Solaris Contracts in Edinburgh
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 17 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 Edinburgh 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 42 48 47
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -1
Contract jobs citing Solaris 14 17 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.728% 1.537% 1.643%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.917% 9.942% 9.821%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 11
Average daily rate £375 £395 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.06% +21.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £361 £355 £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £423 £425 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £430 £375
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +14.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £31.00 £35.47
% change year-on-year
-8.06% -12.58%
All Operating Systems
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 157 171 224
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 19.38% 15.46% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 71 56
Average daily rate £355 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.23% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £118 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 13
Average hourly rate £15.50 £23.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.73% +58.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Solaris
Scotland

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Solaris Daily Rate Trend

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solaris across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Edinburgh Solaris Daily Rate Histogram

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Solaris Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 24 (72.73%) UNIX
2 18 (54.55%) Windows
3 17 (51.52%) AIX
3 17 (51.52%) Linux
4 13 (39.39%) Oracle
5 12 (36.36%) HPUX
6 9 (27.27%) Banking
7 8 (24.24%) Finance
7 8 (24.24%) ITIL
8 7 (21.21%) MySQL
9 6 (18.18%) DB2
9 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
9 6 (18.18%) Active Directory
9 6 (18.18%) Red Hat
9 6 (18.18%) Risk Analysis
10 5 (15.15%) WebSphere
10 5 (15.15%) IBM
10 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (15.15%) MS Excel
10 5 (15.15%) Perl
11 4 (12.12%) SQL
11 4 (12.12%) DHCP
11 4 (12.12%) DNS
11 4 (12.12%) SAN
11 4 (12.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (12.12%) Replication
11 4 (12.12%) Migration
11 4 (12.12%) Brocade
11 4 (12.12%) Problem Management
12 3 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 5 (15.15%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.030%) .NET
2 1 (3.030%) J2EE
2 1 (3.030%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 3 (9.091%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (3.030%) CMS
2 1 (3.030%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (3.030%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.030%) IIS
2 1 (3.030%) Apache
2 1 (3.030%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.030%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) DHCP
1 4 (12.12%) DNS
1 4 (12.12%) SAN
2 3 (9.091%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (9.091%) NAS
3 2 (6.061%) Connectrix
4 1 (3.030%) Network Security
4 1 (3.030%) iSCSI
4 1 (3.030%) Firewall
4 1 (3.030%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (3.030%) LAN
4 1 (3.030%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) MySQL
2 6 (18.18%) DB2
3 2 (6.061%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.061%) Oracle 9i
3 2 (6.061%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (3.030%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (3.030%) TOAD
4 1 (3.030%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.030%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.030%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (3.030%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.030%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (3.030%) Subversion
1 1 (3.030%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 9 (27.27%) Banking
2 8 (24.24%) Finance
3 2 (6.061%) Financial Institution
3 2 (6.061%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (3.030%) Back Office
4 1 (3.030%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Administrator
2 4 (12.12%) WebSphere Administrator
2 4 (12.12%) Architect
2 4 (12.12%) Consultant
2 4 (12.12%) UNIX Consultant
3 3 (9.091%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (9.091%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (9.091%) Security Consultant
4 2 (6.061%) Solutions Designer
4 2 (6.061%) UNIX Administrator
4 2 (6.061%) Network Engineer
4 2 (6.061%) Designer
4 2 (6.061%) Technical Designer
4 2 (6.061%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (3.030%) Network Specialist
5 1 (3.030%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.030%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (3.030%) Data Centre Engineer
5 1 (3.030%) Developer
5 1 (3.030%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Replication
2 3 (9.091%) Symmetrix
3 2 (6.061%) EMC Centera
3 2 (6.061%) Celerra
3 2 (6.061%) Mainframe
3 2 (6.061%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.030%) CLARiiON
4 1 (3.030%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 24 (72.73%) UNIX
2 18 (54.55%) Windows
3 17 (51.52%) AIX
3 17 (51.52%) Linux
4 12 (36.36%) HPUX
5 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (9.091%) zOS
7 1 (3.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (24.24%) ITIL
2 6 (18.18%) Risk Analysis
3 4 (12.12%) Problem Management
3 4 (12.12%) Migration
4 2 (6.061%) SOA
4 2 (6.061%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (3.030%) Change Control
5 1 (3.030%) Service Management
5 1 (3.030%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (3.030%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) Perl
2 4 (12.12%) SQL
3 2 (6.061%) Java
4 1 (3.030%) Ruby
4 1 (3.030%) Bash shell
4 1 (3.030%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (3.030%) CCNP
1 1 (3.030%) CCNA
1 1 (3.030%) CISSP
1 1 (3.030%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (3.030%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.030%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.091%) Samba
3 2 (6.061%) SRDF
3 2 (6.061%) NFS
4 1 (3.030%) vSphere
4 1 (3.030%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (3.030%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.030%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (3.030%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 2 (6.061%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (6.061%) Tivoli
1 2 (6.061%) Tivoli Monitoring
1 2 (6.061%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 2 (6.061%) Netcool
1 2 (6.061%) EMC TimeFinder
1 2 (6.061%) NetBackup
1 2 (6.061%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 13 (39.39%) Oracle
2 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.18%) Red Hat
3 5 (15.15%) IBM
4 4 (12.12%) Brocade
5 3 (9.091%) Sun
5 3 (9.091%) EMC
6 2 (6.061%) NetApp
6 2 (6.061%) HP
6 2 (6.061%) Cisco
6 2 (6.061%) Symantec
6 2 (6.061%) VMware
7 1 (3.030%) Alterian
7 1 (3.030%) Red Gate
7 1 (3.030%) Veritas
7 1 (3.030%) Embarcadero
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