Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warwickshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 19 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 Warwickshire region.

 Sun Microsystems Solaris
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank201926
Rank change year-on-year
Down-1Up+7
Matching contract IT job ads417
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire2.041 %0.763 %2.500 %
As % of the Operating Systems category10.00 %3.333 %9.859 %
Daily rates quoted003
Average daily rate--£300
UK excluding London average daily rate£330£325£375
% change year-on-year
+1.530 %-13.33 %
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate£31.00£28.00£31.31
% change year-on-year
+10.71 %-10.57 %
Warwickshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
Warwickshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
403071
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire20.41 %22.90 %25.36 %
Daily rates quoted9914
Average daily rate£160£230£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.43 %-23.33 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£85£118£125
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£360£340£323
UK excluding London average daily rate£313£310£335
% change year-on-year
+0.800 %-7.460 %
Hourly rates quoted13715
Average hourly rate£13.75£11.00£15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00 %-29.03 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£11.00£10.25
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£22.88£15.50£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£15.00£17.50£18.00
% change year-on-year
-14.28 %-2.770 %
Solaris West MidlandsSolaris
West Midlands

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

Warwickshire 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 across the Warwickshire region.

Warwickshire Solaris Daily Rate Trend

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Warwickshire Solaris Hourly Rate Trend

Solaris
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 Warwickshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. 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
WarwickNew entry-4--
Solaris West MidlandsSolaris
West Midlands

Solaris
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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.

110 (100.00 %)Windows
110 (100.00 %)Linux
110 (100.00 %)SAN
110 (100.00 %)NetApp
110 (100.00 %)VMware
110 (100.00 %)Brocade
110 (100.00 %)iSCSI
27 (70.00 %)Data Migration
27 (70.00 %)VMware Infrastructure
27 (70.00 %)NAS
27 (70.00 %)SQL
27 (70.00 %)UNIX
27 (70.00 %)Migration
27 (70.00 %)Replication
27 (70.00 %)NFS
33 (30.00 %)IBM

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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.

Warwickshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
110 (100.00 %)SAN
110 (100.00 %)iSCSI
27 (70.00 %)NAS
Warwickshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
17 (70.00 %)Storage Consultant
17 (70.00 %)Consultant
23 (30.00 %)Storage Engineer
23 (30.00 %)IBM Storage Engineer
Warwickshire IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
17 (70.00 %)Replication
Warwickshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
110 (100.00 %)Windows
110 (100.00 %)Linux
27 (70.00 %)UNIX
Warwickshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
17 (70.00 %)Data Migration
17 (70.00 %)Migration
Warwickshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
17 (70.00 %)SQL
Warwickshire IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
17 (70.00 %)VMware Infrastructure
17 (70.00 %)NFS
Warwickshire IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
110 (100.00 %)NetApp
110 (100.00 %)VMware
110 (100.00 %)Brocade
23 (30.00 %)IBM