Sheffield Solaris Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Sun Microsystems Solaris skills within the Sheffield 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
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Aldershot Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bletchley Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clydebank Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Driffield Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Elgin Enfield England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hertfordshire Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hull Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Linlithgow Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Moray Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redditch Reigate Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	8	1
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	28	74
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.078 %
As % of the category below	25.93 %	55.22 %
Daily rates quoted	1	7
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£247
Average daily rate	£300	£257
% change on same period last year	+16.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£267
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£362
% change on same period last year	+4.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	35
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.90	£33.61
Average hourly rate	£30.24	£33.96
% change on same period last year	-10.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.58	£34.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.26	£30.89
% change on same period last year	+4.45 %
Operating Systems Sheffield
Matching contract IT job ads	108	134
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.142 %	0.142 %
Daily rates quoted	11	20
Average minimum daily rate	£291	£286
Average daily rate	£296	£305
% change on same period last year	-3.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£301	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	44	46
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.58	£29.63
Average hourly rate	£27.13	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-9.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.68	£30.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.83	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-8.06 %
Solaris South Yorkshire

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 Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solaris across the Sheffield region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 63 (72.41 %) VERITAS 2 55 (63.22 %) Sun 2 55 (63.22 %) Unix 3 39 (44.83 %) Change Management 4 36 (41.38 %) SAN 5 33 (37.93 %) NetBackup 6 22 (25.29 %) EMC 7 21 (24.14 %) Windows 8 15 (17.24 %) NFS 9 13 (14.94 %) Finance 10 12 (13.79 %) Legal 10 12 (13.79 %) HPUX 11 11 (12.64 %) Linux 11 11 (12.64 %) ITIL 12 9 (10.34 %) Oracle

12 9 (10.34 %) AIX 13 8 (9.195 %) SLA 14 7 (8.046 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 7 (8.046 %) Telecoms 15 6 (6.897 %) Cisco 15 6 (6.897 %) HP 15 6 (6.897 %) Brocade 16 5 (5.747 %) Performance Management 16 5 (5.747 %) Symantec 17 4 (4.598 %) Oracle RMAN 17 4 (4.598 %) Oracle 10g 17 4 (4.598 %) Oracle Application Server 18 3 (3.448 %) Korn 18 3 (3.448 %) SSH 18 3 (3.448 %) HP Data Protector

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 (2.299 %) WebServices 1 2 (2.299 %) XML 1 2 (2.299 %) WSRP 1 2 (2.299 %) JSR 168	Application Platforms 1 4 (4.598 %) Oracle Application Server 2 2 (2.299 %) Oracle Workflow 2 2 (2.299 %) Lotus Notes 2 2 (2.299 %) Lotus Domino 2 2 (2.299 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (1.149 %) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Communications & Networking 1 36 (41.38 %) SAN 2 3 (3.448 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (3.448 %) SSH 3 2 (2.299 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (8.046 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 4 (4.598 %) Oracle 10g 3 2 (2.299 %) Oracle Discoverer 3 2 (2.299 %) SQL Server 3 2 (2.299 %) Informix 4 1 (1.149 %) Oracle 9i
General 1 13 (14.94 %) Finance 2 12 (13.79 %) Legal 3 7 (8.046 %) Telecoms 4 3 (3.448 %) Government	Job Titles 1 50 (57.47 %) Support Engineer 2 34 (39.08 %) Administrator 3 26 (29.89 %) Solaris Administrator 4 19 (21.84 %) Systems Administrator 5 18 (20.69 %) Solaris Systems Administrator 6 14 (16.09 %) Systems Support Engineer 6 14 (16.09 %) Systems Engineer 6 14 (16.09 %) Systems Support 7 9 (10.34 %) 2nd Line Support 7 9 (10.34 %) Project Engineer 8 8 (9.195 %) UNIX Administrator 9 7 (8.046 %) 3rd Line Support 10 3 (3.448 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 10 3 (3.448 %) Project Administrator 10 3 (3.448 %) Support Analyst 10 3 (3.448 %) Analyst 10 3 (3.448 %) Solutions Architect 10 3 (3.448 %) Architect 10 3 (3.448 %) Storage Analyst 10 3 (3.448 %) Siebel Architect
Miscellaneous 1 3 (3.448 %) Data Integration 2 1 (1.149 %) Clustering 2 1 (1.149 %) Statistics	Operating Systems 1 55 (63.22 %) Unix 2 21 (24.14 %) Windows 3 12 (13.79 %) HPUX 4 11 (12.64 %) Linux 5 9 (10.34 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 39 (44.83 %) Change Management 2 11 (12.64 %) ITIL 3 5 (5.747 %) Performance Management 4 3 (3.448 %) Business Intelligence 4 3 (3.448 %) Service Management 5 2 (2.299 %) ITSM 5 2 (2.299 %) Workflow 6 1 (1.149 %) Incident Management 6 1 (1.149 %) Problem Management 6 1 (1.149 %) Disaster Recovery	Programming Languages 1 3 (3.448 %) Korn
Qualifications 1 2 (2.299 %) SNIA Certification 2 1 (1.149 %) Sun Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (9.195 %) SLA
System Software 1 33 (37.93 %) NetBackup 2 15 (17.24 %) NFS 3 4 (4.598 %) Oracle RMAN 4 3 (3.448 %) Oracle RAC	Systems Management 1 3 (3.448 %) HP Data Protector 2 2 (2.299 %) OpenView 2 2 (2.299 %) Legato 2 2 (2.299 %) OVPA
Vendors 1 63 (72.41 %) VERITAS 2 55 (63.22 %) Sun 3 22 (25.29 %) EMC 4 9 (10.34 %) Oracle 5 6 (6.897 %) Cisco 5 6 (6.897 %) HP 5 6 (6.897 %) Brocade 6 5 (5.747 %) Symantec 7 3 (3.448 %) Intel 7 3 (3.448 %) IBM 7 3 (3.448 %) Siebel 8 2 (2.299 %) Lotus 9 1 (1.149 %) Red Hat