Solaris Contracts in West Yorkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris 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 of the Operating Systems category for the West Yorkshire region.

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
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 83 86 63
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -23
Contract jobs citing Solaris 8 8 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.630% 0.494% 0.981%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.402% 2.759% 5.556%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 5
Average daily rate £500 £235 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+112.76% -25.98%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £430 £375
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +14.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £31.00 £35.47
% change year-on-year
-8.06% -12.58%
All Operating Systems
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 333 290 198
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 26.24% 17.92% 17.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 126 65
Average daily rate £300 £300 £300
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £155 £193
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 37 39
Average hourly rate £12.75 £12.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £10.00 £8.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £30.00 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Solaris
Yorkshire

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Solaris across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

West Yorkshire Solaris Jobs Demand Trend

Solaris
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Solaris across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Solaris Daily Rate Trend

Solaris
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region 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
Leeds -5 8 £500 +117.15%
Solaris
Yorkshire

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 23 (65.71%) UNIX
2 21 (60.00%) Linux
3 20 (57.14%) Java
4 17 (48.57%) Oracle
5 16 (45.71%) SQL
5 16 (45.71%) Finance
5 16 (45.71%) WebSphere
6 15 (42.86%) Sun
7 13 (37.14%) Windows
8 12 (34.29%) SQL Server
8 12 (34.29%) Tomcat
9 11 (31.43%) Apache
9 11 (31.43%) IBM
9 11 (31.43%) J2EE
10 10 (28.57%) WebSphere Application Server
10 10 (28.57%) Perl
10 10 (28.57%) Shell Script
10 10 (28.57%) GlassFish
11 9 (25.71%) Internet
11 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
11 9 (25.71%) AIX
12 8 (22.86%) IBM HTTP Server
13 7 (20.00%) Process Management
13 7 (20.00%) Firewall
13 7 (20.00%) Retail
13 7 (20.00%) Web Services
13 7 (20.00%) ITIL
13 7 (20.00%) DB2
13 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
14 6 (17.14%) Bash shell

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

Application Development
1 16 (45.71%) WebSphere
2 11 (31.43%) J2EE
3 7 (20.00%) Web Services
4 6 (17.14%) Middleware
5 5 (14.29%) JDBC
6 1 (2.857%) JSP
6 1 (2.857%) Struts
6 1 (2.857%) CSS
6 1 (2.857%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.857%) Spring
6 1 (2.857%) Ajax
6 1 (2.857%) XML
6 1 (2.857%) HTML
6 1 (2.857%) Java EE
6 1 (2.857%) jQuery
6 1 (2.857%) Struts2
Application Platforms
1 12 (34.29%) Tomcat
2 11 (31.43%) Apache
3 10 (28.57%) WebSphere Application Server
3 10 (28.57%) GlassFish
4 8 (22.86%) IBM HTTP Server
5 5 (14.29%) MQSeries
5 5 (14.29%) IIS
6 4 (11.43%) WebLogic
6 4 (11.43%) Oracle Application Server
7 3 (8.571%) ATG Dynamo
8 1 (2.857%) Magento
8 1 (2.857%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 6 (17.14%) MS Office
2 2 (5.714%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.857%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (2.857%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (8.571%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.71%) Internet
2 7 (20.00%) Firewall
3 5 (14.29%) FTP
3 5 (14.29%) HTTP
4 3 (8.571%) VPN
4 3 (8.571%) DNS
4 3 (8.571%) WAN
5 2 (5.714%) SSL
5 2 (5.714%) SAN
5 2 (5.714%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (5.714%) Network Security
6 1 (2.857%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (2.857%) NAS
6 1 (2.857%) SMTP
6 1 (2.857%) NetScreen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (34.29%) SQL Server
2 7 (20.00%) DB2
3 4 (11.43%) Oracle 10g
3 4 (11.43%) MySQL
3 4 (11.43%) Oracle 11g
4 3 (8.571%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (8.571%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (8.571%) SQL Server 2000
4 3 (8.571%) Oracle 8/8i
4 3 (8.571%) Oracle 9i
5 2 (5.714%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.857%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.857%) Oracle OWB
6 1 (2.857%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Subversion
1 4 (11.43%) Maven
2 3 (8.571%) Ant
2 3 (8.571%) CruiseControl
3 2 (5.714%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.857%) JUnit
4 1 (2.857%) StarTeam
4 1 (2.857%) Hudson
General
1 16 (45.71%) Finance
2 7 (20.00%) Retail
3 4 (11.43%) Games
4 1 (2.857%) Banking
4 1 (2.857%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Analyst
1 8 (22.86%) Support Analyst
2 6 (17.14%) Applications Support
3 5 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Operations Support Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Technical Specialist
5 3 (8.571%) Release Engineer
5 3 (8.571%) Administrator
5 3 (8.571%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (8.571%) Applications Support Analyst
5 3 (8.571%) Architect
5 3 (8.571%) DBA
5 3 (8.571%) Configuration Engineer
6 2 (5.714%) Server Administrator
6 2 (5.714%) Infrastructure Designer
6 2 (5.714%) Web Support Analyst
6 2 (5.714%) Designer
6 2 (5.714%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.714%) Developer
6 2 (5.714%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.857%) N-Tier
1 1 (2.857%) Grid Computing
1 1 (2.857%) Beowulf
1 1 (2.857%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 23 (65.71%) UNIX
2 21 (60.00%) Linux
3 13 (37.14%) Windows
4 9 (25.71%) AIX
5 4 (11.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (5.714%) HPUX
7 1 (2.857%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (20.00%) ITIL
1 7 (20.00%) Process Management
1 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 6 (17.14%) PRINCE2
2 6 (17.14%) E-Commerce
3 5 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 3 (8.571%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (5.714%) Performance Management
6 1 (2.857%) Database Tuning
6 1 (2.857%) Change Control
6 1 (2.857%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (2.857%) CRM
6 1 (2.857%) Change Management
6 1 (2.857%) E-business
6 1 (2.857%) Incident Management
6 1 (2.857%) Requirements Analysis
6 1 (2.857%) Load Balancing
6 1 (2.857%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (57.14%) Java
2 16 (45.71%) SQL
3 10 (28.57%) Perl
3 10 (28.57%) Shell Script
4 6 (17.14%) Bash shell
5 5 (14.29%) PHP
6 3 (8.571%) AWK
7 2 (5.714%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.857%) VB
8 1 (2.857%) Python
8 1 (2.857%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.857%) C
8 1 (2.857%) C++
8 1 (2.857%) Korn
Qualifications
1 2 (5.714%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.714%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.857%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (2.857%) VMware ESX
1 1 (2.857%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.857%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 1 (2.857%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 17 (48.57%) Oracle
2 15 (42.86%) Sun
3 11 (31.43%) IBM
4 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
5 5 (14.29%) JBoss
6 4 (11.43%) Red Hat
7 3 (8.571%) ATG
8 2 (5.714%) McAfee
8 2 (5.714%) F5
8 2 (5.714%) Juniper
8 2 (5.714%) Cisco
9 1 (2.857%) NetApp
9 1 (2.857%) Apple
9 1 (2.857%) VMware
9 1 (2.857%) Blue Coat
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