The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the North East 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 North East 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 25 32 31
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -1
Contract jobs citing Solaris 9 15 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 3.214% 3.036% 3.204%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.04% 14.71% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 6
Average daily rate £263 £265 £453
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.94% -41.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £256 £230 £135
10% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £550 £540
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
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
69 102 128
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 24.64% 20.65% 29.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 48 46
Average daily rate £263 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% -15.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £232 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £450 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 17 13
Average hourly rate £10.63 £12.66 £13.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.07% -4.45%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £9.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.25 £20.00 £25.76
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Solaris
England

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region.

North East Solaris Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris within the North East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Tyne and Wear +5 5 £260 -1.88%
Durham - 3 £300 -
Solaris
England

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 13 (86.67%) Linux
2 11 (73.33%) UNIX
3 10 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 10 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (53.33%) AIX
5 7 (46.67%) IBM
5 7 (46.67%) Configuration Management
6 6 (40.00%) Change Control
7 5 (33.33%) Perl
7 5 (33.33%) Oracle
7 5 (33.33%) LDAP
8 4 (26.67%) Oracle 8/8i
8 4 (26.67%) SSL
8 4 (26.67%) SQL
8 4 (26.67%) Business Objects
8 4 (26.67%) Sun
8 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
8 4 (26.67%) WebSphere
8 4 (26.67%) FileNet
8 4 (26.67%) Workflow
8 4 (26.67%) Informatica
9 3 (20.00%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
9 3 (20.00%) Statistics
9 3 (20.00%) Oracle Application Server
9 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (20.00%) OCP
9 3 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (20.00%) Oracle 10g

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 4 (26.67%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) FileNet
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (20.00%) WebLogic
3 2 (13.33%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) LDAP
2 4 (26.67%) SSL
3 2 (13.33%) SAN
4 1 (6.667%) Firewall
4 1 (6.667%) OSPF
4 1 (6.667%) BGP
4 1 (6.667%) DHCP
4 1 (6.667%) VPN
4 1 (6.667%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (13.33%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) DBA
2 3 (20.00%) Administrator
2 3 (20.00%) SQL DBA
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server DBA
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) Build Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Systems Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (6.667%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) UNIX Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) UNIX Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Statistics
2 1 (6.667%) Clustering
2 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (86.67%) Linux
2 11 (73.33%) UNIX
3 10 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (53.33%) AIX
5 2 (13.33%) CentOS
5 2 (13.33%) Debian
6 1 (6.667%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (6.667%) SUSE
6 1 (6.667%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Configuration Management
2 6 (40.00%) Change Control
3 4 (26.67%) Workflow
4 1 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (6.667%) Risk Management
4 1 (6.667%) Release Management
4 1 (6.667%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Perl
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 1 (6.667%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (20.00%) OCP
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (20.00%) MCDBA
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.667%) ISEB
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 7 (46.67%) IBM
3 5 (33.33%) Oracle
4 4 (26.67%) Business Objects
4 4 (26.67%) Sun
4 4 (26.67%) Informatica
5 2 (13.33%) VMware
6 1 (6.667%) HP
6 1 (6.667%) Citrix
6 1 (6.667%) Siebel