East of England Solaris Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Sun Microsystems Solaris skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Sun Microsystems Solaris
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Amersham Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Beaconsfield Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Bletchley Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clydebank Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Filton Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Ipswich Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Reigate Rickmansworth Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	24
Rank change on same period last year	-20
Matching contract IT job ads	135	225
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.173 %	0.253 %
As % of the category below	13.39 %	19.07 %
Daily rates quoted	50	69
Average minimum daily rate	£365	£339
Average daily rate	£385	£356
% change on same period last year	+8.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£405	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£385	£353
% change on same period last year	+9.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.40	£28.92
Average hourly rate	£27.78	£29.40
% change on same period last year	-5.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.15	£29.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.85	£31.59
% change on same period last year	+0.82 %
Operating Systems East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	1008	1180
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.293 %	1.326 %
Daily rates quoted	251	308
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£314
Average daily rate	£311	£334
% change on same period last year	-7.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£332
% change on same period last year	+3.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	235	202
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.51	£21.69
Average hourly rate	£22.03	£22.80
% change on same period last year	-3.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.54	£23.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.81	£23.07
% change on same period last year	-5.48 %
Solaris England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Solaris
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Solaris across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend

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

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solaris across the East of England region over the past 3 months.

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Solaris across the East of England region.

Solaris
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solaris across the East of England region over the past 3 months.

Solaris
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the East of England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Hertfordshire	-22	63	£395	-0.05 %
2	Cambridgeshire	-21	39	£404	+63.41 %
3	Essex	-18	22	£283	-16.81 %
4	Suffolk	-18	7	£383	+25.70 %
5	Bedfordshire	+12	4	£450	-
6	East Anglia	-8	3	£263	-
7	Norfolk	+11	1	-	-

Solaris England

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East of England region citing Solaris also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Solaris.

1 237 (70.12 %) Unix 2 130 (38.46 %) Linux 3 124 (36.69 %) Oracle 4 89 (26.33 %) Finance 5 85 (25.15 %) Sun 6 80 (23.67 %) WebLogic 6 80 (23.67 %) J2EE 7 76 (22.49 %) Java 8 74 (21.89 %) SQL 9 64 (18.93 %) HPUX 10 63 (18.64 %) WebSphere 11 60 (17.75 %) Shell Script 12 59 (17.46 %) Windows 13 56 (16.57 %) IBM 13 56 (16.57 %) Middleware

14 49 (14.50 %) Perl 15 46 (13.61 %) VERITAS 16 44 (13.02 %) Apache 17 40 (11.83 %) Tivoli 18 39 (11.54 %) HP 19 37 (10.95 %) DB2 20 36 (10.65 %) BEA 20 36 (10.65 %) SAN 20 36 (10.65 %) Ant 20 36 (10.65 %) Spring 21 35 (10.36 %) Hibernate 22 33 (9.763 %) Financial Institution 22 33 (9.763 %) Cisco 23 29 (8.580 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 24 28 (8.284 %) Eclipse

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East of England region citing Solaris also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Solaris. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 80 (23.67 %) J2EE 2 63 (18.64 %) WebSphere 3 56 (16.57 %) Middleware 4 36 (10.65 %) Spring 5 35 (10.36 %) Hibernate 6 25 (7.396 %) HTML 7 23 (6.805 %) XML 8 8 (2.367 %) LAMP 9 7 (2.071 %) ASP 10 4 (1.183 %) .NET 10 4 (1.183 %) Servlets 11 3 (0.888 %) EJB 11 3 (0.888 %) NetBeans 11 3 (0.888 %) XSLT 12 2 (0.592 %) CSS 12 2 (0.592 %) JSP 13 1 (0.296 %) JSF 13 1 (0.296 %) XMLBeans 13 1 (0.296 %) JDBC 13 1 (0.296 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 80 (23.67 %) WebLogic 2 44 (13.02 %) Apache 3 27 (7.988 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 17 (5.030 %) Tomcat 5 15 (4.438 %) JBoss 6 13 (3.846 %) CMS 7 12 (3.550 %) TeamSite 8 9 (2.663 %) IIS 9 4 (1.183 %) MQSeries 9 4 (1.183 %) MS Exchange 9 4 (1.183 %) Oracle Application Server 10 1 (0.296 %) WebSphere MQ 10 1 (0.296 %) WebLogic Integration 10 1 (0.296 %) Oracle Workflow 10 1 (0.296 %) Documentum 10 1 (0.296 %) Lotus Notes 10 1 (0.296 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 21 (6.213 %) MS Project 2 8 (2.367 %) MS Excel 3 6 (1.775 %) MS Visio 4 5 (1.479 %) MS Office 5 1 (0.296 %) S-PLUS 5 1 (0.296 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 9 (2.663 %) Oracle 11i 2 5 (1.479 %) Oracle Applications 3 4 (1.183 %) Oracle Financials 4 1 (0.296 %) Pivotal CRM 4 1 (0.296 %) Remedy AR System
Communications & Networking 1 36 (10.65 %) SAN 2 20 (5.917 %) TCP/IP 3 14 (4.142 %) DNS 4 11 (3.254 %) LAN 5 10 (2.959 %) Cisco IOS 6 9 (2.663 %) Internet 6 9 (2.663 %) Firewall 7 8 (2.367 %) Wireless 7 8 (2.367 %) WLAN 8 7 (2.071 %) iSCSI 9 6 (1.775 %) WAN 9 6 (1.775 %) SNMP 9 6 (1.775 %) VoIP 9 6 (1.775 %) TACACS 10 5 (1.479 %) OSPF 10 5 (1.479 %) BGP 10 5 (1.479 %) VPN 11 4 (1.183 %) LDAP 12 3 (0.888 %) ATM 12 3 (0.888 %) VRRP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 37 (10.95 %) DB2 2 28 (8.284 %) Oracle 9i 3 25 (7.396 %) Oracle 10g 4 20 (5.917 %) MySQL 5 19 (5.621 %) SQL Server 6 12 (3.550 %) MS Access 6 12 (3.550 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 10 (2.959 %) PostgreSQL 8 8 (2.367 %) Oracle Reports 9 2 (0.592 %) ETL 9 2 (0.592 %) Oracle Discoverer 10 1 (0.296 %) RDBMS 10 1 (0.296 %) Datawarehouse 10 1 (0.296 %) Ingres 10 1 (0.296 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 36 (10.65 %) Ant 2 28 (8.284 %) Eclipse 3 22 (6.509 %) ClearQuest 4 21 (6.213 %) ClearCase 5 20 (5.917 %) IntelliJ 6 18 (5.325 %) JUnit 7 15 (4.438 %) CruiseControl 7 15 (4.438 %) Atlassian Bamboo 8 10 (2.959 %) OpenDeploy 9 3 (0.888 %) JDeveloper 9 3 (0.888 %) JBuilder 9 3 (0.888 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 10 2 (0.592 %) WebLogic Workshop	General 1 89 (26.33 %) Finance 2 33 (9.763 %) Financial Institution 3 23 (6.805 %) Telecoms 4 18 (5.325 %) Government 5 7 (2.071 %) Banking 5 7 (2.071 %) Insurance 6 4 (1.183 %) Games 6 4 (1.183 %) Pharmaceutical 7 3 (0.888 %) Online Games 8 2 (0.592 %) Legal 9 1 (0.296 %) Health 9 1 (0.296 %) Automotive 9 1 (0.296 %) Education 9 1 (0.296 %) Local Government 9 1 (0.296 %) Retail 9 1 (0.296 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 65 (19.23 %) Administrator 2 53 (15.68 %) Developer 3 40 (11.83 %) Architect 4 37 (10.95 %) Java Developer 5 34 (10.06 %) Analyst 5 34 (10.06 %) DBA 6 25 (7.396 %) Project Manager 7 23 (6.805 %) Consultant 8 22 (6.509 %) Solutions Architect 9 21 (6.213 %) Systems Administrator 10 20 (5.917 %) Oracle DBA 11 19 (5.621 %) Support Analyst 12 18 (5.325 %) UNIX Administrator 13 16 (4.734 %) Support Engineer 14 15 (4.438 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 14 15 (4.438 %) Infrastructure Manager 15 14 (4.142 %) Storage Specialist 15 14 (4.142 %) UNIX Support 16 11 (3.254 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 17 10 (2.959 %) Infrastructure Architect	Miscellaneous 1 21 (6.213 %) PKI 2 15 (4.438 %) PMI 3 10 (2.959 %) Client/Server 4 8 (2.367 %) Symmetrix 5 7 (2.071 %) Replication 6 5 (1.479 %) Clustering 7 4 (1.183 %) IPTV 8 3 (0.888 %) DTV 9 2 (0.592 %) AS400 10 1 (0.296 %) e-Health 10 1 (0.296 %) Mainframe 10 1 (0.296 %) HACMP 10 1 (0.296 %) Wiki 10 1 (0.296 %) Celerra 10 1 (0.296 %) Data Integration
Operating Systems 1 237 (70.12 %) Unix 2 130 (38.46 %) Linux 3 64 (18.93 %) HPUX 4 59 (17.46 %) Windows 5 23 (6.805 %) Windows NT 6 13 (3.846 %) AIX 7 8 (2.367 %) Windows 2000 8 6 (1.775 %) FreeBSD 9 4 (1.183 %) i5/OS 10 3 (0.888 %) Tru64 10 3 (0.888 %) NetWare 10 3 (0.888 %) Windows Server 2003 11 1 (0.296 %) IRIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 26 (7.692 %) OO 1 26 (7.692 %) Project Management 2 24 (7.101 %) UML 3 23 (6.805 %) PRINCE2 4 22 (6.509 %) Configuration Management 5 15 (4.438 %) SOA 5 15 (4.438 %) BPM 6 14 (4.142 %) Content Management 6 14 (4.142 %) CRM 7 11 (3.254 %) Continuous Integration 8 10 (2.959 %) Service Management 8 10 (2.959 %) Data Management 9 9 (2.663 %) Migration 9 9 (2.663 %) Security Management 10 6 (1.775 %) Disaster Recovery 10 6 (1.775 %) Technical Architecture 11 5 (1.479 %) RAD 11 5 (1.479 %) Security Testing 11 5 (1.479 %) Use Case 12 4 (1.183 %) Time Management
Programming Languages 1 76 (22.49 %) Java 2 74 (21.89 %) SQL 3 60 (17.75 %) Shell Script 4 49 (14.50 %) Perl 5 13 (3.846 %) PHP 5 13 (3.846 %) VBScript 6 12 (3.550 %) JavaScript 7 11 (3.254 %) C 8 10 (2.959 %) C++ 8 10 (2.959 %) DHTML 8 10 (2.959 %) Python 9 9 (2.663 %) C# 10 8 (2.367 %) PL/SQL 10 8 (2.367 %) AWK 10 8 (2.367 %) REXX 10 8 (2.367 %) Korn 11 7 (2.071 %) Assembly Language 11 7 (2.071 %) Tcl 11 7 (2.071 %) Ruby 12 3 (0.888 %) Ada	Qualifications 1 11 (3.254 %) Cisco Certification 2 9 (2.663 %) Microsoft Certification 2 9 (2.663 %) CCNA 3 8 (2.367 %) MCP 4 5 (1.479 %) Degree 5 4 (1.183 %) CCSE 6 2 (0.592 %) Sun Certification 6 2 (0.592 %) CCNP 6 2 (0.592 %) CCIP 7 1 (0.296 %) MCSE 7 1 (0.296 %) CISSP 7 1 (0.296 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 1 (0.296 %) PMP 7 1 (0.296 %) PMI Certification 7 1 (0.296 %) CCSA 7 1 (0.296 %) CCVP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 14 (4.142 %) SLA	System Software 1 29 (8.580 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 2 26 (7.692 %) NetBackup 3 18 (5.325 %) Oracle RMAN 4 17 (5.030 %) Oracle RAC 5 9 (2.663 %) ISA Server 6 4 (1.183 %) NFS 7 2 (0.592 %) Active Directory 8 1 (0.296 %) Samba
Systems Management 1 40 (11.83 %) Tivoli 2 11 (3.254 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 3 10 (2.959 %) BMC PATROL 4 9 (2.663 %) OpenView 5 7 (2.071 %) CiscoWorks 6 6 (1.775 %) Tivoli NetView 6 6 (1.775 %) NNM 7 2 (0.592 %) SCOM 7 2 (0.592 %) AutoSys 7 2 (0.592 %) Unicenter 8 1 (0.296 %) Legato 8 1 (0.296 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 8 1 (0.296 %) Netcool 8 1 (0.296 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 8 1 (0.296 %) HP Data Protector 8 1 (0.296 %) EMC NetWorker	Vendors 1 124 (36.69 %) Oracle 2 85 (25.15 %) Sun 3 56 (16.57 %) IBM 4 46 (13.61 %) VERITAS 5 39 (11.54 %) HP 6 36 (10.65 %) BEA 7 33 (9.763 %) Cisco 8 24 (7.101 %) EMC 8 24 (7.101 %) Microsoft 9 20 (5.917 %) Brocade 10 19 (5.621 %) NetApp 11 14 (4.142 %) Red Hat 11 14 (4.142 %) Intel 11 14 (4.142 %) Interwoven 12 12 (3.550 %) Sybase 13 10 (2.959 %) Alcatel 13 10 (2.959 %) Siemens 14 9 (2.663 %) StorageTek 15 8 (2.367 %) CheckPoint 15 8 (2.367 %) VMware