The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 22 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 Essex 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 37 33 44
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +11
Contract jobs citing Solaris 10 14 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 2.421% 3.390% 1.772%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.709% 11.76% 6.250%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
Average daily rate £250 £173 £433
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+44.92% -60.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £410 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 2
Average hourly rate £31.70 £27.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.40% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.05 £26.17 £26.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.34 £35.50 £29.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £31.00 £35.47
% change year-on-year
-12.90% -12.58%
All Operating Systems
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
103 119 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 24.94% 28.81% 28.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 52 51
Average daily rate £305 £265 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.09% +17.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £181 £135 £164
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 24 31
Average hourly rate £23.68 £20.00 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.40% +8.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.90 £13.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.60 £30.00 £31.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Solaris
East of England

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 22 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
Brentwood - 6 £250 -
Basildon -4 1 - -
Southend-on-Sea - 1 - -
Solaris
East of England

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 10 (90.91%) UNIX
2 7 (63.64%) C
3 6 (54.55%) Linux
3 6 (54.55%) Multithreading
4 5 (45.45%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (45.45%) Oracle
5 4 (36.36%) PL/SQL
6 3 (27.27%) SQL
6 3 (27.27%) Java
6 3 (27.27%) Business Objects
6 3 (27.27%) Oracle 8/8i
6 3 (27.27%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (27.27%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (27.27%) Oracle Discoverer
6 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
6 3 (27.27%) Oracle Application Server
6 3 (27.27%) Migration
7 2 (18.18%) BT
7 2 (18.18%) Oracle 10gAS
7 2 (18.18%) Project Management
7 2 (18.18%) Oracle 10g
7 2 (18.18%) SOA
7 2 (18.18%) Oracle 9i
7 2 (18.18%) WebLogic
8 1 (9.091%) IIS
8 1 (9.091%) PVCS
8 1 (9.091%) EJB
8 1 (9.091%) JSP
8 1 (9.091%) Servlets
8 1 (9.091%) XML

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 1 (9.091%) EJB
1 1 (9.091%) JSP
1 1 (9.091%) Servlets
1 1 (9.091%) XML
1 1 (9.091%) XSD
1 1 (9.091%) XSLT
1 1 (9.091%) J2EE
1 1 (9.091%) JMS
1 1 (9.091%) XML Schema
1 1 (9.091%) JAXB
1 1 (9.091%) JPA
1 1 (9.091%) EJB 3.0
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle 10gAS
2 2 (18.18%) WebLogic
3 1 (9.091%) IIS
3 1 (9.091%) Tuxedo
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) WAN
1 1 (9.091%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle 8/8i
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Discoverer
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (9.091%) PVCS
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) C Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (9.091%) PL/SQL Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (9.091%) Applications Architect
3 1 (9.091%) Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Leader
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Mainframe
1 1 (9.091%) IaaS
1 1 (9.091%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) UNIX
2 6 (54.55%) Linux
3 1 (9.091%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Multithreading
2 5 (45.45%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Project Management
4 2 (18.18%) SOA
5 1 (9.091%) UML
5 1 (9.091%) OO
5 1 (9.091%) RUP
5 1 (9.091%) Configuration Management
5 1 (9.091%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (9.091%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (9.091%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) C
2 4 (36.36%) PL/SQL
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) BC Cleared
1 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Business Objects
3 2 (18.18%) BT
4 1 (9.091%) BEA
4 1 (9.091%) BMC
4 1 (9.091%) CA
4 1 (9.091%) Fujitsu
4 1 (9.091%) VMware
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