Solaris Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 21 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 Reading 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 69 66 39
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -27
Contract jobs citing Solaris 4 15 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.467% 1.357% 4.369%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.980% 5.882% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 19
Average daily rate £201 £316 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.60% -25.58%
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 £28.50 £30.50 £35.47
% change year-on-year
-6.55% -13.99%
All Operating Systems
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 202 255 316
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.60% 23.08% 30.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 92 116
Average daily rate £335 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 24 10
Average hourly rate £19.00 £15.13 £13.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.61% +15.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £14.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £20.00 £23.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Solaris
Berkshire

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Solaris Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 6 (75.00%) UNIX
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
1 6 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Red Hat
3 4 (50.00%) SAN
3 4 (50.00%) VMware
3 4 (50.00%) HP
4 3 (37.50%) Sun
4 3 (37.50%) HPUX
4 3 (37.50%) Oracle
4 3 (37.50%) NetBackup
4 3 (37.50%) Veritas
4 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (25.00%) Windows 2000 Server
5 2 (25.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 2 (25.00%) Brocade
5 2 (25.00%) Marketing
5 2 (25.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
5 2 (25.00%) Remedy
5 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) AIX
5 2 (25.00%) Java
5 2 (25.00%) J2EE
5 2 (25.00%) MySQL
5 2 (25.00%) Apache
5 2 (25.00%) Tomcat

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 2 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) LAMP
2 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
2 1 (12.50%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) ClearCase
1 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 2 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) UNIX Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Support
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Implementation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) UNIX
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
1 6 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
3 3 (37.50%) HPUX
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (25.00%) Windows 2000 Server
4 2 (25.00%) AIX
5 1 (12.50%) FreeBSD
5 1 (12.50%) SUSE
5 1 (12.50%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) UML
2 1 (12.50%) OOD
2 1 (12.50%) SOA
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) MVC
2 1 (12.50%) Change Control
2 1 (12.50%) Operations Management
2 1 (12.50%) Multithreading
2 1 (12.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) Perl
2 1 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) RHCE
1 1 (12.50%) HPUX Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CCNA
1 1 (12.50%) MCSE
1 1 (12.50%) SCSA
1 1 (12.50%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) NFS
3 1 (12.50%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (12.50%) VirtualBox
3 1 (12.50%) Xen
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (12.50%) Veritas File System
3 1 (12.50%) Postfix
3 1 (12.50%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) NetBackup
2 1 (12.50%) OpenView
2 1 (12.50%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Red Hat
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (50.00%) HP
3 3 (37.50%) Sun
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle
3 3 (37.50%) Veritas
4 2 (25.00%) Brocade
4 2 (25.00%) Remedy
4 2 (25.00%) IBM
4 2 (25.00%) EMC
5 1 (12.50%) Intel
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (12.50%) JBoss
5 1 (12.50%) Egenera
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