The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 23 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 Middlesex 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 20 24 30
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +6
Contract jobs citing Solaris 2 9 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 0.990% 2.866% 3.170%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.714% 19.15% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 2
Average daily rate £425 £363 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.24% -9.37%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £410 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
Average hourly rate - £31.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +8.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £30.50 £33.72
% change year-on-year
-11.47% -9.53%
All Operating Systems
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
35 47 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 17.33% 14.97% 19.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 25
Average daily rate £450 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £247 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £495 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 17
Average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +103.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £24.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.25 £39.00 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Solaris
South East

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Solaris Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 4 (80.00%) Oracle
1 4 (80.00%) WebLogic
1 4 (80.00%) Apache
1 4 (80.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) UNIX
2 3 (60.00%) JBoss
2 3 (60.00%) NetApp
2 3 (60.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (40.00%) Middleware
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) IIS
3 2 (40.00%) EMC
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (20.00%) RHCE
4 1 (20.00%) SAN
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (20.00%) Sun
4 1 (20.00%) CCNA
4 1 (20.00%) HP
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (20.00%) N-Tier
4 1 (20.00%) SMTP

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 3 (60.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (40.00%) Middleware
3 1 (20.00%) ASP
3 1 (20.00%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) WebLogic
1 4 (80.00%) Apache
1 4 (80.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (40.00%) IIS
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (20.00%) Site Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
1 1 (20.00%) SMTP
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
General
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Management Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) UNIX
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) AIX
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) RHCE
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) MCSD
1 1 (20.00%) MCSE
1 1 (20.00%) SCSA
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Nagios
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) JBoss
2 3 (60.00%) NetApp
3 2 (40.00%) EMC
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
4 1 (20.00%) Sun
4 1 (20.00%) HP
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco
4 1 (20.00%) Red Hat