The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 20 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 Hertfordshire 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 48 61 40
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -21
Contract jobs citing Solaris 8 19 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.236% 1.929% 2.894%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.255% 7.308% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 10
Average daily rate £363 £425 £369
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.70% +15.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £354 £385 £217
10% offered a daily rate of more than £373 £450 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £361
% change year-on-year
- +3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-16.92% -7.14%
All Operating Systems
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
188 260 238
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 29.06% 26.40% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 97 74
Average daily rate £308 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.00% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £185 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 32 51
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.63 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.00 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Solaris
East of England

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Hemel Hempstead - 1 - - 1
Rickmansworth - - - - 2
Royston - - - -
St Albans - - - -
Watford - - - -
Borehamwood - - - -
Solaris
East of England

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 17 (100.00%) UNIX
2 16 (94.12%) Linux
3 10 (58.82%) Perl
4 8 (47.06%) J2EE
4 8 (47.06%) WebSphere
5 7 (41.18%) MQSeries
5 7 (41.18%) IBM
5 7 (41.18%) Red Hat
6 6 (35.29%) Internet
6 6 (35.29%) Finance
6 6 (35.29%) RDBMS
6 6 (35.29%) Interwoven
6 6 (35.29%) Tridion
6 6 (35.29%) E-Commerce
6 6 (35.29%) JMS
6 6 (35.29%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
6 6 (35.29%) Eclipse
6 6 (35.29%) HPUX
6 6 (35.29%) XHTML
6 6 (35.29%) UML
6 6 (35.29%) OO
6 6 (35.29%) RAD
6 6 (35.29%) SQL
6 6 (35.29%) HTML
6 6 (35.29%) Java
6 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
6 6 (35.29%) DB2
6 6 (35.29%) Ant
6 6 (35.29%) JUnit
6 6 (35.29%) WebSphere Application Server

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 8 (47.06%) J2EE
1 8 (47.06%) WebSphere
2 6 (35.29%) JMS
2 6 (35.29%) XHTML
2 6 (35.29%) HTML
2 6 (35.29%) EJB
2 6 (35.29%) JDBC
2 6 (35.29%) JSP
2 6 (35.29%) Servlets
2 6 (35.29%) Struts
2 6 (35.29%) XML
2 6 (35.29%) XSLT
2 6 (35.29%) Ajax
2 6 (35.29%) XMLBeans
2 6 (35.29%) JSTL
3 2 (11.76%) Middleware
4 1 (5.882%) WebSphere MQ
Application Platforms
1 7 (41.18%) MQSeries
2 6 (35.29%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (11.76%) WebLogic
4 1 (5.882%) Apache
Business Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Internet
2 3 (17.65%) SAN
3 2 (11.76%) Network Security
4 1 (5.882%) BIG-IP
4 1 (5.882%) LAN
4 1 (5.882%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) RDBMS
1 6 (35.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 6 (35.29%) Eclipse
1 6 (35.29%) Ant
1 6 (35.29%) JUnit
1 6 (35.29%) Log4j
1 6 (35.29%) Subversion
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
1 6 (35.29%) Retail
2 5 (29.41%) Games
3 1 (5.882%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
1 6 (35.29%) Java/J2EE Developer
1 6 (35.29%) Java Developer
1 6 (35.29%) J2EE Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Administrator
3 4 (23.53%) UNIX Administrator
4 3 (17.65%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 3 (17.65%) Solaris Administrator
4 3 (17.65%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Architect
6 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 1 (5.882%) Linux Specialist
6 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (5.882%) Security Specialist
6 1 (5.882%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Web 2.0
2 1 (5.882%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) UNIX
2 16 (94.12%) Linux
3 6 (35.29%) HPUX
4 5 (29.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (23.53%) Windows
6 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (11.76%) AIX
6 2 (11.76%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (5.882%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) E-Commerce
1 6 (35.29%) UML
1 6 (35.29%) OO
1 6 (35.29%) RAD
1 6 (35.29%) Content Management
2 3 (17.65%) Migration
3 2 (11.76%) Project Management
3 2 (11.76%) ITIL
3 2 (11.76%) Change Control
4 1 (5.882%) Build Automation
4 1 (5.882%) Data Migration
4 1 (5.882%) Load Balancing
4 1 (5.882%) Problem Management
4 1 (5.882%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (5.882%) Programme Office Management
4 1 (5.882%) Service Delivery
4 1 (5.882%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Perl
2 6 (35.29%) SQL
2 6 (35.29%) Java
2 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
2 6 (35.29%) XPath
2 6 (35.29%) Bash shell
3 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (11.76%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.882%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.882%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) IBM
1 7 (41.18%) Red Hat
2 6 (35.29%) Interwoven
2 6 (35.29%) Blue Martini
2 6 (35.29%) ATG
2 6 (35.29%) Elastic Path
3 5 (29.41%) Sun
4 4 (23.53%) Cisco
4 4 (23.53%) Oracle
4 4 (23.53%) VMware
5 2 (11.76%) Citrix
5 2 (11.76%) HP
5 2 (11.76%) Opsware
6 1 (5.882%) F5
6 1 (5.882%) Crossbeam
6 1 (5.882%) EMC
6 1 (5.882%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.882%) BEA
6 1 (5.882%) Nokia
6 1 (5.882%) CheckPoint