Edinburgh Solaris Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Sun Microsystems Solaris skills within the Edinburgh region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Sun Microsystems Solaris
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Aldershot Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bletchley Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clydebank Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Driffield Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Elgin Enfield England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hertfordshire Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hull Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Linlithgow Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Moray Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redditch Reigate Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	41
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	20	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	14.39 %	12.84 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£377	£293
Average daily rate	£388	£318
% change on same period last year	+22.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£362
% change on same period last year	+4.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.26	£30.89
% change on same period last year	+4.45 %
Operating Systems Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	139	218
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.183 %	0.231 %
Daily rates quoted	26	39
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£311
Average daily rate	£302	£328
% change on same period last year	-7.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.48	£22.96
Average hourly rate	£18.70	£23.59
% change on same period last year	-20.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.91	£24.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.83	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-8.06 %
Solaris Scotland

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Solaris across the Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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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 Edinburgh region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solaris across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 23 (60.53 %) Unix 2 22 (57.89 %) AIX 3 18 (47.37 %) Oracle 4 17 (44.74 %) Finance 5 16 (42.11 %) HPUX 6 13 (34.21 %) Shell Script 7 11 (28.95 %) Sun 8 9 (23.68 %) EMC 9 7 (18.42 %) Oracle 10g 9 7 (18.42 %) VERITAS 9 7 (18.42 %) IBM 9 7 (18.42 %) NetBackup 10 6 (15.79 %) Banking 10 6 (15.79 %) WebSphere 10 6 (15.79 %) Oracle RAC

10 6 (15.79 %) Microsoft 10 6 (15.79 %) Oracle 9i 10 6 (15.79 %) J2EE 10 6 (15.79 %) Windows 10 6 (15.79 %) HP 11 5 (13.16 %) SQL 11 5 (13.16 %) Apache 11 5 (13.16 %) StorageTek 12 4 (10.53 %) Backup Exec 12 4 (10.53 %) Java 12 4 (10.53 %) Symantec 12 4 (10.53 %) Novell 12 4 (10.53 %) Legato 13 3 (7.895 %) Windows Server 2003 13 3 (7.895 %) Internet

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 6 (15.79 %) J2EE 1 6 (15.79 %) WebSphere 2 3 (7.895 %) .NET 3 1 (2.632 %) Struts 3 1 (2.632 %) XML 3 1 (2.632 %) XSD 3 1 (2.632 %) XSL 3 1 (2.632 %) Hibernate 3 1 (2.632 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 5 (13.16 %) Apache 2 2 (5.263 %) Oracle HTTP Server 2 2 (5.263 %) IBM HTTP Server 2 2 (5.263 %) IIS 3 1 (2.632 %) JBoss
Business Applications 1 1 (2.632 %) assyst	Communications & Networking 1 3 (7.895 %) Internet 2 2 (5.263 %) HTTP 2 2 (5.263 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (18.42 %) Oracle 10g 2 6 (15.79 %) Oracle 9i 3 3 (7.895 %) TOAD 4 2 (5.263 %) DB2 4 2 (5.263 %) SQLPlus 5 1 (2.632 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 3 (7.895 %) ClearCase 2 2 (5.263 %) CruiseControl 3 1 (2.632 %) Selenium 3 1 (2.632 %) Eclipse 3 1 (2.632 %) Log4j 3 1 (2.632 %) JUnit
General 1 17 (44.74 %) Finance 2 6 (15.79 %) Banking 3 2 (5.263 %) Electronics 3 2 (5.263 %) Pensions 4 1 (2.632 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (2.632 %) Telecoms 4 1 (2.632 %) Retail 4 1 (2.632 %) Billing 4 1 (2.632 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 17 (44.74 %) Analyst 2 11 (28.95 %) Technical Analyst 3 5 (13.16 %) Administrator 4 4 (10.53 %) Systems Administrator 4 4 (10.53 %) Storage Analyst 4 4 (10.53 %) UNIX Support 5 3 (7.895 %) Oracle DBA 5 3 (7.895 %) DBA 5 3 (7.895 %) UNIX Administrator 6 2 (5.263 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 6 2 (5.263 %) Support Analyst 6 2 (5.263 %) Applications Support 6 2 (5.263 %) Architect 6 2 (5.263 %) Developer 6 2 (5.263 %) Team Leader 7 1 (2.632 %) Applications Support Analyst 7 1 (2.632 %) Solaris Administrator 7 1 (2.632 %) Infrastructure Designer 7 1 (2.632 %) Java Developer 7 1 (2.632 %) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.263 %) AS400 1 2 (5.263 %) APACS 1 2 (5.263 %) Tandem	Operating Systems 1 23 (60.53 %) Unix 2 22 (57.89 %) AIX 3 16 (42.11 %) HPUX 4 6 (15.79 %) Windows 5 3 (7.895 %) Windows Server 2003 6 2 (5.263 %) zOS 7 1 (2.632 %) Linux 7 1 (2.632 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (7.895 %) Load Balancing 2 2 (5.263 %) Service Management 2 2 (5.263 %) ITIL 3 1 (2.632 %) UML 3 1 (2.632 %) ERP 3 1 (2.632 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (2.632 %) Change Management 3 1 (2.632 %) Unit Testing	Programming Languages 1 13 (34.21 %) Shell Script 2 5 (13.16 %) SQL 3 4 (10.53 %) Java 4 2 (5.263 %) C 4 2 (5.263 %) C++ 5 1 (2.632 %) XPath
System Software 1 7 (18.42 %) NetBackup 2 6 (15.79 %) Oracle RAC 3 4 (10.53 %) Backup Exec 4 2 (5.263 %) NFS 4 2 (5.263 %) Samba 5 1 (2.632 %) Oracle RMAN	Systems Management 1 4 (10.53 %) Legato 2 2 (5.263 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 2 (5.263 %) CONTROL-M 2 2 (5.263 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 18 (47.37 %) Oracle 2 11 (28.95 %) Sun 3 9 (23.68 %) EMC 4 7 (18.42 %) IBM 4 7 (18.42 %) VERITAS 5 6 (15.79 %) Microsoft 5 6 (15.79 %) HP 6 5 (13.16 %) StorageTek 7 4 (10.53 %) Novell 7 4 (10.53 %) Symantec 8 2 (5.263 %) BMC 8 2 (5.263 %) Cisco