The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Hampshire 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
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 71 76 80
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +4
Contract jobs citing Solaris 30 22 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 1.873% 1.415% 1.275%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.479% 5.473% 4.688%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 10
Average daily rate £363 £350 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% +18.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £336 £129
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £415 £328
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 7
Average hourly rate £33.75 - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-16.92% -7.14%
All Operating Systems
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
463 402 512
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 28.90% 25.85% 27.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 168 187
Average daily rate £325 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £213 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £465 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 85 104
Average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +4.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £42.50 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Solaris
South East

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Basingstoke +5 17 £410 -13.68% 2
Winchester 0 2 £340 - 2
Southampton - 2 - -
Havant - 1 £350 -
Fareham - - - -
Solaris
South East

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 29 (70.73%) Linux
2 25 (60.98%) Windows
2 25 (60.98%) AIX
3 23 (56.10%) UNIX
4 20 (48.78%) Finance
5 14 (34.15%) Remedy
5 14 (34.15%) Remedy ITSM
5 14 (34.15%) BMC
6 13 (31.71%) Red Hat
6 13 (31.71%) Korn
7 12 (29.27%) IBM
7 12 (29.27%) Oracle
7 12 (29.27%) ITIL
8 11 (26.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (21.95%) Management Information System
9 9 (21.95%) VMware
10 8 (19.51%) Perl
10 8 (19.51%) FTP
10 8 (19.51%) Change Control
11 7 (17.07%) CMDB
11 7 (17.07%) VMware Infrastructure
11 7 (17.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (17.07%) ATM
11 7 (17.07%) B2B
11 7 (17.07%) Control-M
11 7 (17.07%) Shell Script
12 5 (12.20%) SQL
13 4 (9.756%) HPUX
13 4 (9.756%) Tivoli
13 4 (9.756%) Tivoli Storage Manager

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 2 (4.878%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.439%) EDI
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.878%) SAS
2 1 (2.439%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (2.439%) Oracle 9iAS
2 1 (2.439%) Commerce Server
Applications
1 3 (7.317%) MS Excel
2 2 (4.878%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 14 (34.15%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.51%) FTP
2 7 (17.07%) ATM
3 3 (7.317%) SAN
3 3 (7.317%) LAN
3 3 (7.317%) WAN
3 3 (7.317%) LDAP
4 2 (4.878%) IPv4
5 1 (2.439%) Wireshark
5 1 (2.439%) SSH
5 1 (2.439%) Firewall
5 1 (2.439%) Internet
5 1 (2.439%) SMTP
5 1 (2.439%) SMS
5 1 (2.439%) HTTP
5 1 (2.439%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.439%) DNS
5 1 (2.439%) tcpdump
5 1 (2.439%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.317%) Oracle 10g
1 3 (7.317%) Oracle 9i
2 2 (4.878%) Base SAS
2 2 (4.878%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.878%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (4.878%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.878%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (2.439%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.439%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (2.439%) PowerCenter
3 1 (2.439%) SQLPlus
3 1 (2.439%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.439%) DTS
3 1 (2.439%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (4.878%) ProC
General
1 20 (48.78%) Finance
2 4 (9.756%) Telecoms
3 3 (7.317%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.439%) Retail
4 1 (2.439%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.439%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (34.15%) Consultant
2 10 (24.39%) Administrator
3 3 (7.317%) Network Administrator
3 3 (7.317%) Developer
3 3 (7.317%) Applications Consultant
3 3 (7.317%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (7.317%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (7.317%) Design Engineer
4 2 (4.878%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
4 2 (4.878%) Support Specialist
4 2 (4.878%) Network Engineer
4 2 (4.878%) UNIX Administrator
4 2 (4.878%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (4.878%) Solaris Systems Administrator
4 2 (4.878%) UNIX Specialist
4 2 (4.878%) SAS Developer
4 2 (4.878%) Security Administrator
4 2 (4.878%) UNIX Support
4 2 (4.878%) Solaris Administrator
5 1 (2.439%) Infrastructure Designer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) Management Information System
2 7 (17.07%) CMDB
3 4 (9.756%) SecurID
4 3 (7.317%) SaaS
5 2 (4.878%) iSeries
6 1 (2.439%) Clustering
6 1 (2.439%) HACMP
6 1 (2.439%) LPAR
6 1 (2.439%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 29 (70.73%) Linux
2 25 (60.98%) Windows
2 25 (60.98%) AIX
3 23 (56.10%) UNIX
4 7 (17.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (9.756%) HPUX
5 4 (9.756%) SUSE
6 1 (2.439%) Tru64
6 1 (2.439%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.439%) Windows 2000
6 1 (2.439%) OpenVMS
6 1 (2.439%) NetWare
6 1 (2.439%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.439%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (29.27%) ITIL
2 11 (26.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (19.51%) Change Control
4 7 (17.07%) B2B
5 4 (9.756%) Change Management
6 3 (7.317%) Configuration Management
6 3 (7.317%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (7.317%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (7.317%) ERP
6 3 (7.317%) ETL
7 2 (4.878%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (4.878%) Business Analysis
8 1 (2.439%) Release Management
8 1 (2.439%) Use Case
8 1 (2.439%) Incident Management
8 1 (2.439%) Data Analysis
8 1 (2.439%) Migration
8 1 (2.439%) Capacity Management
8 1 (2.439%) Information Assurance
8 1 (2.439%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 13 (31.71%) Korn
2 8 (19.51%) Perl
3 7 (17.07%) Shell Script
4 5 (12.20%) SQL
5 2 (4.878%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.878%) Bash shell
5 2 (4.878%) SAS Macro
6 1 (2.439%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.439%) C
6 1 (2.439%) C++
6 1 (2.439%) Java
6 1 (2.439%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (7.317%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.878%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.439%) Sun Certification
3 1 (2.439%) CCNP
3 1 (2.439%) CCNA
3 1 (2.439%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.439%) QA
1 1 (2.439%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (17.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (9.756%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.317%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 2 (4.878%) VMware Server
5 1 (2.439%) Snort
5 1 (2.439%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (2.439%) Samba
5 1 (2.439%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) Control-M
2 4 (9.756%) Tivoli
2 4 (9.756%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (4.878%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.439%) SCCM
4 1 (2.439%) SCOM
4 1 (2.439%) Oracle Statspack
4 1 (2.439%) Data Guard
4 1 (2.439%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 14 (34.15%) Remedy
1 14 (34.15%) BMC
2 13 (31.71%) Red Hat
3 12 (29.27%) IBM
3 12 (29.27%) Oracle
4 9 (21.95%) VMware
5 4 (9.756%) Sun
5 4 (9.756%) Microsoft
6 3 (7.317%) HP
7 2 (4.878%) Apple
8 1 (2.439%) Sourcefire
8 1 (2.439%) McAfee
8 1 (2.439%) Compaq
8 1 (2.439%) EMC
8 1 (2.439%) Cisco
8 1 (2.439%) Hitachi
8 1 (2.439%) Informatica
8 1 (2.439%) Veritas
8 1 (2.439%) JBoss
8 1 (2.439%) Cognos