Suffolk Solaris Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Sun Microsystems Solaris skills within the Suffolk 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	16	13
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	14	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	31.82 %	24.71 %
Daily rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£250
Average daily rate	£383	£273
% change on same period last year	+40.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£415	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£362
% change on same period last year	+4.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.40	£27.11
Average hourly rate	£27.15	£27.77
% change on same period last year	-2.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.90	£28.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.26	£30.89
% change on same period last year	+4.45 %
Operating Systems Suffolk
Matching contract IT job ads	44	85
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.058 %	0.090 %
Daily rates quoted	7	19
Average minimum daily rate	£309	£269
Average daily rate	£326	£286
% change on same period last year	+14.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£302
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.27	£20.58
Average hourly rate	£21.29	£21.36
% change on same period last year	-0.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.31	£22.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.83	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-8.06 %
Solaris East of 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 Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Solaris
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Solaris
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Solaris within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Ipswich	-9	4	£425	+52.80 %

Solaris East of England

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 18 (78.26 %) Linux 2 16 (69.57 %) SQL 3 14 (60.87 %) Perl 4 13 (56.52 %) SAN 5 11 (47.83 %) Cisco 6 10 (43.48 %) Oracle 7 9 (39.13 %) iSCSI 7 9 (39.13 %) VMware 7 9 (39.13 %) VMware Infrastructure 7 9 (39.13 %) Unix 7 9 (39.13 %) TCP/IP 7 9 (39.13 %) NetApp 8 7 (30.43 %) HP 8 7 (30.43 %) HPUX 9 6 (26.09 %) Windows

9 6 (26.09 %) MCSE 9 6 (26.09 %) SQL Server 9 6 (26.09 %) Microsoft Certification 9 6 (26.09 %) NFS 9 6 (26.09 %) Security Cleared 9 6 (26.09 %) Clustering 9 6 (26.09 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 10 5 (21.74 %) PostgreSQL 10 5 (21.74 %) Cisco IOS 10 5 (21.74 %) Intel 10 5 (21.74 %) Microsoft 10 5 (21.74 %) Siemens 10 5 (21.74 %) Alcatel 10 5 (21.74 %) Sybase 10 5 (21.74 %) DB2

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 5 (21.74 %) HTML 1 5 (21.74 %) XML 2 2 (8.696 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 4 (17.39 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (8.696 %) WebLogic 3 1 (4.348 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (4.348 %) Lotus Domino 3 1 (4.348 %) Apache
Applications 1 3 (13.04 %) MS Project 1 3 (13.04 %) MS Office 2 1 (4.348 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 13 (56.52 %) SAN 2 9 (39.13 %) iSCSI 2 9 (39.13 %) TCP/IP 3 5 (21.74 %) Cisco IOS 4 3 (13.04 %) VoIP 5 2 (8.696 %) LDAP 5 2 (8.696 %) Internet 6 1 (4.348 %) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (26.09 %) SQL Server 2 5 (21.74 %) DB2 2 5 (21.74 %) MS Access 2 5 (21.74 %) MySQL 2 5 (21.74 %) PostgreSQL 3 2 (8.696 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (4.348 %) Informix 4 1 (4.348 %) Oracle 8/8i	General 1 4 (17.39 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 10 (43.48 %) Storage Engineer 2 3 (13.04 %) Tester 2 3 (13.04 %) Consultant 3 2 (8.696 %) DBA 3 2 (8.696 %) Oracle DBA 4 1 (4.348 %) Penetration Tester 4 1 (4.348 %) Technical Manager 4 1 (4.348 %) Storage Analyst 4 1 (4.348 %) Messaging Consultant 4 1 (4.348 %) Voice Consultant 4 1 (4.348 %) Project Manager 4 1 (4.348 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (4.348 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (4.348 %) Support Consultant 4 1 (4.348 %) Technical Project Manager 4 1 (4.348 %) Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 6 (26.09 %) Clustering 2 1 (4.348 %) e-Health 2 1 (4.348 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 18 (78.26 %) Linux 2 9 (39.13 %) Unix 3 7 (30.43 %) HPUX 4 6 (26.09 %) Windows 5 5 (21.74 %) Windows NT 6 2 (8.696 %) Tru64 6 2 (8.696 %) AIX 7 1 (4.348 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (26.09 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (17.39 %) SC Cleared 3 2 (8.696 %) Network Design 4 1 (4.348 %) Penetration Testing 4 1 (4.348 %) ITIL 4 1 (4.348 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (4.348 %) Business Continuity
Programming Languages 1 16 (69.57 %) SQL 2 14 (60.87 %) Perl 3 5 (21.74 %) PHP 3 5 (21.74 %) JavaScript 3 5 (21.74 %) Python 3 5 (21.74 %) DHTML 4 3 (13.04 %) Java 5 2 (8.696 %) C 5 2 (8.696 %) C# 5 2 (8.696 %) C++ 5 2 (8.696 %) Assembly Language 5 2 (8.696 %) Tcl 5 2 (8.696 %) Ruby 5 2 (8.696 %) PL/SQL 6 1 (4.348 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 6 (26.09 %) Microsoft Certification 1 6 (26.09 %) MCSE 1 6 (26.09 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 2 3 (13.04 %) CCNA 2 3 (13.04 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (4.348 %) SNIA Certification 3 1 (4.348 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (4.348 %) ITIL Certification 3 1 (4.348 %) CCVP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.348 %) SLA	System Software 1 9 (39.13 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 6 (26.09 %) NFS 3 2 (8.696 %) Active Directory 3 2 (8.696 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 2 (8.696 %) HP Data Protector 2 1 (4.348 %) OpenView 2 1 (4.348 %) Legato 2 1 (4.348 %) Netcool 2 1 (4.348 %) Netcool/OMNIbus	Vendors 1 11 (47.83 %) Cisco 2 10 (43.48 %) Oracle 3 9 (39.13 %) NetApp 3 9 (39.13 %) VMware 4 7 (30.43 %) HP 5 5 (21.74 %) Intel 5 5 (21.74 %) Sybase 5 5 (21.74 %) Microsoft 5 5 (21.74 %) Alcatel 5 5 (21.74 %) Siemens 6 2 (8.696 %) VERITAS 6 2 (8.696 %) Brocade 6 2 (8.696 %) Sun 6 2 (8.696 %) BEA 6 2 (8.696 %) EMC 6 2 (8.696 %) Red Hat 7 1 (4.348 %) CA 7 1 (4.348 %) Lotus