Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 16 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the South East region.

 Sun Microsystems Solaris
Location
3 months to
16 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank775368
Rank change year-on-year
Down-24Up+15
Matching contract IT job ads130168297
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East1.784 %2.195 %1.982 %
As % of the Operating Systems category9.538 %11.37 %9.038 %
Daily rates quoted555086
Average daily rate£350£340£381
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.940 %-10.81 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£270£265£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£450£478£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£330£325£375
% change year-on-year
+1.530 %-13.33 %
Hourly rates quoted12737
Average hourly rate£26.00£30.50£35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.75 %-12.85 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£17.74£23.00£22.31
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.95£50.00£41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£31.00£28.00£31.31
% change year-on-year
+10.71 %-10.57 %
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
136314783286
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East18.70 %19.31 %21.93 %
Daily rates quoted450377671
Average daily rate£325£325£345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
--5.790 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£200£225£203
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£425£450£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£313£310£330
% change year-on-year
+0.800 %-6.060 %
Hourly rates quoted259225741
Average hourly rate£16.25£21.00£20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.61 %+5.000 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£10.50£12.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.00£42.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£15.00£17.75£18.00
% change year-on-year
-15.49 %-1.380 %
Solaris EnglandSolaris
England

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.

Solaris
Demand Trend

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

South East Solaris Demand Trend

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Solaris Daily Rate Trend

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solaris across the South East region over the 3 months to 16 March 2010.

South East Solaris Daily Rate Histogram

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Solaris Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solaris across the South East region over the 3 months to 16 March 2010.

South East Solaris Hourly Rate Histogram

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 South East region over the 3 months to 16 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
BerkshireUp+955£350+2.94 %
HampshireUp+1330£380-36.66 %
BuckinghamshireUp+314£383-
MiddlesexNo change09£421+180.33 %
SurreyDown-267£350+2.18 %
West SussexDown-34£325-13.33 %
OxfordshireDown-134£300-20.00 %
East SussexDown-52--
KentDown-202£400+50.94 %
M4 CorridorUp+31--
Solaris EnglandSolaris
England

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1169 (61.23 %)UNIX
2106 (38.41 %)Linux
3105 (38.04 %)Windows
490 (32.61 %)Oracle
589 (32.25 %)Sun
663 (22.83 %)HPUX
663 (22.83 %)Security Cleared
754 (19.57 %)Java
852 (18.84 %)AIX
950 (18.12 %)SAN
1049 (17.75 %)HP
1049 (17.75 %)Telecoms
1049 (17.75 %)SQL
1143 (15.58 %)SC Cleared
1241 (14.86 %)Shell Script
1338 (13.77 %)Perl
1338 (13.77 %)Migration
1436 (13.04 %)VMware
1535 (12.68 %)C
1535 (12.68 %)WebLogic
1633 (11.96 %)Windows Server 2003
1732 (11.59 %)IBM
1831 (11.23 %)Microsoft
1831 (11.23 %)Firewall
1928 (10.14 %)XML
2026 (9.420 %)EMC
2125 (9.058 %)SIGTRAN
2224 (8.696 %)Cisco
2224 (8.696 %)Veritas
2323 (8.333 %)C++

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

South East IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
128 (10.14 %)XML
217 (6.159 %)J2EE
313 (4.710 %).NET
412 (4.348 %)WebSphere
58 (2.899 %)Middleware
67 (2.536 %)SOAP
76 (2.174 %)Spring
76 (2.174 %)JSF
76 (2.174 %)Hibernate
76 (2.174 %)Struts
76 (2.174 %)Web Services
76 (2.174 %)ASP
76 (2.174 %)ASP.NET
85 (1.812 %)HTML
85 (1.812 %)JSP
85 (1.812 %)JMS
85 (1.812 %)JRules
94 (1.449 %).NET Framework
94 (1.449 %)Swing
94 (1.449 %)Flash
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
135 (12.68 %)WebLogic
215 (5.435 %)Oracle Service Bus
314 (5.072 %)Apache
413 (4.710 %)Tomcat
56 (2.174 %)Oracle Application Server
56 (2.174 %)WebLogic Portal
65 (1.812 %)WebSphere Application Server
65 (1.812 %)ESB
65 (1.812 %)AquaLogic
74 (1.449 %)MS Exchange
74 (1.449 %)BizTalk Server
83 (1.087 %)OpenROAD
83 (1.087 %)IIS
83 (1.087 %)SAS
83 (1.087 %)SharePoint
83 (1.087 %)Exchange Server 2003
92 (0.725 %)WebSphere Portal
92 (0.725 %)WebSphere Message Broker
92 (0.725 %)MQSI
92 (0.725 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
110 (3.623 %)MS Office
28 (2.899 %)MS Excel
34 (1.449 %)MS Visio
41 (0.362 %)MS Project
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
13 (1.087 %)Singl.eView
22 (0.725 %)Retail-J
22 (0.725 %)Maximo
31 (0.362 %)Oracle EBS
31 (0.362 %)PeopleSoft Financials
31 (0.362 %)BASE24
31 (0.362 %)Oracle Applications
31 (0.362 %)Siebel Analytics
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
150 (18.12 %)SAN
231 (11.23 %)Firewall
325 (9.058 %)SIGTRAN
420 (7.246 %)TCP/IP
516 (5.797 %)INAP
614 (5.072 %)SS7
713 (4.710 %)LDAP
812 (4.348 %)DNS
911 (3.986 %)SMTP
109 (3.261 %)SNMP
118 (2.899 %)PSTN
118 (2.899 %)GSM
118 (2.899 %)MPLS
127 (2.536 %)TCAP
127 (2.536 %)SCCP
127 (2.536 %)LAN
127 (2.536 %)WAN
127 (2.536 %)Cisco PIX
127 (2.536 %)NAS
136 (2.174 %)Megaco
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
120 (7.246 %)SQL Server
211 (3.986 %)SQLPlus
310 (3.623 %)Oracle 10g
47 (2.536 %)Oracle 8/8i
47 (2.536 %)Datawarehouse
47 (2.536 %)SQL Server 2005
56 (2.174 %)RDBMS
56 (2.174 %)Oracle 9i
56 (2.174 %)MySQL
64 (1.449 %)TOAD
64 (1.449 %)DB2
73 (1.087 %)BusinessObjects
73 (1.087 %)SQL Server 2008
82 (0.725 %)Data Mining
82 (0.725 %)PowerCenter
82 (0.725 %)SQL Server 2000
91 (0.362 %)Oracle Reports
91 (0.362 %)ETL
91 (0.362 %)UniData
91 (0.362 %)Oracle BI EE
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
113 (4.710 %)Ant
210 (3.623 %)Maven
39 (3.261 %)Subversion
47 (2.536 %)TestDirector
55 (1.812 %)OpenSTA
63 (1.087 %)LoadRunner
63 (1.087 %)JUnit
63 (1.087 %)Oracle Forms
63 (1.087 %)ClearCase
72 (0.725 %)ProC
81 (0.362 %)ClearQuest
81 (0.362 %)QuickTest Pro
81 (0.362 %)JDeveloper
81 (0.362 %)Rational Rose
81 (0.362 %)Eclipse
South East IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
149 (17.75 %)Telecoms
222 (7.971 %)Government
318 (6.522 %)Finance
46 (2.174 %)Back Office
54 (1.449 %)Auditing
54 (1.449 %)Banking
63 (1.087 %)Billing
72 (0.725 %)Retail
72 (0.725 %)Investment Banking
72 (0.725 %)Financial Institution
72 (0.725 %)Pharmaceutical
81 (0.362 %)Front Office
81 (0.362 %)Criminal Justice
81 (0.362 %)Police
81 (0.362 %)Games
81 (0.362 %)Education
81 (0.362 %)Local Government
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
144 (15.94 %)Developer
233 (11.96 %)Consultant
328 (10.14 %)Administrator
421 (7.609 %)Analyst
421 (7.609 %)Architect
520 (7.246 %)Designer
615 (5.435 %)Integration Engineer
713 (4.710 %)Systems Administrator
713 (4.710 %)UNIX Administrator
811 (3.986 %)Software Engineer
811 (3.986 %)Technical Architect
811 (3.986 %)Systems Engineer
811 (3.986 %)UNIX Engineer
910 (3.623 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
910 (3.623 %)Team Leader
910 (3.623 %)Support Engineer
910 (3.623 %)Tester
109 (3.261 %)Test Engineer
118 (2.899 %)Infrastructure Architect
118 (2.899 %)Java Developer
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
119 (6.884 %)Clustering
216 (5.797 %)HACMP
38 (2.899 %)Replication
38 (2.899 %)Firmware
46 (2.174 %)IPTV
55 (1.812 %)CLARiiON
55 (1.812 %)EMC Centera
55 (1.812 %)Open Source
63 (1.087 %)Thin Client
63 (1.087 %)EPoS
63 (1.087 %)Client/Server
63 (1.087 %)PACS
63 (1.087 %)Fat Client
63 (1.087 %)Celerra
72 (0.725 %)Symmetrix DMX
72 (0.725 %)PDA
72 (0.725 %)N-Tier
72 (0.725 %)Chip and PIN
81 (0.362 %)NHS
81 (0.362 %)APACS
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1169 (61.23 %)UNIX
2106 (38.41 %)Linux
3105 (38.04 %)Windows
463 (22.83 %)HPUX
552 (18.84 %)AIX
633 (11.96 %)Windows Server 2003
719 (6.884 %)Red Hat Linux
813 (4.710 %)Windows XP
98 (2.899 %)NetWare
106 (2.174 %)Windows Server 2008
106 (2.174 %)SUSE
106 (2.174 %)Tru64
115 (1.812 %)Windows 2000 Server
124 (1.449 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
124 (1.449 %)Windows 2000
124 (1.449 %)IRIX
133 (1.087 %)VMS
133 (1.087 %)OpenVMS
142 (0.725 %)Windows Vista
142 (0.725 %)Debian
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
138 (13.77 %)Migration
213 (4.710 %)Test Scripting
312 (4.348 %)Capacity Planning
312 (4.348 %)Project Management
411 (3.986 %)Validation
510 (3.623 %)UML
69 (3.261 %)Configuration Management
78 (2.899 %)ITIL
86 (2.174 %)Software Testing
86 (2.174 %)Network Design
86 (2.174 %)SOA
86 (2.174 %)Business Intelligence
86 (2.174 %)Service Management
86 (2.174 %)Disaster Recovery
95 (1.812 %)Service Delivery
95 (1.812 %)Unified Process
95 (1.812 %)Continuous Integration
95 (1.812 %)Data Migration
95 (1.812 %)Load Balancing
95 (1.812 %)Use Case
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
154 (19.57 %)Java
249 (17.75 %)SQL
341 (14.86 %)Shell Script
438 (13.77 %)Perl
535 (12.68 %)C
623 (8.333 %)C++
715 (5.435 %)PL/SQL
715 (5.435 %)Korn
810 (3.623 %)Bash shell
98 (2.899 %)JavaScript
104 (1.449 %)C#
113 (1.087 %)PHP
113 (1.087 %)T-SQL
113 (1.087 %)VB
113 (1.087 %)Ada
122 (0.725 %)VBScript
122 (0.725 %)COBOL
131 (0.362 %)REXX
131 (0.362 %)Tcl
131 (0.362 %)AWK
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
163 (22.83 %)Security Cleared
243 (15.58 %)SC Cleared
37 (2.536 %)BC Cleared
46 (2.174 %)Degree
55 (1.812 %)Sun Certification
55 (1.812 %)Cisco Certification
64 (1.449 %)HNC
64 (1.449 %)MCSE
64 (1.449 %)Microsoft Certification
64 (1.449 %)CCNA
64 (1.449 %)ISEB
72 (0.725 %)HP APS
72 (0.725 %)MCP
72 (0.725 %)MCSA
72 (0.725 %)EMC Certification
72 (0.725 %)ITIL Certification
81 (0.362 %)SSCP
81 (0.362 %)IBM AIX Certification
81 (0.362 %)Check Point Certification
81 (0.362 %)CISSP
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
17 (2.536 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
24 (1.449 %)GxP
33 (1.087 %)PCI DSS
42 (0.725 %)QA
42 (0.725 %)SLA
51 (0.362 %)ISO17799
51 (0.362 %)COBIT
51 (0.362 %)ISO27001
South East IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
120 (7.246 %)Oracle RAC
120 (7.246 %)VMware Infrastructure
212 (4.348 %)Active Directory
311 (3.986 %)NFS
410 (3.623 %)VMware ESX
55 (1.812 %)Oracle RMAN
55 (1.812 %)Veritas File System
64 (1.449 %)Veritas Cluster Server
64 (1.449 %)Veritas Volume Manager
64 (1.449 %)MSMQ
73 (1.087 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
73 (1.087 %)SRDF
82 (0.725 %)Xen
82 (0.725 %)Samba
91 (0.362 %)Terminal Services
91 (0.362 %)RACF
91 (0.362 %)Shibboleth
91 (0.362 %)Hyper-V
91 (0.362 %)EMC RecoverPoint
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
119 (6.884 %)NetBackup
214 (5.072 %)Netcool
313 (4.710 %)Tivoli
412 (4.348 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
510 (3.623 %)Netcool/Webtop
66 (2.174 %)OpenView
75 (1.812 %)Data Guard
84 (1.449 %)EMC NetWorker
84 (1.449 %)Netcool/Proviso
84 (1.449 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
93 (1.087 %)Legato
93 (1.087 %)OVSD
102 (0.725 %)PureDisk
102 (0.725 %)Backup Exec
102 (0.725 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
102 (0.725 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
102 (0.725 %)OpenView Configuration Management
102 (0.725 %)BMC PATROL
111 (0.362 %)CONTROL-M
111 (0.362 %)EMC TimeFinder
South East IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
190 (32.61 %)Oracle
289 (32.25 %)Sun
349 (17.75 %)HP
436 (13.04 %)VMware
532 (11.59 %)IBM
631 (11.23 %)Microsoft
726 (9.420 %)EMC
824 (8.696 %)Cisco
824 (8.696 %)Veritas
919 (6.884 %)Red Hat
1013 (4.710 %)Hitachi
1110 (3.623 %)Brocade
129 (3.261 %)Compaq
129 (3.261 %)SAP
138 (2.899 %)Citrix
147 (2.536 %)BEA
156 (2.174 %)CheckPoint
156 (2.174 %)Remedy
156 (2.174 %)Symantec
165 (1.812 %)ILOG