Solaris Contracts in Leeds
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 64 62 46
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -16
Contract jobs citing Solaris 10 5 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 1.353% 0.575% 1.258%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.673% 2.646% 6.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
Average daily rate £500 £230 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+117.15% -27.48%
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 £30.50 £33.93
% change year-on-year
-11.47% -10.10%
Search 1 Solaris jobs in Leeds
All Operating Systems
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 214 189 132
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 28.96% 21.75% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 89 44
Average daily rate £275 £320 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.06% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £156 £198
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £375 £378
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 30 23
Average hourly rate £26.50 £12.00 £16.72
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+120.83% -28.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.56 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £17.00 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Solaris
West Yorkshire

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Solaris Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 21 (63.64%) UNIX
2 19 (57.58%) Linux
2 19 (57.58%) Java
3 16 (48.48%) Oracle
4 14 (42.42%) SQL
4 14 (42.42%) Sun
4 14 (42.42%) Finance
5 13 (39.39%) WebSphere
6 12 (36.36%) Tomcat
6 12 (36.36%) SQL Server
6 12 (36.36%) Windows
7 11 (33.33%) Apache
8 10 (30.30%) AIX
9 9 (27.27%) J2EE
9 9 (27.27%) Internet
9 9 (27.27%) IBM
9 9 (27.27%) GlassFish
10 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
10 8 (24.24%) Shell Script
10 8 (24.24%) WebSphere Application Server
10 8 (24.24%) Perl
10 8 (24.24%) Web Services
11 7 (21.21%) Process Management
11 7 (21.21%) Firewall
11 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure Management
12 6 (18.18%) IBM HTTP Server
12 6 (18.18%) Retail
12 6 (18.18%) ITIL
12 6 (18.18%) PRINCE2
12 6 (18.18%) JBoss

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 13 (39.39%) WebSphere
2 9 (27.27%) J2EE
3 8 (24.24%) Web Services
4 5 (15.15%) Middleware
5 4 (12.12%) JDBC
6 1 (3.030%) Struts2
6 1 (3.030%) HTML
6 1 (3.030%) JSP
6 1 (3.030%) Struts
6 1 (3.030%) CSS
6 1 (3.030%) XML
6 1 (3.030%) Hibernate
6 1 (3.030%) Ajax
6 1 (3.030%) Spring
6 1 (3.030%) jQuery
6 1 (3.030%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 12 (36.36%) Tomcat
2 11 (33.33%) Apache
3 9 (27.27%) GlassFish
4 8 (24.24%) WebSphere Application Server
5 6 (18.18%) IBM HTTP Server
6 4 (12.12%) Oracle Application Server
6 4 (12.12%) WebLogic
6 4 (12.12%) IIS
6 4 (12.12%) MQSeries
7 3 (9.091%) ATG Dynamo
8 1 (3.030%) Magento
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) MS Office
2 3 (9.091%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.030%) MS Excel
3 1 (3.030%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (9.091%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 9 (27.27%) Internet
2 7 (21.21%) Firewall
3 4 (12.12%) FTP
3 4 (12.12%) HTTP
4 3 (9.091%) VPN
4 3 (9.091%) DNS
4 3 (9.091%) WAN
4 3 (9.091%) SAN
5 2 (6.061%) Network Security
5 2 (6.061%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (6.061%) SSL
6 1 (3.030%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (3.030%) NAS
6 1 (3.030%) SMTP
6 1 (3.030%) NetScreen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 6 (18.18%) DB2
3 5 (15.15%) MySQL
4 4 (12.12%) Oracle 11g
5 3 (9.091%) Oracle 10g
5 3 (9.091%) Oracle 8/8i
5 3 (9.091%) Oracle 9i
5 3 (9.091%) SQL Server 2000
5 3 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (3.030%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Subversion
1 4 (12.12%) Maven
2 3 (9.091%) Ant
2 3 (9.091%) CruiseControl
3 1 (3.030%) Hudson
3 1 (3.030%) JUnit
3 1 (3.030%) Oracle Forms
General
1 14 (42.42%) Finance
2 6 (18.18%) Retail
3 4 (12.12%) Games
4 2 (6.061%) Banking
5 1 (3.030%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Analyst
1 7 (21.21%) Support Analyst
2 5 (15.15%) Applications Support
3 4 (12.12%) Administrator
3 4 (12.12%) Technical Specialist
3 4 (12.12%) Operations Analyst
3 4 (12.12%) Operations Support Analyst
4 3 (9.091%) Designer
4 3 (9.091%) Configuration Engineer
4 3 (9.091%) Architect
4 3 (9.091%) Oracle DBA
4 3 (9.091%) Applications Support Analyst
4 3 (9.091%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.091%) DBA
4 3 (9.091%) Release Engineer
4 3 (9.091%) Infrastructure Designer
5 2 (6.061%) Web Analyst
5 2 (6.061%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.061%) Web Administrator
5 2 (6.061%) Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.030%) Grid Computing
1 1 (3.030%) Beowulf
1 1 (3.030%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 21 (63.64%) UNIX
2 19 (57.58%) Linux
3 12 (36.36%) Windows
4 10 (30.30%) AIX
5 5 (15.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (12.12%) HPUX
7 1 (3.030%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.21%) Process Management
1 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure Management
2 6 (18.18%) ITIL
2 6 (18.18%) PRINCE2
2 6 (18.18%) E-Commerce
3 5 (15.15%) Configuration Management
4 3 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (6.061%) Performance Management
6 1 (3.030%) Change Control
6 1 (3.030%) CRM
6 1 (3.030%) Requirements Analysis
6 1 (3.030%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 19 (57.58%) Java
2 14 (42.42%) SQL
3 8 (24.24%) Shell Script
3 8 (24.24%) Perl
4 6 (18.18%) PHP
5 4 (12.12%) Bash shell
6 3 (9.091%) AWK
7 1 (3.030%) Python
7 1 (3.030%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.030%) VB
7 1 (3.030%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.030%) C
7 1 (3.030%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (6.061%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.061%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.030%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (3.030%) Sendmail
1 1 (3.030%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (3.030%) VMware ESX
1 1 (3.030%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.030%) PureDisk
1 1 (3.030%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 16 (48.48%) Oracle
2 14 (42.42%) Sun
3 9 (27.27%) IBM
4 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
5 6 (18.18%) JBoss
6 5 (15.15%) Red Hat
7 3 (9.091%) ATG
8 2 (6.061%) McAfee
8 2 (6.061%) VMware
8 2 (6.061%) Juniper
8 2 (6.061%) Cisco
8 2 (6.061%) F5
9 1 (3.030%) HP
9 1 (3.030%) NetApp
9 1 (3.030%) Apple
9 1 (3.030%) Symantec
9 1 (3.030%) Brocade
9 1 (3.030%) Blue Coat
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