Gloucestershire Solaris Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Sun Microsystems Solaris skills within the Gloucestershire 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 7 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 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 Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hertfordshire Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hull Inverness Ipswich 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 Oxford 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 Southend-on-Sea 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 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	12
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	27	51
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.054 %
As % of the category below	24.55 %	28.65 %
Daily rates quoted	10	14
Average minimum daily rate	£379	£351
Average daily rate	£382	£364
% change on same period last year	+4.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£363
% change on same period last year	+4.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£42.50	£32.88
Average hourly rate	£43.75	£33.88
% change on same period last year	+29.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£34.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.97	£30.91
% change on same period last year	+3.40 %
Operating Systems Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	110	178
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.145 %	0.189 %
Daily rates quoted	49	51
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£359
Average daily rate	£367	£373
% change on same period last year	-1.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£388
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	43
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.25	£22.08
Average hourly rate	£30.19	£23.10
% change on same period last year	+30.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.13	£24.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.92	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-7.68 %
Solaris South West

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Solaris across the Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 7 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 Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Solaris within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cheltenham	-3	17	£372	-3.12 %
Gloucester	+5	6	-	-

Solaris South West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, 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 40 (76.92 %) Unix 2 29 (55.77 %) Security Cleared 3 19 (36.54 %) DV Cleared 4 18 (34.62 %) Korn 4 18 (34.62 %) Perl 5 15 (28.85 %) HPUX 6 13 (25.00 %) Oracle 7 12 (23.08 %) Sun 8 11 (21.15 %) Linux 9 9 (17.31 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 9 (17.31 %) Active Directory 9 9 (17.31 %) Telecoms 10 8 (15.38 %) Shell Script 11 7 (13.46 %) AIX 12 5 (9.615 %) SUSE

12 5 (9.615 %) SC Cleared 12 5 (9.615 %) Windows 12 5 (9.615 %) SQL Server 12 5 (9.615 %) IBM 12 5 (9.615 %) SQL Server 2000 12 5 (9.615 %) HP 12 5 (9.615 %) Red Hat 13 4 (7.692 %) Service Management 13 4 (7.692 %) C 13 4 (7.692 %) ITIL 13 4 (7.692 %) SQL Server 2005 14 3 (5.769 %) Clustering 14 3 (5.769 %) Government 14 3 (5.769 %) Java 14 3 (5.769 %) TCP/IP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, 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 1 (1.923 %) STL 1 1 (1.923 %) XML 1 1 (1.923 %) CORBA 1 1 (1.923 %) Middleware 1 1 (1.923 %) LuciadMap	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.846 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (1.923 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 1 (1.923 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (1.923 %) Morello 2 1 (1.923 %) WebLogic 2 1 (1.923 %) Apache
Applications 1 1 (1.923 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (1.923 %) WebTrends
Communications & Networking 1 3 (5.769 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (3.846 %) DNS 2 2 (3.846 %) SAN 3 1 (1.923 %) Internet 3 1 (1.923 %) X.400 3 1 (1.923 %) X.500 3 1 (1.923 %) BIG-IP 3 1 (1.923 %) LDAP 3 1 (1.923 %) SMTP 3 1 (1.923 %) DHCP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (17.31 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 5 (9.615 %) SQL Server 2000 2 5 (9.615 %) SQL Server 3 4 (7.692 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (1.923 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 1 (1.923 %) PVCS	General 1 9 (17.31 %) Telecoms 2 3 (5.769 %) Government 3 2 (3.846 %) Legal 3 2 (3.846 %) Finance 3 2 (3.846 %) Education 4 1 (1.923 %) Marketing 4 1 (1.923 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 35 (67.31 %) Administrator 2 20 (38.46 %) UNIX Administrator 3 16 (30.77 %) Systems Administrator 4 15 (28.85 %) Solaris Administrator 5 8 (15.38 %) Consultant 5 8 (15.38 %) Solaris Systems Administrator 6 7 (13.46 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 7 4 (7.692 %) DBA 7 4 (7.692 %) Oracle DBA 7 4 (7.692 %) UNIX Consultant 8 3 (5.769 %) UNIX Specialist 9 2 (3.846 %) UNIX Engineer 9 2 (3.846 %) AIX Administrator 9 2 (3.846 %) Architect 10 1 (1.923 %) Desktop Support 10 1 (1.923 %) Software Engineer 10 1 (1.923 %) IT Consultant 10 1 (1.923 %) Solutions Architect 10 1 (1.923 %) Technical Support 10 1 (1.923 %) Support Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.769 %) Clustering 2 2 (3.846 %) PKI 3 1 (1.923 %) Taxonomies
Operating Systems 1 40 (76.92 %) Unix 2 15 (28.85 %) HPUX 3 11 (21.15 %) Linux 4 7 (13.46 %) AIX 5 5 (9.615 %) Windows 5 5 (9.615 %) SUSE 6 1 (1.923 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (1.923 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (1.923 %) Windows NT 6 1 (1.923 %) Tru64	Processes & Methodologies 1 29 (55.77 %) Security Cleared 2 19 (36.54 %) DV Cleared 3 5 (9.615 %) SC Cleared 4 4 (7.692 %) ITIL 4 4 (7.692 %) Service Management 5 2 (3.846 %) UML 6 1 (1.923 %) RUP 6 1 (1.923 %) Configuration Management 6 1 (1.923 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (1.923 %) Content Management 6 1 (1.923 %) Information Management 6 1 (1.923 %) Test Scripting
Programming Languages 1 18 (34.62 %) Perl 1 18 (34.62 %) Korn 2 8 (15.38 %) Shell Script 3 4 (7.692 %) C 4 3 (5.769 %) Java 5 2 (3.846 %) C++ 6 1 (1.923 %) VB	Qualifications 1 1 (1.923 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.923 %) SLA	System Software 1 9 (17.31 %) Active Directory 2 2 (3.846 %) NetBackup 3 1 (1.923 %) Oracle RMAN 3 1 (1.923 %) ClearTrust 3 1 (1.923 %) NFS
Vendors 1 13 (25.00 %) Oracle 2 12 (23.08 %) Sun 3 5 (9.615 %) HP 3 5 (9.615 %) IBM 3 5 (9.615 %) Red Hat 4 2 (3.846 %) Microsoft 4 2 (3.846 %) VERITAS 5 1 (1.923 %) Symantec 5 1 (1.923 %) Serena 5 1 (1.923 %) EMC 5 1 (1.923 %) ADIC 5 1 (1.923 %) StorageTek