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The table below looks at the demand for Sun Microsystems Solaris skills within the Warwickshire region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkSun Microsystems Solaris
Location
3 months to
21 Nov 2008
Same period last year
Rank2931
Rank change on same period last yearUp+2
Matching contract IT job ads420
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.006 %0.021 %
As % of the category below3.883 %12.50 %
Daily rates quoted02
Average minimum daily rate-£445
Average daily rate-£445
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate-£446
UK excluding London average daily rate£339£358
% change on same period last year-5.29 %
Hourly rates quoted47
Average minimum hourly rate£27.00£34.29
Average hourly rate£28.50£36.27
% change on same period last year-21.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate£30.00£38.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.67£34.10
% change on same period last year-10.05 %
Warwickshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
Warwickshire
Matching contract IT job ads103160
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.162 %0.171 %
Daily rates quoted1321
Average minimum daily rate£372£170
Average daily rate£385£177
% change on same period last year+117.36 %
Average maximum daily rate£398£184
UK excluding London average daily rate£317£321
% change on same period last year-1.26 %
Hourly rates quoted3559
Average minimum hourly rate£18.10£25.38
Average hourly rate£19.28£28.11
% change on same period last year-31.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate£20.47£30.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate£22.36£22.18
% change on same period last year+0.80 %
Solaris West MidlandsSolaris
West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Solaris across the Warwickshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

Warwickshire Solaris Hourly Rate Histogram

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, 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 (66.67 %)Windows
29 (60.00 %)AIX
29 (60.00 %)Oracle
29 (60.00 %)UNIX
35 (33.33 %)Linux
35 (33.33 %)Sun
44 (26.67 %)Firewall
44 (26.67 %)NetBackup
44 (26.67 %)Red Hat
44 (26.67 %)CAD
44 (26.67 %)Tomcat
44 (26.67 %)HPUX
44 (26.67 %)TCP/IP
44 (26.67 %)DNS
44 (26.67 %)RDBMS
44 (26.67 %)LDAP
44 (26.67 %)Teamcenter
44 (26.67 %)WebSphere
53 (20.00 %)Korn
53 (20.00 %)Red Hat Linux
53 (20.00 %)Java
53 (20.00 %)Apache
62 (13.33 %)Microsoft
62 (13.33 %)Windows Server 2003
62 (13.33 %)SAN
62 (13.33 %)Business Continuity
62 (13.33 %)Replication
62 (13.33 %)Windows 2000 Server
62 (13.33 %)iSCSI
62 (13.33 %)SSH

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, 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, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
14 (26.67 %)WebSphere
Warwickshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
14 (26.67 %)Tomcat
23 (20.00 %)Apache
31 (6.667 %)MS Exchange
Warwickshire IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
14 (26.67 %)Teamcenter
Warwickshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
14 (26.67 %)LDAP
14 (26.67 %)TCP/IP
14 (26.67 %)DNS
14 (26.67 %)Firewall
22 (13.33 %)SSH
22 (13.33 %)iSCSI
22 (13.33 %)SAN
Warwickshire IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
14 (26.67 %)RDBMS
21 (6.667 %)Oracle 8/8i
Warwickshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
15 (33.33 %)Administrator
24 (26.67 %)Trainer
24 (26.67 %)UNIX Administrator
32 (13.33 %)Web Administrator
32 (13.33 %)Systems Administrator
32 (13.33 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
41 (6.667 %)Architect
41 (6.667 %)Solutions Architect
41 (6.667 %)Technical Architect
41 (6.667 %)UNIX Support
41 (6.667 %)Solaris Administrator
Warwickshire IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
12 (13.33 %)Replication
Warwickshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
110 (66.67 %)Windows
29 (60.00 %)AIX
29 (60.00 %)UNIX
35 (33.33 %)Linux
44 (26.67 %)HPUX
53 (20.00 %)Red Hat Linux
62 (13.33 %)Windows Server 2003
62 (13.33 %)Windows 2000 Server
Warwickshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
14 (26.67 %)CAD
22 (13.33 %)Business Continuity
22 (13.33 %)Logistics
31 (6.667 %)Problem Management
31 (6.667 %)Service Delivery
31 (6.667 %)Disaster Recovery
Warwickshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
13 (20.00 %)Java
13 (20.00 %)Korn
21 (6.667 %)Shell Script
Warwickshire IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (6.667 %)SLA
Warwickshire IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
14 (26.67 %)NetBackup
21 (6.667 %)VMware Infrastructure
Warwickshire IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
19 (60.00 %)Oracle
25 (33.33 %)Sun
34 (26.67 %)Red Hat
42 (13.33 %)Microsoft
51 (6.667 %)VMware