The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes 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 - 46 45
Contract jobs citing Solaris 0 16 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes - 2.292% 1.827%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 7.921% 6.358%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 4
Average daily rate - £339 £343
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.09%
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%
All Operating Systems
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
105 202 173
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 19.77% 28.94% 28.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 68 54
Average daily rate £300 £290 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +0.86%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £148 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £375 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 17 31
Average hourly rate £14.00 £13.50 £14.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £10.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.20 £15.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Solaris
Buckinghamshire

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Solaris Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 (83.33%) Oracle
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) AIX
2 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 3 (50.00%) UNIX
4 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (16.67%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (16.67%) HACMP
5 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (16.67%) J2EE
5 1 (16.67%) DHTML
5 1 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (16.67%) DB2
5 1 (16.67%) Ant
5 1 (16.67%) WebLogic
5 1 (16.67%) EJB
5 1 (16.67%) CSS
5 1 (16.67%) JDBC
5 1 (16.67%) JSP
5 1 (16.67%) Servlets
5 1 (16.67%) Struts
5 1 (16.67%) Web Services

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 1 (16.67%) J2EE
1 1 (16.67%) DHTML
1 1 (16.67%) EJB
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) JDBC
1 1 (16.67%) JSP
1 1 (16.67%) Servlets
1 1 (16.67%) Struts
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
1 1 (16.67%) XML
1 1 (16.67%) JMS
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Ajax
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
1 1 (16.67%) Dojo
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (16.67%) WebLogic
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
1 1 (16.67%) Drupal
1 1 (16.67%) Moodle
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (16.67%) DB2
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle 9i
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (16.67%) DB2 UDB
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Ant
1 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DBA
2 2 (33.33%) SQL DBA
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (16.67%) Database Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
3 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) HACMP
1 1 (16.67%) Open Source
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) AIX
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) UML
1 1 (16.67%) OOA/OOD
1 1 (16.67%) OO
1 1 (16.67%) CRM
1 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
1 1 (16.67%) Use Case
1 1 (16.67%) Database Tuning
1 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
1 1 (16.67%) High Availability
1 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
1 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Korn
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) JBoss
3 1 (16.67%) Siebel
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft