The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 24 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 Kent 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 35 30 30
Rank change year-on-year
-5 0
Contract jobs citing Solaris 1 6 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 0.348% 2.273% 3.311%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.111% 8.000% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Average daily rate £475 - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £410 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £67.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +68.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £30.50 £33.93
% change year-on-year
-11.47% -10.10%
All Operating Systems
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
90 75 96
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 31.36% 28.41% 31.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 34 55
Average daily rate £345 £250 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+38.00% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £138 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £370 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 6
Average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% +2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.25 £13.50 £7.19
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.40 £67.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Solaris
South East

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Solaris Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 8 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (25.00%) Sybase ASE
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (25.00%) Sybase
3 2 (25.00%) UNIX
3 2 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) TimesTen
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle Exalytics

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Sybase ASE
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (25.00%) TimesTen
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Consultant
1 6 (75.00%) VMware Consultant
2 3 (37.50%) Virtualisation Consultant
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle Consultant
3 2 (25.00%) Senior DBA
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Sybase DBA
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (25.00%) Sybase DBA
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Oracle DBA
3 2 (25.00%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Exalytics
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) UNIX
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (75.00%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) Sybase