Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 3 July 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category.

LinkSun Microsystems Solaris
Location
3 months to
3 Jul 2009
Same period last year
Rank7257
Rank change on the same period last yearDown-15
Matching contract IT job ads7151958
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK2.081 %2.543 %
As % of the Operating Systems category11.62 %12.64 %
Daily rates quoted295650
Average daily rate£375£400
Average daily rate % change on the same period last year-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£318£380
% change on same period last year-16.31 %
Hourly rates quoted3291
Average hourly rate£35.50£30.38
Average hourly rate % change on the same period last year+16.85 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£21.00£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£50.00£44.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate£35.50£30.38
% change on same period last year+16.85 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsAll Operating Systems
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
615115487
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK17.91 %20.12 %
Daily rates quoted20924219
Average daily rate£329£375
Average daily rate % change on the same period last year-12.26 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£190£195
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£287£350
% change on same period last year-18.14 %
Hourly rates quoted8092394
Average hourly rate£17.50£17.50
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.00£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£36.00£36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£16.50
% change on same period last year+6.060 %

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 the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Solaris within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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 within the UK.

Solaris Daily Rate Trend

Solaris
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solaris within the UK over the 3 months to 3 July 2009.

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 within the UK.

Solaris Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solaris within the UK over the 3 months to 3 July 2009.

Solaris Hourly Rate Histogram

Solaris
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 3 July 2009. 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
EnglandDown-6695£375-8.81 %
LondonUp+1409£425-2.85 %
City of LondonUp+11175£450-5.26 %
South EastDown-6120£340-6.20 %
South WestUp+1155£295-21.33 %
BerkshireUp+642£350-
HampshireDown-1227£344-18.09 %
North WestDown-4227£230-49.45 %
East of EnglandDown-3020£260-35.00 %
East MidlandsUp+1618£278-19.27 %
ManchesterDown-1818£230-48.88 %
OxfordshireUp+2817£360+24.13 %
YorkshireUp+916£335+10.68 %
West MidlandsUp+2315£305-18.66 %
BristolUp+515£283+28.63 %
ReadingUp+1414£400+10.34 %
Docklands, LondonUp+314£434-15.31 %
GloucestershireDown-114--
West YorkshireUp+2511£335+18.02 %
LeedsUp+2210£335+18.02 %
DerbyUp+1110£278-41.57 %
DerbyshireUp+1110£278-41.57 %
North EastUp+1110£344+6.25 %
HertfordshireDown-239£329-19.07 %
ScotlandDown-319£575+64.28 %
BracknellUp+148£265-37.64 %
CambridgeUp+267£350-
CambridgeshireUp+177£350-12.50 %
SurreyUp+57£318-10.62 %
WiltshireUp+276£288-27.62 %

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 July 2009, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

11012 (61.86 %)UNIX
2605 (36.98 %)Linux
3595 (36.37 %)Oracle
4491 (30.01 %)Windows
5372 (22.74 %)Sun
6347 (21.21 %)Finance
7316 (19.32 %)SQL
8306 (18.70 %)Banking
9239 (14.61 %)HP
10231 (14.12 %)Java
11219 (13.39 %)Security Cleared
12206 (12.59 %)C++
13200 (12.22 %)Perl
14194 (11.86 %)Shell Script
15180 (11.00 %)Investment Banking
16177 (10.82 %)Windows Server 2003
17169 (10.33 %)SAN
18163 (9.963 %)Veritas
19162 (9.902 %)HPUX
20149 (9.108 %)AIX
21137 (8.374 %)Red Hat
22130 (7.946 %)Middleware
23126 (7.702 %)Oracle 10g
23126 (7.702 %)Red Hat Linux
24125 (7.641 %)SC Cleared
24125 (7.641 %)Migration
25124 (7.579 %)Microsoft
26122 (7.457 %)XML
26122 (7.457 %)VMware
27120 (7.335 %)Sybase

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 July 2009, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1130 (7.946 %)Middleware
2122 (7.457 %)XML
3108 (6.601 %)J2EE
463 (3.851 %)STL
557 (3.484 %)HTML
655 (3.362 %).NET
754 (3.301 %)WebSphere
840 (2.445 %)JSP
938 (2.323 %)Spring
1035 (2.139 %)WebServices
1133 (2.017 %)Hibernate
1228 (1.711 %)AJAX
1327 (1.650 %)JMS
1327 (1.650 %)CSS
1425 (1.528 %)Struts
1425 (1.528 %)XSLT
1425 (1.528 %)Java EE
1524 (1.467 %)SOAP
1623 (1.406 %)EJB
1721 (1.284 %)ASP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1105 (6.418 %)Apache
282 (5.012 %)WebLogic
356 (3.423 %)IIS
449 (2.995 %)Rendezvous
545 (2.751 %)Tomcat
640 (2.445 %)MS Exchange
730 (1.834 %)Oracle Application Server
821 (1.284 %)WebSphere MQ
917 (1.039 %)Exchange Server 2003
1016 (0.978 %)MQSeries
1114 (0.856 %)Oracle HTTP Server
1212 (0.733 %)WebSphere Application Server
1212 (0.733 %)GlassFish
1310 (0.611 %)Exchange Server 2007
1310 (0.611 %)CMS
149 (0.550 %)WebLogic Portal
149 (0.550 %)BizTalk Server
149 (0.550 %)iPlanet
149 (0.550 %)TIBCO EMS
158 (0.489 %)ESB
IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
150 (3.056 %)MS Excel
233 (2.017 %)MS Office
39 (0.550 %)MS Visio
45 (0.306 %)MS Project
53 (0.183 %)Open Workbench
62 (0.122 %)MS PowerPoint
71 (0.061 %)MATLAB
IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
135 (2.139 %)RMDS
219 (1.161 %)Oracle Applications
310 (0.611 %)Oracle 11i
49 (0.550 %)BusinessWorks
58 (0.489 %)Microsoft CRM
58 (0.489 %)Oracle Financials
67 (0.428 %)TIBCO iProcess
76 (0.367 %)Oracle EBS
85 (0.306 %)Academy Revenues and Benefits
93 (0.183 %)Oracle General Ledger
102 (0.122 %)Oracle EBS R12
102 (0.122 %)Kondor+
102 (0.122 %)ENOVIA
102 (0.122 %)Global One
102 (0.122 %)Teamcenter
102 (0.122 %)Summit
111 (0.061 %)SAP HR
111 (0.061 %)SAP R/3
111 (0.061 %)Oracle HRMS
111 (0.061 %)assyst
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1169 (10.33 %)SAN
2114 (6.968 %)TCP/IP
392 (5.623 %)Firewall
464 (3.912 %)Internet
563 (3.851 %)DNS
659 (3.606 %)LDAP
743 (2.628 %)VPN
842 (2.567 %)LAN
937 (2.262 %)WAN
1036 (2.200 %)DHCP
1134 (2.078 %)NAS
1231 (1.895 %)HTTP
1325 (1.528 %)SMTP
1424 (1.467 %)SNMP
1521 (1.284 %)FTP
1620 (1.222 %)NetScreen
1719 (1.161 %)TACACS
1818 (1.100 %)Network Security
1917 (1.039 %)X.500
2015 (0.917 %)SSL
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1126 (7.702 %)Oracle 10g
2113 (6.907 %)SQL Server
389 (5.440 %)Oracle 9i
460 (3.667 %)Oracle 8/8i
553 (3.240 %)MySQL
644 (2.689 %)Oracle Reports
737 (2.262 %)BusinessObjects
826 (1.589 %)Oracle Discoverer
922 (1.345 %)Datawarehouse
1020 (1.222 %)RDBMS
1020 (1.222 %)Oracle 11g
1117 (1.039 %)SQL Server 2005
1216 (0.978 %)MS Access
1216 (0.978 %)SQL Server 2000
1314 (0.856 %)ETL
1314 (0.856 %)TOAD
1413 (0.795 %)BusinessObjects XI
1511 (0.672 %)SQLPlus
169 (0.550 %)Ingres
169 (0.550 %)DB2
IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
162 (3.790 %)ClearCase
238 (2.323 %)Oracle Forms
326 (1.589 %)JUnit
425 (1.528 %)TestDirector
425 (1.528 %)Eclipse
521 (1.284 %)Ant
615 (0.917 %)QuickTest Pro
711 (0.672 %)Selenium
89 (0.550 %)PVCS
89 (0.550 %)VSS/SourceSafe
98 (0.489 %)Git (software)
98 (0.489 %)JIRA
98 (0.489 %)ClearQuest
107 (0.428 %)WinRunner
116 (0.367 %)Paros
116 (0.367 %)Atlassian Bamboo
116 (0.367 %)LoadRunner
125 (0.306 %)RequisitePro
125 (0.306 %)PeopleTools
134 (0.244 %)Visual Studio
IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1347 (21.21 %)Finance
2306 (18.70 %)Banking
3180 (11.00 %)Investment Banking
491 (5.562 %)Government
563 (3.851 %)Telecoms
635 (2.139 %)Front Office
721 (1.284 %)Education
818 (1.100 %)Financial Institution
818 (1.100 %)Health
913 (0.795 %)Home Office
913 (0.795 %)Pharmaceutical
1011 (0.672 %)Back Office
1110 (0.611 %)Games
129 (0.550 %)Legal
129 (0.550 %)Retail
136 (0.367 %)Billing
136 (0.367 %)Local Government
136 (0.367 %)Auditing
136 (0.367 %)Military
145 (0.306 %)Manufacturing
IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1277 (16.93 %)Administrator
2236 (14.43 %)Developer
3195 (11.92 %)Analyst
4141 (8.619 %)Systems Administrator
5135 (8.252 %)DBA
6109 (6.663 %)UNIX Administrator
7104 (6.357 %)Oracle DBA
895 (5.807 %)C++ Developer
993 (5.685 %)Consultant
1090 (5.501 %)Architect
1181 (4.951 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
1278 (4.768 %)Support Analyst
1356 (3.423 %)Solaris Administrator
1452 (3.178 %)Applications Support
1549 (2.995 %)Java Developer
1644 (2.689 %)Support Engineer
1644 (2.689 %)UNIX Engineer
1739 (2.384 %)Systems Engineer
1834 (2.078 %)Solaris Systems Administrator
1929 (1.773 %)Technical Architect
IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
190 (5.501 %)Clustering
251 (3.117 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
331 (1.895 %)Fixed Income
430 (1.834 %)Derivative
529 (1.773 %)Replication
622 (1.345 %)Equities
721 (1.284 %)Multithreading
819 (1.161 %)Credit Risk
917 (1.039 %)Market Risk
1014 (0.856 %)SecurID
1014 (0.856 %)N-Tier
1113 (0.795 %)CLARiiON
1113 (0.795 %)Symmetrix
1113 (0.795 %)iSeries
1211 (0.672 %)Client/Server
1211 (0.672 %)PKI
1310 (0.611 %)EMC Centera
1310 (0.611 %)Mainframe
149 (0.550 %)Grid Computing
158 (0.489 %)HACMP
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11012 (61.86 %)UNIX
2605 (36.98 %)Linux
3491 (30.01 %)Windows
4177 (10.82 %)Windows Server 2003
5162 (9.902 %)HPUX
6149 (9.108 %)AIX
7126 (7.702 %)Red Hat Linux
886 (5.257 %)Windows 2000
973 (4.462 %)Windows XP
1038 (2.323 %)Windows Vista
1130 (1.834 %)Windows NT
1226 (1.589 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1320 (1.222 %)Windows Server 2008
1419 (1.161 %)Windows 2000 Server
1517 (1.039 %)VMS
1517 (1.039 %)SUSE
167 (0.428 %)Tru64
175 (0.306 %)FreeBSD
184 (0.244 %)VME
193 (0.183 %)Mac OS X Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1125 (7.641 %)Migration
285 (5.196 %)OO
382 (5.012 %)ITIL
460 (3.667 %)SOA
555 (3.362 %)UML
654 (3.301 %)Disaster Recovery
753 (3.240 %)Project Management
753 (3.240 %)PRINCE2
848 (2.934 %)Configuration Management
946 (2.812 %)Electronic Trading
1036 (2.200 %)Service Management
1135 (2.139 %)Service Delivery
1234 (2.078 %)Change Management
1234 (2.078 %)RUP
1321 (1.284 %)TDD
1321 (1.284 %)TOGAF
1321 (1.284 %)Performance Testing
1321 (1.284 %)Load Balancing
1419 (1.161 %)Algorithmic Trading
1419 (1.161 %)Test Scripting
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1316 (19.32 %)SQL
2231 (14.12 %)Java
3206 (12.59 %)C++
4200 (12.22 %)Perl
5194 (11.86 %)Shell Script
6100 (6.112 %)C
792 (5.623 %)PL/SQL
866 (4.034 %)Python
964 (3.912 %)Korn
1037 (2.262 %)C#
1133 (2.017 %)JavaScript
1224 (1.467 %)VB
1321 (1.284 %)T-SQL
1321 (1.284 %)PHP
1418 (1.100 %)AWK
1514 (0.856 %)VBScript
169 (0.550 %)Ruby
177 (0.428 %)PowerShell
184 (0.244 %)XPath
184 (0.244 %)Tcl
IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1219 (13.39 %)Security Cleared
2125 (7.641 %)SC Cleared
355 (3.362 %)DV Cleared
449 (2.995 %)Degree
526 (1.589 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
624 (1.467 %)Microsoft Certification
721 (1.284 %)MCSE
817 (1.039 %)Cisco Certification
913 (0.795 %)Sun Certification
1010 (0.611 %)CCNP
119 (0.550 %)ISEB
128 (0.489 %)CCNA
128 (0.489 %)CTC Cleared
137 (0.428 %)CISSP
145 (0.306 %)Oracle Certification
145 (0.306 %)MCP
153 (0.183 %)PRINCE2 Certification
153 (0.183 %)RHCE
153 (0.183 %)ISEB Practitioner
153 (0.183 %)IBM Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
147 (2.873 %)QA
240 (2.445 %)SLA
38 (0.489 %)PCI DSS
46 (0.367 %)HL7
46 (0.367 %)DICOM
55 (0.306 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
62 (0.122 %)ISO27001
62 (0.122 %)COBIT
IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1109 (6.663 %)NetBackup
276 (4.645 %)Active Directory
359 (3.606 %)Veritas Volume Manager
450 (3.056 %)VMware Infrastructure
545 (2.751 %)NFS
644 (2.689 %)Oracle RMAN
735 (2.139 %)Oracle RAC
825 (1.528 %)Backup Exec
922 (1.345 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1021 (1.284 %)VMware ESX
1115 (0.917 %)Sendmail
1213 (0.795 %)Terminal Services
1310 (0.611 %)AquaLogic
147 (0.428 %)SRDF
156 (0.367 %)Veritas File System
165 (0.306 %)Samba
174 (0.244 %)ISA Server
174 (0.244 %)VMware Workstation
174 (0.244 %)WebInspect
183 (0.183 %)ClearTrust
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
140 (2.445 %)Tivoli
236 (2.200 %)Legato
333 (2.017 %)AutoSys
426 (1.589 %)BMC PATROL
426 (1.589 %)OpenView
524 (1.467 %)CA SiteMinder
622 (1.345 %)Netcool
719 (1.161 %)EMC NetWorker
815 (0.917 %)Data Guard
912 (0.733 %)Sun Identity Manager
1011 (0.672 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1110 (0.611 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
1110 (0.611 %)Nagios
129 (0.550 %)TIBCO Hawk
138 (0.489 %)CONTROL-M
138 (0.489 %)Unicenter
147 (0.428 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
147 (0.428 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
147 (0.428 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
147 (0.428 %)Norton AntiVirus
IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1595 (36.37 %)Oracle
2372 (22.74 %)Sun
3239 (14.61 %)HP
4163 (9.963 %)Veritas
5137 (8.374 %)Red Hat
6124 (7.579 %)Microsoft
7122 (7.457 %)VMware
8120 (7.335 %)Sybase
991 (5.562 %)IBM
1089 (5.440 %)EMC
1179 (4.829 %)BEA
1269 (4.218 %)Cisco
1364 (3.912 %)TIBCO
1445 (2.751 %)Reuters
1539 (2.384 %)NetApp
1638 (2.323 %)Symantec
1737 (2.262 %)Business Objects
1835 (2.139 %)CheckPoint
1933 (2.017 %)Bloomberg
1933 (2.017 %)BMC