Solaris Contracts in Scotland
 
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 Scotland 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 Scotland 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 76 64 61
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -3
Contract jobs citing Solaris 44 43 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.804% 1.623% 1.996%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.985% 8.977% 11.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 14 37
Average daily rate £400 £355 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.67% +1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £356 £272 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £427 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £430 £375
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +14.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £175.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £31.00 £35.47
% change year-on-year
-8.06% -12.58%
All Operating Systems
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 551 479 505
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 22.59% 18.08% 18.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 192 168
Average daily rate £360 £320 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +3.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £120 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £420 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 39 36
Average hourly rate £15.50 £24.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.41% +41.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.60 £31.70 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Solaris
UK

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +6 14 £375 -5.06%
Glasgow -18 14 £358 +104.28%
Renfrewshire - 8 £425 -
South Lanarkshire - 3 - -
Stirling -10 1 £375 -25.00%
Aberdeen - 1 £425 -
Solaris
UK

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 54 (59.34%) UNIX
2 53 (58.24%) Windows
3 50 (54.95%) Linux
4 39 (42.86%) AIX
5 28 (30.77%) Oracle
6 27 (29.67%) Finance
7 25 (27.47%) Microsoft
8 23 (25.27%) Banking
9 22 (24.18%) Windows Server 2003
10 21 (23.08%) SQL
10 21 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
11 18 (19.78%) Security Cleared
12 17 (18.68%) Perl
12 17 (18.68%) SQL Server
12 17 (18.68%) IBM
13 16 (17.58%) Java
14 15 (16.48%) HPUX
15 13 (14.29%) Red Hat
16 12 (13.19%) Windows XP
16 12 (13.19%) Active Directory
16 12 (13.19%) SAN
17 11 (12.09%) MySQL
17 11 (12.09%) EMC
17 11 (12.09%) Tivoli
17 11 (12.09%) Netcool
17 11 (12.09%) Investment Banking
17 11 (12.09%) SC Cleared
18 10 (10.99%) .NET
18 10 (10.99%) MS Excel
18 10 (10.99%) DHCP

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 10 (10.99%) .NET
2 8 (8.791%) WebSphere
3 6 (6.593%) J2EE
3 6 (6.593%) XML
4 3 (3.297%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.198%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (1.099%) HTML
6 1 (1.099%) WCF
6 1 (1.099%) Silverlight
6 1 (1.099%) Regular Expression
6 1 (1.099%) CSS
6 1 (1.099%) ASP
6 1 (1.099%) XSD
6 1 (1.099%) XSLT
6 1 (1.099%) SVG
6 1 (1.099%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 5 (5.495%) Apache
1 5 (5.495%) MQSeries
1 5 (5.495%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (4.396%) IIS
2 4 (4.396%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (3.297%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (3.297%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.297%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (2.198%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (2.198%) CMS
4 2 (2.198%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (2.198%) MS Exchange
5 1 (1.099%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.099%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.099%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 10 (10.99%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.099%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.198%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.099%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.099%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.19%) SAN
2 10 (10.99%) DHCP
2 10 (10.99%) DNS
3 9 (9.890%) NAS
4 7 (7.692%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.297%) SNMP
5 3 (3.297%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (2.198%) Connectrix
6 2 (2.198%) LDAP
7 1 (1.099%) LAN
7 1 (1.099%) WAN
7 1 (1.099%) HTTP
7 1 (1.099%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.099%) SSL
7 1 (1.099%) Network Security
7 1 (1.099%) iSCSI
7 1 (1.099%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.099%) Internet
7 1 (1.099%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.68%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.09%) MySQL
3 9 (9.890%) Oracle 8/8i
4 7 (7.692%) DB2
4 7 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
5 6 (6.593%) Oracle 9i
6 5 (5.495%) Oracle 11g
7 4 (4.396%) SQL Server 2005
7 4 (4.396%) Oracle 10g
8 3 (3.297%) SQL Server 7
8 3 (3.297%) SQL Server 2000
8 3 (3.297%) GIS
9 1 (1.099%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.099%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.099%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.099%) TOAD
9 1 (1.099%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.099%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.099%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (3.297%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (2.198%) Subversion
3 1 (1.099%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.099%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (1.099%) NetBeans
3 1 (1.099%) Selenium
3 1 (1.099%) Git (software)
3 1 (1.099%) TortoiseSVN
3 1 (1.099%) Cucumber
General
1 27 (29.67%) Finance
2 23 (25.27%) Banking
3 11 (12.09%) Investment Banking
4 5 (5.495%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.297%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.198%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.198%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.099%) Back Office
7 1 (1.099%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 16 (17.58%) Administrator
2 9 (9.890%) Consultant
2 9 (9.890%) Systems Administrator
3 8 (8.791%) Architect
3 8 (8.791%) DBA
3 8 (8.791%) UNIX Administrator
4 6 (6.593%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 6 (6.593%) Designer
5 5 (5.495%) Oracle DBA
5 5 (5.495%) Developer
6 4 (4.396%) Development Specialist
6 4 (4.396%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (4.396%) WebSphere Administrator
6 4 (4.396%) Technical Specialist
6 4 (4.396%) UNIX Consultant
7 3 (3.297%) Configuration Management Consultant
7 3 (3.297%) SQL DBA
7 3 (3.297%) Sybase Developer
7 3 (3.297%) Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (3.297%) SQL Server DBA
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.593%) Clustering
2 5 (5.495%) Derivative
3 4 (4.396%) Replication
4 3 (3.297%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.297%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (3.297%) CMDB
4 3 (3.297%) Market Risk
4 3 (3.297%) Symmetrix
4 3 (3.297%) SaaS
5 2 (2.198%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.198%) EMC Centera
5 2 (2.198%) Celerra
5 2 (2.198%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.099%) CLARiiON
6 1 (1.099%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 54 (59.34%) UNIX
2 53 (58.24%) Windows
3 50 (54.95%) Linux
4 39 (42.86%) AIX
5 22 (24.18%) Windows Server 2003
6 21 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
7 15 (16.48%) HPUX
8 12 (13.19%) Windows XP
9 5 (5.495%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (3.297%) Windows Vista
10 3 (3.297%) zOS
10 3 (3.297%) Windows NT
11 2 (2.198%) SUSE
11 2 (2.198%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (10.99%) Configuration Management
2 9 (9.890%) ITIL
3 8 (8.791%) Release Management
3 8 (8.791%) Security Architecture
4 6 (6.593%) Risk Analysis
4 6 (6.593%) Software Distribution
4 6 (6.593%) Service Management
4 6 (6.593%) Risk Management
5 5 (5.495%) Migration
5 5 (5.495%) Regression Testing
5 5 (5.495%) Software Testing
5 5 (5.495%) Test Automation
5 5 (5.495%) Manual Testing
6 4 (4.396%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (4.396%) Problem Management
7 3 (3.297%) ERP
8 2 (2.198%) Data Modelling
8 2 (2.198%) SOA
8 2 (2.198%) Time Management
8 2 (2.198%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.08%) SQL
2 17 (18.68%) Perl
3 16 (17.58%) Java
4 9 (9.890%) Shell Script
5 7 (7.692%) Korn
6 6 (6.593%) VB
6 6 (6.593%) VBA
6 6 (6.593%) C#
7 5 (5.495%) VBScript
7 5 (5.495%) PL/SQL
7 5 (5.495%) Bourne shell
8 3 (3.297%) Bash shell
8 3 (3.297%) Jython
9 2 (2.198%) Ruby
9 2 (2.198%) C++
10 1 (1.099%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.099%) PHP
10 1 (1.099%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.099%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 18 (19.78%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.099%) BC Cleared
3 1 (1.099%) CCNP
3 1 (1.099%) CCNA
3 1 (1.099%) CISSP
3 1 (1.099%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.099%) CISA
3 1 (1.099%) SCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.495%) QA
2 4 (4.396%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.099%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 12 (13.19%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.791%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.495%) Oracle RMAN
4 4 (4.396%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (3.297%) Samba
6 2 (2.198%) VMware ESX
6 2 (2.198%) XenDesktop
6 2 (2.198%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 2 (2.198%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (2.198%) SRDF
6 2 (2.198%) NFS
7 1 (1.099%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (12.09%) Tivoli
1 11 (12.09%) Netcool
2 6 (6.593%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 4 (4.396%) Control-M
3 4 (4.396%) HP SiteScope
3 4 (4.396%) HP UCMDB
3 4 (4.396%) NetBackup
4 3 (3.297%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 2 (2.198%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 2 (2.198%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (2.198%) Backup Exec
5 2 (2.198%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (2.198%) EMC TimeFinder
5 2 (2.198%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.099%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.099%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 28 (30.77%) Oracle
2 25 (27.47%) Microsoft
3 17 (18.68%) IBM
4 13 (14.29%) Red Hat
5 11 (12.09%) EMC
6 9 (9.890%) Sun
6 9 (9.890%) HP
6 9 (9.890%) VMware
7 8 (8.791%) Veritas
8 7 (7.692%) Citrix
9 6 (6.593%) Sybase
10 4 (4.396%) NetApp
10 4 (4.396%) Brocade
10 4 (4.396%) Symantec
10 4 (4.396%) Lumension
11 3 (3.297%) Cadis
11 3 (3.297%) CommVault
11 3 (3.297%) Cognos
12 2 (2.198%) Cisco
12 2 (2.198%) JBoss
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