The first table below looks at the demand for Solaris skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solaris over the 3 months to 24 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 Wiltshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems Solaris
Rank 48 40 43
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +3
Contract jobs citing Solaris 4 13 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 0.875% 2.121% 1.452%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.301% 10.92% 8.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
Average daily rate £370 £381 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.95% -12.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £410 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £30.50 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -8.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £30.50 £33.93
% change year-on-year
-11.47% -10.10%
All Operating Systems
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
93 119 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 20.35% 19.41% 18.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 52 45
Average daily rate £370 £325 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.84% -23.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £145 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £443 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 18
Average hourly rate £15.50 £22.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.11% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £14.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £41.90 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Solaris
South West

Solaris
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Swindon +4 4 £370 -7.50%
Solaris
South West

Solaris
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 3 (60.00%) Oracle
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Juniper
2 2 (40.00%) UNIX
2 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Network Management
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) AIX
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) SNMP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) Nortel
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (20.00%) SAN
3 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) SAP GRC
3 1 (20.00%) E-business
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) Contact Management
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Replication

Solaris
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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.

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP GRC
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) SNMP
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
General
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Network Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
1 1 (20.00%) e-Health
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) UNIX
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) AIX
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Network Management
3 1 (20.00%) E-business
3 1 (20.00%) Contact Management
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
1 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) Nortel
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Blue Coat
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