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This section looks at the demand for Sun Microsystems Solaris skills within the Leicestershire region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkSun Microsystems Solaris
Location
3 months to
29 Aug 2008
Same period last year
Rank2530
Rank change on same period last yearUp+5
Matching contract IT job ads86
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.011 %0.006 %
As % of the category below10.00 %8.333 %
Daily rates quoted51
Average minimum daily rate£207£250
Average daily rate£212£275
% change on same period last year-22.90 %
Average maximum daily rate£217£300
UK excluding London average daily rate£368£376
% change on same period last year-2.12 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.98£30.95
% change on same period last year+6.54 %
Leicestershire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
Leicestershire
Matching contract IT job ads8072
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.107 %0.072 %
Daily rates quoted194
Average minimum daily rate£192£230
Average daily rate£197£236
% change on same period last year-16.28 %
Average maximum daily rate£203£241
UK excluding London average daily rate£330£335
% change on same period last year-1.62 %
Hourly rates quoted2329
Average minimum hourly rate£15.83£16.46
Average hourly rate£17.33£17.30
% change on same period last year+0.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate£18.83£18.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate£22.51£22.79
% change on same period last year-1.22 %
Solaris East MidlandsSolaris
East Midlands

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 Leicestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Leicestershire Solaris Demand Trend

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leicestershire Solaris Daily Rate Trend

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solaris across the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

Leicestershire Solaris Daily Rate Histogram

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Solaris across the Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire Solaris Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
HinckleyNew entry-6£190-
Solaris East MidlandsSolaris
East Midlands

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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.

114 (87.50 %)Windows
213 (81.25 %)UNIX
311 (68.75 %)SAN
311 (68.75 %)Red Hat
311 (68.75 %)Linux
410 (62.50 %)Red Hat Linux
59 (56.25 %)AIX
68 (50.00 %)IBM
77 (43.75 %)Oracle
86 (37.50 %)Clustering
86 (37.50 %)Sun
86 (37.50 %)HP
95 (31.25 %)Perl
95 (31.25 %)Windows 2000
95 (31.25 %)Shell Script
95 (31.25 %)IRIX
95 (31.25 %)Service Delivery
95 (31.25 %)Asset Management
104 (25.00 %)Beowulf
104 (25.00 %)WebLogic
104 (25.00 %)Apache
113 (18.75 %)Oracle 9i
113 (18.75 %)Oracle 10g
113 (18.75 %)PL/SQL
113 (18.75 %)SQL
113 (18.75 %)Oracle Reports
113 (18.75 %)HPUX
113 (18.75 %)Finance
113 (18.75 %)Validation
113 (18.75 %)Migration

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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.

Leicestershire IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
11 (6.250 %)WebSphere
Leicestershire IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
14 (25.00 %)WebLogic
14 (25.00 %)Apache
Leicestershire IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
11 (6.250 %)Oracle 11i
11 (6.250 %)Oracle EBS
Leicestershire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
111 (68.75 %)SAN
21 (6.250 %)DHCP
21 (6.250 %)TCP/IP
21 (6.250 %)DNS
Leicestershire IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
13 (18.75 %)Oracle Reports
13 (18.75 %)Oracle 9i
13 (18.75 %)Oracle 10g
Leicestershire IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
13 (18.75 %)Finance
Leicestershire IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
17 (43.75 %)UNIX Specialist
25 (31.25 %)Analyst
34 (25.00 %)Service Analyst
34 (25.00 %)Services Delivery Analyst
43 (18.75 %)Administrator
43 (18.75 %)Oracle DBA
43 (18.75 %)DBA
51 (6.250 %)Support Specialist
51 (6.250 %)Infrastructure Analyst
51 (6.250 %)UNIX Administrator
51 (6.250 %)UNIX Support
Leicestershire IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
16 (37.50 %)Clustering
24 (25.00 %)Beowulf
Leicestershire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
114 (87.50 %)Windows
213 (81.25 %)UNIX
311 (68.75 %)Linux
410 (62.50 %)Red Hat Linux
59 (56.25 %)AIX
65 (31.25 %)Windows 2000
65 (31.25 %)IRIX
73 (18.75 %)HPUX
81 (6.250 %)SUSE
Leicestershire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
15 (31.25 %)Service Delivery
15 (31.25 %)Asset Management
23 (18.75 %)Validation
23 (18.75 %)Migration
32 (12.50 %)Disaster Recovery
41 (6.250 %)Data Security
41 (6.250 %)Business Analysis
Leicestershire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
15 (31.25 %)Perl
15 (31.25 %)Shell Script
23 (18.75 %)PL/SQL
23 (18.75 %)SQL
Leicestershire IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
11 (6.250 %)NFS
Leicestershire IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
11 (6.250 %)BMC PATROL
11 (6.250 %)CONTROL-M
Leicestershire IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
111 (68.75 %)Red Hat
28 (50.00 %)IBM
37 (43.75 %)Oracle
46 (37.50 %)Sun
46 (37.50 %)HP
51 (6.250 %)BMC
51 (6.250 %)NetApp
51 (6.250 %)Brocade