Solaris Systems Administrator Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Solaris Systems 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 Systems 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 System Administrator
Rank 520 567 568
Rank change year-on-year
+47 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Solaris Systems Administrator 10 11 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.022% 0.019% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.020% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 17
Average daily rate £400 £370 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.10% -12.94%
UK excluding London average daily rate £384 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
+9.64% -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 Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Solaris Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Solaris Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

Solaris Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Solaris Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Solaris Systems Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

Solaris Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Solaris Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris Systems Administrator
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solaris Systems 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 +47 10 £400 +8.10%
London +22 7 £400 +2.56%
South East +22 2 £418 +19.28%
City of London - 2 £444 -
Hampshire - 2 £418 -
North West +15 1 £350 -
Farnborough - 1 - -
Merseyside - 1 £350 -
Docklands, London - 1 £375 -
Liverpool - 1 £350 -

Solaris Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 15 (100.00%) Solaris
2 11 (73.33%) Linux
3 9 (60.00%) Oracle
3 9 (60.00%) Red Hat
4 8 (53.33%) UNIX
5 7 (46.67%) SAN
5 7 (46.67%) Veritas
5 7 (46.67%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 6 (40.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 6 (40.00%) SUSE
7 5 (33.33%) Finance
8 4 (26.67%) Perl
8 4 (26.67%) IBM
8 4 (26.67%) LDAP
8 4 (26.67%) NAS
9 3 (20.00%) Sun
9 3 (20.00%) HP
9 3 (20.00%) EMC
9 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
10 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (13.33%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
10 2 (13.33%) Korn
10 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
10 2 (13.33%) Degree
10 2 (13.33%) Banking
10 2 (13.33%) NetBackup
10 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
10 2 (13.33%) Service Management

Solaris Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (6.667%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) SAN
2 4 (26.67%) LDAP
2 4 (26.67%) NAS
3 1 (6.667%) HTTP
3 1 (6.667%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.667%) DNS
3 1 (6.667%) Internet
3 1 (6.667%) NetScreen
3 1 (6.667%) Cisco PIX
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.667%) Equities
1 1 (6.667%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Solaris
2 11 (73.33%) Linux
3 8 (53.33%) UNIX
4 6 (40.00%) SUSE
5 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (13.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (13.33%) ITIL
1 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
1 2 (13.33%) Project Management
1 2 (13.33%) Service Management
1 2 (13.33%) ITSM
1 2 (13.33%) Data Security
1 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
1 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (6.667%) Business Analysis
2 1 (6.667%) Project Planning
2 1 (6.667%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (6.667%) Release Management
2 1 (6.667%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Perl
2 2 (13.33%) C
2 2 (13.33%) Korn
2 2 (13.33%) Bourne shell
3 1 (6.667%) Bash shell
3 1 (6.667%) sed
3 1 (6.667%) C++
3 1 (6.667%) Java
3 1 (6.667%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.667%) AWK
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Sun Certification
3 1 (6.667%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (6.667%) SCSA
3 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (6.667%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 6 (40.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (6.667%) NFS
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Oracle
1 9 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (46.67%) Veritas
3 4 (26.67%) IBM
4 3 (20.00%) Sun
4 3 (20.00%) HP
4 3 (20.00%) EMC
5 1 (6.667%) NetApp
5 1 (6.667%) Fujitsu
5 1 (6.667%) Murex
5 1 (6.667%) Cisco
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