The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 19 June 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 South West 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 74 68 84
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +16
Contract jobs citing Solaris 27 69 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 1.344% 2.207% 1.487%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.109% 10.21% 7.772%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 38 27
Average daily rate £440 £410 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.31% +5.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £353 £311 £339
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
Average hourly rate - £25.25 £26.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -3.80%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-16.92% -7.14%
All Operating Systems
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
442 676 579
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 22.00% 21.62% 19.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 330 242
Average daily rate £325 £360 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.72% +2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £228 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 76 87
Average hourly rate £14.50 £22.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.55% +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £12.47 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £41.50 £39.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Solaris
England

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Dorset +1 9 £420 +16.66%
Gloucestershire 0 8 £575 +21.05% 1
Wiltshire -3 5 £395 +3.60% 2
Somerset -3 2 - - 2
Devon - 1 £165 -
Bristol - - - -
Solaris
England

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 50 (86.21%) Linux
2 44 (75.86%) UNIX
3 37 (63.79%) Windows
4 32 (55.17%) Red Hat
4 32 (55.17%) VMware
5 30 (51.72%) Cisco
6 26 (44.83%) SAN
6 26 (44.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 26 (44.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 25 (43.10%) Security Cleared
8 24 (41.38%) Oracle
9 23 (39.66%) C
9 23 (39.66%) HP
10 20 (34.48%) DV Cleared
11 19 (32.76%) Hyper-V
11 19 (32.76%) NetApp
11 19 (32.76%) Service Management
12 17 (29.31%) IBM
12 17 (29.31%) Ethernet
12 17 (29.31%) LAN
12 17 (29.31%) WAN
12 17 (29.31%) Enterprise Architecture
13 14 (24.14%) Firewall
14 13 (22.41%) Sun
15 12 (20.69%) Microsoft
15 12 (20.69%) Middleware
15 12 (20.69%) WebLogic
15 12 (20.69%) Oracle RAC
16 11 (18.97%) SQL
16 11 (18.97%) DHCP

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 12 (20.69%) Middleware
2 5 (8.621%) JDBC
2 5 (8.621%) ODBC
3 3 (5.172%) LAMP
4 1 (1.724%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 12 (20.69%) WebLogic
2 7 (12.07%) Oracle Application Server
2 7 (12.07%) GlassFish
2 7 (12.07%) Windows Azure
3 6 (10.34%) Amazon AWS
3 6 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (3.448%) nginx
4 2 (3.448%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.448%) Apache
5 1 (1.724%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (5.172%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.724%) SAP GRC
Communications & Networking
1 26 (44.83%) SAN
2 17 (29.31%) Ethernet
2 17 (29.31%) LAN
2 17 (29.31%) WAN
3 14 (24.14%) Firewall
4 11 (18.97%) DHCP
4 11 (18.97%) TCP/IP
5 9 (15.52%) DNS
6 7 (12.07%) MPLS
7 5 (8.621%) HTTPS
7 5 (8.621%) HTTP
8 2 (3.448%) Cisco PIX
8 2 (3.448%) Network Security
8 2 (3.448%) Internet
8 2 (3.448%) FTP
8 2 (3.448%) NetScreen
9 1 (1.724%) SNMP
9 1 (1.724%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.07%) Oracle 10g
1 7 (12.07%) SQL Server
1 7 (12.07%) MySQL
1 7 (12.07%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (8.621%) TOAD
3 2 (3.448%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.724%) GIS
4 1 (1.724%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.724%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Git (software)
2 5 (8.621%) Introscope
2 5 (8.621%) QuickTest Pro
2 5 (8.621%) LoadRunner
3 3 (5.172%) Hudson
4 2 (3.448%) JProfiler
4 2 (3.448%) Subversion
4 2 (3.448%) JProbe
5 1 (1.724%) ClearCase
5 1 (1.724%) ClearQuest
General
1 7 (12.07%) Banking
2 6 (10.34%) Finance
3 3 (5.172%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.448%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.724%) Retail
5 1 (1.724%) Billing
Job Titles
1 27 (46.55%) Architect
2 18 (31.03%) Technical Architect
3 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure Architect
4 6 (10.34%) Administrator
5 5 (8.621%) DBA
5 5 (8.621%) Oracle DBA
6 4 (6.897%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (6.897%) UNIX Engineer
6 4 (6.897%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.172%) Consultant
7 3 (5.172%) Systems Administrator
7 3 (5.172%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.172%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 3 (5.172%) Linux Administrator
7 3 (5.172%) Designer
8 2 (3.448%) QA Leader
8 2 (3.448%) Systems Support Engineer
8 2 (3.448%) Infrastructure Consultant
8 2 (3.448%) UNIX Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.448%) Network Designer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) PaaS
1 7 (12.07%) IaaS
2 5 (8.621%) SWIFT
3 3 (5.172%) Open Source
4 2 (3.448%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.448%) Cryptography
4 2 (3.448%) Fat Client
4 2 (3.448%) Thin Client
4 2 (3.448%) Clustering
4 2 (3.448%) Replication
5 1 (1.724%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.724%) e-Health
5 1 (1.724%) CMDB
5 1 (1.724%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 50 (86.21%) Linux
2 44 (75.86%) UNIX
3 37 (63.79%) Windows
4 26 (44.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (5.172%) CentOS
6 2 (3.448%) Mac OS X Server
6 2 (3.448%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (3.448%) FreeBSD
6 2 (3.448%) AIX
6 2 (3.448%) HPUX
6 2 (3.448%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.724%) SUSE
7 1 (1.724%) VMS
7 1 (1.724%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.76%) Service Management
2 17 (29.31%) Enterprise Architecture
3 9 (15.52%) Load Balancing
4 6 (10.34%) Migration
5 5 (8.621%) ITIL
5 5 (8.621%) Test Management
6 4 (6.897%) Test Strategy
6 4 (6.897%) Software Testing
6 4 (6.897%) Scrum
7 3 (5.172%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (5.172%) Content Management
7 3 (5.172%) Incident Management
7 3 (5.172%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (3.448%) Change Control
8 2 (3.448%) PRINCE2
9 1 (1.724%) Contact Management
9 1 (1.724%) Risk Management
9 1 (1.724%) Configuration Management
9 1 (1.724%) Asset Management
9 1 (1.724%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (39.66%) C
2 11 (18.97%) SQL
3 8 (13.79%) Shell Script
4 6 (10.34%) Perl
5 5 (8.621%) Java
6 4 (6.897%) PL/SQL
7 3 (5.172%) PHP
8 2 (3.448%) C++
8 2 (3.448%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (43.10%) Security Cleared
2 20 (34.48%) DV Cleared
3 4 (6.897%) ISTQB
3 4 (6.897%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.897%) ISEB
4 2 (3.448%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.724%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.897%) QA
2 2 (3.448%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (44.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (32.76%) Hyper-V
3 12 (20.69%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (12.07%) Active Directory
4 7 (12.07%) vSphere
5 2 (3.448%) Sendmail
5 2 (3.448%) NFS
6 1 (1.724%) VMware ESX
6 1 (1.724%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (8.621%) Data Guard
1 5 (8.621%) HP Quality Center
1 5 (8.621%) Puppet
1 5 (8.621%) HP SiteScope
2 3 (5.172%) NetBackup
2 3 (5.172%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (1.724%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (1.724%) Backup Exec
3 1 (1.724%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (55.17%) Red Hat
1 32 (55.17%) VMware
2 30 (51.72%) Cisco
3 24 (41.38%) Oracle
4 23 (39.66%) HP
5 19 (32.76%) NetApp
6 17 (29.31%) IBM
7 13 (22.41%) Sun
8 12 (20.69%) Microsoft
9 3 (5.172%) Mercator
10 2 (3.448%) SolarWinds
10 2 (3.448%) CheckPoint
10 2 (3.448%) Juniper
10 2 (3.448%) Dell
10 2 (3.448%) Sourcefire
10 2 (3.448%) Symantec
11 1 (1.724%) Perforce
11 1 (1.724%) BT
11 1 (1.724%) Blue Coat
11 1 (1.724%) SAP
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