Warwick Solaris Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warwick region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 12 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 Warwick region.

Sun Microsystems Solaris
Location Abingdon Amersham Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Surrey Swindon Telford Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 12 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	9	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	- 0
Matching contract IT job ads	4	0	0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwick	8.511 %	-	-
As % of the Operating Systems category	26.67 %	-	-
Daily rates quoted	0	0	0
Average daily rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£325	£375
% change year-on-year	+1.530 % -13.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Average hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.00	£28.00	£32.50
% change year-on-year	+10.71 % -13.84 %
All Operating Systems Warwick
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Operating Systems category	15	2	21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwick	31.91 %	5.882 %	31.34 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1	3
Average daily rate	£298	£118	£323
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+153.19 % -63.56 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£315	£310	£330
% change year-on-year	+1.610 % -6.060 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	0	1
Average hourly rate	£11.00	-	£10.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.00	£17.50	£18.00
% change year-on-year	-14.28 % -2.770 %
Solaris Warwickshire

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Solaris across the Warwick 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 Warwick 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 Warwick region.

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Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Warwick 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 7 (100.00 %) SQL 1 7 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 7 (100.00 %) Windows 1 7 (100.00 %) Linux 1 7 (100.00 %) NFS 1 7 (100.00 %) SAN 1 7 (100.00 %) NetApp 1 7 (100.00 %) Migration 1 7 (100.00 %) Replication 1 7 (100.00 %) VMware 1 7 (100.00 %) Brocade 1 7 (100.00 %) iSCSI 1 7 (100.00 %) Data Migration 1 7 (100.00 %) VMware Infrastructure 1 7 (100.00 %) NAS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Warwick 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.

Communications & Networking 1 7 (100.00 %) SAN 1 7 (100.00 %) iSCSI 1 7 (100.00 %) NAS	Job Titles 1 7 (100.00 %) Consultant 1 7 (100.00 %) Storage Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 7 (100.00 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 7 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 7 (100.00 %) Windows 1 7 (100.00 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (100.00 %) Migration 1 7 (100.00 %) Data Migration	Programming Languages 1 7 (100.00 %) SQL
System Software 1 7 (100.00 %) NFS 1 7 (100.00 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 7 (100.00 %) NetApp 1 7 (100.00 %) VMware 1 7 (100.00 %) Brocade