Solaris Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 17 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 West 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 93 65 97
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +32
Contract jobs citing Solaris 24 73 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 1.045% 2.305% 1.137%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.511% 10.38% 4.958%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 16
Average daily rate £438 £358 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.37% +37.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £353 £296 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £523 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £430 £375
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +14.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
Average hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -18.18%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £31.00 £35.47
% change year-on-year
-8.06% -12.58%
All Operating Systems
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 532 703 706
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 23.16% 22.20% 22.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 281 381
Average daily rate £295 £318 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.08% +5.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £167 £175 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £458 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 67 72
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £13.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +32.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £10.18 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £30.00 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Solaris
England

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Lancashire +16 7 - -
Merseyside +9 7 £425 -
Cheshire -6 6 £475 +8.63%
Manchester -24 2 £413 +21.32%
Solaris
England

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 41 (80.39%) UNIX
2 29 (56.86%) Java
3 27 (52.94%) HPUX
4 26 (50.98%) Linux
5 24 (47.06%) AIX
6 22 (43.14%) Windows
6 22 (43.14%) IBM
7 21 (41.18%) Perl
8 18 (35.29%) Oracle
9 16 (31.37%) Tivoli
10 15 (29.41%) SQL
10 15 (29.41%) Retail
11 13 (25.49%) DB2
11 13 (25.49%) Finance
12 12 (23.53%) JavaScript
13 11 (21.57%) XML
13 11 (21.57%) J2EE
13 11 (21.57%) Identity Management
13 11 (21.57%) Tivoli Identity Manager
14 10 (19.61%) WebSphere
14 10 (19.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 10 (19.61%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
14 10 (19.61%) Bash shell
14 10 (19.61%) Shell Script
14 10 (19.61%) Middleware
14 10 (19.61%) Internet
14 10 (19.61%) XSLT
14 10 (19.61%) JUnit
14 10 (19.61%) JMS
14 10 (19.61%) OO

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 11 (21.57%) J2EE
1 11 (21.57%) XML
2 10 (19.61%) XSLT
2 10 (19.61%) JMS
2 10 (19.61%) Middleware
2 10 (19.61%) WebSphere
2 10 (19.61%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
3 9 (17.65%) Ajax
3 9 (17.65%) XHTML
3 9 (17.65%) HTML
3 9 (17.65%) JDBC
4 8 (15.69%) JSP
4 8 (15.69%) Servlets
4 8 (15.69%) EJB
4 8 (15.69%) Struts
4 8 (15.69%) JSTL
4 8 (15.69%) XMLBeans
5 7 (13.73%) SPNEGO
6 5 (9.804%) SAP Basis
7 3 (5.882%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 9 (17.65%) WebSphere Application Server
2 8 (15.69%) MQSeries
3 5 (9.804%) NetWeaver
4 2 (3.922%) ESB
4 2 (3.922%) MS Exchange
5 1 (1.961%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (1.961%) Lync
5 1 (1.961%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (1.961%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.961%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.961%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (11.76%) MS Project
2 5 (9.804%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.961%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (15.69%) Tridion
2 2 (3.922%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.61%) LDAP
1 10 (19.61%) Internet
2 8 (15.69%) SAN
3 7 (13.73%) X.509
3 7 (13.73%) Network Security
3 7 (13.73%) Kerberos
3 7 (13.73%) SMS
4 6 (11.76%) WAN
4 6 (11.76%) LAN
4 6 (11.76%) Firewall
5 5 (9.804%) DNS
6 3 (5.882%) SSL
7 1 (1.961%) SMTP
7 1 (1.961%) FTP
7 1 (1.961%) HTTP
7 1 (1.961%) Intranet
7 1 (1.961%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.49%) DB2
2 8 (15.69%) RDBMS
3 6 (11.76%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.922%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (3.922%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (3.922%) Informix
5 1 (1.961%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.961%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.961%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (19.61%) JUnit
2 8 (15.69%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 8 (15.69%) Eclipse
2 8 (15.69%) Log4j
2 8 (15.69%) Subversion
2 8 (15.69%) Ant
General
1 15 (29.41%) Retail
2 13 (25.49%) Finance
3 9 (17.65%) Banking
4 7 (13.73%) Games
5 2 (3.922%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.922%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.961%) German Language
Job Titles
1 11 (21.57%) Developer
1 11 (21.57%) Java Developer
2 10 (19.61%) J2EE Developer
2 10 (19.61%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 8 (15.69%) Consultant
4 6 (11.76%) Administrator
4 6 (11.76%) Technical Consultant
5 4 (7.843%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (7.843%) SAP Manager
6 3 (5.882%) Technical Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.882%) SAP Release Manager
6 3 (5.882%) Identity Management Specialist
6 3 (5.882%) Analyst
6 3 (5.882%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.882%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.882%) Release Manager
6 3 (5.882%) Solaris Administrator
6 3 (5.882%) Technical Engineer
6 3 (5.882%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 2 (3.922%) Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Web 2.0
2 5 (9.804%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.922%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.961%) LPAR
4 1 (1.961%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.961%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 41 (80.39%) UNIX
2 27 (52.94%) HPUX
3 26 (50.98%) Linux
4 24 (47.06%) AIX
5 22 (43.14%) Windows
6 10 (19.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (9.804%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.961%) SUSE
9 1 (1.961%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (21.57%) Identity Management
2 10 (19.61%) OO
3 9 (17.65%) E-Commerce
4 8 (15.69%) UML
4 8 (15.69%) RAD
4 8 (15.69%) Migration
4 8 (15.69%) Content Management
5 7 (13.73%) Change Management
6 6 (11.76%) Project Management
7 5 (9.804%) CRM
7 5 (9.804%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (5.882%) ITIL
8 3 (5.882%) SOA
8 3 (5.882%) Business Analysis
8 3 (5.882%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (5.882%) Unit Testing
8 3 (5.882%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (3.922%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (3.922%) TOGAF
9 2 (3.922%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 29 (56.86%) Java
2 21 (41.18%) Perl
3 15 (29.41%) SQL
4 12 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 10 (19.61%) Shell Script
5 10 (19.61%) Bash shell
6 8 (15.69%) XPath
7 5 (9.804%) ABAP
8 1 (1.961%) C
8 1 (1.961%) Korn
8 1 (1.961%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.922%) Degree
4 1 (1.961%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.961%) CISSP
4 1 (1.961%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (1.961%) RHCE
4 1 (1.961%) CISA
4 1 (1.961%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.882%) QA
2 1 (1.961%) ISO/IEC 17799
2 1 (1.961%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (5.882%) Tivoli Directory Server
2 2 (3.922%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (1.961%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.961%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 16 (31.37%) Tivoli
2 11 (21.57%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 5 (9.804%) Unicenter
4 3 (5.882%) BladeLogic
5 1 (1.961%) SCCM
5 1 (1.961%) SCOM
5 1 (1.961%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 22 (43.14%) IBM
2 18 (35.29%) Oracle
3 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 9 (17.65%) Red Hat
3 9 (17.65%) HP
3 9 (17.65%) ATG
3 9 (17.65%) Blue Martini
4 8 (15.69%) Elastic Path
4 8 (15.69%) SAP
4 8 (15.69%) Interwoven
5 5 (9.804%) CA
6 4 (7.843%) Sun
6 4 (7.843%) EMC
7 3 (5.882%) NetApp
8 2 (3.922%) Citrix
8 2 (3.922%) Baan
8 2 (3.922%) JD Edwards
9 1 (1.961%) webMethods
9 1 (1.961%) McAfee
9 1 (1.961%) VMware
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Posted: 17 May 2013
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