The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 24 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 of England 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 97 90 75
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -15
Contract jobs citing Solaris 17 42 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.795% 1.421% 2.005%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.998% 5.761% 7.899%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 22
Average daily rate £350 £338 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% +1.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £164 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £369 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £410 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 6
Average hourly rate £31.70 £27.25 £35.47
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.33% -23.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.05 £26.20 £28.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.34 £36.50 £37.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £30.50 £33.93
% change year-on-year
-11.47% -10.10%
All Operating Systems
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
567 729 671
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 26.51% 24.67% 25.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 299 243
Average daily rate £310 £325 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.61% +12.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £110 £170 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £424
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 124 164
Average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +37.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £40.00 £35.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +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 of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England Solaris Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Essex -6 10 £250 +44.92%
Hertfordshire +2 5 £360 -20.00%
Suffolk - 2 - -
Solaris
England

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 29 (90.63%) UNIX
2 22 (68.75%) Linux
3 10 (31.25%) Java
3 10 (31.25%) Perl
3 10 (31.25%) Oracle
4 9 (28.13%) SQL
5 8 (25.00%) J2EE
5 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
6 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
6 7 (21.88%) WebSphere
6 7 (21.88%) C
6 7 (21.88%) UML
6 7 (21.88%) OO
6 7 (21.88%) EJB
6 7 (21.88%) JSP
6 7 (21.88%) Servlets
6 7 (21.88%) XML
6 7 (21.88%) XSLT
6 7 (21.88%) JMS
6 7 (21.88%) RDBMS
6 7 (21.88%) Red Hat
6 7 (21.88%) Subversion
7 6 (18.75%) Content Management
7 6 (18.75%) Retail
7 6 (18.75%) Migration
7 6 (18.75%) ATG
7 6 (18.75%) Log4j
7 6 (18.75%) VMware
7 6 (18.75%) Finance
7 6 (18.75%) Shell Script

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 8 (25.00%) J2EE
2 7 (21.88%) WebSphere
2 7 (21.88%) EJB
2 7 (21.88%) JSP
2 7 (21.88%) Servlets
2 7 (21.88%) XML
2 7 (21.88%) XSLT
2 7 (21.88%) JMS
3 6 (18.75%) XHTML
3 6 (18.75%) Struts
3 6 (18.75%) JDBC
3 6 (18.75%) HTML
3 6 (18.75%) XMLBeans
3 6 (18.75%) Ajax
3 6 (18.75%) JSTL
4 3 (9.375%) SAP Basis
5 1 (3.125%) JPA
5 1 (3.125%) EJB 3.0
5 1 (3.125%) XSD
5 1 (3.125%) JAXB
Application Platforms
1 6 (18.75%) MQSeries
1 6 (18.75%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (9.375%) WebLogic
2 3 (9.375%) NetWeaver
2 3 (9.375%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (6.250%) Oracle 10gAS
4 1 (3.125%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (3.125%) Lync
4 1 (3.125%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (3.125%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (3.125%) Apache
4 1 (3.125%) IIS
4 1 (3.125%) MS Exchange
4 1 (3.125%) Tuxedo
4 1 (3.125%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.125%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 1 (3.125%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Tridion
2 1 (3.125%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) Internet
2 4 (12.50%) SAN
3 3 (9.375%) Network Security
4 2 (6.250%) BIG-IP
4 2 (6.250%) WAN
5 1 (3.125%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (3.125%) VLAN
5 1 (3.125%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (3.125%) LAN
5 1 (3.125%) LDAP
5 1 (3.125%) MPLS
5 1 (3.125%) Firewall
5 1 (3.125%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) RDBMS
2 6 (18.75%) DB2
3 3 (9.375%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (9.375%) Oracle Discoverer
3 3 (9.375%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (6.250%) Oracle 9i
4 2 (6.250%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Subversion
2 6 (18.75%) Log4j
2 6 (18.75%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 6 (18.75%) Eclipse
2 6 (18.75%) Ant
2 6 (18.75%) JUnit
3 3 (9.375%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (3.125%) PVCS
General
1 6 (18.75%) Retail
1 6 (18.75%) Finance
2 5 (15.63%) Games
3 1 (3.125%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Developer
2 7 (21.88%) Administrator
3 6 (18.75%) J2EE Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Java Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 3 (9.375%) Architect
4 3 (9.375%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (9.375%) UNIX Administrator
4 3 (9.375%) Solaris Administrator
4 3 (9.375%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.250%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (6.250%) SAP Basis Administrator
5 2 (6.250%) Consultant
5 2 (6.250%) C Developer
5 2 (6.250%) SAP Administrator
6 1 (3.125%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.125%) Analyst
6 1 (3.125%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.125%) Applications Architect
6 1 (3.125%) PL/SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Web 2.0
2 1 (3.125%) IaaS
2 1 (3.125%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.125%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.125%) Computer Science
2 1 (3.125%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 29 (90.63%) UNIX
2 22 (68.75%) Linux
3 6 (18.75%) HPUX
3 6 (18.75%) Windows
4 4 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (6.250%) AIX
5 2 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (6.250%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (3.125%) VME
6 1 (3.125%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) UML
1 7 (21.88%) OO
2 6 (18.75%) Content Management
2 6 (18.75%) Migration
2 6 (18.75%) E-Commerce
2 6 (18.75%) RAD
2 6 (18.75%) Multithreading
3 5 (15.63%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (9.375%) Project Management
5 2 (6.250%) Programme Office Management
5 2 (6.250%) Service Delivery
5 2 (6.250%) SOA
5 2 (6.250%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (6.250%) Change Control
5 2 (6.250%) Build Automation
6 1 (3.125%) Business Analysis
6 1 (3.125%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (3.125%) Data Migration
6 1 (3.125%) RUP
6 1 (3.125%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) Java
1 10 (31.25%) Perl
2 9 (28.13%) SQL
3 7 (21.88%) C
4 6 (18.75%) Shell Script
4 6 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 6 (18.75%) XPath
4 6 (18.75%) Bash shell
5 4 (12.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.250%) CCNA
3 2 (6.250%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.125%) Degree
4 1 (3.125%) BC Cleared
4 1 (3.125%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (9.375%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.125%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (3.125%) XenApp
3 1 (3.125%) NFS
3 1 (3.125%) Terminal Services
3 1 (3.125%) Samba
3 1 (3.125%) VMware ESX
3 1 (3.125%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 2 (6.250%) NetBackup
2 1 (3.125%) Ionix
2 1 (3.125%) AppManager
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Oracle
2 7 (21.88%) Red Hat
3 6 (18.75%) ATG
3 6 (18.75%) VMware
3 6 (18.75%) Interwoven
3 6 (18.75%) IBM
3 6 (18.75%) Blue Martini
3 6 (18.75%) Elastic Path
4 5 (15.63%) Sun
4 5 (15.63%) Cisco
5 4 (12.50%) Citrix
6 3 (9.375%) Business Objects
6 3 (9.375%) SAP
6 3 (9.375%) EMC
6 3 (9.375%) CheckPoint
7 2 (6.250%) BT
7 2 (6.250%) ReadSoft
7 2 (6.250%) Nokia
7 2 (6.250%) BEA
7 2 (6.250%) Microsoft
Hertfordshire
Key skills: Expertise in Solaris version 10 and Red Hat Linux Stong business applications experience around Oracle, J2EE applications containers Demonstrable experience of working within a ITIL environment.
Robert Walters
Salary: £350 - £375 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Southend-On-Sea, South East
J2EE experience must include experience of Servlets, JSPs and Session Beans delivering transactional web-based applications.*BEA WebLogic at version 9, or later... *development on UNIX environments, preferably...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 30 April 2013