlands 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank - 74 57
Contract jobs citing Solaris 0 12 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands - 0.858% 1.982%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 4.669% 9.343%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 16
Average daily rate - - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £410 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
Average hourly rate - £57.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +43.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £31.00 £35.47
% change year-on-year
-12.90% -12.58%
All Operating Systems
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 279 257 289
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 22.11% 18.38% 21.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 111 86
Average daily rate £300 £315 £301
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +4.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £175 £94
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £475 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 49 49
Average hourly rate £13.00 £14.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.34% -14.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £8.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £57.50 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Solaris
England

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands Solaris Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 7 (87.50%) UNIX
2 5 (62.50%) HP
3 4 (50.00%) SAN
3 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) OpenView
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) EMC
4 3 (37.50%) Windows
4 3 (37.50%) AIX
4 3 (37.50%) HPUX
4 3 (37.50%) Oracle
5 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
5 2 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
5 2 (25.00%) Sun
5 2 (25.00%) ITIL
6 1 (12.50%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (12.50%) Clustering
6 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
6 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (12.50%) Release Management
6 1 (12.50%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
6 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (12.50%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (12.50%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
6 1 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (12.50%) OCP

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
1 1 (12.50%) POSIX
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (12.50%) MQSeries
1 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Discoverer
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Security Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) UNIX Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) DBA
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (12.50%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Applications DBA
3 1 (12.50%) UNIX Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Environment Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Test Environment Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) UNIX
2 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) AIX
2 3 (37.50%) HPUX
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Release Management
3 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) OCP
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) OpenView
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) HP
2 3 (37.50%) EMC
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle
3 2 (25.00%) Sun
4 1 (12.50%) NetApp
4 1 (12.50%) Veritas
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
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