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 West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 15 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 West region.

 Sun Microsystems Solaris
Location
3 months to
15 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank644060
Rank change year-on-year
Down-24Up+20
Matching contract IT job ads4991105
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West1.974 %3.203 %2.070 %
As % of the Operating Systems category10.65 %17.98 %11.85 %
Daily rates quoted222824
Average daily rate£323£300£331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.500 %-9.430 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£276£223£245
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£415£425£429
UK excluding London average daily rate£330£325£375
% change year-on-year
+1.530 %-13.33 %
Hourly rates quoted6418
Average hourly rate£35.00£21.50£31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+62.79 %-31.74 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£31.00£28.00£31.31
% change year-on-year
+10.71 %-10.57 %
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
460506886
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West18.53 %17.81 %17.47 %
Daily rates quoted179120160
Average daily rate£320£318£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.620 %-9.140 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£216£223£245
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£425£425£470
UK excluding London average daily rate£315£310£330
% change year-on-year
+1.610 %-6.060 %
Hourly rates quoted57101213
Average hourly rate£14.75£17.00£22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.23 %-22.72 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.50£10.84£12.46
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£35.00£32.50£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£15.00£17.50£18.00
% change year-on-year
-14.28 %-2.770 %
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 15 March 2010.

South West 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 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 15 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
DorsetUp+1216£323+7.50 %
BristolDown-2415£288+8.49 %
GloucestershireDown-510£273-9.16 %
WiltshireDown-24£313-26.47 %
Solaris EnglandSolaris
England

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, 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.

163 (78.75 %)UNIX
237 (46.25 %)Linux
331 (38.75 %)Windows
423 (28.75 %)XML
423 (28.75 %)Java
522 (27.50 %)SAN
522 (27.50 %)Security Cleared
621 (26.25 %)HP
718 (22.50 %)C++
718 (22.50 %)Configuration Management
817 (21.25 %)Middleware
817 (21.25 %)GIS
817 (21.25 %)STL
817 (21.25 %)UML
817 (21.25 %)CORBA
817 (21.25 %)PVCS
817 (21.25 %)Sun
817 (21.25 %)HPUX
817 (21.25 %)Serena
817 (21.25 %)LuciadMap
915 (18.75 %)NetBackup
1014 (17.50 %)Active Directory
1014 (17.50 %)Oracle
1014 (17.50 %)Symantec
1014 (17.50 %)Veritas
1113 (16.25 %)AIX
1212 (15.00 %)Perl
1212 (15.00 %)Cisco
1311 (13.75 %)Microsoft
1311 (13.75 %)TCP/IP

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, 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.

South West IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
123 (28.75 %)XML
217 (21.25 %)CORBA
217 (21.25 %)Middleware
217 (21.25 %)LuciadMap
217 (21.25 %)STL
35 (6.250 %)WebSphere
43 (3.750 %).NET
52 (2.500 %)ATL
61 (1.250 %)JSP
61 (1.250 %)J2EE
61 (1.250 %)X-Windows
61 (1.250 %)Adobe Flex
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
15 (6.250 %)WebSphere MQ
23 (3.750 %)Apache
23 (3.750 %)Tomcat
32 (2.500 %)iPlanet
32 (2.500 %)IIS
41 (1.250 %)Lotus Notes
41 (1.250 %)Tuxedo
41 (1.250 %)MQSeries
41 (1.250 %)MS Exchange
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
18 (10.00 %)MS Excel
21 (1.250 %)NASTRAN
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (1.250 %)Oracle 11i
11 (1.250 %)Oracle BRM
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
122 (27.50 %)SAN
211 (13.75 %)TCP/IP
39 (11.25 %)LDAP
47 (8.750 %)NAS
56 (7.500 %)SSL
56 (7.500 %)X.400
56 (7.500 %)X.500
65 (6.250 %)Firewall
74 (5.000 %)LAN
74 (5.000 %)SMTP
83 (3.750 %)DNS
83 (3.750 %)WAN
83 (3.750 %)Network Security
92 (2.500 %)DHCP
92 (2.500 %)DMZ
101 (1.250 %)Internet
101 (1.250 %)DSL
101 (1.250 %)SSH
101 (1.250 %)SDH
101 (1.250 %)SMS
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
117 (21.25 %)GIS
27 (8.750 %)SQL Server
27 (8.750 %)Oracle 10g
35 (6.250 %)Oracle 11g
42 (2.500 %)SQL Server 2008
42 (2.500 %)Sybase ASE
42 (2.500 %)SQL Server 2005
51 (1.250 %)Oracle 8/8i
51 (1.250 %)Oracle 9i
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
117 (21.25 %)PVCS
24 (5.000 %)ClearCase
South West IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
19 (11.25 %)Finance
25 (6.250 %)Government
25 (6.250 %)Banking
34 (5.000 %)Telecoms
42 (2.500 %)Investment Banking
42 (2.500 %)Insurance
51 (1.250 %)Billing
51 (1.250 %)Home Office
51 (1.250 %)Military
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
117 (21.25 %)Software Engineer
213 (16.25 %)Storage Engineer
311 (13.75 %)Administrator
49 (11.25 %)Analyst
49 (11.25 %)Java Software Engineer
58 (10.00 %)Systems Administrator
58 (10.00 %)C++ Software Engineer
67 (8.750 %)Consultant
67 (8.750 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
67 (8.750 %)UNIX Administrator
75 (6.250 %)Operations Analyst
84 (5.000 %)Developer
84 (5.000 %)Operations Engineer
93 (3.750 %)Designer
93 (3.750 %)Architect
93 (3.750 %)Security Architect
93 (3.750 %)UNIX Engineer
102 (2.500 %)Storage Administrator
102 (2.500 %)UNIX Systems Engineer
102 (2.500 %)Database Developer
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
19 (11.25 %)Clustering
25 (6.250 %)PKI
25 (6.250 %)CLARiiON
25 (6.250 %)EMC Centera
33 (3.750 %)Thin Client
33 (3.750 %)Fat Client
42 (2.500 %)HACMP
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
163 (78.75 %)UNIX
237 (46.25 %)Linux
331 (38.75 %)Windows
417 (21.25 %)HPUX
513 (16.25 %)AIX
68 (10.00 %)Windows Vista
68 (10.00 %)Red Hat Linux
77 (8.750 %)Windows Server 2008
85 (6.250 %)Windows 2000
85 (6.250 %)Windows Server 2003
85 (6.250 %)SUSE
94 (5.000 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
118 (22.50 %)Configuration Management
217 (21.25 %)UML
37 (8.750 %)ITIL
44 (5.000 %)Agile Software Development
53 (3.750 %)Zachman Framework
53 (3.750 %)TOGAF
53 (3.750 %)Enterprise Architecture
53 (3.750 %)Change Management
53 (3.750 %)Disaster Recovery
53 (3.750 %)Performance Testing
53 (3.750 %)Continuous Integration
53 (3.750 %)Security Architecture
53 (3.750 %)Network Architecture
62 (2.500 %)Information Security
62 (2.500 %)Risk Management
62 (2.500 %)E-Commerce
62 (2.500 %)Data Modelling
62 (2.500 %)Data Management
62 (2.500 %)Project Management
71 (1.250 %)Project Planning
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
123 (28.75 %)Java
218 (22.50 %)C++
312 (15.00 %)Perl
47 (8.750 %)SQL
47 (8.750 %)C
54 (5.000 %)Shell Script
62 (2.500 %)Bash shell
62 (2.500 %)C#
62 (2.500 %)T-SQL
71 (1.250 %)PHP
71 (1.250 %)PL/SQL
71 (1.250 %)JavaScript
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
122 (27.50 %)Security Cleared
210 (12.50 %)SC Cleared
35 (6.250 %)DV Cleared
43 (3.750 %)CISSP
52 (2.500 %)CISM
52 (2.500 %)Degree
61 (1.250 %)CCSA
61 (1.250 %)CCSE
61 (1.250 %)CCSP
61 (1.250 %)CCNP
61 (1.250 %)CCNA
61 (1.250 %)Cisco Certification
61 (1.250 %)PRINCE2 Certification
61 (1.250 %)Sun Certification
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
15 (6.250 %)QA
21 (1.250 %)PCI DSS
21 (1.250 %)SLA
South West IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
114 (17.50 %)Active Directory
26 (7.500 %)Oracle RAC
35 (6.250 %)Veritas Cluster Server
44 (5.000 %)VMware ESX
52 (2.500 %)VMware Infrastructure
52 (2.500 %)Sendmail
61 (1.250 %)NFS
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
115 (18.75 %)NetBackup
27 (8.750 %)Legato
27 (8.750 %)Tivoli
36 (7.500 %)Unicenter
36 (7.500 %)AutoSys
45 (6.250 %)Backup Exec
54 (5.000 %)OpenView
63 (3.750 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
63 (3.750 %)EMC NetWorker
72 (2.500 %)PureDisk
72 (2.500 %)HP NNM
72 (2.500 %)OpenView Configuration Management
81 (1.250 %)BMC PATROL
81 (1.250 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
81 (1.250 %)Dollar Universe
South West IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
121 (26.25 %)HP
217 (21.25 %)Sun
217 (21.25 %)Serena
314 (17.50 %)Symantec
314 (17.50 %)Veritas
314 (17.50 %)Oracle
412 (15.00 %)Cisco
511 (13.75 %)Microsoft
69 (11.25 %)IBM
77 (8.750 %)NetApp
77 (8.750 %)Red Hat
86 (7.500 %)webMethods
86 (7.500 %)EMC
94 (5.000 %)VMware
94 (5.000 %)CheckPoint
103 (3.750 %)Brocade
103 (3.750 %)JBoss
112 (2.500 %)Sybase
112 (2.500 %)Dell
112 (2.500 %)Fujitsu