Solaris Contracts in Oxfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 22 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 Oxfordshire 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 40 55 31
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -24
Contract jobs citing Solaris 13 1 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 2.870% 0.159% 4.009%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.62% 0.885% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 8
Average daily rate £323 - £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 - £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £341 - £458
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 £31.00 £35.47
% change year-on-year
-12.90% -12.58%
All Operating Systems
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 103 113 158
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 22.74% 17.94% 35.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 34 62
Average daily rate £305 £325 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.15% +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £225 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £397 £378 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 27 35
Average hourly rate £14.63 £16.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.36% +13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.45 £11.50 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.75 £23.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +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 Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Bicester - 8 £320 -
Solaris
South East

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 16 (88.89%) Oracle
2 14 (77.78%) Oracle 10g
3 12 (66.67%) Windows
3 12 (66.67%) Java
3 12 (66.67%) SQL
3 12 (66.67%) Oracle Application Server
3 12 (66.67%) Java EE
4 10 (55.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 10 (55.56%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (55.56%) Internet
4 10 (55.56%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (55.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 10 (55.56%) SOA
4 10 (55.56%) HTTP
5 9 (50.00%) OC4J
6 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
6 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
6 8 (44.44%) Apache
6 8 (44.44%) UNIX
7 7 (38.89%) Linux
8 6 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (33.33%) LDAP
8 6 (33.33%) Oracle Discoverer
8 6 (33.33%) InterSystems Cache
8 6 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
9 5 (27.78%) Oracle 11g
9 5 (27.78%) Red Hat
9 5 (27.78%) Risk Assessment
10 4 (22.22%) VMware

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 12 (66.67%) Java EE
2 9 (50.00%) OC4J
3 2 (11.11%) Hibernate
3 2 (11.11%) Spring
3 2 (11.11%) JAXB
3 2 (11.11%) J2EE
3 2 (11.11%) HTML
3 2 (11.11%) EJB
3 2 (11.11%) CSS
3 2 (11.11%) JSP
3 2 (11.11%) Struts
3 2 (11.11%) Web Services
3 2 (11.11%) XML
3 2 (11.11%) Struts2
3 2 (11.11%) jQuery
3 2 (11.11%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 12 (66.67%) Oracle Application Server
2 10 (55.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 10 (55.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 8 (44.44%) Apache
4 2 (11.11%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) Internet
1 10 (55.56%) HTTP
2 6 (33.33%) LDAP
3 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
4 2 (11.11%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (77.78%) Oracle 10g
2 6 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (33.33%) Oracle Discoverer
2 6 (33.33%) InterSystems Cache
3 5 (27.78%) Oracle 11g
4 4 (22.22%) MarkLogic
5 2 (11.11%) MySQL
5 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
6 1 (5.556%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.556%) Publishing
2 1 (5.556%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Administrator
2 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
2 2 (11.11%) UNIX Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Developer
2 2 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (5.556%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Windows
2 10 (55.56%) Windows Server 2003
3 8 (44.44%) UNIX
4 7 (38.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Disaster Recovery
1 10 (55.56%) SOA
2 5 (27.78%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (22.22%) ITIL
4 3 (16.67%) Six Sigma
5 2 (11.11%) Scrum
5 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
5 2 (11.11%) E-business
5 2 (11.11%) MVC
5 2 (11.11%) Change Control
5 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 2 (11.11%) Problem Management
5 2 (11.11%) Lean Six Sigma
6 1 (5.556%) Logistics
6 1 (5.556%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Java
1 12 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) Perl
2 4 (22.22%) Bash shell
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) C
3 2 (11.11%) C-shell
3 2 (11.11%) Korn
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (5.556%) Sun Certification
3 1 (5.556%) SCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (16.67%) NFS
Vendors
1 16 (88.89%) Oracle
2 5 (27.78%) Red Hat
3 4 (22.22%) VMware
3 4 (22.22%) HP
3 4 (22.22%) Veritas
4 1 (5.556%) IBM
4 1 (5.556%) EMC
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