The first table below looks at the demand for the Solaris Administrator role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Solaris Administrator
Rank 515 558 564
Rank change year-on-year
+43 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Solaris Administrator 15 20 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.032% 0.034% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.037% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 19
Average daily rate £400 £390 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% -8.23%
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
+2.85% -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

Solaris Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Solaris Administrator within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Solaris Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Solaris Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Solaris Administrator within the UK.

Solaris Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Solaris Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solaris Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Solaris Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Solaris Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Solaris Administrator within the UK.

Solaris Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris Administrator
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 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
England +49 15 £400 +2.56%
London +21 8 £400 +2.56%
North West +17 3 £350 -
Merseyside - 3 £350 -
Liverpool - 3 £350 -
South East +21 2 £418 +19.28%
Hampshire - 2 £418 -
City of London - 2 £444 -
East of England - 2 £360 -
Farnborough - 1 - -
Docklands, London - 1 £375 -
Suffolk - 1 - -
Hertfordshire - 1 £360 -
Stevenage - 1 £360 -
Ipswich - 1 - -

Solaris Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Solaris Administrator in their job title 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 with Solaris Administrator in their job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Solaris
2 16 (66.67%) Linux
2 16 (66.67%) UNIX
3 13 (54.17%) Red Hat
4 11 (45.83%) Oracle
5 9 (37.50%) SAN
6 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
7 7 (29.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (29.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 7 (29.17%) SUSE
7 7 (29.17%) Veritas
7 7 (29.17%) Sun
7 7 (29.17%) Perl
8 6 (25.00%) EMC
8 6 (25.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
9 5 (20.83%) Finance
9 5 (20.83%) IBM
9 5 (20.83%) LDAP
10 4 (16.67%) NAS
11 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
11 3 (12.50%) Bash shell
11 3 (12.50%) AIX
11 3 (12.50%) Sun Certification
11 3 (12.50%) HP
11 3 (12.50%) NetApp
12 2 (8.333%) TCP/IP
12 2 (8.333%) DNS
12 2 (8.333%) Java
12 2 (8.333%) C

Solaris Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Solaris Administrator in their job title 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 with Solaris Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (4.167%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.333%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (4.167%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.167%) Apache
2 1 (4.167%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 9 (37.50%) SAN
2 5 (20.83%) LDAP
3 4 (16.67%) NAS
4 2 (8.333%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.333%) DNS
5 1 (4.167%) DHCP
5 1 (4.167%) HTTP
5 1 (4.167%) Internet
5 1 (4.167%) NetScreen
5 1 (4.167%) Cisco PIX
5 1 (4.167%) snoop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.167%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (4.167%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Hudson
1 1 (4.167%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (20.83%) Finance
2 2 (8.333%) Banking
3 1 (4.167%) Law
3 1 (4.167%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.167%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.167%) CLARiiON
1 1 (4.167%) Equities
1 1 (4.167%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Solaris
2 16 (66.67%) Linux
2 16 (66.67%) UNIX
3 7 (29.17%) SUSE
3 7 (29.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (12.50%) AIX
5 2 (8.333%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.167%) CentOS
6 1 (4.167%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (8.333%) Test Scripting
2 2 (8.333%) ITSM
2 2 (8.333%) Data Security
2 2 (8.333%) ITIL
2 2 (8.333%) PRINCE2
2 2 (8.333%) Project Management
2 2 (8.333%) Service Management
2 2 (8.333%) Business Continuity
3 1 (4.167%) Business Analysis
3 1 (4.167%) Incident Management
3 1 (4.167%) Project Planning
3 1 (4.167%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (4.167%) Release Management
3 1 (4.167%) Change Management
3 1 (4.167%) E-Commerce
3 1 (4.167%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) Perl
2 3 (12.50%) Bash shell
3 2 (8.333%) Java
3 2 (8.333%) C
3 2 (8.333%) Shell Script
3 2 (8.333%) Korn
3 2 (8.333%) Bourne shell
4 1 (4.167%) AWK
4 1 (4.167%) Ruby
4 1 (4.167%) C++
4 1 (4.167%) SQL
4 1 (4.167%) Python
4 1 (4.167%) sed
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) Sun Certification
4 2 (8.333%) Degree
5 1 (4.167%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (4.167%) RHCE
5 1 (4.167%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (4.167%) IBM Certification
5 1 (4.167%) SCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 6 (25.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (4.167%) NFS
3 1 (4.167%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (8.333%) NetBackup
2 1 (4.167%) ZABBIX
2 1 (4.167%) CFEngine
2 1 (4.167%) Nagios
2 1 (4.167%) EMC Navisphere
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Red Hat
2 11 (45.83%) Oracle
3 7 (29.17%) Sun
3 7 (29.17%) Veritas
4 6 (25.00%) EMC
5 5 (20.83%) IBM
6 3 (12.50%) HP
6 3 (12.50%) NetApp
7 1 (4.167%) Murex
7 1 (4.167%) JBoss
7 1 (4.167%) Cisco
7 1 (4.167%) VMware
7 1 (4.167%) Fujitsu