Knutsford Solaris Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Sun Microsystems Solaris skills within the Knutsford 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 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Sun Microsystems Solaris
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Rank	8	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	46	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.061 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	43.40 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	23	0
Average minimum daily rate	£435	-
Average daily rate	£458	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£482	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£362
% change on same period last year	+4.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.26	£30.89
% change on same period last year	+4.45 %
Operating Systems Knutsford
Matching contract IT job ads	106	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.140 %	0.006 %
Daily rates quoted	50	5
Average minimum daily rate	£423	£384
Average daily rate	£446	£384
% change on same period last year	+16.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£470	£384
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.83	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-8.06 %
Solaris Cheshire

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.

Solaris
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Solaris across the Knutsford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Solaris across the Knutsford region.

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solaris across the Knutsford region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford 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 46 (100.00 %) Unix 1 46 (100.00 %) AIX 1 46 (100.00 %) Tivoli 2 41 (89.13 %) HPUX 2 41 (89.13 %) Middleware 3 40 (86.96 %) Mainframe 3 40 (86.96 %) Shell Script 4 38 (82.61 %) Windows 4 38 (82.61 %) OMEGAMON 5 37 (80.43 %) Tandem 6 22 (47.83 %) Change Management 6 22 (47.83 %) WebSphere MQ 7 21 (45.65 %) WebSphere 8 19 (41.30 %) WBIMB 8 19 (41.30 %) SSL

9 14 (30.43 %) Cisco 9 14 (30.43 %) WebSphere Application Server 9 14 (30.43 %) Gentran 10 12 (26.09 %) Finance 11 5 (10.87 %) VERITAS 11 5 (10.87 %) IBM 11 5 (10.87 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 11 5 (10.87 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 12 4 (8.696 %) MQSeries 12 4 (8.696 %) Banking 13 3 (6.522 %) Korn 13 3 (6.522 %) TCP/IP 13 3 (6.522 %) SNA 13 3 (6.522 %) Perl 13 3 (6.522 %) HACMP

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford 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 41 (89.13 %) Middleware 2 21 (45.65 %) WebSphere 3 19 (41.30 %) WBIMB	Application Platforms 1 22 (47.83 %) WebSphere MQ 2 14 (30.43 %) Gentran 2 14 (30.43 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 4 (8.696 %) MQSeries
Communications & Networking 1 19 (41.30 %) SSL 2 3 (6.522 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (6.522 %) SNA	General 1 12 (26.09 %) Finance 2 4 (8.696 %) Banking 3 1 (2.174 %) Retail 3 1 (2.174 %) Pensions 3 1 (2.174 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 18 (39.13 %) Infrastructure Specialist 2 7 (15.22 %) Administrator 2 7 (15.22 %) WebSphere Specialist 3 6 (13.04 %) Consultant 4 4 (8.696 %) Systems Administrator 4 4 (8.696 %) WebSphere Consultant 5 2 (4.348 %) AIX Administrator 6 1 (2.174 %) Solaris Administrator 6 1 (2.174 %) Infrastructure Consultant 6 1 (2.174 %) Solaris Systems Administrator 6 1 (2.174 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 6 1 (2.174 %) WebSphere Administrator 6 1 (2.174 %) UNIX Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 40 (86.96 %) Mainframe 2 37 (80.43 %) Tandem 3 3 (6.522 %) HACMP
Operating Systems 1 46 (100.00 %) Unix 1 46 (100.00 %) AIX 2 41 (89.13 %) HPUX 3 38 (82.61 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (47.83 %) Change Management
Programming Languages 1 40 (86.96 %) Shell Script 2 3 (6.522 %) Korn 2 3 (6.522 %) Perl	System Software 1 5 (10.87 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management 1 46 (100.00 %) Tivoli 2 38 (82.61 %) OMEGAMON 3 5 (10.87 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 14 (30.43 %) Cisco 2 5 (10.87 %) IBM 2 5 (10.87 %) VERITAS 3 1 (2.174 %) HP