The first table below looks at the demand for the Solaris Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Solaris Administrator
Rank 509 527 562
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +35
Contract jobs requiring a Solaris Administrator 23 18 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.053% 0.034% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.037% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 13
Average daily rate £375 £363 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -14.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £293 £350 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £404 £486
UK excluding London average daily rate £355 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.42% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40014 49001 53004
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.47% 92.53% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23687 27821 29587
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1959 2399 2806
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.68 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.74% -6.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Solaris Administrator
UK

Solaris Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Solaris Administrator across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England Solaris Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Solaris Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Solaris Administrator across the England region.

England Solaris Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Solaris Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solaris Administrator across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Solaris Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Solaris Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Solaris Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris Administrator
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris Administrator within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
South East +25 4 £418 +19.28% 1
East of England - 4 £360 -
Solaris Administrator
UK

Solaris Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Solaris Administrator in their job title 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 with Solaris Administrator in their job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Solaris
2 19 (67.86%) UNIX
3 17 (60.71%) Linux
4 16 (57.14%) Red Hat
5 12 (42.86%) SAN
6 11 (39.29%) Oracle
6 11 (39.29%) Security Cleared
7 9 (32.14%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 9 (32.14%) SUSE
7 9 (32.14%) IBM
7 9 (32.14%) Veritas
8 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
8 8 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (28.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 7 (25.00%) NAS
9 7 (25.00%) Perl
9 7 (25.00%) EMC
9 7 (25.00%) Sun
10 5 (17.86%) LDAP
10 5 (17.86%) NetApp
11 4 (14.29%) AIX
11 4 (14.29%) Finance
11 4 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
12 3 (10.71%) Migration
12 3 (10.71%) HP
12 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
13 2 (7.143%) Sun Certification
13 2 (7.143%) C
13 2 (7.143%) NetBackup
13 2 (7.143%) Data Migration

Solaris Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Solaris Administrator in their job title 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 with Solaris Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 12 (42.86%) SAN
2 7 (25.00%) NAS
3 5 (17.86%) LDAP
4 1 (3.571%) snoop
4 1 (3.571%) Cisco PIX
4 1 (3.571%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.571%) DNS
4 1 (3.571%) NetScreen
4 1 (3.571%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.571%) Redis
1 1 (3.571%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Hudson
1 1 (3.571%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (3.571%) Banking
2 1 (3.571%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.571%) Equities
1 1 (3.571%) CLARiiON
1 1 (3.571%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 28 (100.00%) Solaris
2 19 (67.86%) UNIX
3 17 (60.71%) Linux
4 9 (32.14%) SUSE
5 8 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (14.29%) AIX
7 2 (7.143%) Ubuntu
8 1 (3.571%) CentOS
8 1 (3.571%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (10.71%) Migration
3 2 (7.143%) Data Migration
4 1 (3.571%) Release Management
4 1 (3.571%) Business Analysis
4 1 (3.571%) Change Management
4 1 (3.571%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) Perl
2 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
3 2 (7.143%) C
3 2 (7.143%) Korn
3 2 (7.143%) Bash shell
4 1 (3.571%) Bourne shell
4 1 (3.571%) Ruby
4 1 (3.571%) C++
4 1 (3.571%) Java
4 1 (3.571%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.143%) Sun Certification
4 1 (3.571%) Degree
4 1 (3.571%) IBM Certification
4 1 (3.571%) RHCE
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 8 (28.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (3.571%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (3.571%) Veritas File System
3 1 (3.571%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (7.143%) NetBackup
2 1 (3.571%) CFEngine
2 1 (3.571%) ZABBIX
2 1 (3.571%) EMC Navisphere
2 1 (3.571%) Nagios
Vendors
1 16 (57.14%) Red Hat
2 11 (39.29%) Oracle
3 9 (32.14%) IBM
3 9 (32.14%) Veritas
4 7 (25.00%) EMC
4 7 (25.00%) Sun
5 5 (17.86%) NetApp
6 3 (10.71%) HP
7 1 (3.571%) VMware
7 1 (3.571%) Murex
7 1 (3.571%) Cisco
Liverpool, Merseyside
Solaris Administrator. 6 Months Liverpool SC - Security Cleared £350 - £400 per day -Design a Unix Server solution -Install and administrate Unix software, -Backup and restore Unix OS... -Knowledge...
LA International
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Barnsley, South Yorkshire
Excellent knowledge of Veritas Volume manager and Veritas Cluster Server is required... You will need to have experience with IBM and HP hardware with SAN and NAS storage...
Reed Technology
Rate: £200 - £305 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Should be well versed with Veritas Cluster(VCS) and storage software VxVM... Should have knowledge of SAN and NAS technologies concepts... Should have knowledge on Data Migration tools.
Avance Consulting
Posted: 13 June 2013