Reading Solaris Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Sun Microsystems Solaris skills within the Reading region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Sun Microsystems Solaris
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Rank	52	40
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	22	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	7.914 %	12.56 %
Daily rates quoted	3	7
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£371
Average daily rate	£343	£414
% change on same period last year	-17.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£457
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£362
% change on same period last year	+4.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£22.50
Average hourly rate	£50.00	£23.13
% change on same period last year	+116.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£65.00	£23.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.26	£30.89
% change on same period last year	+4.45 %
Operating Systems Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	278	223
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.367 %	0.237 %
Daily rates quoted	53	54
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£334
Average daily rate	£360	£368
% change on same period last year	-2.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£402
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	49	31
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.50	£21.17
Average hourly rate	£21.79	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-9.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.08	£26.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.83	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-8.06 %
Solaris Berkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Solaris
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Solaris across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Solaris across the Reading region.

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Solaris across the Reading region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 23 (62.16 %) Unix 2 19 (51.35 %) Sun 3 16 (43.24 %) Windows 4 13 (35.14 %) Security Cleared 5 11 (29.73 %) SC Cleared 5 11 (29.73 %) Microsoft 6 10 (27.03 %) Migration 7 9 (24.32 %) Cisco 8 8 (21.62 %) LDAP 8 8 (21.62 %) Windows Server 2003 9 7 (18.92 %) VERITAS 9 7 (18.92 %) HP 9 7 (18.92 %) Tivoli 10 6 (16.22 %) HPUX 10 6 (16.22 %) Oracle

11 5 (13.51 %) AIX 11 5 (13.51 %) VBScript 11 5 (13.51 %) Remedy 11 5 (13.51 %) Government 11 5 (13.51 %) Clustering 11 5 (13.51 %) Load Balancing 12 4 (10.81 %) Replication 12 4 (10.81 %) Firewall 12 4 (10.81 %) Service Management 12 4 (10.81 %) EMC 12 4 (10.81 %) VB 13 3 (8.108 %) Linux 13 3 (8.108 %) SQL 13 3 (8.108 %) NFS 13 3 (8.108 %) CCNA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 (5.405 %) J2EE 2 1 (2.703 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.703 %) WebLogic 1 1 (2.703 %) IIS 1 1 (2.703 %) Tomcat 1 1 (2.703 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 2 (5.405 %) MS Office 2 1 (2.703 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 2 (5.405 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 8 (21.62 %) LDAP 2 4 (10.81 %) Firewall 3 3 (8.108 %) SAN 4 2 (5.405 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (2.703 %) VPN 5 1 (2.703 %) DNS 5 1 (2.703 %) Internet 5 1 (2.703 %) ATM 5 1 (2.703 %) ISDN 5 1 (2.703 %) DHCP 5 1 (2.703 %) VLAN 5 1 (2.703 %) GGSN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.703 %) Oracle 9i 1 1 (2.703 %) Oracle 11g
Development Applications 1 1 (2.703 %) Ant 1 1 (2.703 %) WinRunner 1 1 (2.703 %) TestDirector 1 1 (2.703 %) QuickTest Pro 1 1 (2.703 %) LoadRunner 1 1 (2.703 %) ProC 1 1 (2.703 %) MSI 1 1 (2.703 %) CruiseControl 1 1 (2.703 %) StarTeam	General 1 5 (13.51 %) Government 2 3 (8.108 %) Finance 3 1 (2.703 %) Front Office 3 1 (2.703 %) Back Office 3 1 (2.703 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 5 (13.51 %) Analyst 1 5 (13.51 %) 2nd Line Support 1 5 (13.51 %) Administrator 1 5 (13.51 %) Operations Analyst 2 4 (10.81 %) UNIX Administrator 2 4 (10.81 %) Systems Administrator 2 4 (10.81 %) Architect 3 3 (8.108 %) Technical Architect 3 3 (8.108 %) Support Engineer 3 3 (8.108 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 3 3 (8.108 %) UNIX Engineer 3 3 (8.108 %) UNIX Support 3 3 (8.108 %) Trainee Analyst 3 3 (8.108 %) Trainee 3 3 (8.108 %) Systems Integrator 4 2 (5.405 %) Solaris Administrator 4 2 (5.405 %) UNIX Support Engineer 4 2 (5.405 %) Infrastructure Support Engineer 4 2 (5.405 %) Infrastructure Engineer 4 2 (5.405 %) Team Leader	Miscellaneous 1 5 (13.51 %) Clustering 2 4 (10.81 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 23 (62.16 %) Unix 2 16 (43.24 %) Windows 3 8 (21.62 %) Windows Server 2003 4 6 (16.22 %) HPUX 5 5 (13.51 %) AIX 6 3 (8.108 %) Linux 7 1 (2.703 %) FreeBSD 7 1 (2.703 %) Windows XP 7 1 (2.703 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (35.14 %) Security Cleared 2 11 (29.73 %) SC Cleared 3 10 (27.03 %) Migration 4 5 (13.51 %) Load Balancing 5 4 (10.81 %) Service Management 6 2 (5.405 %) ITIL 6 2 (5.405 %) PRINCE2 6 2 (5.405 %) Configuration Management 6 2 (5.405 %) Validation 7 1 (2.703 %) Project Management 7 1 (2.703 %) Test Scripting 7 1 (2.703 %) Document Management 7 1 (2.703 %) Network Design 7 1 (2.703 %) Technical Architecture 7 1 (2.703 %) ERP 7 1 (2.703 %) SOA 7 1 (2.703 %) Business Intelligence 7 1 (2.703 %) Disaster Recovery 7 1 (2.703 %) GAP Analysis 7 1 (2.703 %) Workflow
Programming Languages 1 5 (13.51 %) VBScript 2 4 (10.81 %) VB 3 3 (8.108 %) SQL 3 3 (8.108 %) Korn 4 2 (5.405 %) Java 4 2 (5.405 %) Perl 4 2 (5.405 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (2.703 %) JavaScript 5 1 (2.703 %) C 5 1 (2.703 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 3 (8.108 %) CCNA 1 3 (8.108 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (5.405 %) EMC Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.703 %) SLA 1 1 (2.703 %) ISO27001	System Software 1 3 (8.108 %) NFS 1 3 (8.108 %) NetBackup 2 2 (5.405 %) Active Directory 2 2 (5.405 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (2.703 %) Oracle RAC
Systems Management 1 7 (18.92 %) Tivoli 2 3 (8.108 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 2 (5.405 %) Netcool 3 2 (5.405 %) OpenView 4 1 (2.703 %) CA SiteMinder	Vendors 1 19 (51.35 %) Sun 2 11 (29.73 %) Microsoft 3 9 (24.32 %) Cisco 4 7 (18.92 %) HP 4 7 (18.92 %) VERITAS 5 6 (16.22 %) Oracle 6 5 (13.51 %) Remedy 7 4 (10.81 %) EMC 8 1 (2.703 %) Citrix 8 1 (2.703 %) BEA 8 1 (2.703 %) ADIC 8 1 (2.703 %) CA 8 1 (2.703 %) Nokia 8 1 (2.703 %) IBM 8 1 (2.703 %) SurfControl 8 1 (2.703 %) Borland 8 1 (2.703 %) Red Hat 8 1 (2.703 %) Dell