The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 20 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 Liverpool 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 17 25 23
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -2
Contract jobs citing Solaris 7 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 4.636% 2.151% 0.633%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.73% 7.407% 2.222%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
Average daily rate £425 - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £425 £375
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £31.00 £35.47
% change year-on-year
-8.06% -12.58%
All Operating Systems
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
55 54 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 36.42% 29.03% 28.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 23 22
Average daily rate £310 £300 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% +4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £175 £133
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £412
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 4
Average hourly rate £11.00 £16.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% +50.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £30.00 £16.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +4.93%
Solaris
Merseyside

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool Solaris Daily Rate Trend

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solaris across the Liverpool region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Liverpool Solaris Daily Rate Histogram

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Liverpool Solaris Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 5 (71.43%) UNIX
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 4 (57.14%) Project Management
3 3 (42.86%) EMC
3 3 (42.86%) NetApp
3 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Strategic Planning
4 2 (28.57%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (28.57%) Degree
4 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
4 2 (28.57%) SAP
4 2 (28.57%) Baan
4 2 (28.57%) JD Edwards
4 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Informix
4 2 (28.57%) Java
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) .NET
4 2 (28.57%) ERP
4 2 (28.57%) IBM
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) Sun
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (28.57%) DB2

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 2 (28.57%) .NET
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Project
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics AX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 2 (28.57%) DB2
1 2 (28.57%) Informix
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Administrator
1 3 (42.86%) Solaris Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Business Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Solaris Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) UNIX
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) AIX
3 2 (28.57%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Process Management
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
2 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) Degree
4 1 (14.29%) RHCE
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) EMC
2 3 (42.86%) NetApp
3 2 (28.57%) Baan
3 2 (28.57%) JD Edwards
3 2 (28.57%) SAP
3 2 (28.57%) IBM
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) Sun
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat