South West Solaris Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Sun Microsystems Solaris skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Sun Microsystems Solaris
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corby County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Driffield Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicestershire Lewes Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	47
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	121	165
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.160 %	0.164 %
As % of the category below	14.14 %	13.44 %
Daily rates quoted	42	49
Average minimum daily rate	£316	£391
Average daily rate	£332	£400
% change on same period last year	-17.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£409
UK excluding London average daily rate	£369	£375
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.73	£29.64
Average hourly rate	£36.93	£31.71
% change on same period last year	+16.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.13	£33.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.95	£30.86
% change on same period last year	+6.77 %
Operating Systems South West
Matching contract IT job ads	856	1228
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.130 %	1.223 %
Daily rates quoted	215	302
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£334
Average daily rate	£345	£348
% change on same period last year	-0.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	196	235
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.41	£21.40
Average hourly rate	£25.75	£23.17
% change on same period last year	+11.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.08	£24.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.12	£22.83
% change on same period last year	-3.10 %
Solaris England

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 South West 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 South West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solaris across the South West region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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 West region.

Solaris
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solaris across the South West region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section 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 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Gloucestershire	-2	48	£340	-18.81 %
Bristol	+27	33	£255	-8.92 %
Dorset	+1	14	£361	-12.70 %
Wiltshire	-20	10	£384	+0.27 %
Devon	+7	7	-	-

Solaris England

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, 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.

1 176 (73.95 %) UNIX 2 83 (34.87 %) Security Cleared 3 76 (31.93 %) Linux 4 62 (26.05 %) Sun 5 54 (22.69 %) Windows 5 54 (22.69 %) Oracle 6 49 (20.59 %) Shell Script 7 45 (18.91 %) Java 8 44 (18.49 %) VERITAS 9 43 (18.07 %) HPUX 9 43 (18.07 %) DV Cleared 10 37 (15.55 %) SAN 11 36 (15.13 %) HP 11 36 (15.13 %) NetBackup 12 35 (14.71 %) Telecoms

12 35 (14.71 %) XML 13 34 (14.29 %) Perl 14 31 (13.03 %) AIX 15 28 (11.76 %) SC Cleared 16 27 (11.34 %) Government 17 25 (10.50 %) Finance 17 25 (10.50 %) Service Management 18 23 (9.664 %) SQL 19 22 (9.244 %) Apache 19 22 (9.244 %) Korn 19 22 (9.244 %) Clustering 20 21 (8.824 %) Oracle 9i 20 21 (8.824 %) TCP/IP 20 21 (8.824 %) J2EE 21 20 (8.403 %) HTML

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, 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 35 (14.71 %) XML 2 21 (8.824 %) J2EE 3 20 (8.403 %) HTML 4 16 (6.723 %) STL 4 16 (6.723 %) LuciadMap 5 15 (6.303 %) CORBA 5 15 (6.303 %) Middleware 6 9 (3.782 %) WebSphere 7 6 (2.521 %) XForms 7 6 (2.521 %) XHTML 7 6 (2.521 %) WebServices 7 6 (2.521 %) CSS 7 6 (2.521 %) JSP 7 6 (2.521 %) XSD 7 6 (2.521 %) XSLT 7 6 (2.521 %) AJAX 7 6 (2.521 %) Castor 8 1 (0.420 %) X-Windows	Application Platforms 1 22 (9.244 %) Apache 2 18 (7.563 %) WebLogic 3 14 (5.882 %) ATG Dynamo 4 12 (5.042 %) Tomcat 5 10 (4.202 %) MS Exchange 5 10 (4.202 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 4 (1.681 %) Oracle Workflow 7 2 (0.840 %) Oracle 9iAS 7 2 (0.840 %) LiveLink 8 1 (0.420 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 1 (0.420 %) SharePoint 8 1 (0.420 %) Morello
Applications 1 8 (3.361 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.420 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 6 (2.521 %) Summit 2 1 (0.420 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (0.420 %) Oracle 11i 2 1 (0.420 %) Oracle Financials 2 1 (0.420 %) WebTrends
Communications & Networking 1 37 (15.55 %) SAN 2 21 (8.824 %) TCP/IP 3 18 (7.563 %) DNS 4 16 (6.723 %) DHCP 5 15 (6.303 %) HTTP 6 14 (5.882 %) Extranet 6 14 (5.882 %) LDAP 7 7 (2.941 %) LLU 8 5 (2.101 %) SMTP 8 5 (2.101 %) X.400 8 5 (2.101 %) X.500 9 4 (1.681 %) Broadband 10 3 (1.261 %) LAN 10 3 (1.261 %) WAN 10 3 (1.261 %) DSL 11 2 (0.840 %) NGN 11 2 (0.840 %) DWDM 11 2 (0.840 %) Internet 11 2 (0.840 %) SMS 11 2 (0.840 %) BIG-IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 21 (8.824 %) Oracle 9i 2 18 (7.563 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 16 (6.723 %) GIS 4 15 (6.303 %) SQL Server 5 11 (4.622 %) Oracle 10g 6 6 (2.521 %) Datawarehouse 6 6 (2.521 %) OLTP 7 4 (1.681 %) SQL Server 2000 7 4 (1.681 %) TOAD 7 4 (1.681 %) SQL Server 2005 8 3 (1.261 %) SQLPlus 9 2 (0.840 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 16 (6.723 %) PVCS 2 14 (5.882 %) Ant 3 6 (2.521 %) Eclipse 4 1 (0.420 %) Subversion	General 1 35 (14.71 %) Telecoms 2 27 (11.34 %) Government 3 25 (10.50 %) Finance 4 8 (3.361 %) Banking 5 4 (1.681 %) Electric 6 2 (0.840 %) Investment Banking 6 2 (0.840 %) Legal 7 1 (0.420 %) Financial Institution 7 1 (0.420 %) Criminal Justice 7 1 (0.420 %) Marketing 7 1 (0.420 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 68 (28.57 %) Administrator 2 41 (17.23 %) UNIX Administrator 3 38 (15.97 %) Systems Administrator 4 25 (10.50 %) Consultant 5 24 (10.08 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 6 23 (9.664 %) Solaris Administrator 6 23 (9.664 %) Developer 7 21 (8.824 %) UNIX Engineer 8 16 (6.723 %) Analyst 8 16 (6.723 %) Software Engineer 8 16 (6.723 %) Oracle DBA 8 16 (6.723 %) DBA 9 15 (6.303 %) Java Software Engineer 10 14 (5.882 %) J2EE Developer 10 14 (5.882 %) C++ Software Engineer 10 14 (5.882 %) Lead Developer 11 13 (5.462 %) UNIX Consultant 11 13 (5.462 %) UNIX Support 11 13 (5.462 %) Solaris Systems Administrator 12 10 (4.202 %) Operations Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 22 (9.244 %) Clustering 2 12 (5.042 %) PKI 3 8 (3.361 %) AS400 4 4 (1.681 %) CLARiiON 5 2 (0.840 %) Mainframe 5 2 (0.840 %) IPTV 6 1 (0.420 %) Management Information System 6 1 (0.420 %) Taxonomies 6 1 (0.420 %) HACMP 6 1 (0.420 %) Celerra
Operating Systems 1 176 (73.95 %) UNIX 2 76 (31.93 %) Linux 3 54 (22.69 %) Windows 4 43 (18.07 %) HPUX 5 31 (13.03 %) AIX 6 20 (8.403 %) Red Hat Linux 7 15 (6.303 %) Windows Vista 7 15 (6.303 %) Windows 2000 8 11 (4.622 %) Windows NT 9 9 (3.782 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 8 (3.361 %) MVS 11 6 (2.521 %) Windows Server 2003 12 5 (2.101 %) Windows Server 2008 12 5 (2.101 %) Tru64 13 2 (0.840 %) Windows 2000 Server 13 2 (0.840 %) SUSE 14 1 (0.420 %) Fedora	Processes & Methodologies 1 83 (34.87 %) Security Cleared 2 43 (18.07 %) DV Cleared 3 28 (11.76 %) SC Cleared 4 25 (10.50 %) Service Management 5 20 (8.403 %) ITIL 6 17 (7.143 %) Configuration Management 7 16 (6.723 %) UML 8 14 (5.882 %) OO 9 9 (3.782 %) Problem Management 10 8 (3.361 %) Performance Management 11 6 (2.521 %) Extreme Programming 11 6 (2.521 %) Change Management 11 6 (2.521 %) Test Scripting 12 4 (1.681 %) PRINCE2 12 4 (1.681 %) Migration 12 4 (1.681 %) Workflow 12 4 (1.681 %) Service Delivery 13 2 (0.840 %) CAD 13 2 (0.840 %) Project Management 13 2 (0.840 %) Network Design
Programming Languages 1 49 (20.59 %) Shell Script 2 45 (18.91 %) Java 3 34 (14.29 %) Perl 4 23 (9.664 %) SQL 5 22 (9.244 %) Korn 6 17 (7.143 %) C 6 17 (7.143 %) C++ 7 16 (6.723 %) PL/SQL 8 6 (2.521 %) XQuery 8 6 (2.521 %) JavaScript 8 6 (2.521 %) XPath 9 5 (2.101 %) JCL 10 1 (0.420 %) VB	Qualifications 1 14 (5.882 %) Sun Certification 2 6 (2.521 %) HNC 2 6 (2.521 %) Degree 3 3 (1.261 %) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP) 4 1 (0.420 %) CCNP 4 1 (0.420 %) CCNA 4 1 (0.420 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (0.420 %) OCP 4 1 (0.420 %) Oracle Certification 4 1 (0.420 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (1.261 %) SLA 2 1 (0.420 %) Basel II 2 1 (0.420 %) JSP 440	System Software 1 36 (15.13 %) NetBackup 2 16 (6.723 %) NFS 3 15 (6.303 %) Active Directory 4 11 (4.622 %) Backup Exec 5 5 (2.101 %) VMware ESX 6 2 (0.840 %) Oracle RAC 7 1 (0.420 %) Oracle RMAN 7 1 (0.420 %) ClearTrust 7 1 (0.420 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 9 (3.782 %) Legato 1 9 (3.782 %) Netcool 2 6 (2.521 %) AutoSys 2 6 (2.521 %) EMC NetWorker 3 5 (2.101 %) EMC Navisphere 3 5 (2.101 %) Netcool/Proviso 3 5 (2.101 %) Unicenter 4 4 (1.681 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 5 3 (1.261 %) BMC PATROL 6 2 (0.840 %) OpenView 7 1 (0.420 %) RepliStor 7 1 (0.420 %) Tivoli 7 1 (0.420 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 7 1 (0.420 %) DiskXtender	Vendors 1 62 (26.05 %) Sun 2 54 (22.69 %) Oracle 3 44 (18.49 %) VERITAS 4 36 (15.13 %) HP 5 19 (7.983 %) Microsoft 6 16 (6.723 %) Serena 6 16 (6.723 %) VMware 7 15 (6.303 %) Red Hat 8 14 (5.882 %) ATG 9 13 (5.462 %) IBM 9 13 (5.462 %) Symantec 10 11 (4.622 %) Remedy 10 11 (4.622 %) EMC 11 7 (2.941 %) Fujitsu 12 5 (2.101 %) Cisco 12 5 (2.101 %) BMC 13 4 (1.681 %) CommVault 14 3 (1.261 %) Hummingbird 14 3 (1.261 %) Sybase 14 3 (1.261 %) CA