Solaris Contracts in Gloucestershire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire 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 25 30 42
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +12
Contract jobs citing Solaris 14 37 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 5.109% 5.331% 1.632%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.05% 18.14% 5.303%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 32 4
Average daily rate £525 £500 £369
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% +35.59%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £450 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £388
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
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 93 204 132
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 33.94% 29.39% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 110 52
Average daily rate £450 £500 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% +58.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £400 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 17
Average hourly rate £18.90 £31.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.00% +65.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £20.50 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £31.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Solaris
South West

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Gloucester +6 3 - -
Solaris
South West

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 34 (97.14%) UNIX
2 32 (91.43%) Linux
3 29 (82.86%) Red Hat
4 28 (80.00%) VMware
5 26 (74.29%) SAN
6 25 (71.43%) Windows
6 25 (71.43%) Cisco
6 25 (71.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (65.71%) Service Management
7 23 (65.71%) VMware Infrastructure
8 21 (60.00%) DV Cleared
8 21 (60.00%) Security Cleared
9 19 (54.29%) C
10 18 (51.43%) WAN
11 17 (48.57%) Ethernet
11 17 (48.57%) IBM
11 17 (48.57%) HP
11 17 (48.57%) LAN
11 17 (48.57%) NetApp
11 17 (48.57%) Enterprise Architecture
11 17 (48.57%) Hyper-V
12 12 (34.29%) Oracle
13 11 (31.43%) Oracle Application Server
14 10 (28.57%) WebLogic
14 10 (28.57%) Sun
15 9 (25.71%) TCP/IP
15 9 (25.71%) DNS
15 9 (25.71%) DHCP
16 8 (22.86%) Firewall
17 7 (20.00%) Middleware

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 7 (20.00%) Middleware
2 3 (8.571%) LAMP
3 1 (2.857%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 11 (31.43%) Oracle Application Server
2 10 (28.57%) WebLogic
3 7 (20.00%) GlassFish
3 7 (20.00%) Windows Azure
4 6 (17.14%) Amazon AWS
4 6 (17.14%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.857%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.857%) MS Exchange
5 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 5.5
5 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 1 (2.857%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 26 (74.29%) SAN
2 18 (51.43%) WAN
3 17 (48.57%) Ethernet
3 17 (48.57%) LAN
4 9 (25.71%) DHCP
4 9 (25.71%) TCP/IP
4 9 (25.71%) DNS
5 8 (22.86%) Firewall
6 7 (20.00%) MPLS
7 2 (5.714%) HTTP
8 1 (2.857%) X.500
8 1 (2.857%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
1 7 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (11.43%) MySQL
3 1 (2.857%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Git (software)
2 3 (8.571%) Hudson
3 1 (2.857%) ClearCase
3 1 (2.857%) ClearQuest
Job Titles
1 24 (68.57%) Architect
2 17 (48.57%) Technical Architect
3 7 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 5 (14.29%) Administrator
5 4 (11.43%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 4 (11.43%) UNIX Administrator
5 4 (11.43%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (11.43%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (5.714%) Solaris Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.714%) UNIX Engineer
6 2 (5.714%) Solaris Administrator
6 2 (5.714%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (2.857%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.857%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.857%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) PaaS
1 7 (20.00%) IaaS
2 2 (5.714%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.714%) Clustering
3 1 (2.857%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (97.14%) UNIX
2 32 (91.43%) Linux
3 25 (71.43%) Windows
3 25 (71.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.714%) Ubuntu
4 2 (5.714%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (5.714%) HPUX
5 1 (2.857%) SUSE
5 1 (2.857%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (65.71%) Service Management
2 17 (48.57%) Enterprise Architecture
3 7 (20.00%) ITIL
3 7 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 4 (11.43%) ITSM
4 4 (11.43%) Data Security
4 4 (11.43%) Scrum
4 4 (11.43%) Business Continuity
5 3 (8.571%) Content Management
5 3 (8.571%) PRINCE2
5 3 (8.571%) Project Management
5 3 (8.571%) Test Scripting
5 3 (8.571%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (5.714%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 19 (54.29%) C
2 3 (8.571%) PHP
2 3 (8.571%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.714%) Perl
3 2 (5.714%) SQL
4 1 (2.857%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 21 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.714%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 2 (5.714%) Sun Certification
2 2 (5.714%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (5.714%) SCSA
2 2 (5.714%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (65.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (48.57%) Hyper-V
3 7 (20.00%) vSphere
3 7 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (5.714%) NFS
5 1 (2.857%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (8.571%) NetBackup
1 3 (8.571%) Puppet
1 3 (8.571%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (2.857%) Backup Exec
2 1 (2.857%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (82.86%) Red Hat
2 28 (80.00%) VMware
3 25 (71.43%) Cisco
4 17 (48.57%) IBM
4 17 (48.57%) HP
4 17 (48.57%) NetApp
5 12 (34.29%) Oracle
6 10 (28.57%) Sun
7 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
8 3 (8.571%) Mercator
9 1 (2.857%) Symantec
9 1 (2.857%) Perforce
9 1 (2.857%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.857%) JBoss
9 1 (2.857%) Dell
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