The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Knutsford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 22 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 Knutsford 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank - 17 26
Contract jobs citing Solaris 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Knutsford - 1.389% 0.645%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 3.846% 1.449%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £313
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £410 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £31.00 £35.47
% change year-on-year
-12.90% -12.58%
All Operating Systems
Knutsford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
34 26 69
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Knutsford 33.01% 36.11% 44.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 63
Average daily rate £300 £320 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +18.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £275 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £390 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Solaris
Cheshire

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Knutsford 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 Knutsford region.

Knutsford Solaris Daily Rate Trend

Solaris
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) BladeLogic
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Directory Server

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management Specialist
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
1 1 (100.00%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM