The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Leicestershire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank - - 27
Contract jobs citing Solaris 0 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire - - 1.869%
As % of the Operating Systems category - - 7.843%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-16.92% -7.14%
All Operating Systems
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
35 40 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 16.36% 17.32% 23.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 10
Average daily rate £325 £215 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+51.16% -33.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £181 £200 £126
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £328 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 7
Average hourly rate £12.00 £11.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% +4.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.85 £8.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.15 £35.00 £23.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Solaris
East Midlands

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire Solaris Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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.

1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas Volume Manager

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat